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Subvert the Attention Economy: Go to Open Mic

Subvert the Attention Economy: Go to Open Mic

by Anna Weaver | Aug 29, 2021 | All Posts, tips for open mic performers, virtual open mics

So I read this book semi-recently called How to Do Nothing. It wasn’t actually about doing nothing. More like the deliberate not-doing of a certain kind of thing. The kind of thing we don’t decide to do, but rather fall into when we’re not paying attention. Not so...
Respect the Mic: 3 Veteran Moves for Virtual Open Mics

Respect the Mic: 3 Veteran Moves for Virtual Open Mics

by Anna Weaver | Jan 10, 2021 | All Posts, virtual open mics

It’s been 10 months and counting since most places banned the gathering of human vectors beings, which forced open mics to either suspend their shows or move to digital platforms. If you’ve become a virtual open mic regular, you’ve doubtless seen what happens to human...
The Best Platform for a Virtual Open Mic

The Best Platform for a Virtual Open Mic

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...
Heavy Hitters: A Virtual Banquet of Open Mic Pros

Heavy Hitters: A Virtual Banquet of Open Mic Pros

by Anna Weaver | Aug 2, 2020 | All Posts, tips for open mic performers, virtual open mics

Here in the US, we’re at month four of not being able to gather in large groups. For people like me, that takes some of the sparkle out of my calendar—no shows to stalk and anticipate.  (As a close friend of mine—who keeps a reminder of upcoming events where she can...
The Shift to Digital Open Mics

The Shift to Digital Open Mics

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...

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