Poetics of the Play Call

Poetics of the Play Call
a project by Najja Moon and Jaki Goldner

$40 | Reserve Your Ticket Here

Join O, Miami and the Miami VIS for Poetics of the Play Call.

This project celebrates the linguistic skill, wit, and performance of broadcasters and sports analysts. Your ticket includes access to a courtside poetry workshop at the Kaseya Center and a ticket to see the Miami Heat play the Washington Wizards.

Poems developed during this workshop will be handed over to the Heat broadcast team, who will be invited to integrate these community compositions into live broadcasts during the month of April.

About Miami VIS
The Miami VIS is a para-fictional WNBA expansion team. They ride for the retired, the weekend warriors, your sis who fell off, and the rec league champs. No matter where the game took you, in VIS World, hoop dreams are safe with them.

The Team
Cofounded by Jaki Goldner and Najja Moon, the team is headquartered in the city of Miami and consists of a diverse group of women who call the 305 home.

Why VIS?
Their name and logo design were derived from the Greek mythological story of the goddess Vis. She is the sister of Nike and the only one strong enough to chain Prometheus to the rock. Personified, Vis is the goddess of force, power, mind, and strength. When she appears in myths, she is usually silent.

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Najja Moon is a Miami-based artist and cultural practitioner, born and raised in Durham, North Carolina. Her practice is centered on the idea that art is utilitarian. An amalgamation of practicalities that improve her life—design and language, cultural responsibility, and community, her visual arts practice uses drawing and text to explore the intersections of queer identity, the body and movement, Black culture, and familiar relations, both personal and communal.

Jaki Goldner is a forward/center from Somers, NY. Goldner played for Somers High School and Binghamton University before taking her talents to New York City where a stellar 10-year rec-league career blossomed.