{"id":47386,"date":"2023-09-01T13:08:12","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T09:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=47386"},"modified":"2023-09-01T13:19:55","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T09:19:55","slug":"season-12-opening","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/season-12-opening\/","title":{"rendered":"Rooftop Rhythms: Season 12 Opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Middle East\u2019s longest-running (and best, and best-supported) poetry (and other performance) open mic event enters its twelfth season. You get culturally-diverse voices with a lineup that features up-and-coming spoken word artists, poets, and musicians presenting original material, typically on a first-come first-served basis (sign up by emailing <a href=\"mailto:info@rooftoprhythms.org\">info@rooftoprhythms.org<\/a>) with some minor juggling by the organisers. All languages are welcome.<\/p>\n<p>Season 12 dates:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Season 12 Opening \u2013 29 Sep<\/li>\n<li>Slam Competition and Open Mic Night \u2013 27 Oct<\/li>\n<li>Rooftop Junior Open Mic \u2013 28 Oct<\/li>\n<li>The Sustainability Edition: Open Mic Night \u2013 27 Nov (presented in support of COP28)<\/li>\n<li>Slam Competition and Open Mic Night \u2013 15 Dec<\/li>\n<li>Open Mic Night \u2013 26 Jan<\/li>\n<li>Slam Competition and Open Mic Night \u2013 23 Feb<\/li>\n<li>Ramadan Open Mic Night \u2013 29 Mar<\/li>\n<li>Open Mic Night \u2013 26 Apr<\/li>\n<li>Grand Slam Competition \/ Season Finale \u2013 24 May<\/li>\n<li>Rooftop Junior Slam \u2013 25 May<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Rooftop Rhythms is hosted by founder Dorian Paul Rogers, with Jaysus Zain as resident DJ. It is presented in partnership with The Arts Center at NYUAD with official support of the US Mission to the UAE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The Middle East\u2019s longest-running (and best, and best-supported) poetry (and other performance) open mic event enters its twelfth season. You get culturally-diverse voices with a lineup that features up-and-coming spoken word artists, poets, and musicians presenting original material, typically on <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/season-12-opening\/\" title=\"Rooftop Rhythms: Season 12 Opening\"> [&#8230; more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[140,56],"class_list":["post-47386","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","tribe_events_cat-open-mic","tribe_events_cat-poetry","cat_open-mic","cat_poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/47386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/47386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47386"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=47386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}