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DFW OPENMICS

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About Me


DFWOPENMICS was born in early 2006 when Open Mic artists, poets/musicians and hosts around the Dallas Fort Worth Texas Metroplex, all of which had been involved in numerous variety style format open mics, decided to join forces to work together to produce and promote, helping make DFW a really great town for pure open poetry and variety (Poetry Spoken Word, Music,and pretty mich whatever you have for us!)open mics like it once was, hell...even better!! Where great local poets, singer songwriters, and other independent artists of all types, dispositions, and levels of experiance, can find venues that are open, inclusive, supportive and entertaining. Venues to do the overwhelmingly important job of creating and nurturing all types of poetry, music and art, making more beautiful and more real the human experiance. A PLACE in our cookie cutter, corpratized, conformist, lowest common denominator culture, for real art, real people, real voices, to be heard! It's evern MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER these days.. to have a real voice or art happening that is not fitered through the Corpocracy!! Some of our artsists have been doing what they love to do, hosting, organizing, reading at, playing, singing,featuring at, and supporting open format poetry/spoken word/music/variety open mics, for several years..some more than a decade. They all come together with one single common love and purpose, the purely open open mic.
The mission of DFWOPENMICS,is to create a vibrant,growing energetic and artistically enriching poetry, music, and variety pure open mic scene in DFW. That is brilliant, original artistic,supportive and a lot of fun!! Through networking, cooperative cross-promotion of existing open mics, and production of awesome new open mic venue locations throughout the DFW metroplex.
We are poets, writers, spoken word artists, muscians, singer songwriters, independent creators and thinkers, showmen and women... of all tastes, styles, ideas, philosophies, ages, genders, beliefs, experiences,and persuasions...our commonality being the OPEN MIC..... it's what we do! It's what we love!!
Please visit our DFWOPENMICS calandar and info site for regularly updated listings and details on open mic happenings: www.dfwopenmics.com

My Interests

DFW has several regularly scheduled ongoing open mics. Here are a few to watch for, check our online calendar for a comprehensive listing! dfwopenmics.com

WHATS HAPPENING NOW, LISTINGS!!! (PROMO INFO!!)

MOCHALUX OPEN MIC! (Every Saturday! ARLINGTON, TX)

Another AWESOME DFWOPENMIC! ( www.dfwopenmics.com) Hosted by singer songwriter sensation LEXY. Come join Lexy and a great group of artist in the Southern most regions of Arlinton! The space is great, and so is the coffee! Mic starts at 8pm, and is open to muscians, poets, spoken words artists, comedians, and all manner of interesting variety acts, come show us what you got and join in on this great Saturday night happening! MochaLux Coffee & Tea Co. 1101 E. Bardin Rd, Ste 101, Arlington, TX 76018 Voice: (817) 468-0488 Fax: (972) 237-2408 http://www.myspace.com/mochalux

DFWOPENMICS SUNDAYS! @ Bar of Soap! (Every Sunday! Dallas, TX Exposition Park)

Another AWESOME DFWOPENMIC! (www.dfwopenmics.com). hosted by Paul Sexton and other great rotating DFWOPENMICS poets, with spoken word, music and drinks!The venue is awesome, unique and non stop fun! The neighborhood has character. The bartending staff is positive and supportive; it is an all around great opportunity to grow a really awesome multi-faceted weekly open mic scene! We have some great talented people in the area that have been performing each Sunday. The Mic is about half poetry/Spoken Word, half music with some cool eclectic variety sprinkled in! Come see a really cool show and show us what YOU have! Poems, music, tricks, treats, funny stories, or just come to enjoy and appreciate a great new happening, get the word out to some of your friends and bring them along, make something really cool happen!!!

THE MAD SWIRL! (FIRST WEDNESDAY of the month)

Another AWESOME DFWOPENMIC! ( www.dfwopenmics.com) hosted by JohnnyO! Mad Swirl whirls thru absinthe lounge on the 1st Wednesday each month. Join the next mad revolution: Are you a mad poet, musician, actor, singer and/or performer? (circus freaks, Tenacious D rip-offs and Elvis impersonators always welcome) Do you live in the Dallas -Ft. Worth area? Then come-n-strut-yo-stuff. Come one. Come all. Come to participate. Come to appreciate.Come to support your fellow mad ones. The mic opens up around 8:30 and closes when there's no one left standing. FEEL FREE TO SPREAD THE WORD! Mad Swirl Open Mic at Absinthe Lounge. It's THE place to be on the first Wednesday of the month! (It’s also THE place for 1st Wednesday's $2 drafts/$5 Absinthe's) Absinthe. The Lounge is locatedin the Southside on Lamar building. 1409 South Lamar Street • Dallas , TX 75215 http://www.madswirl.com

PANTHER CITY POETRY ( closed...NEW Fort worth venue comibg siin..watch this spot!!

Another AWESOME DFWOPENMIC! ( www.dfwopenmics.com) hosted by Crystal Dozier and Tim Thompson. 7:00 pm in the upstairs art gallery at Panther City Coffee Company is OPEN MIC POETRY!! Come and read or listen or both and drink coffee! Some of your favorite Fort Worth Poets and Friends, doing what they love to do, in an awesome friendly inviting space, check it out! Panther City 2918 W Berry Fort Worth intersection of university and Berry .

FUN CITY OPEN MIC! (Last Wednesday of the month in ARLINGTON TEXAS!!)

Another AWESOME DFWOPENMIC! ( www.dfwopenmics.com) Hosted by Paul Sexton and Josh Weir. This is the one that’s causing all the buzz, all the talk and fear. NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART! Fun City Open Mic is the monthly anything goes, no limits, wild ass crazy freaken open mic show in Arlington TX . The hosts go nuts, the poets go nuts, the musicians go nuts….The drinks are cheap, and the dames are wild and beautiful. If you have the insane need to share your art, and soak up the AWESOME art of others, and you are NOT a pussy, this is the place to be the last Wednesday of each month. If you are overly sensitive, easily offended, or politically correct, seriously, stay the hell home. Random bar patrons have mentioned something about, burning in hell, more than once. GOOD TIMES BAR 931 W. Division St Arlington,TX 76012 Phone: 817-277-8833 http://www.myspace.com/funcitypoets

OUTLAWS OF THE SPOKEN WORD ( Third Thursday of the month)

Another AWESOME DFWOPENMIC! ( www.dfwopenmics.com) Hosted by Jack T Marlowe. Poetry / music / whatever All poets/spoken word artists welcome...musicians & listeners, too! Note: this is a more-or-less UNCENSORED reading. Come be a part of the ragged edge of Spoken Word! NO COVER CHARGE. at SUMMER PARTY BUBBLE TEA & COFFEE 2536 North Belt Line Road (in Irving ) across from Irving Mall , near Hooters.

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The idea of this page is that several of our DWFOPENMICS POETS have access to it....we post lots of blogs, bulletins and such. Local people on Myspace check over here to see what's happening with the local poety/ music/variety open mics...and we meet LOTS AND LOTS of people at our local events who want to come hear the local poets, musicians and artists,and hopefully share their work as well.

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Check out this event: FUN CITY NOT QUITE ONE YEAR PARTY OPEN MIC AMEN!

Hosted By: DFW OPENMICSWhen: Wednesday Apr 30, 2008 at 8:30 PMWhere: GOOD TIMES BAR 931 W. Division St Arlington, Texas|44 76012United StatesDescription:DFW OPENMICS Click Here To View Event...
Posted by DFW OPENMICS on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:39:00 PST

SUNDAY BAR OF SOAP OPEN MIC!!!

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Posted by DFW OPENMICS on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:53:00 PST

Check out this event: FUN CITY OPEN MIC!!!

Hosted By: DFW OPENMICSWhen: Wednesday Feb 27, 2008 at 8:00 PMWhere: GOOD TIMES BAR 931 W. Division St Arlington, TX 76012United StatesDescription:DFW OPENMICS Click Here To View EventFUN CITY OPEN MI...
Posted by DFW OPENMICS on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:47:00 PST

NEW!! SUNDAY BAR OF SOAP OPEN MIC!!!

Hosted By: DFW OPENMICSWhen: Sunday Feb 10, 2008 at 8:00 PMWhere: Bar of Soap3615 PARRY AVEDallas, Texas|44 75226United StatesDescription:DFW OPENMICS Click Here To View Event...
Posted by DFW OPENMICS on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 04:45:00 PST

TONIGHT TONIGHT TONIGHT....

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Posted by DFW OPENMICS on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 10:34:00 PST

NEW SUNDAY BAR OF SOAP OPEN MIC!!,Check out this event: NEW!! SUNDAY BAR OF SOAP OPEN MIC!!!

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Posted by DFW OPENMICS on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 10:32:00 PST

Check out this event: DFWPOETRY REVIEW BENEFIT SHOW!!!!!

Hosted By: DFW OPENMICSWhen: Saturday Feb 02, 2008at 7:00 PMWhere: MOCHALUX COFFEE HOUSE!!1101 East BardinArlington, TX 76018United StatesDescription:DFW OPENMICS Click Here To View Event...
Posted by DFW OPENMICS on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 01:18:00 PST

JANUARY FEBRUARY OPEN MIC STUFF!!!!

HEY OPEN MIC LOVERS!!!!The bad news is NO FUN CITY OPEN MIC fo JANUARY 2008!!!due to equipment issues and the lead time for promotion shrinking way too much while addressing said issues!THE GOOD NEWS!...
Posted by DFW OPENMICS on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:25:00 PST

FIRST OPEN MIC OF 2008!!

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Posted by DFW OPENMICS on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 09:45:00 PST

DECEMBER 2007 OPEN MIC MESSAGE!!!

..> READ OPEN MIC MESSAGE!! & Come see us TONIGHT!!!! Body: HEY!! Open mic appreciaters, participaters ( tm/JO..heh...) friends, artists, fans, poets, singer songwriters....peeps....We have lo...
Posted by DFW OPENMICS on Sat, 22 Dec 2007 11:09:00 PST