OSLAM

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This is OSLAM.

We are Oberlin College's performance poetry club and slam team.

We believe that poetry acts as a tool for liberation, resistance, and revolution.

Our group has three angles: the club, BRWN, and the team.

THE CLUB
Every other Monday, we have the club, a space for poets of any and all experience levels to come together, learn about art as an act of political resistance, and engage in performance poetry through writing and performance exercises.

BRWN
The club alternates with BRWN, Brown Resistance Writing Narratives, hosted every other Monday. BRWN serves as a poetry writing workshop for poets that identify as people of color. In BRWN, poets ground themselves in the practice of poetry as a tool for political resistance, and learn how poetry can act as a method of self liberation and exploration.

TEAM
Finally, we have the slam team, an audition-based, 15 person capped space for those with advanced levels of experience working with performance or spoken word poetry, and/or slam spaces. The team works in an intensive writing and performance space, while reflecting on the responsibility of art to act as a weapon against modes of oppression. The team also represents Oberlin College at the College Union Poetry Slam Invitational (CUPSI), the largest collegiate poetry competition in the world. Auditions occur the third week of classes, and are not available at any other time in the year.

If you have any questions or inquires, please contact us at oslam@oberlin.edu

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