Hungary is hosting the European Poetry Slam Championship in Budapest between November 26 – December 1, 2018!
Slam Poetry, perhaps the most active grassroots cultural movement in the world, appeared in Hungary in 2006, twenty years after its birth in the USA. The central force behind the Hungarian slam community is Slam Poetry Hungary Association /SPM. Our local community boasts nearly 20,000 Facebook fans and 6400 YouTube subscribers with more than 2.8 million channel views. The European Slam Championships are organised every year in a different country, it is mainly coordinated and united by Belgian organiser Philip Meersman of Creatief Schrijven.
Slam Poetry, perhaps the most active grassroots cultural movement in the world, appeared in Hungary in 2006, twenty years after its birth in the USA. The central force behind the Hungarian slam community is Slam Poetry Hungary Association /SPM. Our local community boasts nearly 20,000 Facebook fans and 6400 YouTube subscribers with more than 2.8 million channel views. The European Slam Championships are organised every year in a different country, it is mainly coordinated and united by Belgian organiser Philip Meersman of Creatief Schrijven.