UC Berkeley Spoken Word Poetry
Established in 2001, CalSLAM hosts poetry workshops, open mics, and slam competitions open to the campus and greater Bay Area community. Our mission is to create a safe space for students and community members to explore and share themselves, their experiences and their world through words.
03/24/2019
To all of our social media shoutout donors who supported us during our crowdfunding campaign last month: thank you! We appreciate every bit of your support to help us make it to Houston.
- CalSLAM 2019 CUPSI Team
03/20/2019
Meet your BOTB feature: Valentina De Roca Fuerte!
A poet, co-organizer of RichOak Alchemy Poetry Slam & the Oakland Slam, and lover of empanadas y reggeton . Born in Bogotá Colombia, raised in the DMV and the Pacific NorthWest, she carries all of these places with her. She has been published in Oaklands' Undertone Magazine & will be studying Art Politics in the Fall at the NYU Tisch School of Arts. Her words and work are motivated by her need to write through brown immigrant woman's problemas & pain. She believes there is where we find our own power to fight back and remind ourselves of our brilliance.
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Come through! Open Mic in Unit 3 Spens-Black main lounge RIGHT NOW featuring D'mani Thomas later tonight
ICYMI: We're so grateful to everyone who has donated to our campaign thus far! There are just 10 more days left to give. Thank you to all of our 59 donors thus far - we are beyond humbled to reach this level of support from our community.
This is the first year that the UC has instated a state-wide boycott on Texas due to the state's anti-LGBT laws. Unfortunately, this means that our team of majority QTPOC poets is unable to receive any university funding for our travel and lodging costs to CUPSI 2019. As a result, CalSLAM is relying entirely on community support. We have a wide array of perks for donors ranging from personalized poems to CUPSI livestreams. You can check them out on our campaign page! Please consider giving today to support our team -- even sharing our campaign on social media will help us so much!
CalSLAM Help UC Berkeley raise $6,000 for the project: CalSLAM. Your gift will make a difference!
02/18/2019
We're so grateful to everyone who has donated to our campaign thus far! There are just 11 more days left to give. Thank you to all of our 59 donors thus far - we are beyond humbled to reach this level of support from our community.
This is the first year that the UC has instated a state-wide boycott on Texas due to the state's anti-LGBT laws. Unfortunately, this means that our team of majority QTPOC poets is unable to receive any university funding for our travel and lodging costs to CUPSI 2019. As a result, CalSLAM is relying entirely on community support. We have a wide array of perks for donors ranging from personalized poems to CUPSI livestreams. You can check them out on our campaign page! Please consider giving today to support our team -- even sharing our campaign on social media will help us so much!
CalSLAM Help UC Berkeley raise $6,000 for the project: CalSLAM. Your gift will make a difference!
02/08/2019
ICYMI: CalSLAM Community! We're sending our team of 5 poets to Houston in April for CUPSI 2019.. The UC won't fund travel to Texas due to the state's anti-LGBT laws, so we are relying entirely on community support to get us there. Please consider giving today! Even $10 + a share can go a long long way.
There are perks for giving levels starting at $25, ranging from social media shoutouts to personalized poems! Check out our Crowdfunding campaign here:
CalSLAM Help UC Berkeley raise $6,000 for the project: CalSLAM. Your gift will make a difference!
02/07/2019
ICYMIl CalSLAM Community! We're sending our team of 5 poets to Houston in April for CUPSI 2019.. The UC won't fund travel to Texas due to the state's anti-LGBT laws, so we are relying entirely on community support to get us there. Please consider giving today! Even $10 + a share can go a long long way.
There are perks for giving levels starting at $25, ranging from social media shoutouts to personalized poems! Check out our Crowdfunding campaign here:
CalSLAM Help UC Berkeley raise $6,000 for the project: CalSLAM. Your gift will make a difference!