San José Poetry Slam featuring
Héctor F. Castañeda (Dog Days Are Over)!
Sunday, April 9th, 2023
6:30 - 10:00 p.m. (PDT)
29 N San Pedro Square, SJ
Co-sponsored by Tabard Theatre.
29 N San Pedro Square (Upstairs. There is an elevator for those with mobility needs) in Downtown San José. https://tabardtheatre.org/
Or watch us live online:
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Sign up list will be open from 6:30 to 6:59pm. at 6:59 the list will close and we will do the random draw.
Slam starts at 7
Hosted by Mighty Mike McGee!
Cash prizes for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place.
Admission: $5-10
I’m Héctor F. Castañeda (Dog Days Are Over); published writer, HRDRV (“hard drive”) award-nominated songwriter, intuitive creative clarity coach, producer, audio engineer, graphic artist, musician, host of the Strange Alchemy podcast, and more. Poetry is my spellwork for my creativity to bloom. I'm based in Ohlone territory (East Side San José) with a loving family of immigrants. My multifaceted performance features an intuitive decolonial blend of poetry, song, and music to invoke divine alchemic messaging. Rooted in my Temoaya Hñahñu (“ñah-ÑOO”) and Otomí (“oh-toe-ME”) lineage, I center the neurodivergent queering of language and form for Brown people of global majority (people of color). Join my Alchemist community, listen to my poetry, and buy my book Strange Alchemy at https://DOGDAYSMUSIC.COM
I’m a shapeshifting chameleon night owl bellowing into the oceanic void, constantly phoenixing the architecture of my body. My writing and musical themes often touch on intuition, ancestral energy, linguistics, surrealism, religion, color, organized chaos, metaphysicality, (in)harmony, philosophy, queerness, biology, marginalized bodies, the rewritten and unwritten. I’ve competed in the 2021 Stonewall International Poetry Slam, and featured in various shows including Word Is Write (‘21), The Berkeley Slam (‘19-22), Speaking Axolotl (Nomadic Press ‘21), Tongues of Fire (Canada ‘21), Loud Mouth Jam (‘20-22}, and the 2019 UCSC Queer Fashion Show. I’ve been published in the Mercury News (2016), La Raíz Magazine (‘22-‘23), various zines (“The Radical Zine Vol. 2” with The Resource Center for Nonviolence in ‘19, Lissen… Vol. 1 Queer Slam zine in ‘20, Loud Mouth Poetry Jam’s Dia de Las Poéticas in ‘20), Silicon Valley Youth Climate Team (‘19), Californians for Justice (‘16-17), Rigorous Magazine (‘20), UCSC Food & Garden Guide (‘20 & ‘21) and PandemicPoems.org (‘20). I’ve been interviewed by: acclaimed rapper Noa James for his “5 on Love” IG Live Series (‘23), York Campbell for Welcome to Earth Stories (‘22; FKA Poetic Earthlings), Michael Jasso for Loud Mouth Poetry Jam, Imogen Arate for the award-winning Poets & Muses podcast, ADVISS Music (‘22), Sabrina B. for Experimental Audio Scene (‘22) and the Tizzy & Wayne Coffee Show. (‘20-22).
To join my Alchemist community, experience my website at https://DOGDAYSMUSIC.COM and sign up for my newsletter. You can follow me on Instagram at @dogdaysareover_hectorc. My multimedia poetry book “Strange Alchemy” and merch are available for purchase on Etsy at https://tinyurl.com/ddao-book1. You can schedule a free Creative Clarity Call at https://calendly.com/creativeclaritycoach. Become a monthly Patreon donor for early exclusive access to writing prompts, unreleased manuscripts, and song demos on https://patreon.com/dodgaysareover_hectorc. All of my socials and links are available at https://linktr.ee/dogdaysareover.