Something Else 8 September
It’s Australian Poetry Week! So Justine has some thoughts on poetry, some poems she has found (by other people, in second-hand shops) and some events to highlight.
Check out our other blog at https://somethingelse897fm.wordpress.com for some post-show thoughts soon.
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National Poetry Week, day four: LIVE
8 Sep: LIVE Australian poetry day – embrace the poetic essence in all forms of daily life…
With five themed days of activity, WRITE, BUY, SHARE, LIVE and CELEBRATE Australian poetry, the week will raise awareness, appreciation and participation of the Australian community with this engaging, but often overlooked, art form.
Be liberated to find poetry and the inspiration for poems in every part of life.Try on a different perspective and seek out the poetry in daily life…..
Consider:
What is poetry?
What is it to live a poetic life?
How do your senses engage with poetry?
What captures your attention?
What is the inspiration that is captured and communicated through poems and poetry?
How do you live poetry?
NSW: Jess Cook at the Sebel
September 8, 2011 6:30 pm – 7.30pm
Cost: Free
Venue: Sebel Pier One Sydney
Address:
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Hickson Road, Sydney, Australia
As part of National Poetry Week, this Thursday, 8 September, is LIVE Australian poetry day – be liberated to find poetry and the inspiration for poems in every part of life. At 6:30pm, poet Jess Cook will be finding inspiration and reading her work at the Sebel Pier One Sydney, in the foyer as part of the Poets Corner Poetry Installation (a partnership between the Sebel Pier One and Australian Poetry).
Outspoken #9
Time
Thursday, September 8 · 7:00pm – 10:00pm
Location
Verge Festival Tent, Sydney University
Created By
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Performances by both new and old spoken-word heads from Sydney and abroad. Our last regular OutSpoken for the year.
Scott Sandwich
Candy Bowers
Sumsay
Edwina Blush
Max Rapley
Jade Oldfield
MORE TBA
Entry $10
or
$5 for University of Sydney Union members
THIS IS NOT BYO
NSW: Breathing Space
Breathing Space: a remarkable change
The act of breathing often passes unnoticed as a marker of both constancy and change. The simple in, pause and out rhythms are key to our ability to engage with our emotions, thoughts and actions. But then? What tension below the surface? What voice rises? Where can we commune? Creativity may be regarded as a form of breathing – drawing together our sense of (un)space, (un)knowledge, (un)identity. It architectures a lingua franca for this reflection, giving rise to potential for metamorphosis – a remarkable change in us, our surroundings, our interactions. It is in the breathing that we may contemplate disturbance, connection, release.
During National Poetry Week 2011 six of Australia’s award winning poets will breathe their work within the body of the Newcastle Art Gallery. Surrounded by visual works of creative breath, each reading will be responded to by one of Australia’s finest oboists, playing Britten’s interpretations of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. These communing (un)sounds may then rise to join in contemplative conversation within the space, the pause of (un)knowing, and the air.
The poets: Rae Desmond Jones, Martin Harrison, Judy Johnson, Robert Adamson, David Musgrave and Cecilia White.
The oboist: Ben Opie.
This event is jointly supported by the Newcastle Art Gallery and the University of Newcastle (Wellness@UoN Program).
You are invited to breathe and commune with the artists, the works and the space
Saturday 10 September 2011
2pm – 3.30 pm
Newcastle Art Gallery,
Laman St, Newcastle NSW.
Contact: cecilia.white@newcastle.edu.au
Outspoken #10
Time
Wednesday, September 14 · 8:00pm – 11:30pm
Location
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In association with Word Travels & Global Poetics…
OutSpoken presents:
Shane Koyczan (Canada)
Ken Arkind (USA)
Jive Poetics (USA)
Alana Hicks (SYD)
Randall Stephens (VIC)
Alia Gabres (VIC)
Yes we are all about featuring the best in Sydney Poetics… but when you get three fantastic internationals in town you know you gotta put something on!
Join us for the amazing talent of Shane Koyczan the Canadian Slam Champion and all round poet (who sold out his last Sydney shows!). Also NY poets Ken Arkind and Jive Poetic take the stage to show us how they flex it northern style. This is the only exclusive show featuring all three of these touring internationals in Sydney.
Locals include Alana Hicks from Sydney, Victorian visitor Randall Stephens and for the first time at OutSpoken, Victorian Alia Gabres from the Centre for Poetics and Justice. Visuals by local Sydney liquid light artists as well as the resident DJ RR Diner!
Wowsa and all that for only 20 dollars!
(Don’t freak out folks this is a once only price we’ll drop down next month)
At our new venue in Kings Cross: the FBi (Radio) Social.
THIS IS NOT A BYO EVENT!
VIBEWIRE PORTAL
Wednesday, September 14 · 6:00pm – 9:30pm
Location
525 Harris Street, NSW 2007
Ultimo, Australia
Created By
Holly Isemonger, Jaime MacMillan, Gemma Davies, Lucy Wire
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The team at Vibewire are starting a new monthly event for young writers around Sydney!
The idea is simple. A night where people who like writing can have fun with words. Too often writing can seem overly serious and stuck with stereotypes of pipe smoking, tweedy coats and the like (I’m all for tweedy coats, but mainly when Stephen Fry is wearing them). We are here to make writing fun. The night will essentially be made up of three parts. Lets say three acts to keep with the literary theme.
To kick of the night we have the brilliant writer and zine extraordinaire Vanessa Berry coming in to give a brief talk about what inspires her, tips for young writers and all round info about writing, procrastinating and everything in between.
Next up we will play some writing games. Basically we will be playing short, fun, collaborative games that will have you thinking on your feet, thinking outside the square and creating some short wacky (or not) stories and poems.
This will be followed by work shopping. The idea is to experiment and give you a place where you feel comfortable with sharing your work and getting feedback, which can be pretty intimidating at first. We want to get rid of that intimidating element, after all, we write for enjoyment so it makes sense to enjoy it.
After this there will be a bit of free time to chill out and mingle, or ‘network’ or whatever.
Workshop Details:
-If you want to workshop your piece you need to email us (with the piece of writing attached) at least 2 days before the event. Simply send your pieces to editor@vibewire.org
-It must be one A4 sheet or less
-There will 5-10 minutes for work shopping each piece.
-Don’t be scared! This is a completely relaxed environment and we are all looking to share ideas, help each other with their writing and most of all have FUN.
Tickets are $5 and can be bought on the door. Drinks will be provided, non alcoholic or alcoholic for those who want to loosen up their pen.
Schedule:
6pm: Open Doors
6:15pm: Writers Speech
6:30pm: Writing Games
7:00pm: Work-shopping
7:30pm: Networking and mingling until everybody clears out
Event Date: 14th of September
Cost: $5 Tickets
Remember to bring paper and a pen!
You can check out Vanessa’s blog here
https://vanessaberryworld.wordpress.com/