Youth Open Mic Night
Join us on Thursday, July 30th, for our Youth Open Mic Night featuring special guest Aressana Tapia! This night will have a focus on teens and young adults under 21 – keep an eye out for our August 6th Open Mic Night that will be open to ALL AGES!
Interested performers can present works of poetry other forms of performances that require little to no set up (e.g. guitar, acapella singing or ukulele) Performances will be on a first-come, first-serve basis, through a physical sign-up sheet, so show up ready to perform! (Or enjoy the show!) Please note that this evening is youth-focused, and gratuitous language and content is not welcome.
Questions should be emailed to amalia@saysi.org.
🎤 YOUTH OPEN MIC NIGHT (Teens & Adults under 21)
🗓️ Thursday, July 30, 2026
⏱️ 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
📍 SAY Sí – 1310 S Brazos Street
About Aressa Tapia
Aressana Tapia, also known as Ari the Poet, has loved playing with words since she learned her first one. One of her poems was selected for the Young Pegasus poetry competition when she was in middle school, and in eighth grade she created the La Pluma Poetry Club. She has performed at many open mics and writing workshops. She is currently working on a fiction story on Wattpad titled “The Crack in Olympus” centered around a girl who is targeted by the Gods for disrupting the universal order, and forced to help them. Ari will be in tenth grade this August, and wants to start a creative writing club at her school. She is also working on a project tentatively titled The Word Project, and she interviews elderly people and writes poems about them. She also participates in Debate, Theatre, and Model UN. She believes that poetry is the rare miracle when all pieces of a person (their mind, heart, body, tongue, fingers, and soul) are finally able to speak in unison.
She sincerely believes that writer’s block comes from when you disagree with yourself, and the best way to overcome it is to quiet down and listen to the heart which is infinitely wiser than our minds. She understands everyone is a poet already, and they simply need to listen to themselves. With this, she is thrilled to share what she learned when she talked to her heart!