PRESENTS

SLAMMING

THE

SYSTEM!

A SLAM WHERE EVERYONE WINS,

EXCEPT FOR THE SYSTEM…

When: THURSDAY, AUGUST 24^TH, 2006

Where: @ The Brava Theater Center, 2781 24th street, cross is York in San Francisco

Times: Doors open @ 7:30, show starts @ 8pm

Cost: Donations, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds

Info: Call Javier 415-641-7657, x 9/contact@coloredink.org

Brief Concept:

Colored Ink's latest project "Slamming the System" is a slam that is designed to do what most slams don’t: reach people. With this event you are not competing for points, you are competing for hearts. The hearts of judges who are people in the community that are facing a lot of the same struggles we are, except theirs are a little more severe. We are finally giving artists a chance to perform their work in front of the content that they speak of in their work and for just for those who are amused or entertained by their pain. Here is how the event works

*If you’ve been slammed by the system, then SLAM with us. TRUE POETRY 4 THE PEOPLE!
*Winners are based how on much they’ve touched the judges based on their content & not of their style.
*Judges represent different districts throughout a city and experiences (such as a youth who just got out of
Juvenile Hall; a woman whose experienced domestic violence, a homeless person; someone undergoing
Drug rehabilitation; a Hurricane Katrina survivor; a single mother who lost her child due to violence; etc
*The winner decides which judge receives the prize money based on their personal testimony of struggle