The Blank Slate Club plans to host an inclusive night of prose and poetry at the Rock N' Joe Restaurant Friday, Dec. 8, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. An event free of admission, members of the Blank Slate club will exhibit their written works to an audience filled with fans of spoken word. 

The Blank Slate Club is a new organization on Kean's campus that focuses on students expressing themselves through the publishing of their own individual and written work through a bi-annual digital magazine. This event, in particular, will help to showcase the new club's efforts to incite creative expression among students who are interested in joining. The night will kick off with Paige Bollman, the president of the new organization, providing a few words about the club and its members.

“We’re happy to provide an opportunity for students to share their creative work with the community and have their voices heard,” Jonena Brezinski, the club's secretary said. 

Soon after, the members of the club will perform their favorite and personally written pieces to the audience inside the Rock N' Joe next to the Union Train Station. After all of the members of the group finish their iterations, the event will then turn into an open mic night for anyone interested in reading personal creations of poetry. 

“We are excited about our very first event and cannot wait to hear how talented the students on campus are,” Kiara Caceres, the treasurer of the Blank Slate Club said.

Blank Slate's goals are not limited to just giving students a platform to openly use their creativity in poetry and spoken word, but the new group wishes to connect the campus community as well as to promote social, professional, and educational partnerships and activities through holding events to promote creative expression as well as networking on and off campus.

Anyone interested in the event can find more information by visiting the new organization's Cougar Link page or by emailing Paige Bollman at the address of bollmanp@kean.edu.