by Anna Weaver | Apr 25, 2021 | All Posts, tips for open mic hosts, tips for open mic performers
This is the second in a series that explores what makes an open mic worth doing—as in organizing, hosting, attending, performing at, or becoming a regular. Not just because it’s entertaining and inspiring, not just because it’s a great way to improve your craft, but...
by Anna Weaver | Mar 20, 2021 | All Posts, tips for open mic hosts
This is the first of a series that explores what makes an open mic worth doing—as in organizing, hosting, attending, performing at, or becoming a regular. Not just because it’s entertaining and inspiring, but because it’s a defiant act of humanity. Talking with...
by Anna Weaver | Jan 18, 2021 | All Posts, tips for open mic hosts
Practical Advice and 8 Awesome Names that Flaunt It So you want to start an open mic but you don’t know what to call it. It’s a special problem to have, and there’s not a lot of places to go for specific advice. Ask an SEO expert and they’ll tell you to get a...
by Anna Weaver | Dec 19, 2020 | tips for open mic hosts, virtual open mics
Open mic hosts, if you’re impatient to get back to doing your thing in a roomful of real live poets and musicians… If you miss the snapping, the clapping, the amen chorus, and even that one guy who saunters in late and runs over his slot every week… If you’re...
by Anna Weaver | Jul 25, 2020 | All Posts, tips for open mic hosts, tips for open mic performers, virtual open mics
One of the things I say a lot when I try—and I try often—to convey just how great an open mic is (or was) is that you just had to be there. In the room. In the space. With all the other people. Breathing in the poems and the music… …and the air. Which in most states...
by Anna Weaver | Sep 5, 2017 | All Posts, tips for open mic hosts
Let’s say you host an open mic, or you will soon, or you want to. I’m gonna assume you’ve done your time as a performer: You’ve seen good hosts (let’s hope) and maybe a few bad ones (equally instructive). You’ve got ideas. You’ve got opinions. But maybe...