The Say Anything Youth Open Mic

Say Anything Youth Open Mic is Austin's newest open mic performance space for young writers and spoken word artists! Starting Saturday September 27, 2008 from 4:00-7:00 and second and fourth Saturdays thereafter at our new venue of Kick Butt Coffee (5775 Airport Blvd. #725, Austin, TX, 78752, (512) 454-KICK, http://kickbuttcoffee.com/ ), we encourage you to come and rock the mic! Take risks, read new work, spit, forget your lines, boom-chick-boom-boom-chick sh-clack-clack, read poems that run longer than 3 minutes and 10 seconds, fail and try again, and tip the bartender!
Resident Turntablist: DJ PowerTripp
Saturday December 27, 2008 (4:00-7:00)
Feature: Mica McCook (member of the 2004 Austin Under-21 Poetry Slam Team )!
Host: T-Fly (member of The Cipher )!
Saturday December 13, 2008 (4:00-7:00)
Feature: Ron Horne (member of the Texas Youth Word Collective and the 2002 Corpus Christi Poetry Slam Team
Host: J Redd (member of The Cipher )!
Saturday November 22, 2008 (4:00-7:00)
Feature: Brandon Harrison (member of the 2008 Austin Under-21 Poetry Slam Team )!
Host: Pilarsito (member of the 2005 Austin Under-21 Poetry Slam Team and founder of CPR - Capitol Punishment Records )!
Saturday November 8, 2008 (4:00-7:00)
Host: Shay Harris (2007 Austin Under-21 Poetry Slam Team champ, 2008 Austin Under-21 Poetry Slam Team member, and featured performer in Zell Miller III's Hip Hop Theater Explosion )!
Saturday October 25, 2008 (4:00-7:00)
Feature: PUBLIC OFFENDERS (Poverty United Building Love in Inner Cities Our Future For Every Nation Does Effect Reality Situations, supporting their newest album "Drop Jewels", with Gator , Lyricist, Phenom, PropheT , and Yoli )!
Co-Hosts: ~~CHI-TOWN~~ and T-Fly (members of The Cipher )!
Saturday October 11, 2008 (4:00-7:00)
Feature: Capitol Punishment Records (with Pilarsito , Close But Untouchable , O-$TACZ (45th Productions) , 2 Guns Up, Fatsoo Records , and Ryno )!
Host: Bluejay (member of The Cipher )!
Saturday September 27, 2008 (4:00-7:00)
Feature: Zell Miller III (writer, director, and performer in The Evidence of Silence Broken, my child, my child, my alien child, Radio Silence: a word opera; member of the 2004 and 2006 Austin Poetry Slam Team and Xenogia Spokenword Collective ; host of Speaking the Spoken: The Art of Verse, a monthly open mic series at The Vortex theater; and co-artistic director of UpRise! Productions)!
Host: (member of The Cipher )!
Saturday September 13, 2008 (4:00-7:00)
Feature: PropheT (member of the 2006 Austin Under-21 Poetry Slam Team and PUBLIC OFFENDERS )!
Host: Nick (member of The Cipher and featured performer in Zell Miller III's Hip Hop Theater Explosion )!
Saturday August 23, 2008 (4:00-7:00)
Feature: Shay Harris (2007 Austin Under-21 Poetry Slam Team champ, 2008 Austin Under-21 Poetry Slam Team member, and featured performer in Zell Miller III's Hip Hop Theater Explosion )!
Host: J. Phoenix !
Saturday August 9, 2008 (4:00-7:00)
Feature: Pilarsito (member of the 2005 Austin Under-21 Poetry Slam Team and founder of CPR - Capitol Punishment Records )!
Host: PropheT (member of the 2006 Austin Under-21 Poetry Slam Team and PUBLIC OFFENDERS )!
Saturday July 26, 2008 (4:00-7:00)
Host: MiZ L.O.V LaH'ViE (member of The Cipher )!
Saturday July 12, 2008 (4:00-7:00)
Feature: Jonathon "Korim" Sterling (champ of the 2008 Austin Neo-Soul Poetry Slam Team, member of the 2007 Austin Under-21 Poetry Slam Team, champ of the 2006 Austin Under-21 Poetry Slam Team)!
Host: *CORA* (member of The Cipher and featured performer in Zell Miller III's Hip Hop Theater Explosion )!
Saturday June 28, 2008 (4:00-7:00)
Feature: The 2008 Austin Under-21 Poetry Slam Team !
Host: Jonathon "Korim" Sterling (champ of the 2008 Austin Neo-Soul Poetry Slam Team, member of the 2007 Austin Under-21 Poetry Slam Team, champ of the 2006 Austin Under-21 Poetry Slam Team)!
Saturday June 14, 2008 (4:00-7:00)
Feature: The Cipher !
Host: *CORA* (member of The Cipher and featured performer in Zell Miller III's Hip Hop Theater Explosion )!
For more opportunities for young writers and performers in Austin, check out:
• The Cipher
• Texas Youth Word Collective
• Zell Miller III's Hip Hop Theater Explosion
This our resident turntablist DJ PowerTripp :