24, 25, 26 and 27 August
DownStairs at the Maj, His Majesty’s Theatre 825 Hay St, Perth
FEATURING Belowsky

Belowsky is a train-wreck waiting to happen – he will hit all your senses, with his brand new, unique one-man show, so enter at your own risk and Take a Lesson in Belowskology!

Meet gurus that hang out on YouTube and complicated complex cosmopolitans. Meet John Lennon in heaven and Bonn Scott in his bedroom, meet the Sex Pistols, Malcolm McLaren and Vivian Westwood down at World’s End.

Belowsky’s comedic, mesmerising spoken word will have you laughing, thinking and wondering as he takes you on a journey around the world and back again through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, like you’re trapped in a neon technicolour pinball machine.

From his famous lobby shows at the infamous Standard Hotel, West Hollywood, to his live talk show Authentic at the Notting Hill Arts Club and opening for The Charlatans at the Cuckoo Club in the West End of London for Death Disco TV, to most recently bringing his quick wit to Foxtel’s Quickies in my Kitchen with celebrity chef Anna Gare, this international hound dog will leave you wanting more.

Poet to the Stars, He’s a spoken word comic genius.—Alan McGee, co-founder of Creation Records and Oasis Manager

Tickets available at BOCS Ticketing on 9484 1133 | BOCS outlets | bocsticketing.com.au

Become a Brainbox Addict and receive ticket discounts at all The Brainbox Project presented shows, email: brainboxaddict@aegogdenperth.com.au with your contact details.

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Eleven Western Australian performance poets have been chosen for the collection which will be published in Fremantle Poetry Month in July 2012. They are: Allan Boyd (aka the antipoet), Jeremy Balius, Liana Joy Christensen, Gabrielle Everall, Amber Fresh, Afeif Ismail, Janet Jackson, Sam Knee (aka Byron Bard), Dosh Luckwell, Kaitlyn Plyley and John Charles Ryan.

Richter said the poets selected gave a sense of the range of voices and styles in Western Australia.

“These poets give a sense of the diverse talent, variety and vigour of our performance poetry scene,” said Richter.

Guest editor and performance poet Scott-Patrick Mitchell said he believed Fremantle Poets 3was something West Australians would be intrigued by.

“The poets selected for this anthology represent what makes the Perth performance poetry scene so exciting and unique – this is the survey our city needed,” said Mitchell.

Fremantle Poets 3: Performance Poets will include a CD Rom produced with the assistance of Fremantle Poetry Month sponsor Fremantle Radio.

Dr Ted Walker, CEO of Fremantle Radio, said he was pleased and proud to be a sponsor of the volume.

Poets were selected by an editorial committee comprised of Georgia Richter and Wendy Jenkins of Fremantle Press and guest editor Scott-Patrick Mitchell. They were chosen for the survey on the basis of written manuscripts and a recorded performance piece.

After years of writing, editing and publishing his poetry for enthusiastic readers in Australia and overseas, Perth poet David Barnes has at last created a book.

Spanning a lifetime, crafted with care, spoken in David’s inimitable, gentle Australian voice, these are poems of the stark spirituality of nature, the meeting of eyes, hands and souls, the joy and bewilderment of birth, the tearing grief of premature loss and the horror of abuse.

This is David Barnes’ first and last book.

Youth and Adult categories entry.

CLOSING DATE: 22nd JUL 2011

See Peter Cowan Writers Centre Competitions link for more information

Dreams and Archetypes

Presented by Clinical Psychologist

Mr Tom Locke — Monday 9th May 7.30pm

Tom works with contemporary, evidence-based therapies of the conscious mind that include Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) Acceptance and Commitment therapy (ACT).

He combines these approaches with classical Jungian (Analytic) Therapy that recognises the presence of the unconscious aspects of the Human Psyche.

Tom will draw from his professional and personal experience to describe this interplay of the conscious and unconscious mind as found in archetypes as they occur in dreams.

He will examine some of the primal, recurrent characterisations that are carried across cultures in Myths, Fairytales and Religions and connect them to the world of everyday consciousness.

6 Hickey Street, Ardross
0411 33 11 82
0419 38 77 77
info@attitudinalhealingwa.org.au

What is Clubs & Socs?

Clubs & Socs is one of The Red Room Company’s major projects for 2011, pairing contemporary poets with clubs and societies from across Australia. Astronomers, hackers, stamp collectors, crochet clubs, anyone can get involved in this project. Five poets from NSW and one from all other states and territories will partner with a broad range of clubs and societies representing Australia’s diverse cultural landscape.

What is involved as a poet?

Commissioned poets will become members of the club, attend meetings and events, learn to speak the language of its people for the duration of the project. This experience will then inform the creation of a new poetic work or series of works. For the purposes of this project The Red Room Co. defines poetry broadly, so the works may take the form of collaborative installations, visual or audio works, or performances. This poetic work will be featured on the Clubs & Socs website and other print material associated with the project. A poet and club will also be ‘featured’ each week during the project.

Key dates

• May: Launch event for Clubs & Socs at the Sydney Writers’ Festival.
• June-July: Poets placed in clubs and societies + poet and club profile featured online.
• July-August: Poets complete ‘blog’ entry/ upload of visual/audio material collected from club experiences, working on poem(s) and attending club meetings.
• August-October Poets submit finished poem to The Red Room Company for publication on website, printed material and presentation at a live event.
• October-November: Official close of project though it is hoped poets and clubs will continue their relationships.

Poets are paid

Interested?
Johanna@redroomcompany.org www.clubsandsocieties.org.au

Are you a poet who wants to:

• Improve your spoken word performance skills?
• Learn more about the media to promote yourself or local arts events?
• Diversify your skills for employment to creative “cross-training”?

The ACT Speaking course focuses on public speaking, persuasive communication and media skills especially for community organisations and local, artists and campaigners.

Topics include Speaking with Confidence, Preparing and Structuring a Speech, Verbal Vocal & Physical Language, Persuasive Communication, Impromptu Speaking, Debates and Forums, Working with Audiences, Issuing Statements, Live Interviews, Camera Skills, Developing Media Savvy, Working with Journalists.

The course runs in May an June and you can choose either: Tuesday nights in Subiaco OR Weekend Intensive run over three days in South Fremantle.

Numbers are limited and registration is essential.

Click here for more information. Questions to katrina73@iinet.net.au or 9443 7454.

In 2011 Express Media is giving young people, or those working with young people, the chance to apply to Write in Your Face, a program of support funded by the Literature Board of the Australia Council.

‘We’re really excited to be able to offer this opportunity’ says Express Media’s Program Manager Lefa Singleton Norton. ‘There were so many amazing projects funded last year, and we know there are plenty more out there. This is a unique opportunity for truly interesting and engaging new forms of writing to find the support they need’.

Express Media invites proposals from young writers who are using language in innovative ways. This may involve writing for zines, e-zines, transmedia, comics, multimedia, multi-artforms or cross-media works, websites, live performance and spoken word. Collaborative and multimedia projects are strongly encouraged.

Recipients will be selected using the following criteria – innovation, potential and evidence.

You may apply for up to $5000 but must be aged 30 years or younger (or work with people 30 years or younger) at the time of application to be eligible.

Applications close 30th May 2011. Decisions will be advised June 2011.

www.expressmedia.org.au

“Performance poetry in Western Australia is vibrant and diverse and we can recognise this talent by publishing a title of this kind,” said Richter.

Poets will be selected by an editorial committee comprised of Georgia Richter and Wendy Jenkins of Fremantle Press and guest editor Scott-Patrick Mitchell.

Mitchell, who is currently undertaking a PhD in Performance Poetry at WAAPA, said the publications and events associated with July’s Fremantle Poetry Month were helping him attain new skills in poetry publishing.

“I was published in Fremantle Poets 1: New Poets, performed at the launch, ran a student poetry writing workshop and now I’ve been invited to edit the next edition of Fremantle Poets – it’s been an exciting process,” said Mitchell.

“I feel I can bring an understanding of how performance poetry is written, performed and the process of becoming a published poet to this new volume as a result of my performance experience and current studies,” he said.

Submissions for Fremantle Poets 3: Performance Poets close on 1 June 2011. Contributing poets will be announced at the Fremantle Poetry Month launch on 7 July 2011 at the Fremantle Arts Centre. Submission guidelines and more information about Fremantle Poetry Month are available on http://www.fremantlepress.com.au/resources/poetrycentre. The 2011 Fremantle Press poetry list includes The Argument by Tracy Ryan, The Moving World by Michael Heald and Fremantle Poets 2: Two Poets by Kevin Gillam and Andrew Lansdown.

A poetry competition for the 21st century as a partnership between Australian Poetry and theEmerging Writers Festival…

For details, see Australian Poetry.

The Creative Education Partnerships: Artist-in-Residence (AIR) Initiative is a pilot funding programme developed in partnership with the Australia Council for the Arts, Department of Culture and the Arts and our department.

The program supports artist-in-residence activity in schools and universities, and improves student access to high quality arts in education programmes in WA. Grants of up to $30 000 are available for artist-in-residence projects in schools, networks of schools and/or teacher training institutions. The projects must start in Term 2, 2011 and be completed by the end of Term 3, 2011.

For full details on the program, including eligibility, assessment criteria, application forms and briefing sessions, visit the ArtsEdge website.

Poems from Janet Jackson with MC Naked Blind Mole Rat

Plus special guests Allan Boyd & Maitland Schnaars • Amanda Joy • Sue Clennell • Danny Gunzburg • Mathas • Dream 40

q finger will be on sale for $10.

For RSVP details, see Proximity Poetry

The Mari Warabiny Haiku Group invites you to join us for a ginko (haiku walk)

Saturday 29th January 2011, 11 am

Wanneroo Botanical Gardens and Mini Golf

This venue has a picturesque series of walks, with a variety of flora and water features. There is an abundance of material for haiku and other forms and the walking is easy. It includes a very good restaurant and an outside shaded area with tables. Miniature golf is an option, although I surmise that the creation of haiku will be of top priority. You may like to bring your cameras.

Peter would love to see as many as possible at the walk.

For those without cars, there is a bus that travels from Joondalup station to the golf park, with next to no walking involved. For those who may need a lift from the station, Peter is willing and able to take three passengers (very small car).

Details of Transperth connection is:
Joondalup Stn Stand 3
Route : 468 Joondalup Stn
Total Walking Distance: 411 m

Please let us know if you can attend by email: haikumariwarabiny@gmail.com
Thank you Peter Rondel for organising this event

So what is a ginko?
A ginko is a haiku walk through a chosen location where poets write, discuss, revise, workshop, read, laugh, breathe and listen to haiku.—Myron Lysenko
You dont need to walk far, in fact you dont need to walk at all, if you are unable to.
This will be a supportive, encouraging event, so come along and have some fun.

http://www.wapoets.net.au/pages/mariwarabinyhaikugroup.html

This will be a quick look at the role still being played by traditional metres and forms in contemporary Australian poetry. It will present an opportunity for each participant to have one of their own poems in traditional form considered in detail in a workshop situation. Forms such as the sonnet, villanelle, sestina, pantoum, tanka and haiku will be discussed as well as the use of iambic metre and various stanzaic forms (such as the ballad) as occasional alternatives to the prevailing free verse orthodoxy.

Participants should submit one poem (written in some sort of traditional form) for consideration a fortnight before the workshop.

Book NOW to ensure your place at this workshop with leading Australian poet Geoff Page. (Ph. 9384 4771; Email: admin@fawwa.org.au)

Members: $30
Non-members: $45
Date: Saturday 12th February 10:30 to 12:30
Where: Tom Collins House

Geoff Page, b.1940,is an Australian poet who has published 18 collections of poetry as well as two novels, four verse novels & other works including anthologies, translations and a biography of the jazz musician, Bernie McGann. He retired at the end of 2001 from being head of the English Department at Narrabundah College in the ACT. Geoff has won many awards, including the ACT Poetry Award, the Grace Leven Prize, the Christopher Brennan Award, the Queensland Premiers Prize for Poetry & the 2001 Patrick White Literary Award. Geoffs poems have been translated into Chinese, Hindi, German, Serbian, Slovenian and Greek. He has also read his work & talked about Australian poetry around the world.

Geoff Page has published 18 collections of poetry as well as two novels, four verse novels & other works including anthologies, translations and a biography of the jazz musician, Bernie McGann. He retired at the end of 2001 from being head of the English Department at Narrabundah College in the ACT. Geoff has won many awards, including the ACT Poetry Award, the Grace Leven Prize, the Christopher Brennan Award, the Queensland Premiers Prize for Poetry & the 2001 Patrick White Literary Award. Geoffs poems have been translated into Chinese, Hindi, German, Serbian, Slovenian and Greek. He has also read his work & talked about Australian poetry around the world.

Come and write with experienced poet Janet Jackson at the latest in her poetry workshop series. Expand your boundaries  express yourself. Fun with words for beginners and old hands. Afternoon tea with real food! 2-5pm, Sunday 27 February 2011 at Mt Lawley Neighbourhood Learning Centre, 715 Beaufort St, Mt Lawley. Participants will be asked to contribute according to their means. The suggested amount is $30, but please pay what you can afford or feel the workshop is worth. Limited places: book now. Read more information and lots of poems at www.proximitypoetry.com. To book, please email lostpoetjj@gmail.com or phone 0406 624 578.

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