Roundtable discussion: Regional / Naarm Poets Exchange
About
Poets and producers! Are you curious about connecting with regional Australia? Taking your verses on the road? Collaborating with other poetry communities? Have you tried to organise a tour, interstate zoom feature, or host an out-of-town poet?We welcome you to a roundtable discussion about sustaining connection beyond geographic constraints. Let's unpack the possibilities for a Naarm-regional exchange.
Part of Sonic Poetry Festival 2023: Poetry that sounds like all of us.
Held upstairs at the Brothers Public House from 5.30pm-6.30pm.
It is followed by Poetic Express downstairs at 7pm.
About the facilitators:
Sarah Temporal is the founder and director of Poets Out Loud: a platform for spoken-word attracting up to 200 attendees per night in Murwillumbah NSW. Damien Becker has worked in community development for over two decades in Naarm, Gunditjmara, and Bundjalung lands. They are both prize-winning performance poets, and married (to each other).
Location
The Brothers Public House
42 Johnston St, Fitzroy VIC 3065