“Poem means feelings, whatever we think, whatever emotions come in our mind, whether it is happy or sad, we convey all our feelings to the people through the medium of poetry”
Origins Of The Poetry Slam
The concept of poetry slam as we now know that it originated in the 1980s in Chicago, where a local poet and construction worker Marc Kelly Smith, feeling that they had lost their true passion for poetry, had an idea that he would bring poetry back to the people. He created a weekly poetry event-poetry slam, where everyone could participate and show their love towards poetry, because he knew that poetry heals pain and gives a pure smile. As we all know that poem gives us power to perform well, and through that emotions comes into the heart and conveys the message, what exactly wanted to give
So we were also inspired by this and also organised our very first event POETRY SLAM, virtually. Where we invite all the parts of Study Hall Educational Foundation (SHEF) as we include Study Hall School, The Study Hall College, Center for learning (CFL), Vidyasthali Kanar School and Prerna School etc. We were very excited about the event, the first event that the Culture Committee of The Study Hall College, online. Our main objective of organizing this event was to give chance to the students who have talent but they don’t know how to show their talent. The video submission deadline was from 25 December to 3 January 2021, and successfully we had received more than 30 videos from various schools and college. 7 poems were selected to represent different collectives of our diverse Foundation
12 January 2021- The Event
The Poetry Slam was held on 12 January 2021. It started through a Zoom call at 4:30 pm. The three anchors from The Study Hall College were: Aman Rathore (BA-JMC), Kirti Gupta (BA-JMC) and Suman Gautam (BBA). Chief guest of our program was Dr. Urvashi Sahni, the CEO and Founder of Study Hall Educational Foundation. Dr. Sahni, poet, philosopher and our founder and inspiration. She is the author of “Reaching for the Sky.
7 poems to show live out of all available, as representation of the different collectives of our diverse Foundation.
- Shaifali from Prerna Girls School.
- Swati Pandey from Vidyasthali Kanar Intercollege
- Gurpreet Kaur teacher of Prerna Girls School
- Aartrika Singh from Study Hall School
- Chetna Jaiswal teacher of Prerna Girls School
- Avneesh Sharma from Study Hall College
- Resham Sahu from Prerna Girls School
We invited 5 wonderful and renowned poets of the house to honor and comment the event live.
- Reena , Prerna Girls School
- Yogesh Chandra Sir, The Study Hall College
- Priyanka Ma’am, Arohini
- Meenakshi Ma’am, principal of Study Hall School.
- Swadha Ma’am, CFL
Finally we call on Jyoti Rawat (B.Com) to propose a vote of thanks. Many thanks to our charming and handsome Felipe Sir, as it was his idea to bring try this format online. The reunion was upload as well as all poems presented on our YouTube channel, Aapke Dil Ki Awaj- YouTube .
Now lay back and enjoy the first edition of our Poetry Slam:
