THE TANK SPACE FOR PERFORMING AND VISUAL ARTS

SLAM Theater invites artists and audiences to get involved in the process of making theater. Playwrights bring fresh scripts, and actors are called out of a hat to perform timed segments, completely unrehearsed. After each round, the judges score the plays, moving the top-scoring plays to the next round. Winning writers get to unveil more of their work, acting as director or bringing one in to give timed notes. SLAM is an evening of theater with impromptu performance,
spontaneous collaboration, and friendly competition.

Now in it's third year, SLAM Theater continues to encourage new voices, opening up a stage for diverse writers to develop work. SLAM is open to everyone. Anyone can come in, throw down a script, put their name in the actor pool, and get involved. A community has grown around SLAM -- a group of artists who come regularly to support each other, and give each other honest feedback in a raw, immediate setting. Each month, our SLAM Champion is given The Tank's space to put on a staged reading of their work. Many artists come and end up making strong connections and creative relationships that continue to develop outside of SLAM. SLAM is always growing and expanding. Actors, bring your talent. Playwrights, bring your scripts. Audience, bring your voice. Come SLAM!

$5 suggested donation

Bestselling author Adam Lux has only seven hours left to turn in his much anticipated second Great American Novel and has precisely four (god awful) sentences written. Unable to delay his deadline any further, Adam must complete his masterpiece tonight… a night where he is plagued by little things like break ups, pregnancies, cancer and the mob. The Block is a compelling and comedic look at a writer trying to do what’s right.

Point of You Productions is an Off-Broadway theatre company dedicated to presenting new and challenging works and to giving its artists a chance to address issues that confound the human spirit.

For more information: www.pointofyou.org

Presale tickets are available here:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/69361

Join us on Monday July 27th for an open mic starting at 7:30 pm hosted by Natalie Johnson with featured poets Gerren Liles and Mark Schelle-Pickett followed by performances by the acrobats, aerialists, and dancers of Hybrid Movement Company at 9:00. Sultry lights, original artwork projections and intimate seating give The Tank at 45th Street theater one of the best ambiances in the city.

Proceeds from the open mic will benefit the Hybrid Movement Company's upcoming Halloween performance at McNally's Fate and the Movement As Metaphor education program for our community's youth and their parents.

Presale tickets can be found at: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/72483

"Just Working On My Novel"-a night for publishing-industry and/or bookish folks (and/or the people who love and/or hate them, you must be IN publishing, friends with someone in publishing, have made out with someone in publishing or mortal enemies with someone in publishing. why? why not!) to dust off their own pieces of writing, old new fiction fact, read them aloud to their peers/friends/utter, bloodlusting enemies and start pumping life into them like the writing was a duck's liver and you were making foie gras. Basically, it's one big giant slam of unfinished material, for and by folks who deal with books all the time, and their friends outside the industry (if such things exist). Whether you're an agent really tired of dealing with the queries of others when you'd rather be writing your own query for your finished masterpiece, or a publicist who knows that the stuff you push on a daily basis isn't half as good as your own could be-this is *your* chance to get what we all need, deep down: a little attention.

Sign-ups start at 7, readings start at 7:30.

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BACK BY ASTOUNDINGLY POPULAR DEMAND!!!

A One Woman Show in Two Acts
by Erica Watson

Yes! Erica Watson is a FAT BITCH! But society made her this way.

Act I: PENIS ENVY
Erica Watson has NEVER had an orgasm before during sex. And she's mad about it! In Penis Envy, she explores her jealousy of male sexuality and how it has manifested itself in and out of the bedroom. She confesses her fear of blow jobs, meeting men in STD clinics and why male strippers make her nervous! Can Erica and Penises get over their issues and become friends?

Act II: SUPER MAMMY
Look in the sky! Is it a bird? A Plane? No..it's Super Mammy! Erica explores white America's fascination with sassy full-figured Black women and how those media images have shaped her self esteem and interactions with men, especially Black Men. Erica will explore how her weight has shaped her view of the world, and how the world has viewed her shape!

Advance Tickets can be purchased from BPT
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/71301