Spoke 2012
March 8th 2012 00:00
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
Word Festival 2012
SPOKE
Word Festival 2012
SPOKE 2012 offers showcases, forums and workshops from 13 - 17 February 2011.
Date Event Stream Time Location
13 March 2012 Talk to your inner Child 11am - 1.00 pm S.West
13 March 2012 Aboriginal Artists 3.00 - 5.00 pm S.West
13 March 2012 SPOKE $lam W'$hop 6.30 - 8.00 pm S.West
13 March 2012 *makes improetry! 8.30 - 10 pm S.West
14 March 2012 WTF*! 6.00 - 7.00 pm SAWC
14 March 2012 SCALA Showcase 8 - 10:30 pm S.West
15 March 2012 Think to Ink 10,11:30am & 1pm AC Arts
15 March 2012 Love Letter W'shop 4.00 - 6.00 pm S.West
15 March 2012 SPOKE Gives it up! 7.00 - 8.00 pm S.West
15 March 2012 Mosaic (Im)Process 6.00 - 7.00 pm DK Studio
15 March 2012 Words'n'action 8.00 - 10.30 pm AC Arts Library
16 March 2012 F'd Flash Theatre 2.00 - 5.00 pm AC Arts
16 March 2012 SPOKE Gives it up! 7.00 - 8.00 pm S.West
16 March 2012 Book Launch Party 8.00 - 9.00 pm S.West
17 March 2012 Cross Genre W/S 9.30am - 11am S.West
17 March 2012 Indigo Eli - Process 6 - 7 pm S.West
17 March 2012 Multicultural Day 11:am - 8.30 pm S.West
17 March 2012 Cross Genre Perf 8.30pm -10pm S.West
S.West = Shimmering West, 39 Light Square, Adelaide
Tuesday, March 13
13 March 2012 Talk to your inner Child 11am - 1.00 pm S.West
13 March 2012 Aboriginal Artists 3.00 - 5.00 pm S.West
13 March 2012 SPOKE $lam W'$hop 6.30 - 8.00 pm S.West
13 March 2012 *makes improetry! 8.30 - 10 pm S.West
13 March 2012 Aboriginal Artists 3.00 - 5.00 pm S.West
13 March 2012 SPOKE $lam W'$hop 6.30 - 8.00 pm S.West
13 March 2012 *makes improetry! 8.30 - 10 pm S.West
Talk to your Inner Child
@Shimmering West
Tuesday, March 13, from 11am - 1:00pm
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
@X Space (AC Arts 39 Light Square)
Tuesday, March 13 from 6:30 pm until 8 pm
THIS is a journey
you can't afford to miss!
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!
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.
Wednesday, March 14
14 March 2012 WTF*! 6.00 - 7.00 pm SAWC
14 March 2012 SCALA Showcase 8 - 10:30 pm S.West
14 March 2012 SCALA Showcase 8 - 10:30 pm S.West
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 SAs Adelaide College of the Arts and professional practitioner.
SCALA Showcase Live @ Shimmering West
Wednesday, March 14, from 8 pm until 10:30 pm
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.
Thursday 15th March
15 March 2012 Think to Ink 10am, 11:30am & 1pm AC Arts
15 March 2012 Love Letter W'shop 4.00 - 6.00 pm S.West
15 March 2012 SPOKE Gives it up! 7.00 - 8.00 pm S.West
15 March 2012 Mosaic (Im)Process 6.00 - 7.00 pm DK Studio
15 March 2012 Words'n'action 8.00 - 10.30 pm AC Arts Library
15 March 2012 Love Letter W'shop 4.00 - 6.00 pm S.West
15 March 2012 SPOKE Gives it up! 7.00 - 8.00 pm S.West
15 March 2012 Mosaic (Im)Process 6.00 - 7.00 pm DK Studio
15 March 2012 Words'n'action 8.00 - 10.30 pm AC Arts Library
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. 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.
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!
Mosaic Physical Theatre (Im)Process FREE from 6.00 - 7.00 pm join host David Jobling and his guest students and tutor Jen Havelberg from AC Arts' 3rd Year of the Acting course as they discuss and present a little show and tell in the DK Studio - the process of putting together a Dance/Theatre work 'MOSAIC' last year gave them an insight into a process they'll be able to use as actors out in the real world.
Thursday, March 15 champions activism.
Times 6:00pm until 8:00pm.
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 7 - 8pm let us hear your wit, wisdom or whimsy. Magnificent MC, Jeanne Hurrell, will take your registrations from 6pm 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.
Involve
Multitask
Participate
Activate
Collaborate
Talk
= IMPACT
Friday, March 16
16 March 2012 F'd Flash Theatre 2.00 - 5.00 pm AC Arts
16 March 2012 Mosaic Presentation 6pm - 7pm AC Arts
16 March 2012 SPOKE Gives it up! 7.00 - 8.00 pm S.West
16 March 2012 Book Launch Party 8.00 - 9.00 pm S.West
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
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'!
SPOKE gives it up! SPEAK!
Friday, March 16 is all about talk.
7:00pm until 8:00pm
@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.
16 March at Shimmering West, YOU are invited to a Book Launch Party from 8 - 9.00 pm. Come celebrate with three fine writers as they launch their books: Jenny Toune, Swamp Siren's Burlesque Bible poetry e-book
Amelia Walker, Sound and Bundy verse novel by Amelia Walker
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Vikki Wakefield, All I ever Wanted, YA novel
Author links - Jenny Toune:
Jenny Toune
Swamp Sirens Burlesque Bible
Blog: Red Uncensored Blogspot
Goodreads.com
Twitter Jenny Toune
Saturday, March 17
17 March 2012 Cross Genre W/S 9.30am - 11am S.West
17 March 2012 Indigo Eli - Process 6 - 7 pm S.West
17 March 2012 Multicultural Day 11:am - 8.30 pm S.West
17 March 2012 Cross Genre Perf 8.30pm -10pm S.West
17 March 2012 Cross Genre W/S 9.30am - 11am S.West
17 March 2012 Indigo Eli - Process 6 - 7 pm S.West
17 March 2012 Multicultural Day 11:am - 8.30 pm S.West
17 March 2012 Cross Genre Perf 8.30pm -10pm S.West
17th March SPOKE Multicultural Day @ Shimmering West
Multicultural Day is run by Writing Australia in conjunction with the SA Writers' Centre and the SPOKE 2012 Crew.
11am Welcome by the SAWC Chair and introduction of the first Chair for the day, Nick Xenophou
11.10 Nick welcomes attendees & asks them introduce themselves with little about their background and interest in writing. Nick speaks about multiculturalism/importance of telling stories.
11.20 Poetry Performance by Dorre Dari Cultural Foundation (Persian Poets)
11.35 Writing Groups - what do they do and what have they achieved?
Migrant Writers
Multicultural Writers' Group
Dorre Dari Cultural Foundation
Aboriginal Writers' Group
12.50pm Lunch
1.30pm Panel of writers: Where are the Opportunities & How do you Find Them?
Juan Garrido Salgado, Chile
Ranjit Ratnake, Sri Lanka
Prerna Ashok, India
Dylan Coleman, Australia
2.30 Tea Break
3pm SA Writers' Theatre: James Majur (Africa), turning a story into a play.
3.30 Michael Bollen, Wakefield Press - Cultural Books
4pm Chair SAWC: Where to from here?
4.30pm Close & drinks
SPOKE Cross Genre Workshop with Jenny Toune.
Venue: AC Arts Dance Studio, Ac Arts, 39 Light Square Adelaide
Date/Time: Sat 17th March 9.30am - 11.00am
FREE
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
@ 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)!
Poetry Massage 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.
Halitus
Interview
Forensic
Tales
Showcase
= SHIFTS
The Nameless Project
Sat 17th 8.30pm - 10.00pm Cross Genre Performance:
Venue: Shimmering West Stage, Light Square Adelaide
Date/Time: FREE
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