The 9th Mad Open Mic: Captured words - Date set

The date for the Ninth Mad Open Mic has been set for Wednesday, April 18, 2012 at Cafe Concierto La Fidula in Madrid on Calle Huertas 57. Registration is now open until April 4, 2012. Please write to margiekanter@gmail.com and place Ninth Mad Open Mic Registration in your subject heading. See you there.

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Held on October 19, 2011. It was a great evening with the added second one minute round to be institutionalized. So everyone get working on those three and one minute pieces for next Spring.

The 9th Mad Open Mic: Captured Words

The 9th Mad Open Mic will be held on Wednesday, April 18, 2012. Now open for registration.

Cafe Concierto La Fidula
Calle Huertas 57, Madrid
(Metros Sevilla, Banco, Anton Martin)

This is a yearly and often twice yearly forum held in Madrid, Spain since 2008 for reading/speaking/performing one´s creative words in English. Come to present your own work or just to listen in. Open to the public. No entry fee. You pay (only) for what you consume.

Guidelines for Performers:
- Your presentation must be your own creative words; spoken or readspoken. It can be a story, poem, lyrics (but no music), creative essay...
- We will readspeak in cycles of 3 minutes each. Please clock your readings ahead of time. The first set will be followed by the newly instituted one minute spontaneous presentations open to all present. Again it must be your own words.
- Presentations will be in English.
- Sign up by emailing: margiekanter@gmail.com by April 4, 2012.
- Put Open Mic in the Subject or Asunto of the email.
- Include a short sample of your work or give me an idea of what you are planning to readspeak to help in the planning.
- Late registrants will be included when possible.
- For updates check: www.elasunto.com/mkd.htm and click on the open mic icon.

Participants registered as of March 19, 2012:

Alex Owen-Hill
Lance Tooks
Violeta Brana-Lafourcade
ÉBOLI DE MER
Jez Patterson
Filip Makowski
Mudra Mukesh
Yulia Shymko
Marjorie Kanter
Jose Recio
Dominic Anglim
Matthew Bass
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Past events......
The 8th Mad Open Mic will be held on Wednesday, October 19, 2011. Now open for registration.

Cafe Concierto La Fidula
Calle Huertas 57, Madrid
(Metros Sevilla, Banco, Anton Martin)

This is a yearly and often twice yearly forum held in Madrid, Spain since 2008 for reading/speaking/performing one´s creative words in English. Come to present your own work or just to listen in. Open to the public. No entry fee. You pay (only) for what you consume.

Guidelines for Performers:
- Your presentation must be your own creative words; spoken or readspoken. It can be a story, poem, lyrics (but no music), creative essay...
- We will readspeak in cycles of 3 minutes each. Please clock your readings ahead of time.
- Presentations will be in English.
- Sign up by emailing: margiekanter@gmail.com by October 7, 2011.
- Put Open Mic in the Subject or Asunto of the email.
- Include a short sample of your work or give me an idea of what you are planning to readspeak to help in the planning.
- Late registrants will be included when possible.
- For updates check: www.elasunto.com/mkd.htm and click on the open mic icon.

Participants of the (th Mad Open Mic:

1. Éboli de Mer - Parody
2. Violeta Brana-Lafourcade
3. Bryn Charles
4. Celia A. Knight -
5. Lance Tooks
6. Kathleen Hershner
7. Mudra Mukesh
8. Marjorie Kanter
9. Georgia Varjas
10. Jeff Wiseman
11. Charles almond
12. Dominic Anglim
13. Jose Recio
14. Laura hearfield
15. Janel Torkington
16. Chris Tasaka
17. Gyula Friewald
18. Alex Owen-Hill
19. John Dapolito
20. Sue Burke
21. Daniel Vicent

Univeristy of Alicante

Seminar Workshop on Creativity and Writing: A threaded Sequence facilitated by Marjorie Kanter at the University of Alicante, April 18 and 19. This series of three, two hour workshops is process oriented and interactive. Participants worked through exercises, activities and reflection.

Sample of the outcome of an expansion to reduction activity ending in a tweet:

1. Entered in your heartOrdering loveRecieved you in mineConsuming meSo I paid for selfishnessBut didn't left this circle.

2. Entered barOrdered whiskyReceived lonely eveningConsumed social abutmentPaid for my believesAnd left with my pride.

3. My1DayAtUni,IEnteredAndUpStairs.Sm1OrderedMyClassAndIReceivedVeryNiceExplanation.ThenWeConsumedACoffeAndHepaid.Finally,ILeft.

College English Association

Paper presented in St. Petersburg, Florida at the College English Association 42nd Annual Convention March 31- April 2, 2011. Title of paper:Expat Writer: Multiple Language Use in Context.

M. Kanter presented Im/polite Matters: Creative Texts and Projects with a power point presentation of Im/politeness: One Hundred Im/polite Days by Marjorie Kanter at the 4th International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics and Communication (15-17 November 2010). This is an artist’s project meant for reflection and dialogue on communication and incommunication in general and politeness and impoliteness in particular; both within a culture and crossing cultures. The texts were generated and then posted one per day between December 2, 2009 and March 11, 2010 on Tweeter and Facebook (and have become a book ISBN 978-84-614-2674-4) as part of Ms. Kanter’s participation in the London Word Festival. Following the 144 character maximum per entry allowed on Twitter, the 100+2 entries investigate, experiment, create, reflect, document and invite dialogue/participation. These tweets include creative texts, questions, quotes, statements, cartoons, references, film/video, etc. Readers are invited/incited to join in dialogue provoked/sparked by these short texts.

The Tweet portion of the project can be viewed on Authorstream at http://www.authorstream.com/tag/kanter

Other Marjorie Kanter pages specific to Im/Politeness :

Blogspot: http://im-polite100days.blogspot.com
Facebook impoliteness:
http://www.facebook.com/100-Impolite-tweets
Twitter:
http://twitter.com/MarjorieKanter

The CLAN (Corpus of Language & Nature) Research team at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and the Mouton journal “Intercultural Pragmatics” held the 4th International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics and Communication (15-17 November 2010).
The conferences and workshops were sponsored by the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (FFI2010-08959- subprograma FILO) and the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas, in Madrid Spain.

University of Siegen, Germany

Invited writer in the Contemporary Writer's Forum at the University of Siegen, Germany to give a workshop and readings. May 2010.

Eighth Mad Open Mic: Captured Words date set: Oct 19

The 8th Mad Open Mic will be held on Wednesday, October 19, 2011. Now open for registration.

Cafe Concierto La Fidula
Calle Huertas 57, Madrid
(Metros Sevilla, Banco, Anton Martin)

This is a yearly and often twice yearly forum held in Madrid, Spain since 2008 for reading/speaking/performing one´s creative words in English. Come to present your own work or just to listen in. Open to the public. No entry fee. You pay (only) for what you consume.

Guidelines for Performers:
- Your presentation must be your own creative words; spoken or readspoken. It can be a story, poem, lyrics (but no music), creative essay...
- We will readspeak in cycles of 3 minutes each. Please clock your readings ahead of time.
- Presentations will be in English.
- Sign up by emailing: margiekanter@gmail.com by October 7, 2011.
- Put Open Mic in the Subject or Asunto of the email.
- Include a short sample of your work or give me an idea of what you are planning to readspeak to help in the planning.
- Late registrants will be included when possible.
- For updates check: www.elasunto.com/mkd.htm and click on the open mic icon.

Participaants of 8th Mad Open Mic:Captured Words:

1. Éboli de Mer - Parody
2. Violeta Brana-Lafourcade
3. Bryn Charles
4. Celia A. Knight -
5. Lance Tooks
6. Kathleen Hershner
7. Mudra Mukesh
8. Marjorie Kanter
9. Georgia Varjas
10. Jeff Wiseman
11. Charles almond
12. Dominic Anglim
13. Jose Recio
14. Laura hearfield
15. Janel Torkington
16. Chris Tasaka
17. Gyula Friewald
18. Alex Owen-Hill
19. John Dapolito
20. Sue Burke
21. Daniel Vicent



Announcing the Seventh Mad Open Mic: Captured Words.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011.
Cafe Concierto La Fidula
Calle Huertas 57, Madrid
(Metros Sevilla, Banco, Anton Martin)

Performing will begin at 9 pm.

To register and for further information, contact: margiekanter@gmail.com or www.elasunto.com/mkd.htm

Come to present your own work or just to listen in. Open to the public. No entry fee. You pay (only) for what you consume.

Guidelines for Performers:
- Your presentation must be your own creative words; spoken or readspoken. It can be a story, poem, lyrics (but no music), creative essay...
- We will readspeak in cycles of 3 minutes each depending upon how many we are. Please prepare your work in combinations of 3 minutes each to allow for flexibility in scheduling. If there is time, there will be a second cycle. Please clock your readings ahead of time.
- Sign up by emailing: margiekanter@gmail.com by February 15, 2011.
- Put Open Mic in the Subject or Asunto of the email.
- Include a short sample of your work or give me an idea of what you are planning to readspeak to help in the planning.
- Late registrants will be included when possible.
- Presentations will be in English.

Listed of registered partipants for the 7th Mad Open Mic as of February 14, 2011:

Anne Murray - poetry
Valeska Acuna - poetry
Sebastian Lopez - poetry
Marjorie Kanter - short literary piece(s)
Leopoldo Fornes - his words
Eboli de Mer -a thought in poetic prose
Sue Burke - opening of her science novel "Transplants"
Jose Luis Delgado Guitart - dream(s)
Violeta Brana - her words
John Dapolito - story
Jun Chen - extract from biography
Tom Fieselman - story
Matilde Fluixál - short narration
Jennifer Kearney - a child´s monologue
Maureen Moss - travel writing
Dominic Anglim - spoken word
Laura Hearfield - poetry
Peter Wessel - poetry
Nicola Hardy - story
Janel Torkington - slam outside a slam
Callum Mchardy - poetric rant spoken
Monica Alisse - essay in progress
Stephanie Gough - extract
Aaron Coleman - spoken word
Celia Knight - poetry
Daniel Vicent - poetry
Lance Tooks
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Old events below here:

Please note that due to the call for a General Strike thoughóut Spain,
The 6th Mad Open Mic:Captured Words to be held on Wednesday, October 6, 2010. This is the new date.
Come to readperform or just to listen in.
Now open for registration.
Registrants to date posted below.

Café Concierto La Fídula
Calle Huertas, 57 Madrid in the Barrio de las Letras
Metro: Anton Martin, Sevilla, Banco

Performing will begin at 9 pm.

To register and for further information, contact: margiekanter@gmail.com or www.elasunto.com/mkd.htm

Come to present your own work or just to listen in. Open to the public. No entry fee. You pay (only) for what you consume.

Guidelines for Performers:
- Your presentation must be your own creative words; spoken or readspoken. It can be a story, poem, lyrics (but no music), creative essay...
- We will readspeak in cycles of 3 minutes each depending upon how many we are. Please prepare your work in combinations of 3 minutes each to allow for flexibility in scheduling. If there is time, there will be a second cycle. Please clock your readings ahead of time.
- Sign up by emailing: margiekanter@gmail.com by September 22, 2010.
- Put Open Mic in the Subject or Asunto of the email.
- Include a short sample of your work or give me an idea of what you are planning to readspeak to help in the planning.
- Late registrants will be included when possible.
- Presentations will be in English.


List of registered participants as of September 29, 2010 for the 6th Open Mic:

Anne Sofie Allarp
Sue Burke
Anne Murray
Jennifer Deborah Walker
Éboli de Mer
Claire Jasinski
John Dapolito
Sebastian Lopez
Keith Williamson
Leopoldo Fornés-Bonavía Dolz
Violeta Brana
Laura Edgecumbe-Ansdell
Sabrina Hayeem-Ladani
Jonathan Teuma
Matilde Fluixá
Aaron Coleman
Noelle Williamson
Valeska Acuna
Marjorie Kanter
Michael Mirth
Monica Alisse
Evaristo Bellotti

PAST EVENTS---------------------------------------------------------------below here
The Fifth Mad Open Mic:
Registrants for 5th Open Mic as of April 9, 2010:

Marta Bernal of Bubok.com will tell us about publishing the Bubok way and after the readings will be available to chat with people.

1. Leopoldo Fornes
2. Jonathan Teuma
3. Sebastian Lopez
4. Simon Betterton
5. Dominic Anglim
6. Nivea de etruria y che,
7. Sue Burke
8. Sarah E. Rogers
9. Matilde Fluixá
10. John Dapolito
11. Danilo Jude
12. Violeta Brana
13. Keith Williamson
14. Marjorie Kanter
15. Laura Edgecumbe-Ansdell
16. Tom Miller
17. Aaron Coleman
18. Anne Murray
19. Kelly Crull
20. Jon Do aka K.C. aka Carlos “A”
21. Jose Luis Delgado Guitart

Im/polite Blog

Check out http://im-polite100days.blogspot.com/ Special blog containing all sorts of things related to im/polite including the 100day tweet entries, cartoons, jokes, proverbs, references, etc.

Tweet address: @MarjorieKanter

Facebook Im/polite page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/100-Impolite-tweets/225937992597?ref=ts
Read these entries and add your comments, thoughts, etc.

Blades 47 Ze Magazene

Hot off the press. The 47th issue of Blades (Poporopress1@hotmail.com). Editor and publisher: Francis Poole. Along with contributions from Poole, Mark Terrill, John Digby and more, you will find four "poems" by Marjorie Kanter.