All SPARK Notes Posts
Friday, September 16th, 2011
It’s Friday! Start your weekend off right with a little SPARKcon:
poetrySPARK Open Mic Reading
Wilmoore Café (223 S. Wilmington St)
7:00 pm
Join poetrySPARK for Open Mic Reading. Registered poets will be selected from a hat. Register in person.
“Wear What You Are” fashionSPARK Runway Show
Main Stage @ City Plaza
8:00 pm
The fashionSPARK Fashion Show, will be in it’s 6th year this September. It is the largest and most popular annual fashion event in the Triangle! fashionSPARK, part of the SPARKcon potluck of creativity, showcases the area’s top local fashion talent!
circusSPARK Fire Conclave
circusSPARK circle (intersection of Martin and Fayetteville St.)
9:00 pm
circusSPARK and fire – is there a better combination? We think not.
Check out the complete Friday schedule and come join the fun!
Thursday, September 15th, 2011
Snap it, then see it! Upload your camera phone pics and we’ll project them at The Mahler.
Upload your pictures and tag them with #phonespark. The images need to be taken with camera phones. No Cannon’s here. Look for your shots at The Mahler Friday and Saturday from 8p-10p.
Cannon (and other camera) images can be uploaded here. We like those too.
Thanks!
Thursday, September 15th, 2011
The 6th annual SPARKcon kicks off tonight! The weather is looking fine in beautiful downtown Raleigh, so check out the full schedule of events here or download the SPARKcon 2011 app.
Highlights for today include:
PechaKucha Night presented by ideaSPARK
NC Museum of Natural Sciences(11 W Jones St)
6:40 pm
The evening will showcase over 13 different presenters, all chosen for their enthusiasm about their topic and willingness to share ideas benefiting our community. Seats are full but get on the wait list
musicSPARK Kick-Off
Sadlack’s (2116 Hillsborough St)
7:00 pm
2011 musicSPARK is ALL LOCAL, ALL FREE! Sadlack’s starts off the weekend with The Weekend Gardeners and d-sass. Check out the whole musicSPARK schedule!
Comedy Improv Showcase
Berkeley Café (217 W. Martin St)
10:00 pm
One of 2011 new SPARKs, laugh out loud with the Triangle’s best quick wits.
Thursday, August 4th, 2011
poetrySPARK Call For Poems Deadline is August 19, 2011
RALEIGH, NC, August 5, 2011—poetrySPARK, the poetic component to Raleigh’s annual SPARKcon festival every September, released their call for poems this week. SPARKcon is a 4-day creative festival held in downtown Raleigh September 15-18, 2011.
Poetry in the Raleigh-Durham Area
The deadline for poetry submissions for September 2011′s poetrySPARK events is Friday, August 19th at midnight. Poets must complete an application on the SPARKcon website in order to submit poems for consideration. There are no submission fees. Submitted poems will be reviewed by a panel of judges and poets will be selected for a featured reader evening on Saturday during the festival. Poets are required to submit their name, pen name (if they use one), email address, website (if available), a 100-word bio and agree to the SPARKcon terms listed on the application form. www.sparkcon.com/sparks/poetryspark/call-for-talent/
Poetry Events in NC
Volunteers are welcome to show their interest via the application form also. Planning meetings of the organizing committee are held on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays from 6PM-8PM at Benelux Cafe in Raleigh. Other components of poetrySPARK included Spark After Dark, an erotic poetry event, a Poetry Slam on the main stage and an open mic night where a poet will be voted Best of the poetrySPARK Open Mic. This year’s poetrySPARK events will also feature the 2nd Annual Poetry on Demand Booth where poems will be written in under three minutes based on spontaneous public prompts.
A schedule of poetrySPARK events is available on the SPARKcon webpage. www.sparkcon.com/sparks/poetryspark/
About poetrySPARK
poetrySPARK takes poetry to another level every year at Raleigh’s Annual SPARKcon creative festival. For four days every September, poetrySPARK lights up downtown Raleigh with erotic verse after dark, featured poet readings, an open mic, a poetry on demand booth and a poetry slam. Held in the midst of fashion shows, street painting, graffiti art, music and comedy shows, poetrySPARK 2011 is September 15th-18th. poetrySPARK is completely volunteer-driven. www.sparkcon.com/sparks/poetryspark
Monday, August 1st, 2011
7 18 meeting
