{"id":327,"date":"2020-04-08T12:25:31","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T08:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/?p=327"},"modified":"2020-04-23T08:30:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T04:30:06","slug":"open-mic-night-goes-online-as-campus-remains-shut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/2020\/04\/08\/open-mic-night-goes-online-as-campus-remains-shut\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Mic Night goes online as campus remains shut"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Nourhan Samra<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNIVERSITY CITY \u2013 The American University of Sharjah is hosting their annual Open Mic Night online this year after closing due to covid-19, according to an email from the English Department on April 6.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event will be held through Instagram and participants are expected to submit their entries online, the department wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students are given the choice to submit a variety of content including verses, songs and videos limited to 60 seconds, they stated.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For text submissions, students are required to abide by a 100-word limit, the department added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn light of our current circumstances, please send us your spoken word on social distancing, online learning, and the unfortunate global pandemic,\u201d they wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The department encouraged students to write about all kinds of experiences including joys, frustrations and anxieties while keeping the content appropriate.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students must turn in their submissions to <em>@englishfellowsaus<\/em> through direct message on Instagram, according to the email.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As stated on the event poster, submissions have been open since March 26.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"449\" height=\"562\" src=\"https:\/\/mcmhub.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Open-Mic-Night-goes-online-as-campus-remains-shut-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Open-Mic-Night-goes-online-as-campus-remains-shut-2.png 449w, https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Open-Mic-Night-goes-online-as-campus-remains-shut-2-240x300.png 240w, https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Open-Mic-Night-goes-online-as-campus-remains-shut-2-336x420.png 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nourhan Samra UNIVERSITY CITY \u2013 The American University of Sharjah is hosting their annual Open Mic Night online this year after closing due to covid-19, according to an email from the English Department on April 6.\u00a0 The event will be held through Instagram and participants are expected to submit their entries online, the department [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":328,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[32,35,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-327","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news","8":"tag-campus","9":"tag-clubs","10":"tag-community"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}