SPOKE
January 21st 2012 02:05
You're invited! Now in its second year the Spoke Word Festival offers Adelaide writers and readers a unique opportunity to strut their stuff, intermingle and address issues from more than one angle; self-sustaining creativity fuelling the now and forever afters. Mostly free, mostly spell-checked and massively entertaining. Here are a few of the five day festival highlights:
Running for five days, from March 13-17, at Shimmering West, located at the front of AC Arts, Light Square.
SPOKE
Writers' Festival 2012
FEATURING
WTF#?: What the Font R U?
Are you a hound? A bit light? Plastic? An archer drawing your bow across the line? Go on, what type are you? What kind of character/s do you send out in to the world? Come and hear an a 'type'ical panel 'font'le & 'textese' you on how our engagement with reading and writing is affected by the chosen font & characters of this silicon age. There's bound to be a font of knowledge on display!
Talk to your Inner Child
Write and make a picture book in two hours! A hands-on workshop to make your dream come true! Gold coin donation to cover cost of materials. Booking essential- limited to 10 places
SCALA Showcase Live @ Shimmering West
SCALA Showcase
Local singer/songwriters Emily Davis, Don Morrison and Andy & Marta will all be performing at Shimmering West as part of the SPOKE Festival's SCALA Showcase evening in March; a fabulous free concert in the park.
SCALA (Songwriters, Composers And Lyricists Association Inc.) is a non profit, voluntary, incorporated association which officially formed on 22nd November 1987 in Adelaide, South Australia. SCALA's objectives are to:
Encourage the activity of Songwriting, Composing and Lyric or Libretto writing.
Provide information and support to Songwriters, Composers and Lyric or Libretto writers by way of workshops, seminars, regular meetings and other activities which eventuate as SCALA evolves.
Encourage the playing and recording of innovative and original music and the use of innovative and original music in commercial applications.
Provide a service enabling Songwriters, Composers and Lyricists or Librettists to collaborate on innovative music projects and, in particular, to enable (non lyric) Composers to collaborate with Lyricists.
Encourage and assist in the employment of Songwriters, Composers and Lyricists or Libretto writers in appropriate situations within the community.
Come and enjoy Adelaide's SCALA - Songwriters, Composers And Lyricists Association Inc. at this FREE showcase where SPOKE presents five of their home grown acts.
Relax at Shimmering West and enjoy a collection of performers who write their own words and music to tell their stories of love, lust and life.
SPOKE 2012 offers showcases, forums and workshops from 13 - 17 February 2011.
Date Event Stream Time Location
13 March 2012 Aboriginal Artists 3.00 - 5.00 pm Shimmering West
13 March 2012 SPOKE $lam W'$hop 6.30 - 8.00 pm Shimmering West
13 March 2012 *makes improetry! 8.30 - 10.00 pm Shimmering West
14 March 2012 WTF*! 6.00 - 7.00 pm AC Arts DK Dance Studio
14 March 2012 Inner Child 4.00 - 6.00 pm Shimmering West
15 March 2012 Love Letter W'shop 4.00 - 6.00 pm Shim west
15 March 2012 SPOKE Gives it up! 7.00 - 8.00 pm Shim West
15 March 2012 Words'n'action 8.00 - 10.30 pm X-Space
16 March 2012 Forward Flash Theatre 2.00 - 5.00 pm Shim West
16 March 2012 SPOKE Gives it up! 7.00 - 8.00 pm Shim West
17 March 2012 Multicultural Day 11:00am - 8.30 pm Shim West
Spoke makes IMPROETRY
Improv Poetry Workshop X-Space 4.30 - 6.00 pm
So you think you can write/rap/perform/act/speak/s lam?
Spoke throws down the gauntlet for ALL-comers. Step up and step OUT of your safety zone in this ninety minute workshop on poetry improvisation.
You'll be taken on a twisted journey through strange time zones where one minute can seem like an eternity and words such as 'cauliflower' can morph into anything your imagination fancies.
Guided by two incredible forces of nature: Teri Louise Kelly, a five book author and survivor (and guest artist), of several UK Poetry Improvisation Slams; and Daniel Watson, Paroxysm Press publisher and MC of the SA Poetry Slams, you'll be taught how to think on your feet and slam out magnificent musings on random offerings from your peers, or at least to ramble on incoherently for forty seconds while your mind does backflips as the audience cries!
THIS is a journey
you can't afford to miss!
"Flash Theatre Forward"
Come and create a theatrical CERN - test theatrical hypotheses, cause performing particles to collide and capture the results of potentially new theatrical concepts come into being! In a facilitated experiment, specialist practitioners in the fields of flashmobs, devised theatre, public site installations, gaming & community development will lead you in a team-based process to dis-CERN a project!
Register for this workshop to create a paradigm-shifting theatre concept to pitch to the panel of 'ground breakers' for $500 'spark' funding to the one judged the 'best'!
Words'n'action
Should writers really be seen and not heard or herd(ed) by the unseen? If the personal is political does that mean everything you write is a political act? Is there any such thing as freedom of speech? Is talk still cheap? Who makes the decisions when it comes to censorship? Broadcaster and social commentator David Jobling hosts a collection of very special guests as they explore current trends in activism.
Involve
Multitask
Participate
Activate
Collaborate
Talk
= IMPACT
SPOKE gives it up
Shimmering West
Improetry Slam Workshop
@X Space (AC Arts 39 Light Square)
Tuesday, March 13 from 6:30 pm until 8 pm
So you think you can write / rap / perform / act / speak / slam? Spoke throws down the gauntlet for ALL-comers. Step up and step OUT of your safety zone in this ninety minute workshop on poetry improvisation, "Improetry"
You'll be taken on a twisted journey through strange time zones where one minute can seem like an eternity and words such as 'cauliflower' can morph into anything your imagination fancies. Guided by two incredible forces of nature: Teri Louise Kelly, a five book author and survivor (and guest artist), of several UK Poetry Improvisation Slams; and Daniel Watson, Paroxysm Press publisher and MC of the SA Poetry Slams, you'll be taught how to think on your feet and slam out magnificent musings on random offerings from your peers, or at least to ramble on incoherently for forty seconds while your mind does backflips as the audience cries! This is a JOURNEY you can't afford to miss!
SPOKE 2012 Improetry Slam
@Shimmering West
Tuesday, March 13 from 8:30pm until 11:30pm
So do you think you can rap/write/perform/act/speak/s lam? SPOKE throws down the gauntlet for ALL comers. Step up and step OUT of your safety zone. What will you do when yoiu are asked to fill between forty seconds and two minutes talking about cauliflowers? Come along to the Improv Poetry Slam and put yourself to the test. No paper, no time for practice, this one is for the fast-shooters of the poetry / rap / perfporming / acting / slam scenes.
WTF#?: What the Font R U?
@ SA Writers' Centre, Rundle Street
Wednesday, March 14, from 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Are you a hound? A bit light? Plastic? An archer drawing your bow across the line? Go on, what type are you? What kind of character/s do you send out in to the world? Come and hear an atypeical panel 'font'le & 'textese' you on how our engagement with reading and writing is affected by the chosen font & characters of this silicon age. There's bound to be a font of knowledge on display!
Panellists: Suzie Keen - Writer, Reviewer and EDitor of the 'Views and Reviews" section for INDAILY - South Australia's independent online daily news publication.
Dr Nenagh Kemp - Lecturer in the School of Psychology at University of Tasmania. Research centres on the acquisition, development, and use of spoken and written language.
Scott Carslake - Principal and Creative Director of "Voice Designs" a South Australian company. "Voice" has received many prestigious national and international awards including the New York Type Directors' Club Certificate of Typographic Excellence. Voice's typographical history includes the development of typefaces Globale and Klogirl (distributed by Letraset) and ITC, Day project 21 hR, Griffine, Roxane and Maclennan.
Vicki Reynolds - Head of Printmaking at TAFE SA's Adelaide College of the Arts and professional practitioner.
Talk to your Inner Child
@Shimmering West
Wednesday, March 14, from 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Write and make a picture book in two hours! A hands-on workshop to make your dream come true! Gold coin donation to cover cost of materials. To book call Sue Fleming: (08) 8207 8615 or email: susan.fleming@tafesa.edu.au - limited to 10 places
SCALA Showcase Live @ Shimmering West
Wednesday, March 14, from 8 pm until 10:30 pm
Local singer/songwriters Emily Davis, Don Morrison and Andy & Marta will all be performing at Shimmering West as part of the SPOKE Festival's SCALA Showcase evening in March; a fabulous free concert in the park.
Come and enjoy Adelaide's SCALA - Songwriters, Composers And Lyricists Association Inc. at this FREE showcase where SPOKE presents five of their home grown acts. Relax in the gloriously deported Shimmering West and enjoy a collection of performers who write their own words and music to tell their stories of love, lust and life.
SCALA (Songwriters, Composers And Lyricists Association Inc.) is a non-profit, voluntary, incorporated association which officially formed on 22nd November 1987 in Adelaide, South Australia.
SCALA's objectives are to: Encourage the activity of Song writing, Composing and Lyric or Libretto writing. Provide information and support to Songwriters, Composers and Lyric or Libretto writers by way of workshops, seminars, regular meetings and other activities which eventuate as SCALA evolves.
Encourage the playing and recording of innovative and original music and the use of innovative and original music in commercial applications.
Provide a service enabling Songwriters, Composers and Lyricists or Librettists to collaborate on innovative music projects and, in particular, to enable (non lyric) Composers to collaborate with Lyricists. Encourage and assist in the employment of Songwriters, Composers and Lyricists or Libretto writers in appropriate situations within the community.
Think to Ink Writing Workshop
Adelaide Fringe Youth Engagement Program
Available Thursday 15th March 10am, 11:30am and 1:30pm
@ Shimmering West [Other times on this day by arrangement]
Spoke is proud to offer a valuable workshop to your students free of charge, including a comprehensive Education Pack. Do you have a group of students who want to know how they can create their own work but are not too sure where to start? Perhaps they want to write a short play or monologue and are looking for guidelines, or they simply want to know how they can analyse a play without things getting too complicated. This is the perfect workshop with a well-seasoned writer who has worked in all aspects of the theatre industry, from intimate theatre to arena theatre, interactive contemporary theatre and classic black-box productions. David Jobling dramatist, director and dramaturge offers a free sixty minute interactive workshop with groups of up to sixteen students providing key elements into original script development, script analysis and construction; suitable for students of Drama, Theatre Studies and English seeking to write their own monologue, play script or simply seeking to find inroads into script analysis. Jobling, currently a student in the Professional Writing Course at AC Arts and a graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Arts' Playwright's Studio and the NSW Writer's Centre Stage One and Two Playwrights Series. Under commission from the Department of Foreign Affairs and the United Nations, Jobling wrote "Onkaparinga River" for the International Year of Peace.
His production of "Puppy Love" with Bruce Keller for Melbourne's Anthill Theatre was a hit sell-out at the Sydney Festival, and his plays "Little Big Black Dog" (Brown's Lane Theatre) and "The Grip" (DC Peacock Productions) have toured widely. His work has been seen in venues as diverse as Lightning Ridge Primary School through to The Wharf Theatre (Sydney) and Adelaide Festival Centre's Space Theatre. His extensive CV includes a stint as the Senior Writers' Tutor at the Australian Theatre for Young People, Artistic Coordinator of Griffin Theatre Company and Writing Tutor for Sydney's Darlinghurst Theatre and the Sydney Talent Company. Suitable for Years 10, 11 and 12
To book call Sue Fleming: (08) 8207 8615 or email: susan.fleming@tafesa.edu.au
SPOKE gives it up! ACTIVATE!
Thursday, March 15 champions activism.
Times 6:00pm until 7:00pm.
Shimmering West @ AC Arts , 39 Light Square, Adelaide, Australia
Description SPOKE gives it up! Welcomes wordsmiths along to present their ideas in three minutes or less, SPOKE's popular open mic session is happening over three evenings, each with their own theme. So poets and writers come along and take a turn at the microphone between 6pm and 7pm let us hear your wit, wisdom or whimsy. Magnificent MC, Jeanne Hurrell, will take your registrations from 5pm on the night.
Love Letters
Available Thursday 15th March from 4 pm - 6 pm @ Shimmering West
Calling wild hearts and lovers of language and writing! Love letters don't have to be a 19th century anachronism. Right here at Shimmering West in March 2012, you can give form to your feelings for your paramour. For free!
Words'n'action Forum hosted by David Jobling
Thursday, March 15 at 8:00pm
@ AC Arts Library
A fun interactive forum for people who want to know more about activating the community: Should writers really be seen and not heard or herded by the unseen? If the personal is political does that mean everything you write is a political act? Is there any such thing as freedom of speech? Is talk still cheap? Who makes the decisions when it comes to censorship? What is the distance between what people say and what they do? Is physics activism? If the universe really is expanding, why are the minds of humans getting smaller? How many queers does it take to carry a protest banner? Why should a multinational mining company have the right to blot out a whole spicies without the species being informed? Is no news really good news (or) bad news better news than no news? Just who do you think you are anyway? So prove it! Broadcaster and social commentator David Jobling hosts a collection of very special guests as they explore current trends in activism.
Flash Theatre Forward
Friday, March 16 from 2 pm until 5 pm
@ DK Dance Studio (AC Arts 39 Light Square)
SPOKE aims to create its own theatrical CERN ( or 'big bang simulator') - an underground lab to test theatrical hypotheses, cause performing particles to collide and capture the results of potentially new theatrical forms through discerning a project! Specialist practitioners in the fields of flashmobs, devised theatre, gaming & public/site installation performance will challenge and trigger teams of workshop participants to create a paradigm-shifting theatre concept to pitch to the panel of ground breakers for the chance to win $500 spark funding for their idea! Register for this workshop to create a paradigm-shifting theatre concept by emailing micsia@internode.on.net by 2 March 2012. Max 16 participants. (First come first serve basis) Panelists: Daisy Brown - devised theatre practitioner, Ryan Davidson - computer game writer/creator, Nick Morris - flashmob organiser
SPOKE gives it up! SPEAK!
Friday, March 16 is all about talk.
6:00pm until 7:00pm
@Shimmering West
SPOKE gives it up!
Welcomes wordsmiths along to present their ideas in three minutes or less, SPOKEs popular open mic session is happening over three evenings, each with their own theme. So poets and writers come along and take a turn at the microphone between 6pm and 7pm let us hear your wit, wisdom or whimsy. Magnificent MC, Jeanne Hurrell, will take your registrations from 5pm on the night.
SPOKE Performance Poetry Workshop with Jenny Toune
Saturday, March 17, 9:30am until 11:00am.
@ Shimmering West and AC ARTS
SPOKE Performance Poetry Workshop with Jenny Toune.
Open a can of words, empty it into dance/acting & cook up a performance storm. For writers: exploring new ways of working with your poetry/words. For dancers, actors: becoming part of the word performance by collaboration, interpretation, expansion and experimentation. During the workshop we will partner up & explore different interpretive methods, then rehearse & polish each piece up to performance level. To OFFICIALLY register for this event , please send a message to Red Uncensored toune.jenny@gmail.com stating whether you are registering as a writer, or as an actor or dancer. thanks!
The Amazing Side Shed
Saturday, March 17 from 2 pm - 8pm by appointment only
@ Shimmering West
The most fascinating and delightful space where a mix of unusually intellectual delights will be available to all dilettantes and perceptive pro's including Poetry in a can, Tarot Poetry, and Man2Man Poetry Massage titillating and engaging you for a modest donation.
Wickedly worldly words exhumed, exposed, exhibited and exactly what you were looking for when you least expected. Poetry Massage a 'hands free' massage; the opportunity to be taken on your own personal journey by a master story-teller with instant insight and sensitivity - like having a great big positive affirmation privately and intimately applied giving you the opportunity to feel that randomly wondrous feeling when someone recognises things in you that you would never imagine or think of for yourself. More than sweet nothing (for adult men)!
By appointment only Ph: 040 414 8880
SPOKE gives it up! ENTERTAIN!
Saturday, March 17 celebrates entertainment.
Times 6:00pm until 7:00pm
@ Shimmering West
SPOKE gives it up! Welcomes wordsmiths along to present their ideas in three minutes or less, SPOKEs popular open mic session is happening over three evenings, each with their own theme. So poets and writers come along and take a turn at the microphone between 6pm and 7pm let us hear your wit, wisdom or whimsy. Magnificent MC, Jeanne Hurrell, will take your registrations from 5pm on the night.
Indigo Eli - a process in development, a development in process...
Indigo is a contemporary artist gathering the threads of poetry, circus, costume, voice, and movement into new textures of performance.
Her wide-ranging work, spanning from slam poetry to plastic and sticky-tape inflatables, offers voice to the unspoken through the perception that art is the act of bringing the poetically intangible into existence.
How do you play with the language of sound and space?
Is it possible for a poem to perform without words?
Can the poetry of words claim new spaces?
What kinds of spaces could it possibly claim?
Join in on an interviewable showcase of performance poet Indigo. Visit revelations and construct a recount, upon the art that is emerging from Indigo's most recent explorations into the possibilities of poetry in performance.
Facilitated by David Jobling. Pieces of Indigo's multi-art poetic work will be on display during SPOKE.
2011 JUMP mentee, Indigo worked with established artist Margaret Cameron, in conjunction with John Howard and Helen Sharp from the Body Voice Centre in Melbourne.
She is a graduate of AC Arts, co-founding director of 'the nameless project', freelance artist and workshop facilitator.
Speak
Halitus
Interview
Forensic
Tales
Showcase
= SHIFTS
The Nameless Project
In 2012 SPOKE is bigger and better!
Running for five days, from March 13-17, at Shimmering West, located at the front of AC Arts, Light Square.
SPOKE
Writers' Festival 2012
FEATURING
WTF#?: What the Font R U?
Are you a hound? A bit light? Plastic? An archer drawing your bow across the line? Go on, what type are you? What kind of character/s do you send out in to the world? Come and hear an a 'type'ical panel 'font'le & 'textese' you on how our engagement with reading and writing is affected by the chosen font & characters of this silicon age. There's bound to be a font of knowledge on display!
Talk to your Inner Child
Write and make a picture book in two hours! A hands-on workshop to make your dream come true! Gold coin donation to cover cost of materials. Booking essential- limited to 10 places
SCALA Showcase Live @ Shimmering West
SCALA Showcase
Local singer/songwriters Emily Davis, Don Morrison and Andy & Marta will all be performing at Shimmering West as part of the SPOKE Festival's SCALA Showcase evening in March; a fabulous free concert in the park.
SCALA (Songwriters, Composers And Lyricists Association Inc.) is a non profit, voluntary, incorporated association which officially formed on 22nd November 1987 in Adelaide, South Australia. SCALA's objectives are to:
Encourage the activity of Songwriting, Composing and Lyric or Libretto writing.
Provide information and support to Songwriters, Composers and Lyric or Libretto writers by way of workshops, seminars, regular meetings and other activities which eventuate as SCALA evolves.
Encourage the playing and recording of innovative and original music and the use of innovative and original music in commercial applications.
Provide a service enabling Songwriters, Composers and Lyricists or Librettists to collaborate on innovative music projects and, in particular, to enable (non lyric) Composers to collaborate with Lyricists.
Encourage and assist in the employment of Songwriters, Composers and Lyricists or Libretto writers in appropriate situations within the community.
Come and enjoy Adelaide's SCALA - Songwriters, Composers And Lyricists Association Inc. at this FREE showcase where SPOKE presents five of their home grown acts.
Relax at Shimmering West and enjoy a collection of performers who write their own words and music to tell their stories of love, lust and life.
SPOKE 2012 offers showcases, forums and workshops from 13 - 17 February 2011.
Date Event Stream Time Location
13 March 2012 Aboriginal Artists 3.00 - 5.00 pm Shimmering West
13 March 2012 SPOKE $lam W'$hop 6.30 - 8.00 pm Shimmering West
13 March 2012 *makes improetry! 8.30 - 10.00 pm Shimmering West
14 March 2012 WTF*! 6.00 - 7.00 pm AC Arts DK Dance Studio
14 March 2012 Inner Child 4.00 - 6.00 pm Shimmering West
15 March 2012 Love Letter W'shop 4.00 - 6.00 pm Shim west
15 March 2012 SPOKE Gives it up! 7.00 - 8.00 pm Shim West
15 March 2012 Words'n'action 8.00 - 10.30 pm X-Space
16 March 2012 Forward Flash Theatre 2.00 - 5.00 pm Shim West
16 March 2012 SPOKE Gives it up! 7.00 - 8.00 pm Shim West
17 March 2012 Multicultural Day 11:00am - 8.30 pm Shim West
Spoke makes IMPROETRY
Improv Poetry Workshop X-Space 4.30 - 6.00 pm
So you think you can write/rap/perform/act/speak/s lam?
Spoke throws down the gauntlet for ALL-comers. Step up and step OUT of your safety zone in this ninety minute workshop on poetry improvisation.
You'll be taken on a twisted journey through strange time zones where one minute can seem like an eternity and words such as 'cauliflower' can morph into anything your imagination fancies.
Guided by two incredible forces of nature: Teri Louise Kelly, a five book author and survivor (and guest artist), of several UK Poetry Improvisation Slams; and Daniel Watson, Paroxysm Press publisher and MC of the SA Poetry Slams, you'll be taught how to think on your feet and slam out magnificent musings on random offerings from your peers, or at least to ramble on incoherently for forty seconds while your mind does backflips as the audience cries!
THIS is a journey
you can't afford to miss!
"Flash Theatre Forward"
Come and create a theatrical CERN - test theatrical hypotheses, cause performing particles to collide and capture the results of potentially new theatrical concepts come into being! In a facilitated experiment, specialist practitioners in the fields of flashmobs, devised theatre, public site installations, gaming & community development will lead you in a team-based process to dis-CERN a project!
Register for this workshop to create a paradigm-shifting theatre concept to pitch to the panel of 'ground breakers' for $500 'spark' funding to the one judged the 'best'!
Words'n'action
Should writers really be seen and not heard or herd(ed) by the unseen? If the personal is political does that mean everything you write is a political act? Is there any such thing as freedom of speech? Is talk still cheap? Who makes the decisions when it comes to censorship? Broadcaster and social commentator David Jobling hosts a collection of very special guests as they explore current trends in activism.
Involve
Multitask
Participate
Activate
Collaborate
Talk
= IMPACT
SPOKE gives it up
Shimmering West
Improetry Slam Workshop
@X Space (AC Arts 39 Light Square)
Tuesday, March 13 from 6:30 pm until 8 pm
So you think you can write / rap / perform / act / speak / slam? Spoke throws down the gauntlet for ALL-comers. Step up and step OUT of your safety zone in this ninety minute workshop on poetry improvisation, "Improetry"
You'll be taken on a twisted journey through strange time zones where one minute can seem like an eternity and words such as 'cauliflower' can morph into anything your imagination fancies. Guided by two incredible forces of nature: Teri Louise Kelly, a five book author and survivor (and guest artist), of several UK Poetry Improvisation Slams; and Daniel Watson, Paroxysm Press publisher and MC of the SA Poetry Slams, you'll be taught how to think on your feet and slam out magnificent musings on random offerings from your peers, or at least to ramble on incoherently for forty seconds while your mind does backflips as the audience cries! This is a JOURNEY you can't afford to miss!
SPOKE 2012 Improetry Slam
@Shimmering West
Tuesday, March 13 from 8:30pm until 11:30pm
So do you think you can rap/write/perform/act/speak/s lam? SPOKE throws down the gauntlet for ALL comers. Step up and step OUT of your safety zone. What will you do when yoiu are asked to fill between forty seconds and two minutes talking about cauliflowers? Come along to the Improv Poetry Slam and put yourself to the test. No paper, no time for practice, this one is for the fast-shooters of the poetry / rap / perfporming / acting / slam scenes.
WTF#?: What the Font R U?
@ SA Writers' Centre, Rundle Street
Wednesday, March 14, from 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Are you a hound? A bit light? Plastic? An archer drawing your bow across the line? Go on, what type are you? What kind of character/s do you send out in to the world? Come and hear an atypeical panel 'font'le & 'textese' you on how our engagement with reading and writing is affected by the chosen font & characters of this silicon age. There's bound to be a font of knowledge on display!
Panellists: Suzie Keen - Writer, Reviewer and EDitor of the 'Views and Reviews" section for INDAILY - South Australia's independent online daily news publication.
Dr Nenagh Kemp - Lecturer in the School of Psychology at University of Tasmania. Research centres on the acquisition, development, and use of spoken and written language.
Scott Carslake - Principal and Creative Director of "Voice Designs" a South Australian company. "Voice" has received many prestigious national and international awards including the New York Type Directors' Club Certificate of Typographic Excellence. Voice's typographical history includes the development of typefaces Globale and Klogirl (distributed by Letraset) and ITC, Day project 21 hR, Griffine, Roxane and Maclennan.
Vicki Reynolds - Head of Printmaking at TAFE SA's Adelaide College of the Arts and professional practitioner.
Talk to your Inner Child
@Shimmering West
Wednesday, March 14, from 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Write and make a picture book in two hours! A hands-on workshop to make your dream come true! Gold coin donation to cover cost of materials. To book call Sue Fleming: (08) 8207 8615 or email: susan.fleming@tafesa.edu.au - limited to 10 places
SCALA Showcase Live @ Shimmering West
Wednesday, March 14, from 8 pm until 10:30 pm
Local singer/songwriters Emily Davis, Don Morrison and Andy & Marta will all be performing at Shimmering West as part of the SPOKE Festival's SCALA Showcase evening in March; a fabulous free concert in the park.
Come and enjoy Adelaide's SCALA - Songwriters, Composers And Lyricists Association Inc. at this FREE showcase where SPOKE presents five of their home grown acts. Relax in the gloriously deported Shimmering West and enjoy a collection of performers who write their own words and music to tell their stories of love, lust and life.
SCALA (Songwriters, Composers And Lyricists Association Inc.) is a non-profit, voluntary, incorporated association which officially formed on 22nd November 1987 in Adelaide, South Australia.
SCALA's objectives are to: Encourage the activity of Song writing, Composing and Lyric or Libretto writing. Provide information and support to Songwriters, Composers and Lyric or Libretto writers by way of workshops, seminars, regular meetings and other activities which eventuate as SCALA evolves.
Encourage the playing and recording of innovative and original music and the use of innovative and original music in commercial applications.
Provide a service enabling Songwriters, Composers and Lyricists or Librettists to collaborate on innovative music projects and, in particular, to enable (non lyric) Composers to collaborate with Lyricists. Encourage and assist in the employment of Songwriters, Composers and Lyricists or Libretto writers in appropriate situations within the community.
Think to Ink Writing Workshop
Adelaide Fringe Youth Engagement Program
Available Thursday 15th March 10am, 11:30am and 1:30pm
@ Shimmering West [Other times on this day by arrangement]
Spoke is proud to offer a valuable workshop to your students free of charge, including a comprehensive Education Pack. Do you have a group of students who want to know how they can create their own work but are not too sure where to start? Perhaps they want to write a short play or monologue and are looking for guidelines, or they simply want to know how they can analyse a play without things getting too complicated. This is the perfect workshop with a well-seasoned writer who has worked in all aspects of the theatre industry, from intimate theatre to arena theatre, interactive contemporary theatre and classic black-box productions. David Jobling dramatist, director and dramaturge offers a free sixty minute interactive workshop with groups of up to sixteen students providing key elements into original script development, script analysis and construction; suitable for students of Drama, Theatre Studies and English seeking to write their own monologue, play script or simply seeking to find inroads into script analysis. Jobling, currently a student in the Professional Writing Course at AC Arts and a graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Arts' Playwright's Studio and the NSW Writer's Centre Stage One and Two Playwrights Series. Under commission from the Department of Foreign Affairs and the United Nations, Jobling wrote "Onkaparinga River" for the International Year of Peace.
His production of "Puppy Love" with Bruce Keller for Melbourne's Anthill Theatre was a hit sell-out at the Sydney Festival, and his plays "Little Big Black Dog" (Brown's Lane Theatre) and "The Grip" (DC Peacock Productions) have toured widely. His work has been seen in venues as diverse as Lightning Ridge Primary School through to The Wharf Theatre (Sydney) and Adelaide Festival Centre's Space Theatre. His extensive CV includes a stint as the Senior Writers' Tutor at the Australian Theatre for Young People, Artistic Coordinator of Griffin Theatre Company and Writing Tutor for Sydney's Darlinghurst Theatre and the Sydney Talent Company. Suitable for Years 10, 11 and 12
To book call Sue Fleming: (08) 8207 8615 or email: susan.fleming@tafesa.edu.au
SPOKE gives it up! ACTIVATE!
Thursday, March 15 champions activism.
Times 6:00pm until 7:00pm.
Shimmering West @ AC Arts , 39 Light Square, Adelaide, Australia
Description SPOKE gives it up! Welcomes wordsmiths along to present their ideas in three minutes or less, SPOKE's popular open mic session is happening over three evenings, each with their own theme. So poets and writers come along and take a turn at the microphone between 6pm and 7pm let us hear your wit, wisdom or whimsy. Magnificent MC, Jeanne Hurrell, will take your registrations from 5pm on the night.
Love Letters
Available Thursday 15th March from 4 pm - 6 pm @ Shimmering West
Calling wild hearts and lovers of language and writing! Love letters don't have to be a 19th century anachronism. Right here at Shimmering West in March 2012, you can give form to your feelings for your paramour. For free!
Words'n'action Forum hosted by David Jobling
Thursday, March 15 at 8:00pm
@ AC Arts Library
A fun interactive forum for people who want to know more about activating the community: Should writers really be seen and not heard or herded by the unseen? If the personal is political does that mean everything you write is a political act? Is there any such thing as freedom of speech? Is talk still cheap? Who makes the decisions when it comes to censorship? What is the distance between what people say and what they do? Is physics activism? If the universe really is expanding, why are the minds of humans getting smaller? How many queers does it take to carry a protest banner? Why should a multinational mining company have the right to blot out a whole spicies without the species being informed? Is no news really good news (or) bad news better news than no news? Just who do you think you are anyway? So prove it! Broadcaster and social commentator David Jobling hosts a collection of very special guests as they explore current trends in activism.
Flash Theatre Forward
Friday, March 16 from 2 pm until 5 pm
@ DK Dance Studio (AC Arts 39 Light Square)
SPOKE aims to create its own theatrical CERN ( or 'big bang simulator') - an underground lab to test theatrical hypotheses, cause performing particles to collide and capture the results of potentially new theatrical forms through discerning a project! Specialist practitioners in the fields of flashmobs, devised theatre, gaming & public/site installation performance will challenge and trigger teams of workshop participants to create a paradigm-shifting theatre concept to pitch to the panel of ground breakers for the chance to win $500 spark funding for their idea! Register for this workshop to create a paradigm-shifting theatre concept by emailing micsia@internode.on.net by 2 March 2012. Max 16 participants. (First come first serve basis) Panelists: Daisy Brown - devised theatre practitioner, Ryan Davidson - computer game writer/creator, Nick Morris - flashmob organiser
SPOKE gives it up! SPEAK!
Friday, March 16 is all about talk.
6:00pm until 7:00pm
@Shimmering West
SPOKE gives it up!
Welcomes wordsmiths along to present their ideas in three minutes or less, SPOKEs popular open mic session is happening over three evenings, each with their own theme. So poets and writers come along and take a turn at the microphone between 6pm and 7pm let us hear your wit, wisdom or whimsy. Magnificent MC, Jeanne Hurrell, will take your registrations from 5pm on the night.
SPOKE Performance Poetry Workshop with Jenny Toune
Saturday, March 17, 9:30am until 11:00am.
@ Shimmering West and AC ARTS
SPOKE Performance Poetry Workshop with Jenny Toune.
Open a can of words, empty it into dance/acting & cook up a performance storm. For writers: exploring new ways of working with your poetry/words. For dancers, actors: becoming part of the word performance by collaboration, interpretation, expansion and experimentation. During the workshop we will partner up & explore different interpretive methods, then rehearse & polish each piece up to performance level. To OFFICIALLY register for this event , please send a message to Red Uncensored toune.jenny@gmail.com stating whether you are registering as a writer, or as an actor or dancer. thanks!
Saturday, March 17 from 2 pm - 8pm by appointment only
@ Shimmering West
The most fascinating and delightful space where a mix of unusually intellectual delights will be available to all dilettantes and perceptive pro's including Poetry in a can, Tarot Poetry, and Man2Man Poetry Massage titillating and engaging you for a modest donation.
Wickedly worldly words exhumed, exposed, exhibited and exactly what you were looking for when you least expected. Poetry Massage a 'hands free' massage; the opportunity to be taken on your own personal journey by a master story-teller with instant insight and sensitivity - like having a great big positive affirmation privately and intimately applied giving you the opportunity to feel that randomly wondrous feeling when someone recognises things in you that you would never imagine or think of for yourself. More than sweet nothing (for adult men)!
By appointment only Ph: 040 414 8880
SPOKE gives it up! ENTERTAIN!
Saturday, March 17 celebrates entertainment.
Times 6:00pm until 7:00pm
@ Shimmering West
SPOKE gives it up! Welcomes wordsmiths along to present their ideas in three minutes or less, SPOKEs popular open mic session is happening over three evenings, each with their own theme. So poets and writers come along and take a turn at the microphone between 6pm and 7pm let us hear your wit, wisdom or whimsy. Magnificent MC, Jeanne Hurrell, will take your registrations from 5pm on the night.
Indigo Eli - a process in development, a development in process...
Indigo is a contemporary artist gathering the threads of poetry, circus, costume, voice, and movement into new textures of performance.
Her wide-ranging work, spanning from slam poetry to plastic and sticky-tape inflatables, offers voice to the unspoken through the perception that art is the act of bringing the poetically intangible into existence.
How do you play with the language of sound and space?
Is it possible for a poem to perform without words?
Can the poetry of words claim new spaces?
What kinds of spaces could it possibly claim?
Join in on an interviewable showcase of performance poet Indigo. Visit revelations and construct a recount, upon the art that is emerging from Indigo's most recent explorations into the possibilities of poetry in performance.
Facilitated by David Jobling. Pieces of Indigo's multi-art poetic work will be on display during SPOKE.
2011 JUMP mentee, Indigo worked with established artist Margaret Cameron, in conjunction with John Howard and Helen Sharp from the Body Voice Centre in Melbourne.
She is a graduate of AC Arts, co-founding director of 'the nameless project', freelance artist and workshop facilitator.
Speak
Halitus
Interview
Forensic
Tales
Showcase
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The Nameless Project
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