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Hip Hop Night
Epilogue Rooftop 1/58 Todd Mall, Alice Springs, NT, AustraliaOne night only, live in Alice Springs!
40 events found.
Let’s Break Up – In Progress
Virtual Event NT, AustraliaSpoken word poet and comedian Anisa presenting a brief showing and discussion of the creation of her new work.
Gathering Ground: Cracks, Portals and Pockets of Resistance
An invitation to explore cracks in the system, pockets of resistance and portals to other worlds that exist in the place where we live and love.
Writing to Understand the World
Participants in this workshop will partake in activities that ask them to interrogate their story as a way of understanding themselves and the world happening around them.
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Book a session with lapsed psychologist and poetic general practitioner David Stavanger as he joins you from the therapeutic (uni)verse couch to explore the intersection of the id and the idea, and reads to you from his self-aware guide Case Notes.
Poetic Meditation Workshop – Movement BE
Developed by Movement BE founder Nate Howard, The Poetic Meditation Workshop is a qualitatively unique experience where the art of poetry and meditation come together to an uplifting experience.
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Deadly Editors: Talking First Nation Anthologies
Three leading Indigenous poets discuss the new wave of First Nation anthologies that have arrived on bookshelves this year.
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Australian Poetry Slam 2020 – Darwin Heat
Partnering with Word Travels and the APS, Red Dirt Poetry Festival presents the Darwin Slam heat online!
Free
Poetry Chatroom
Virtual Event NT, Australia8 guest poets are invited to an interactive live performance opportunity where the audience enters a poets chatroom.
Consciousness for the Subconscious: A Mindful Poetry Podcast
Virtual Event NT, AustraliaRed Dirt Poetry Festival invites you to relax with us, meditate or even fall asleep. We all need and deserve some time out to rest, every night of the festival we will release a new episode on 8CCC and online. In this short podcast our poets will speak to your subconscious and help guide you to creatively relax and support your mind to process the world around us and the spaces we occupy.
Consciousness for the Subconscious
Virtual Event NT, AustraliaRed Dirt Poetry Festival invites you to relax with us, meditate or even fall asleep. We all need and deserve some time out to rest, every night of the festival we will release a new episode on 8CCC and online. In this short podcast our poets will speak to your subconscious and help guide you […]
Moonrise Poetry
Earth Sanctuary Colonel Rose Dr, Connellan, NT, AustraliaTonight we welcome the moonrise and the opening of the 2024 Red Dirt Poety Festival. Join us a the Earth Sanctuary for an eclectic night of storytelling through poetry under the stars by a roaring fire. Poets from all over the country have converged here in Mparntwe on Arrernte Country to share their work, be […]
$10 – $35
What’s Print Got to Do With It (Alternative Publication)
Virtual Event NT, AustraliaContemporary publishing comes in many different shapes and forms. Join us for a discussion spanning the Tasman, from traditional print to zine, to renegade streetpress. Moderated by Sean West of Blue Bottle Journal, this event will shed light on where modern publishing is at and where it's going. Through this session, audiences will learn there's […]
Free
Thinking-Thru-Land-Based-Metaphor
Virtual Event NT, AustraliaIn this workshop, Gamilaroi poet Luke Patterson will guide participants through a series of writing exercises that develop techniques of poetic compression, expansion, distillation, and dis/placement. These techniques will be applied to the development of land-based metaphors, with the aim of writing poems and poetic fragments that explore the process of literally and literarily Thinking-thru-Country. […]
Free
MixTape Memoirs
Gap View Hotel 123 Gap Rd, 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 of intersectional liberation. It’s not the mixtape you’ve asked for but it’s the mixtape you need.
$20
Australia Poetry Slam – Central Australian Heat 2024
Gap View Hotel 123 Gap Rd, Alice Springs, NT, AustraliaWho will be the next Central Australian Poetry Slam Champion? Will it be you? The winner goes on to represent us at the national finals. You’ve got 2 minutes, no props, just you! Entries capped at 20 with sign ups on the night only. Featuring special performances from APS legends.
Centre Verse, Desert Voice
Watertank Cafe 16 Wilkinson St, Alice Springs, NT, AustraliaSpend your lunch break with the locals. And those not quite local. Centre Verse, Desert Voice will feature poets from the popular Monday night event with visiting poets and open mic! Bring your poems and come share the stage and your words.
Getting Published in Poetry Workshop
Watertank Cafe 16 Wilkinson St, Alice Springs, NT, AustraliaJoin Sean West, founding editor of Blue Bottle Journal and a celebrated poet out of Meanjin, for this nuts-and-bolts workshop on all things publishing. In this one-hour workshop, Sean will guide you through the process of getting your green poems from page to publication, all the while overthrowing harmful publishing gatekeepers. In this session, discover […]
$10
Xpress Workshop
Red Hot Arts 67 Bath St, Alice Springs, NT, Australia3pm “Record a Poem or a Rap” Workshop. Join NARBZ media, Big J & the Xpress crew to to write a song, lay down some bars or spoken word to bring your poem to life with live music & bring ya friends. 4pm Listening Party with YULUBALA. Come listen to fresh new music & get […]
Ekphrasistas
Virtual Event NT, AustraliaExperience a captivating evening with First Nations artists Lucy Norton, Brooke Scobie, and Jade Goodwin in 'Ekphrasistas: Artist to Poet'. This online event showcases a live ekphrasis (a dialogue between artforms) where Lucy and Brooke's powerful poetry inspires Jade's real-time illustrations, and then the process reverses as the poets create new works in response to […]
Free
NT Poetry Month Showcase
Gap View Hotel 123 Gap Rd, Alice Springs, NT, AustraliaThis year’s NT Showcase will celebrate the work of acclaimed Northern Territory poets in a program featuring some of the best the NT has to offer. This all-star lineup will warm your winter hearts under the desert night sky.
Oscillations
Gap View Hotel 123 Gap Rd, Alice Springs, NT, AustraliaEnjoy the rhythmic pairings of poets and experimental sounds. We’ve partnered up poets with musical artists to create cascading soundscapes with the haunting poetic delivery of our poets. This unique event will take you on a journey through time and space as we explore freedom of expression through poetry, music and projections. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3Npn5ax8nc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnuBgoJzYR0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAUOogjSeVg […]
Walking with Camels – Saturday
Pyndan Camel Tracks 2/15 Jane Rd, White Gums, NT, AustraliaThis exclusive event will take you on a gait to remember. You’ll ride on the back of a camel across beautiful Arrernte Country, meeting poets along the way who will share their works with you. Led by Leni Shilton, you will hear from poets along the way including Amelia Turner, Shirley Turner, Ian Bacchus, Sukhjit […]
Haiku Deathmatch
8CCC 14 Lindsay Ave, East Side, NT, AustraliaIt’s NT Election Day! Come down to the 8CCC Carpark and bust out your best 17 syllable commentary on fracking, crime, cost of living and whatever political hellscape we’re in for over the next few years. Or budgies - whatever you reckon. Broadcast live on 8CCC (102.1 FM), and with the rules made up entirely […]
Free
The Artist Aperture Workshop
The Roastery Cafe 9 Hele Cres, Alice Springs, NT, AustraliaIn this writing and performance workshop with Andrew Cox, participants will focus on finding their intuitive artistic voice, removed from medium and method. An aperture is the space allowed to let light and detail in, the space we expand to and what we allow to move through us.
$10
Panel: Turn the Page – From Page to Stage
The Roastery Cafe 9 Hele Cres, Alice Springs, NT, AustraliaHave you ever wondered what it takes to go from page poet to stage poet and then taking it one step further? Join our poets as they look at their processes and practices and the practicaliities of what it takes to move from reading you a poem to crafting a stage ready show. Please note: […]
Free
A Novel in Verse Workshop
The Roastery Cafe 9 Hele Cres, Alice Springs, NT, AustraliaJoin verse novelist and poet Leni Shilton for this one-hour workshop as we deep dive into the world of verse novels and explore how to write and craft narrative in poetry. Dust off that project you’ve had tucked away in the back of your mind and come along to weave poetry into narrative. Bring a […]
$10
Panel: All I Have to Offer You (Is Me) – Poetry as Liberatory Praxis
The Roastery Cafe 9 Hele Cres, Alice Springs, NT, AustraliaPoetry is a tool to re-imagine assumptions by interrupting internal beliefs that undermine the self and makes space for liberation through creative practice that distinguishes the self as an indivual while living with chronic illness. Hear from our poets as they navigate this space with you. Please note: this is an in-person event, with entry […]
Free
Writing/Poetry as a Path to Intersection Liberation
Virtual Event NT, AustraliaJoin writer and long-time organiser Sara M Saleh for a transformative writing workshop that delves into the heart of intersectional liberation, inspired by the powerful insights of bell hooks. In this space, we will explore how systems of oppression—racism, sexism, classism, ableism and more—intersect and impact our lives, and how self-expression can be a vehicle […]
Free
Declarations to the Dark
Gap View Hotel 123 Gap Rd, Alice Springs, NT, AustraliaStart your Saturday night with a showcase of spoken word poets from around the country, these seasoned artists will share their stories with you under the stars in the cozy coutryard. This impressive lineup of poets will leave you inspired, awed and as always, wanting more. Ticket will also provide access to Wham! Bam! Cabaret […]
$20
Wham! Bam! Cabaret Slam!
Gap View Hotel 123 Gap Rd, Alice Springs, NT, AustraliaBreak out the sequins, we are about to heat this town up! From the kick-ass women behind RUCKUS BRISBANE. It's gonna get loud, it's gonna get weird, it's gonna get glitter in everything (or not, we hear there's a glitter ban at the venue). The event we've always dreamed about, all for the fun of […]
Walking with Camels – Sunday
Pyndan Camel Tracks 2/15 Jane Rd, White Gums, NT, AustraliaThis exclusive event will take you on a gait to remember. You’ll ride on the back of a camel across beautiful Arrernte Country, meeting poets along the way who will share their works with you. Led by Leni Shilton, you will hear from poets along the way including Amelia Turner, Shirley Turner, Ian Bacchus, Sukhjit […]
Bibliotherapy Workshop
The Roastery Cafe 9 Hele Cres, Alice Springs, NT, AustraliaJoin Kelly Lee Hickey in a bibliotherapy group. We ask you, the audience/participants to bring poems that help you navigate this crazy world to read to each other - the power of reading together and the innate healing that comes from shared collective spaces.
$10
Panel: We Are The Champions – Poetry Slam Winners Across the Ages
The Roastery Cafe 9 Hele Cres, Alice Springs, NT, AustraliaWhat does it mean to be a winner? What does it take? Does it even matter? This year we are flush with national poetry slam winners. Is it really the points that matter, or the poetry? This session looks at the opportunities that exist in the spoken word space and the importance of breaking the […]
Free
Zine Making Workshop
The Roastery Cafe 9 Hele Cres, Alice Springs, NT, AustraliaJoin this workshop to dive into the world of zines and zine culture, and equip yourself with the skills and tools to create your own unique zine on any topic that inspires you. Delivered by zinemaker-extraordinaire Rae White.
Panel: (DAMMIT) I Guess This Is Growing Up – Finding the Self While Paying Homage
The Roastery Cafe 9 Hele Cres, Alice Springs, NT, AustraliaIndividualising your artistic practice while paying homage to artistic legacy within family and community. Join the discsussion as our poets explore the minefield of emotion and familial responsibility while finding individual artistic identity. Please note: this is an in-person event, with entry via donation. It will also be livestreamed via Facebook Live (here) - registering […]
Free
Eat Read Zine
The Roastery Cafe 9 Hele Cres, Alice Springs, NT, AustraliaIt’s been a long time between meals... created by poets Laurie May & Lorin Elizabeth in 2014, we’ve invited new poets to the table. This will be a Sunday afternoon for you to remember. We’ve invited poets to share theirs minds and bellies with you all as we feast on poetic pairings. Sample the snacks […]
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Xpress Showcase
Araluen Arts Centre 61 Larapinta Drive, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, AustraliaThis multi-media show shares what it means to follow our vision no matter what your Story. Following the lives of a group of young First Nations musicians on their journey, not just to realise a dream but to forge a life with music at the heart of their daily reality. See more information about Xpress […]
Agapi & Other Kinds of Love
Araluen Arts Centre 61 Larapinta Drive, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, AustraliaThe Ancient Greek types of love are revealed via timeless love stories told in rap and spoken word with live musicians. Based on Plato's The Symposium, Agapi & Other Kinds of Love begins with Socrates telling a banquet of friends everything he learned from a mysterious lover named: Diotima. The gods then take the audience […]
$35 – $40
Late Night Love Inn
Araluen Arts Centre 61 Larapinta Drive, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, AustraliaWind down at Witchetty’s with us. We’ve got all your poetry needs sorted at the Late Night Love-Inn. Love comes in many forms, poets explore them all. Be seranded by our beautiful lineup of poets who’ve prepared poetry to put you in the mood. Free entry with Agapi ticket.