First Friday Open Mic Night Zoom: JANUARY 2024

First Friday Zoom Open Mic for January 2024 coming up soon! Join hosts, Larry Power, Logan, Heidi Shear, & Lee Eric Freedman for inspiring spoken word, musical performances and the famous "name your talent" at the best open mic in Swampscott, MA.

Open Mic begins at 7:00 PM EDT and runs until 10:00 PM EDT (United States).

Registration for this event IS required. Click here to register.

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This month's featured guest is Linda Bratcher Wlodyka.

Linda Bratcher Wlodyka is the Massachusetts, Beat Poet Laureate, 2023-2025. In the summer of 2023, Linda was chosen as a contributor to WordxWord a summer poetry festival in the Berkshires where she collaborated with a team of poets creating a very large poem that was read aloud for the audience at The Mount. She also has held the position as a docent at The Mount, Edith Wharton’s summer home in Lenox, MA from 2002 -2006. She retired as an educator from Mt. Greylock Regional School District in Williamstown in 2020. Linda’s poem, Secret Cottage, was voted Best in the Berkshires in 2012 and she was invited to the Colonial Theater in Pittsfield, MA to read that poem. Linda also has had three poems published in Red Barn Volume I, in 2016 after attending Peter Bergman's workshop at Arrowhead the historic homestead of author Herman Melville in Pittsfeld, MA. Linda has 3 chapbooks previously self-published, Her Spirited Cameo, Voices from the Blue Room and Tick Tock. If Brambles Were Bookends Collected Poems, is Linda’s first full length poetry collection released September 2023. Her poems have been widely anthologized throughout the United States. She is a member of the Florence Poet’s Society and has recently been involved reading and choosing poems for publication in the anthologies, Silkworm and Naugatuck River Review.

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You are invited to a Zoom meeting.

When: Jan 5, 2024 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Register in advance for this meeting:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0ocuuurTouGtC8bbaqZ_5cp3IttQgb3vcX

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

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For more info about ReachArts, Swampscott, MA:
https://reacharts.org/

Sign-up to perform when you ENTER the room on Friday evening at 7:00 pm EDT.

REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED FOR THIS EVENT.