NATIONAL FINAL – AUSTRALIAN POETRY SLAM
This is your call to listen, watch and cheer. Australian Poetry Slam National Final is here. The door is open. The mic is on. Push into the crowd and find your spot.
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2022 NATIONAL FINAL - ONLINE ACCESS
CHASING HOME – POETRY PERFORMANCE
Chasing Home invites artists from immigrant and refugee backgrounds to discuss and highlight what makes a home.
Panel, performance and conversations - stay for the whole session or feel welcome to drop-in.
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CHASING HOME – SHOWCASE
Chasing Home invites artists from immigrant and refugee backgrounds to discuss and highlight what makes a home.
Panel, performance and conversations - stay for the whole session or feel welcome to drop-in.
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CHASING HOME – ALL EVENTS
Chasing Home invites artists from immigrant and refugee backgrounds to discuss and highlight what makes a home.
Panel, performance and conversation – stay for the whole session or feel welcome to drop-in.
FREE REGISTRATION
CHASING HOME – TEMPORARY
Chasing Home invites artists from immigrant and refugee backgrounds to discuss and highlight what makes a home.
Panel, performance and conversations - stay for the whole session or feel welcome to drop-in.
FREE REGISTRATION
NSW FINAL – AUSTRALIAN POETRY SLAM
We dug deep. Whipped around the state and unearthed the most powerful poets from country towns and Sydney burbs. Guess what? NSW is lit. Bounce with us from Bryon down to Albury, Camden to Randwick and all the stops in between. You decide who will represent the big red waratah at the National level.
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FIRST PERSON VOICE – YOUR YARN
An invite to First Nations performers and writers to have a cuppa and conversation to strategise, connect and collaborate.
FIRST PERSON VOICE – THE WRITE BIZ
This workshop deconstructs the colonial contract and gets deep into rights, content, licensing and ownership for First Nations artists.
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FIRST PERSON VOICE – REAL LIT
Stories have been told on this land for thousands of years. Join First Nations writers as they share lyrics, poems and stories that need to be to be told.
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FIRST PERSON VOICE – ALL EVENTS
Performance and Q&A
Join First Nations writers as they share lyrics, poems and stories that need to be to be told.
Workshop
A workshop that gets deep into rights, content, licensing and ownership for First Nations artists.
Forum
The opportunity to strategise, connect and collaborate.
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BLACK JAM
Twist that volume knob up. It’s time to listen, smack those palms and holla. This Friday night jam is a be-you-tea-full POC party - blak writers spit poems, stories, songs and boom-boom-shake the room.
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APS YOUTH DAY
Students watch the best spoken word artists spin language like a slingshot. Then they learn how to be poetry slam champions, before taking the mic with their own fresh manuscripts.
ENQUIRIES
ORIGIN STORIES
We ask writers and poets to share their stories in their mother tongues. Find out how their lives are shaped by languages other than English.
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Teachers’ Professional Development - Slam Your Poetry
Teachers learn to use slam to engage young writers and nurture the Spoken Word passion in class.
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POET-TASTER
Place your order and we’ll ask, “would you like a poet with that?” Then, your guest writer will join your table for a two- minute show. Bon appetit!
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GIRLS ON KEY POETRY FILMS
A showcase of the latest poetry films from film makers and poets.
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SHARING CIRCLE – NATURE
Australia has big nature stories - gather around the proverbial campground, get a ladle of soup and binge tales of wrestling with the great green mother.
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SHARING CIRCLE –EQUALITY
Questions of equality hit us deep in the chest. Join the circle to listen and share stories about race, gender, LGBTQ+, accessibility - how we treat each other and how we treat animals.
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SYDNEY FINAL – AUSTRALIAN POETRY SLAM
APS Sydney Final - You will not believe Sydney’s talent till you see it for yourself. Brave poets’ knees-shaking leave the earth trembling beneath / under the gravity of what they say in their tremors / we are pulled towards with applause, stomps and roars.