ProvSlam Open Mic featuring Julie River!

Join us on Thursday June 5 for an open mic featuring a ProvSlam alum, Julie River!

The open mic is open to all artists of all genres, and all ages. Bring your stories, music, poems, prose, ramblings, and your friends! You'll have 4-5 minutes on the mic, please be considerate of time!

Doors open and sign-up at 7pm.
Admission is $5-10 suggested donation, or pay what you can <3

MORE ABOUT OUR FEATURE:
Julie River’s journey in slam poetry began in 2002 as a 17-year-old punk rock enthusiast on the AS220 stage in Providence, Rhode Island. Over the next two decades, she competed on 10 poetry slam teams across Providence, Worcester, and Denver, earning grand slam champion titles in all three cities and representing Denver at the Individual World Poetry Slam in 2011. Despite many of her peers retiring, Julie continues to evolve her craft. After coming out as a transgender woman in 2016, she embraced reinvention, transitioning to freelance journalism and magazine editing for publications such as OUT FRONT Magazine and Yellow Scene Magazine. Shifting away from her old chapbooks bearing her deadname, Julie’s poetry will reach a wider audience in 2025 with Punk Rock and Science Fiction, published by OUT FRONT’s Q Publishing. The collection blends the best of her past and present work, capturing her growth as a poet and her enduring creative spirit.

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