Join us for our sixth evening of SLAMTelling
Joignez-nous pour notre sixième soirée de Conte de Slam!

Cinq juges, cinq minutes, des contes incroyables!
Five judges, five minutes, incredible storytelling!

12 mars, 2012 / March 12th, 2012

Conteur invité / Featured Teller: Vivekanand Ian Gurudata
Conteur sacrificiel / Sacrificial Teller: Christine Mayr

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Shaika Cafe
5526 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, Quebec
Deuxième lundi de chaque mois, 7pm // Second Monday of each month, 7pm
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Join us for our fifth evening of SLAMTelling
Joignez-nous pour notre cinqième soirée de Conte de Slam!

Cinq juges, cinq minutes, des contes incroyables!
Five judges, five minutes, incredible storytelling!

13 février, 2012 / February 13th, 2012
Thème: Mordu d’amour / Theme: Love Bites

Conteur invité / Featured Teller: Christine Mayer
Conteur sacrificiel / Sacrificial Teller: Sarah Comrie

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Shaika Cafe
5526 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, Quebec
Deuxième lundi de chaque mois, 7pm // Second Monday of each month, 7pm

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The first SlamTelling of 2012 was the best yet! We had new tellers, returning tellers, and an emotionally appreciative audience. All this is a recipe for an intense evening of performance art! We even had a teller from the Montreal Storyteller’s Guild: Christine Mayer, who ended up winning the SlamTelling competition. Congratulations Christine!

Christine Mayer: SlamTeller winner January  2012

We also had fierce competition with our other SlamTellers: Ameara told a sweet story of love that she rediscovered over the holidays and Linda regaled us a another mythic tale. Laurent Castellucci shed first blood on our stage as our sacrificial teller, and Sarah Comrie had them weeping (quite literally) in the aisles with her bittersweet stories of love. Magical.

Laurent Castellucci, Linda Demissy, Ameara MClennan

Sarah Comrie, the SlamTelling crowd at Shaika Cafe

I tried to record the performances, but unfortunately something went wrong with the PC and all the recordings came through with massive distortions. I suspect that, for some reason, the software ignored the high-quality microphone I had plugged in and used the built-in microphone in the tablet. I think I need to find a better way to record these shows.

The next SlamTelling will be on February 13th, 2012. See you then!

Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Time 8:00pm until 11:00pm
Doors open at 7:15
Tickets: $10 at the door (18+, please!)
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With your co-hosts Cameryn Moore and JD “Hobbes” Hickey

*** Celebrity judges DeAnne Smith, Sherwin Sullivan Tjia, and others TBA
*** Awesome sexy-time prizes TBA

The SMUT SLAM is back in Montréal and smuttier than ever! If you missed it last June, now’s your chance to come out and experience this fast-paced night of storytelling based on real life, real lust, real sex. The theme for this SMUT SLAM is “Best Laid Plans…” (tales of lust aforethought and complicated scenes)

SMUT SLAMMERS sign up on the night to tell a 5-minute piece of smut/sex/erotica, based on their real lives and ideally relating to the theme of “Best Laid Plans”, and a lucky eight to ten names will be drawn at random. There will be a team of 3 to 5 judges – interested amateurs, storytellers, theater people, writers, and anyone who loves sex stories.

NOT A SMUT SLAMMER? Don’t worry. The audience is in for a good time at SMUT SLAM! Sit back and enjoy. All we ask is:
- No interrupting. – No heckling. – No necking.

SMUT SLAM creator and host Cameryn Moore is the award-winning writer and performer of Phone Whore, slut (r)evolution, and her newest solo show, power | play, which is coming to the Montréal Fringe Festival in June 2012. Other events for this visit include a book release party on January 24 for “Bang It Out” (her first collection of Sidewalk Smut) and four nights of Phone Whore, running at the mainline Theatre January 26-29. Visit Cameryn online at www.slutrevolution.com

Co-host JD “Hobbes” Hickey is a local award-winning storyteller who has been telling unbelievable tales for over 15 years. In June 2011, he won the “Once Upon a Slam” Finals in Ottawa and has recently qualified to compete in the 2012 “Once Upon a Slam” Finals as well. He hosts his own Story Slam series in Montreal (www.slamtastique.ca), has published two storytelling CDs, and performs at spoken word events all around Montréal. His sexual exploits are not as well known, but legends abound.

Our December story slam was the most successful to date! The stories were amazing, the audience was enthusiastic, and the evening was magical. Be sure to not miss our story slam in January when Sarah Comrie will be the featured teller!

I had some technical difficulties during the December slam, but I got most of the stories recorded. They aren’t the best recordings, but I managed to spruce them up with some fiddling.

This story was told by Linda Demissy who tells me it was originally penned by Len “Black Lotus” Rosenburg (1951-2010), who was a reputed storyteller and devotee of Kali. He passed away in October 2010, a few months after his life partner and Celtic Reconstructionist Alexei Kondratiev passed on. Both were bards, respected Wiccan teachers and elders of the Protean Gardnerian Tradition, active in the New York gay communities and performers at science fiction conventions. She was honored to tell this story in Memoriam. You can read more about Mr. Rosenburg by visiting this site.

Unfortunately, Linda went over her 5 minute time limit, which meant I had to go up on stage with her to physically remind her that she had to end the story quickly. That’s why you’ll hear an “uh-oh” at the end.

Happy Holidays, a Merry Yule, and a Happy Christmas to all of you!

December 2011 Slam — No Ragnarok (told by Linda Demissy)

Join us for our fourth evening of SLAMTelling
Joignez-nous pour notre quatrième soirée de Conte de Slam!

Shaika Cafe
5526 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, Quebec
Deuxieme lundi de chaque mois, 7pm // Second Monday of each month, 7pm
Prochain Slam: 9 janvier 2012
Next event: January 9th 2012

Cinq juges, cinq minutes, des contes incroyables! (lisez les regles)
Five judges, five minutes, incredible storytelling! (read the rules)

Conteur invité / Featured Teller: Sarah Comrie
Conteur sacrificiel / Sacrificial Teller: Laurent Castellucci

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Join the Facebook group to find out more about it!

Congratulations to Sarah Comrie for winning the December edition of the Contes SLAMtastique Storytelling! She won a brick of Egg Nog Fudge, courtesy of Briimstone Chocolates (5879 Sherbrooke West).

A huge thanks and congratulations to everyone who told, judged, listened, and heard tonight. It’s been our most successful evening so far!

The next event will be January 9th 2012 at Shaika Cafe. Keep checking this site for more news!

Here are some pictures of the tellers from that night. Please forgive the quality: the warm-light of the room made it difficult for my cellphone’s digital camera to get a good shot. Click the images to embiggen.

Laurent Castellucci, winner of the November 2011 Slam and our featured teller that night.

Sarah Comrie, SlamTeller

Linda Demissy (website), SlamTeller

Julie Golick (website), Slam Teller

Ameara (website), SlamTeller

Crowd, SlamListeners

Join us for our third evening of SLAMTelling
Joignez-nous pour notre troisième soirée de Conte de Slam!

Shaika Cafe
5526 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, Quebec
Deuxieme lundi de chaque mois, 7pm // Second Monday of each month, 7pm
Prochain Slam: 12 décembre 2011
Next event: December 12th 2011

Cinq juges, cinq minutes, des contes incroyables! (lisez les regles)
Five judges, five minutes, incredible storytelling! (read the rules)

Conteur invité / Featured Teller: Laurent Castellucci
November 2011 Slam — Cheating Honestly (Laurent Castellucci)

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We had a great night last night at Shaika Cafe for the November 2011 edition of Contes SLAMtastique Storytelling (join the Facebook group). The competition was fierce and the stories held the crowd spell bound. We had about 30 to 45 people who attended the event, and even had some people in the back who weren’t expecting storytelling, but loved it nonetheless. It was magical.

There were a few personal firsts for me that night. I bought a microphone to plug into Shaika’s sound system. I’ve never really worked with that type of audio equipment before, so in fiddling with the knobs I released a feedback wave that shattered every eardrum in the place. Not the best way to get everyone’s attention, although it was efficient.

I also remembered to bring my recording equipment, so I was able to audio record the stories that were told that night! I need to find a better place for the recording microphone, as well as learn how to adjust the bass on the amp (the first half sounds a bit too tinny for my tastes), but these are all learning experiences!

Our invited guest was the lovely Eveline Ménard, who won the competition in October. She charmed the audience with her flute-playing, singing (a first for her!), and storytelling. Our SlamTellers this month were Dylan Spevack-Willcock, Laurent Castellucci, and Kym Dominique-Ferguson (of Madpoetix Productions).

So with his permission, I’m offering you Kym’s Anansi story from that night. There’s a slight recording glitch right at the beginning, but the rest of it is fine. Kym also runs his own spoken word evening called MADPOETIX: Intimate Nights (website, Facebook). You should check out their next show in December!

How Stories became Anansi Stories — Told by Kym Dominique-Ferguson, (5:04 minutes)

Kym also runs his own spoken word evening called MADPOETIX: Intimate Nights (website, Facebook). You should check out their next show in December!