Amina (who you may remember from the in2CHANGE project) emailed today to let me know about an exciting project she’s helping run in Belconnen, called Flying Colours.
For more info about this event, including the application form, I suggest you email Simone: simone DOT penkethman AT bcsact DOT com DOT au
From the media release:
Flying Colours is a youth variety night hosted by the Belconnen Community Centre. A colourful night of fun, frivolity and performance art! The intention of Flying Colours is to showcase the young and talented performing artists of Canberra. Whatever they do and however they do it!
Flying Colours is looking for individuals and performance groups to get involved and flaunt their many talents on stage at the Belconnen Theatre on the nights of 13, 14 and 15 October.
Flying Colours is also offering an opportunities to young people who are interested in working in stage management, design and lighting to get involved in production. It will be an exiting opportunity to gain hands-on experience in the behind the scenes world of performance alongside experienced technicians.
Applications close Friday 28th of August
In other news, I think I’m finally, almost, nearly ready for tomorrow’s slam and the Sunday workshop. It’s going to be a great weekend!
This slideshow gives you a really quick idea of fLight, a zine of my poetry wonderfully illustrated by Amina McConvell (with an amazing cover by Jenn Arthur). Amina copied the pages and pasted them up at the decomissioned Belconnen bus interchange, as part of the in2CHANGE festival.
This slideshow uses the following sound file from Freesound: 00942 very noisy wet traffic from Robinhood76 which is licensed under a Creative Commons Sampling Plus 1.0 License.
And a quick reminder that tomorrow night is the all women poetry extravaganza: Show Us Your Texts!
29 May 2009 7:30-11:30pm
The Front Café and Gallery
Wattle St, Lyneham
Ok, first up, I was asked to help spread the word about a zine fair happening in the nearby town of Braidwood as part of the Two Fires Festival (27-29 March 2009). The festival organisers are calling for zinesters to register to sell and trade their work. There’s no fee and tables will be provided.
Register by emailing zinefair@twofirefestival.org or calling 040 1904 680.
Check out the nifty flyer here or on the Two Fires website.
Secondly there’s some very cool stuff happening in Belconnen later on in the year with the decommissioning of the bus interchange. On the final night (26 April) before it is knocked down all manner of artists and performers will be running wild. I’m hoping to get a possy of premium poets to perform poignant pieces on the night. Email me if you’re interested in being involved.
Best place to find out what’s happening is the in2CHANGE facebook group.
The final thing is I was recently catching up on IndieFeed Performance Poetry podcasts (thanks for the mention in show 505 Mongo!) and I have to mention Jack McCarthy’s poem Drunks which I encourage you all to listen to for all the reasons Mongo cites in his outro: this piece really does express what’s wonderful and important about performance poetry.
www.traversepoetry.org
