Naarm Bread - a celebration of poetry collaboration as a part of the Sonic Poetry Festival - www.sonicpoetryfestival.com
Four diverse Poets performing 20 minute sets with a collaboratoration aspect of their choice.
Line-up in order of appearance:
Gemma White
Charaf Tee
Elizabeth Skec
MpathSoul
Hosted by MC James WF Roberts
COST: $20 full / $10 concession (Kids free)
Booking: www.trybooking.com/CKGZY
(No concession option was available on the Trybooking site but tickets will also be sold at the door)
+ a raffle to help support our talent. Prizes will include artwork, books, a free ticket to a Sonic Poetry event of your choice and random oddities/objects.
POET BIOS:
GEMMA WHITE
Gemma 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 TEE
Charaf 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
*Lish did push a shopping trolley across the nullabor in 1994, it was full of soft toys.
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.
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.
What a line up! It's going to be a great afternoon of poetry, culture and collaboration.
This event acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the Country on which we work and live, the peoples of the Kulin Nation, Naarm and Wurundjeri Country. We pay our respects to their Elders both past and present. Always was and always will be Aboriginal land.