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Gram-O-Rama: Phrased & Confused

  • Mettlesome 800 Taylor St. Suite 9-156 Durham, NC 27701 USA (map)

If John Lennon, Gertrude Stein, Stephen Hawking, and Mother Goose had conspired to teach a course in grammar at UNC, GRAM-O-RAMA would be it.

This is not your grandma’s grammar class. Creative students who love word play, music, rhythm, sketch comedy, performance, nonsense, and the circusy possibilities of language write exercises to specific prompts from Daphne Athas’s maverick text and learn the joys of breaking the rules of grammar to understand why we have them. Now this year's class is ready to show you the best, weirdest, most wonderful linguistic experiments-- 20 side-splitting (and infinitive-splitting) sketches, songs, and chants.

Tickets: Free!

Earlier Event: December 6
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