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19 Aug 2023

Saturday 19th, Aug, 2023: Sonic Poetry Festival, Naarm Bread, James WF Roberts

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Saturday 19th, Aug, 2023: Sonic Poetry Festival, Naarm Bread, James WF Roberts

Macca gives James the mic as he talks about the upcoming Sonic Poetry Festival.

As part of Sonic Poetry Festival in Naarm/Melbourne, invites you to an afternoon of collaborative poetry at Bar 303 2^nd September 2pm. Featuring four amazingly talented poets and their chosen collaborators this is a gig not to be missed. With a selection of musicians, writers and performers chosen by the feature poets you can expect varied performances and special guests.

Full festival program – www.sonicpoetryfestival.com

Event:

Naarm Bread – a celebration of poetry collaboration

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Four diverse Poets performing with a collaboratoration theme. Some will include music, sound, visuals, performance or co-writers.

POETS

MpathSoul

Elizabeth Skec

Charaf Tee

Gemma White

Hosted by MC James WF Roberts

COST: $20 full / $10 concession (Kids free)

ENTRY: https://www.trybooking.com/CKGZY

Tickets also sold at door/entry.

POET BIOS:

GEMMA WHITEGemma White has had two poetry collections published by Interactive Press; Furniture is Disappearing and Oh My Rapture. She has appeared in the Best Australian Poems and Award-Winning Australian Writing anthologies. She shares her knowledge of poetry at www.gemmawhite.com.au, where she offers a free 5-day email poetry course and other resources for poets.

My collaborator is: Jason Whatt, musician. We will do some kind of combo of music with my poetry from my latest book, Oh My Rapture.

CHARAF TEECharaf Tartoussi is a middle-eastern-muslim writer and performance poet. Their work can be found in publications including Cordite and the upcoming SBS emerging writers anthology. Founder of griffin-speak: a spoken word event that championed the voices of POC in and around Melbourne from 2016 to 2022 and creative producer of Slamalamadingdong since the beginning of 2020, creating space for creative storytelling and artistic expression at the core of their practice. As a performer, they have featured in various festivals and events around the country, and are currently working on producing their first collaborative stage show: Aza (wake): stories of grief in diaspora.

ELIZABETH ‘LISH’ ŠKEC

“Lish is the fire in the poetry

and spoken word of Melbourne.

Her voice gravels and soars

like a goddess with a shopping trolley

on the nullabor.*

Published and a performer

in experimental art

and hybrid poetry

venues, in years to come

you will revel in having

seen her live.’- Meg Dunn

Music, poetics, theatre, sculpture, twirls fire. Elizabeth Lish Skec has written poetry, plays, short stories, comedy and songs for adults and children.

She has two chap books Butterflies of New Dawn 1995 and Leather Skin, skecteXt publishing 2002 and one recent poetry collection Breath published by Luckner Press 2014 and has been published in various anthologies world wide.

Lish has taught poetry, creative writing and theatre workshops for The Victorian Writers Centre, CERES, Overload Poetry Festival, SPAN Community House and was Part of the video educational series ‘Picking Poetry Apart’ with Dorothy Porter among others.

She was one of the four founders of Accidental Poets @ good morning captain. Since then Lish has organized and hosted readings at the Drunken Poet. Noise Bar and other venues.

Lish is the founder and host of the current monthly gig Poetryspective at Pride Of Our Footscray Nightclub & Bar and the Poetryspective program online.

*Lish did push a shopping trolley across the nullabor in 1994, it was full of soft toys.

MPATHSOUL

Monica Jasmine Karo, also known as MpathSoul is a Gunai and Gunditjmara multi-disciplinary artist. Monica has spent the last 10 years performing her craft as a singer-songwriter, actress, and spoken-word poet, emerging director, writer and MC in Naarm and across Australia.

Monica was a part of an Indigenous writers residency in 2018, mentored by award winning poet Ali-cobby Eckerman, and since then, has shared her original works across many stages and festivals, including Blak & Bright Literary Festival, 3CR Radio Reimagined Festival, Darebin Fuse Festival, Share the Spirit Festival, Yaluk-ut Weelam Ngargee Festival, Sisterhood at Arts Centre Melbourne, St Kilda Festival, Yirramboi Festival and many more, including the opening of 2019 Yirramboi with her piece Urban Dreaming to the musical composition by James Henry. Monica has shared her poetry within schools as an educational resource and incorporates her poetry within her music and theatre projects alike. Most recently, Monica performed her piece ‘reconnect’ as a part of a theatre promenade, titled The Dreaming Project, which premiered at Footscray Community Arts Centre, 2022. Monica’s spoken-word is both evocative, powerful and healing.