DiverseWorks and Houston VIP Poetry Slam present the Southwest Shootout 2014, June 13 & 14. The Southwest Shootout is a regional poetry slam tournament and showcase with artists representing the greater Southwest United States.
Featuring teams from Albuquerque Poetry Slam, Red Dirt Poetry Slam (Oklahoma City, OK), Meta-four Houston, Eclectic Truth (Baton Rouge, LA), Austin Neo-Soul, Backup Plan (Baton Rouge, LA), Austin Poetry Slam (Austin, TX), UrbSLAM (St. Louis, MO), Laredo Border Slam, Dallas Poetry Slam, Team Gravy Poetry Slam (Killeen, TX), The Blah Blah Blah Poetry Spot (San Antonio,
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DiverseWorks and Houston VIP Poetry Slam present the Southwest Shootout 2014, June 13 & 14. The Southwest Shootout is a regional poetry slam tournament and showcase with artists representing the greater Southwest United States.
Featuring teams from Albuquerque Poetry Slam, Red Dirt Poetry Slam (Oklahoma City, OK), Meta-four Houston, Eclectic Truth (Baton Rouge, LA), Austin Neo-Soul, Backup Plan (Baton Rouge, LA), Austin Poetry Slam (Austin, TX), UrbSLAM (St. Louis, MO), Laredo Border Slam, Dallas Poetry Slam, Team Gravy Poetry Slam (Killeen, TX), The Blah Blah Blah Poetry Spot (San Antonio, TX), The Lafayette National Poetry Slam Team, Mic Check (Bryan, TX), Slamarillo (Amarillo, TX), Slam New Orleans, and Houston VIP Slam.
Friday, June 13, 1pm
Workshop – Group Poems
In this workshop, Ahmad “Nyne” Hygh (pictured) will demonstrate the skills and techniques for improving collaborative poetry, or as they are affectionately known in the slam community: group pieces.
Ahmad “Nyne” Hygh was born on the East Side of Houston, TX. From birth his mom could tell that he had some toy of talent in him.
In the third grade Nyne wrote his first poem and hosted his first Talent Show and it just took off from there. Nyne has been on the Prairie View Productive Poet Slam Team, the Houston Slam Team, and the Houston VIP Slam team. Nyne also hosted a Monthly Poetry Slam for the Team VIP national Slam team on the 4th Saturday of each month.
Nyne has been performing, mentoring, holding workshops and hosting slams events for 5 years. Nyne travels all over the country, and has a profound love for the arts. Nyne is a Semi Finalist at The College University Poetry Slam in 2008.
In 2013 Nyne and the Houston V.I.P. Slam team placed 2nd in the nation at the National Poetry Slam. Threw his experiences in life Nyne brings his personal and unique style of poetry to every event.
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This project is funded by a grant from the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance.
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