Poetry for the stage! Writing and performing spoken word poetry.
For intermediate poets who want to perform or strengthen their performance skills. Bring a poem you’re working on to edit and develop. During this workshop, we’ll look at the editing process, focusing on rhythm and emotional expression, share tips for memorising for a more dynamic performance and will finish with time for questions and a conversation around where to perform and how to develop your career. Bring some poetry, bring some bravery and a cuppa tea for a two hour workshop to prepare you to step to the stage with confidence.
By the end of this workshop you will have:
Developed skills to step onto the stage with confidence
What you need to participate:
Bring a poem you’re working on to edit and develop
Zoom and a reliable Internet connection
This workshop is suitable for:
Intermediate poets who want to perform or strengthen their performance skills
Ticketing:
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale, from concession ($30) to full ($40) to feelin’ flush ($50, i.e. subsidise a concession ticket by choosing to pay a li’l extra).
One free ticket is reserved for a person experiencing financial hardship — please get in touch.
Upon booking, you will receive email confirmation and, closer to the workshop, further instructions and a Zoom link.
About your facilitator:
Laniyuk is a Larrakia, Kungarakan, Gurindji, and French writer and performer of poetry and short memoir. She contributed to the book Colouring the Rainbow: Blak, Queer and Trans Perspectives in 2015, has been published online in Djed Press and the Lifted Brow, as well as in print poetry collections such as UQP’s 2019 Solid Air and 2020 Fire Front. She received Canberra’s Noted Writers Festival’s 2017 Indigenous Writers Residency, Overland’s 2018 Writers Residency and was shortlisted for Overland’s 2018 Nakata-Brophy poetry prize. She runs poetry workshops for festivals, moderates panel discussions, and has given guest lectures at ANU and The University of Melbourne. She is currently completing her first collection of work to be published through Magabala Books.