NT Poetry Month Showcase
Totem Theatre & Courtyard 8 Wills Tce, Alice Springs, NT, AustraliaCo-presented by Red Room Poetry and Red Dirt Poetry Festival as part of Poetry Month 2022
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Gravidity, Parity, Poetry
Birth & Beyond 10/89 Todd St, Alice Springs, NT, AustraliaAn event for people with babies
Free
Mixtape Memoirs
Totem Theatre & Courtyard 8 Wills Tce, Alice Springs, NT, AustraliaMixTape Memoirs is the convergence of music and poetry. We’ve asked 10 poets to write with a song in mind relating to this year’s festival theme longing and re/connection. It’s not the mixtape you’ve asked for but it’s the mixtape you need. A love letter from us to you…
$5
Agapi & Other Kinds of Love
Totem Theatre & Courtyard 8 Wills Tce, Alice Springs, NT, AustraliaBased on Plato’s The Symposium, Agapi & Other Kinds of Love is a Modern Hip-hop Opera embedded in the Ancient Greek storytelling tradition. Greek-Australian poet and rap artist Luka Lesson’s reputation as one of Australia’s best storytellers shines as he takes us on a journey through the Ancient Greek kinds of love. SOLD OUT!
$25
Oscillations
Totem Theatre & Courtyard 8 Wills Tce, Alice Springs, NT, AustraliaSynth meets poetry
$5
International Haiku Death Match Championship
8CCC 14 Lindsay Ave, East Side, NT, AustraliaYou me? Saturday morning in the 8CCC Carpark to battle it out for the title of International Haiku Death Match Champion. All haiku to stick to the 17 syllable (5-7-5) format, this death match will be broadcast live on 8CCC. Open to everyone so get writing those haiku and meet you in the carpark for […]
Free
Exploring the Self Through Tangential Metaphor
Blue Moon 17 Undoolya Rd, East Side, NT, AustraliaAre you a star? Or a satellite? Leave identity politics and proper nouns at the door to follow your pen through the nit-picky, unnameable facets of self in this step-by-step workshop by four-time Australian poetry slam finalist Andi Stewart. Armed with a mountain of metaphors and a tangential mind-map, learn how to write an explorative […]
$10
Woman at the Wheel
Blue Moon 17 Undoolya Rd, East Side, NT, AustraliaIn 1907, Henry Lawson felt the motor car was “sullen, like a thing that should not be”. Indeed, in the early 1900s cars were, for many, a symbol of power and wealth: noisy, dangerous, destructive and unfamiliar. Part love letter to the freedom of the ride, part eulogy to the single-driver gas guzzler, Eleanor Jackson […]
Free
The Somatics of Existence in “The New Reality”
Blue Moon 17 Undoolya Rd, East Side, NT, AustraliaFour poets share their somatic inspired works and explore the connectedness of all things body, spirit, mind and language. The space between our physical beings and the language we use to express ourselves in society in this time and space in our “new reality” may seem like a straightforward concept or is it?
Free
Beatbox Meets Poetry
Blue Moon 17 Undoolya Rd, East Side, NT, AustraliaCome and join world-renowned beatboxer, theatre performer and poet Hope One and learn from one of the best, in this workshop Hope helps you develop tools to create rythym techniques and explores the connection between poetic performance and beatbox. Book Now
$10
SIARAD
Totem Theatre & Courtyard 8 Wills Tce, Alice Springs, NT, AustraliaIt’s 2020. A poet arrives in Western Australia to visit her Welsh mother who has dementia. But border controls mean she must remain in isolation for two weeks. Shifting between the worlds of the writing room, the Slam stage and the wounds of family history, the poet examines what it means to be a poet, […]
$10
Poetry in Motion 2022
Totem Theatre & Courtyard 8 Wills Tce, Alice Springs, NT, AustraliaGuts Dance x Red Dirt Poets team up in this amazing showcase, seven poets and seven dancers have collaborated to create a moving piece of poetic expressions. Poetry in Motion will take you on a moving journey featuring an opening number from Fan Fatale. SOLD OUT!
$10
Declarations in the Dark
Blue Moon 17 Undoolya Rd, East Side, NT, AustraliaLet’s take a walk over to the Blue Moon for a showcase of spoken word poets from around the country, these seasoned artists will share their stories with you under the stars. The event is BYO and food will be available.
$10
Connective Tissue
Adelaide House 50 Todd Street Mall, Alice Springs, NT, AustraliaA collaborative installation of images and words
Free
Arrernte Womens Poetry Group & Marketplace
Blue Moon 17 Undoolya Rd, East Side, NT, AustraliaCome and join us for morning tea with readings from the Arrernte Women’s Poetry Group’s first book, Arelhekenhe Angkentye Women’s Talk and recent works.
Woman at the Wheel
Blue Moon 17 Undoolya Rd, East Side, NT, AustraliaIn 1907, Henry Lawson felt the motor car was “sullen, like a thing that should not be”. Indeed, in the early 1900s cars were, for many, a symbol of power and wealth: noisy, dangerous, destructive and unfamiliar. Part love letter to the freedom of the ride, part eulogy to the single-driver gas guzzler, Eleanor Jackson […]
Free
Red Dirt Scrawl
Blue Moon 17 Undoolya Rd, East Side, NT, AustraliaRed Dirt Scrawl is a collection of poems written for, inspired by, and read during the successive 2018 and 2020 Red Dirt Poetry Festivals by Jeremy Garnett. It provides a glimpse into the emotional and literary experience of the festival, which is organised by poets, with poets, for poets. This book is thus a reflection […]
Free
To quote Slim Dusty, Looking Forward, Looking Back
Blue Moon 17 Undoolya Rd, East Side, NT, AustraliaRetrospective - the importance of looking back in order to move forward. Politically, locally or globally, these poets share their work and discuss how it is everything that happens to us and everyone ever that creates the existence of our reality.
Free
What Does ‘Nice’ Mean Anyway?
Blue Moon 17 Undoolya Rd, East Side, NT, AustraliaNiceness. It’s a nice word, in an ideal world everyone would be nice. But what does that even mean? These poets explore the concept of niceness from a poetic viewpoint as we delve deep into the idea... you may leave feeling pretty nice or you may leave questioning the existence of everything.
Free
Prickly Pear
Totem Theatre & Courtyard 8 Wills Tce, Alice Springs, NT, AustraliaPrickly Pear is a multidisciplinary live arts performance prioritising the creative practice of women and gender diverse people. Unraveling the tensions found at the intersections. Prickly Pear cross-pollinates performers and audience alike, building relationships between artists that might not usually share a line-up. It's a space held by everybody to witness and be witnessed; for […]
So Long & Thanks for All the Poetry
Totem Theatre & Courtyard 8 Wills Tce, Alice Springs, NT, AustraliaIt’s time to say goodbye - let’s go out with a bang! Join us for the final hurrah as these spoken word masters take to the stage to say goodbye the only way they know how.
$10