Events & Workshops
Your Voice Could Change the World Third Session
Slam poetry has been used to amplify the voices that need to be heard to enact change. From climate action, women’s rights, mental health advocacy, to preservation of First Nations culture, and everything in between. If everyone was listening to you, what would you want them to hear?
Hosted by SWSA and the State Library of South Australia, this series of three sessions in July will use the national competition’s rules and structure, allowing you to learn how to write, perform, and make people want to listen.
Your Voice Could Change the World Second Session
Slam poetry has been used to amplify the voices that need to be heard to enact change. From climate action, women’s rights, mental health advocacy, to preservation of First Nations culture, and everything in between. If everyone was listening to you, what would you want them to hear?
Hosted by SWSA and the State Library of South Australia, this series of three sessions in July will use the national competition’s rules and structure, allowing you to learn how to write, perform, and make people want to listen.
Your Voice Could Change the World First Session
Slam poetry has been used to amplify the voices that need to be heard to enact change. From climate action, women’s rights, mental health advocacy, to preservation of First Nations culture, and everything in between. If everyone was listening to you, what would you want them to hear?
Hosted by SWSA and the State Library of South Australia, this series of three sessions in July will use the national competition’s rules and structure, allowing you to learn how to write, perform, and make people want to listen.
No Wave
Curated by Travis Lucas
Featuring:
Orph Both
Branndon Ryles
Michael Roder and
Em Konig
$5 entry, see you there.
Spoke N Slurred - Koraly Dimitriadis
Koraly Dimitriadis will be joining us as part of her national tour of Australia + New Zealand, launching her new poetry book, 'She's Not Normal!'. Koraly is a bestselling Cypriot-Australian poet of the poetry books 'Love and Fk' Poems (also translated into Greek) and Just Give Me The Pills. Her debut short story collection 'The Mother Must Die', is forthcoming with Puncher and Wattmann in 2024.
Poetry At the Pub - Self Taught Poet
Nobody is truly self-taught. We all learn from those who have gone before. We pass on our knowledge to those who come after. But a “self-taught poet” is one who has accessed resources and used them well. In this internet age, some of these resources are digital, some are the traditional face-to-face opportunities as well.
Huda Fadlelmawla and Reuben Lewis: Story Of Another Soul
Legendary Meanjin based spoken word poet Huda Fadlelmawla and award winning Naarm based musician Reuben Lewis combine forces in Story of Another Soul, out now via Life Before Man.
Folk ‘n Word
Proud to announce the fourth volume of Folk ‘N Words: an evening celebrating poetry and folk music on unceded Kaurna Land.
Spoke N Slurred
Matilda is an old Teutonic name meaning ‘mighty battle maid', it also refers to a swag and she's coming out waltzing.
Mixed Bag Mixer
Mixed Bag Mixer is a networking event for Adelaide creatives to come together, meet new people and discover new communities to be involved in.
Draw Your S(w)ords
New venue you say?!?
We are spreading ourselves across two venues.. That's right folks, more love to go around.
The Queen's Theatre have opened their doors to us and will now be our bi-monthly home, meaning we will be Interchanging between the stunning Summertown Studio and Queen's Theatre. Um, how lucky are we??
Learn more….
Poetry at the Port
The team are trialing a poetry night at the Milledges Distillery in Port Adelaide and would love for you to join them. It is looking to be on once a month on a Thursday evening if successful.
Spoke N Slurred
Sarah Pearce is a poet, editor and researcher from Tarndanya (Adelaide). Her work has been published in various journals and anthologies, including Best of Australian Poems 2023.
Sage Moon Writing
Would you like to write poetry that transcends two rhymes in every four lines? Do you know how repetition of words and lines can add power to a poem? Or how beats can make a poem resonate?
Draw your S(w)ords
Join us on the 18th April @summertownstudio to hear their brilliant words. Quickly nab yourself an open mic spot as they are filling quickly.
Speak Hear - April Abundance
We have 'Tegan' as our feature Poet ~
When Tegan took their first wobbly steps at eleven-months-old, they had no idea they'd be stepping on so many stages.
When they wrote their name backwards and barely legible in kindergarten, they had no clue they'd dedicate decades to words.
Today, they're still tripping on their toes, and scrawly in their scribings.
Liam Wooley at Spoke N Slurred
Liam Wooley is an emerging musician and poet currently living in Tarntarnya (Adelaide), South Australia. He writes and speaks to anyone who’ll read and listen about a range of different topics, including but not limited to love in all its forms, the process of writing, human rights, and living despite, at times, the best efforts of your body.
this is no ordinary rapture…Kerryn Tredrea Book Launch
Join us for THE essential Paroxysm gig of the year. The launch of the second book of Kerryn Tredrea poetry, 'this is no ordinary rapture…'
Launched by Heather Taylor-Johnson
Spoken word from Nadia Patterson
And tunes from an acoustic El Bottle O Paradiso
FREE entry
Books $15 on the night
Kerryn Tredrea writes about lust, madness, loneliness and connection as if they were the same thing. Tethered to her distinctive voice is a poetry donning worn-out doc martins keeping step with junkies, the poet insisting i find my window of opportunity / and look through to the red light district. Her style is consistent, and as she recognises risk-taking and mistake-making as a part of life, she comes out a sage: everything has / the smell of coffee / about it / and the feeling of / a biting snake, / sharp / and to the point.
– Heather Taylor-Johnson
Youth Poets. A Spoken Word Showcase
This is the opening Event for the City of Adelaide, Youth Week in the City.
Speak, Hear
For our next event we have Martin Christmas as our feature Poet and I have no doubt at all that it is going to be a great big animated and fun evening!
Martin Christmas, a South Australian poet and photographer, has been published in many Australian anthologies (including Friendly Street Poets)
FSP March 2024 City Meeting and Open Mic
Add your name to the reading list on the night if you want a turn at the mic. If you are a member of FSP, bring two printed copies of your poems with your name and contact details if you want them considered for next year’s anthology, or submit them electronically via the form on the link below after the session.
Hear Me Roar
Writers’ Week’s favourite showcase of slam poetry and spoken word returns in 2024 with performances from poets including Madison Godfrey, Sara M. Saleh, Kirli Saunders, Katherine Sortini and Australian Poetry Slam Champion Rob Waters.
Dangerous Writing - Amelia Walker
The poems we find hardest to write are often the ones we most need to write—poems that press at the political from a personal perspective, or illuminate the political undercurrents running through experiences at once personal and shared. Injustice, illness, grief, discrimination, heartbreak, and invisibility are among the themes dangerous writing commonly explores.
Draw Your S words
Draw your (S)words is starting back up for 2024 at Summertown Studio and we are coming in HOT!! We have missed you all over the break, but we are coming back stronger and more organised than ever (with the next 6 months already locked in), we cant wait to hear your poetry and also show you what we've been working on too!!
Remnants Poetry Reading
Hello Poets
Next Thursday I'm running a little reading for my exhibition launch.
The launch itself is reverse ekphrastic production of poets set, I'd like to have just a few people that I know in the community that would want to read about things that are left in their houses, things they use for alternative purposes and how long these things stay in the house whilst being unused. READ MORE
Youth Poets - A Spoken Word Showcase
Adelaide has a vibrant spoken word community, with boundless amounts of talent. Get ready to be awed by some of this city’s young and rising stars. Four poets, all under the age of 25, will be sharing their original words and performance at the City Library on Friday 15 March at 5:30pm.
Writers Group
Lexis Vhi and Luke Baker have started a new bi-weekly writing group at Page & Turner book store in the CBD of Adelaide. This is a time for focused writing and productivity. The next meeting is the 4th of February, Sunday at 10:00am. Come along if you are struggling with writing motivation. A group setting might be just what you need to get your words flowing and we are there to help.