Time: 6:00pm.

Admission: $5.

Age restrictions: All Ages.

Address: 77 Brighton Street, Petersham, NSW 2049.

The month of May brings features festival performer CANDY ROYALLE!!

As usual, with open mic and musical accompaniment in the pleasing community environment of The Petersham Bowling Club – beer, bistro and bowls. no pokies and kids welcome (to be accompanied by adults)

$5 and open mic poets please arrive 30 minutes prior to register.

Time: 6:30pm.

Age restrictions: No Minors.

Address: 2 Phillip Law Street.

The Stronger than Fiction film festival is closing their event with performance by Candy Royalle and the screening of ‘SONITA’

After her family attempts to sell her into marriage, a young Afghan refugee in Iran channels her frustrations and seizes her destiny through music.

Sonita is a feisty, 16 year-old Afghan refugee living in Tehran in a single shabby room with her sister and niece. With no legal status, Sonita’s only future seems to be a $9000 marriage, arranged by her brother. But with the help of the camera, a show-stopping music video, and her powerful and proactive voice, Sonita has other ideas about the future of young women.

Join us for the closing night party afterwards for the announcement of the best film.

Stronger than Fiction is proudly supported by Eden Road Wines and Palace Electric Cinemas Canberra

Time: 7:00pm.

Admission: $Gold coin donation.

Age restrictions: No Minors.

Address: 5 Olympic Parade, Bankstown, NSW.

Bankstown Poetry Slam Details:

Join us in another night of laughter, clicking, watermelon and fun as we converge at the Arts centre for July slam! Poets, remember you are not just competing for art and glory, but also a spot to compete at this year’s end of year mega event :)

DEAR PERFORMERS: PLEASE DON’T FORGET, STRICT 3 MIN TIME LIMIT ON PERFORMANCES!! This month we are continuing the “lottery” system, whereby registrations will commence at 6:30 pm, but spots are not guaranteed. Instead, names will be drawn at random. As such, performers do not need to arrive at 6:30pm sharp, but must put their names in BEFORE 7pm.

Bios of this month’s feature:
Candy Royalle has performed alongside many of the greats including Ursula Rucker (who said “Candy Royalle is all at once fragile, powerful, raw, sensitive, beautiful, unflinching and honest. She, her spirit and her work, will change you”) Shane Koyczan, Sarah Kay, Phil Kay, Rives, Anis Mojgani and Holly McNish to name a few. A festival curator once described Royalle as “an act you remember for years” and the Austin International Poetry Festival Chair stated Candy had “…changed the face of poetry in Austin, forever”. Few who see her can forget her intensity, her combustible blend of intellect, imagination and heart.

Dr G:
Frederick W. Gooding, Jr. is an Assistant Professor within the Ethnic Studies Program at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, AZ. A trained historian, Gooding most effectively analyzes contemporary mainstream media with a careful eye for persistent patterns along racial lines that appear benign but indeed have problematic historical roots.
Uncomfortable with the anti-intellectualist approach to hip hop within academia, Gooding has also fostered new learning opportunities for students and community members to appreciate the genius of hip hop through new courses, seminars and study tours abroad as far away as Australia and New Zealand. A developing scholar, Gooding’s most well-known work thus far is “You Mean, There’s RACE in My Movie? The Complete Guide to Understanding Race in Mainstream Hollywood,” which critically analyzes the value and impact of contemporary racial imagery based upon historical narratives of sex, power and violence.

Rules of the poetry slam:

– 3minutes to perform your piece, no props or music.
– Poem must be your original work
-5 Randomly selected members of the crowd will judge the performances.
-No age restrictions
– Semi- awesome prizes!
and all we ask is a gold coin donation :)

REMEMBER! The point is not the points the point is POETRY!!!
-Marc Smith

If anyone has any questions please feel free to ask away!
HOPE TO SEE Y’ALL THERE!!!

More information

Time: 6:30pm.

Age restrictions: All Ages.

Address: Callan Park.

For the first time, the NSW Writers’ Centre presents Voice & Verse: A Poetry and Spoken Word Festival this March. Approaching poetry and performance from multiple angles, this festival focuses on the diversity of activity within the poetry field including slam poets, rappers, singer-songwriters, micropoets, publishers, activists, text artists and more.

More information

Time: 11:00am.

Age restrictions: All Ages.

Address: Callan Park, Centre for Education and Workforce Development, Gate A Corner of Cicily St and Darling St Lilyfield.

To celebrate International Women’s Day 2015, God Queen is hosting a Women’s Summit. This is an inclusive event for women, and all who champion women’s rights to share their creative endeavours and grow their sense of community. An opportunity to network, showcase and more importantly learn from one another.

God Queen are a collective of artists, entrepreneurs and humanitarians that aims to raise the status of women globally through education of women’s rights and actively contributing to positive social change particularly challenging the gender bias system. With a focus on women in the creative arts industry and entrepreneurial scene, this event will be an introduction to God Queen’s agenda and a safe place for all to discuss the issues faced and collectively find solutions to these problems. All are welcome across gender, age and ethnicity.

Throughout the day we will have panel discussions, workshops, talks and performers with the specific focus of addressing the following topics:

What is Woman? – Discussing the unique definition of ‘woman’ in 2015 looking beyond the gender binary and body identity.

Art as Activism – Bridging the worlds of art, activism and journalism to encourage social change

Women in the Creative Industry – Exploring ways to succeed in the arts industry without losing your integrity and finding creative solutions to the problems of today.

Ethical Entrepreneurs – Discussing responsibility, sustainable and ethical practice for entrepreneurs and artists.

Social Systems and The Family Unit – Comparing contemporary and traditional systems of living from around the world and throughout the times to find alternate, improved ways of co-existing.

We welcome any collaboration/partnerships to further our agenda.

Time: 6:30pm.

Admission: $20.

Age restrictions: All Ages.

Address: City of Sydney Town Hall House.

Woman Scream is a platform for women’s participation. It provides a socially viable and direct way of using poetry and the arts to encourage women’s achievements and bolster their self-esteem and self-respect. Established — as well as emerging — poets and artists, who may not normally have the opportunity to participate in such a significant international festival, are both welcome. We believe that all are equally part of the social mission to fight violence. 40 countries will participate in ‘Woman Scream’, raising their voices to creatively protest violence against women.May our scream be heard!

Age restrictions: All Ages.

Address: Mauls Creek.

Bat Attack is an incredible 6 day gathering on 13th – 18th Feburary 2015.

Building a creative resistance to defend habitat, climate and communities from coal expansion.
Including all of the best music, skillshares, workshops, arts, and action.

The Bat Attack will be in Maules Creek NSW on Gomeroi Country, home to Australia’s first ever blockade camp on coal the #LeardBlockade against Whitehaven coal.

Front Line Action on Coal has been defending the Leard State Forest from open cut coal for over 2 years, to find out more about grassroots resistance and front line action on coal have a browse of this site, and come out to camp and get involved!

There will be tours of farms, non-violent direct action skillshares, forest tours, ecology workshops, as well as some outstanding performance, including poets, circus, bands and Djs.

Come learn, listen, dance, and take action to save the Leard State Forest, and our climate.

Front Line Action on Coal and Bat Attack are volunteer run, with a focus on skillsharinCome get involved and be a part of it, contact us on the RSVP form below.

More information

Time: 10:00am.

Age restrictions: All Ages.

Time: 6:00pm.

Age restrictions: No Minors.

Panel discussion “Queer People in the Arts”

Time: 9:30am.

Admission: $50/$60.

Age restrictions: No Minors.

Address: History House 133 Macquarie Street.

This is an intensive, full day workshop with Candy Royalle for all aspiring writers and performers, or those who simply want help with expressing themselves. It is aimed at all levels – from those who have never written or shared work to established artists. It is not *only* for poets but for all people who wish to be able to express themselves better and with more confidence.

Some of the things the workshop will cover:

– Writing techniques and exercises
– Help with writers block
– Editing
– Exploration of the ethical obligations of artists
– Writing for the self
– Writing for the stage
– Managing nerves
– Breathing techniques
– Performance exercises and warm ups
– Performance techniques
– Confidence building

The day will run from 9.30am until 4.30pm. Vegetarian and vegan snacks will be available plus tea and coffee will be provided.

The cost is $50 unwaged and $60 waged. Spaces are extremely limited as I will only work with small groups. A non-refundable $10 deposit is required to reserve a place. Bank details will be given on request.

I am offering two places for free to anyone who would like to attend and who might be experiencing financial hardship. Please send me a private message or email if you would like to discuss this option.

If you have any questions or would like to know if this is the right workshop for you then email me: [email protected]

Time: 7:00pm.

Admission: $50.

Age restrictions: No Minors.

Address: 220-232 Oxford St Paddington.

Venue phone: (02) 9332 8222.

Appearing alongside Heather Peace from the UK, B-Girl Demi Sorono and magician Cath Jamison.

Time: 8:00pm.

Age restrictions: No Minors.

Address: 134 Oxford St Darlinghurst 2010.

Venue phone: (02) 8324 5200.

It’s THE REVENGE OF THE PUSSYCAT CLUB! Non-traditional cabaret, bent burlesque and little ol’ me. Come check it out if you’re a little bit perverted like the rest of us…

Time: 7:00pm.

Age restrictions: All Ages.

Address: 5 Olympic Parade, Bankstown, NSW.

I’ll be doing a feature at this months Bankstown Slam – which also happens to be a hear for the National Slam. It’s going to be an absolutely massive night…

Time: 7:30pm.

Age restrictions: No Minors.

Address: 21 East Row, Canberra, ACT.

Apparently this is Australia’s maddest, craziest, nastiest, dirtiest slam…Lucky I’m doing a feature and wont be judged…though I’ve heard they’re not shy about telling a poet what they think…come see how I fair…

Time: 7:00pm.

Age restrictions: All Ages.

Time: 8:00pm.

Admission: $15.

Age restrictions: No Minors.

Address: 6 Faversham Street.

Incredible event for International Womens Day, with Edwina Blush, Jade Oldfield, Angela Stretch, Fran Callen and Catherine Golden.

Time: 7:30pm.

Address: Cowper Street.

Time: 7:00pm.

Admission: $15-$25.

Age restrictions: All Ages.

THE KILLING US SOFTLY SHOW

ALL AGES GIG!

Candy Royalle + The Freed Radicals are performing for one night only to launch their music video KILLING US SOFTLY – an epic film made by Cannes featured French/Australian film maker Milly Morgan. Not your average music clip, some of Australia’s greatest crew agreed to produce this because they believe in the message so completely. Tix here:

Candy Royalle + The Freed Radicals will also be playing their greatest hits live. This high powered, pleasure pumping, politically heart thumping night will move and inspire you, make you dance and cover you in goose bumps. Those are guarunteed. Tix here:

DO NOT MISS THIS HISTORY IN THE MAKING. Come be a witness, come share the experience.

SEE YOU THERE!

Tix cheaper in advance: $15 unwaged $20 waged.
($20/$25 on the door) Tix here:

Parents please note: There will be some sexual references and bad language so no under 18’s without parental supervision!

Time: 8:15pm.

Admission: from $15 – $40.

Age restrictions: All Ages.

Address: 1 James Cook Drive.

The Townsville Cultural Festival is a not-for-profit community festival organised by the Townsville Intercultural Centre. The festival showcases the diversity of Australian music, food, arts and culture, bringing tens of thousand of people together each year in celebration of life itself. From Wednesday 17th to Sunday 21st August over 150 performing groups will offering everything from folk, blues, hip-hop and punk, to Indigenous Australian music and dance, drum circles, fireshows, cabaret, poetry, theatre, and traditional dance groups from around the world.

Time: 7:00pm.

Admission: from $30.00.

Age restrictions: No Minors.

Address: 38-46 Oxford St.

Art Party turns 4 in the biggest shebang we’ve pulled together yet!

4 years of supporting local emerging art in Sydney and beyond.
3 stages of multidisciplinary art/music/performance.
2 bars to keep you hydrated (til 3am)
1 combined grassroots effort turns to the Oxford Art Factory.

Our anniversary is a chance to show off the spectacular acts we have come across in Art Party, from all over Australia.
We are stoked to announce the first line-up:

MAIN ROOM
Rhythm Hunters – world music and dance
Dubarray (Brisbane) – Live D’n’B, house, dub/reggae/electro/soul fusion
Ungus Ungus Ungus – Psychedelic Gypsy Carnie-hop
Rainee – Singer/songwriter
Junkyard Beats – multi-instrumentalists
Kinesthesia – DJ
Candy Royalle – spoken word poet / musician
Bella Fuego – fire performer
Emily Embers – fire performer
Andea Darling – burlesque
Avalon Evans – dance
Louisa Magrics – installation art

CUBE
Luke McTaggart – live art
Lady DeVine – burlesque
Christie made this – live painting
Dan and Max – acrobats

SIDE ROOM
My Sisco Electro – local band
Deepsea Lights – trip-hop duo
Maitri – breaks + ambient bass
+ more to be announced!

First-round tickets on sale now!

Time: 6:30pm.

Age restrictions: No Minors.

Address: Second Floor Curtin House 252 Swanston Street Melbourne. 3000.

Venue phone: 03 9639 8770.

For our second Melbourne Fringe show, we are promising a night of unapologetic and powerful delivery of words and imagery that will marry poetry with straightforward social commentary, the audacity of raw honesty and vulnerability.

The line-up include exceptional interstate poets, Candy Royalle and Manal A Younus and Melbourne poets Arielle Cottingham, Candice Monique and myself. Also on the line-up is the super-inspirational Tasneem Chopra who, in previous years, has been listed in The Age Magazine’sTop 100 most influential Movers and Shakers, in Melbourne and The Australian Magazines Top Ten thinkers.

And…we also have a very special guest lined-up for the night:)

Candy Royalle

Candy Royalle is an award winning performance artist, writer, storyteller, activist, educator and vulnerability advocate who fuses cinematic storytelling, poetry and unique vocal rhythms with confronting, political and heart thumping content seeking to break open closed hearts. She tackles topics ranging from sexual obsession to social injustice, exploring the human condition and illuminating the darker areas of the human psyche for her audiences.

Tasneem Chopra

She is a Director on the Board of Ambulance Victoria, and Chair of Lentil As Anything and the Australian Muslim Women’s Centre for Human Rights. She is also Senior Curator at the slamic Museum of Australia. A TEDxMelbourne presenter and writer, Tasneem’s latest paper was the Griffith Journal for
Law &Amp; Human Dignity’s, ‘Burqas, Bombs and Bogeymen’ highlighting media bias of Australia Muslims.
She has a Masters in International Development and background in psychology and has worked in community development and politics over the past two decades.
Tasneem has appeared in numerous editorial outlets, including The Guardian, The Age and The Australian and has featured as a commentator on Q&A, The Drum, The Project and national radio.

Manal A Younus

Manal Younus is an Adelaide based storyteller who released her first book of poetry titled Reap in 2015 and has since toured the country sharing her love affair with words. The two time poetry slam national finalist writes to untangle her thoughts, to bring ideas to life and to share stories about people and places she knows, once knew or is yet to know. When she’s not drinking tea, scribbling in her notebook or yelling on a stage, she’s joining heated debates with people that know much more than her and flipping through identities as an actress, hermit, activist and young, black, Muslim woman who sees a lot of shit that needs to get done.

Arielle Cottingham

Arielle Cottingham fell into poetry in Melbourne in the spring of 2014, after years of dabbling in singing (lol no, don’t ask her to sing. ever), theatre, and dance. Poetry, by some miracle, managed to make itself her home, and she has thrown herself into it ever since, incorporating elements of her past artistic pursuits to craft performances that are raw, vulnerable, and often (though not always) politically provocative. Her debut chapbook, The Tarantist’s Soapbox, was released in April 2016. When she isn’t writing, performing, or working as one of the creative producers at Slamalamadingdong, Arielle can be found running around in parks with other people’s dogs, rugging the fuck up when the temperature drops below 20 degrees, and smashing into men twice her size on a futsal pitch to assert dominance.

‘We Run With Wolves’ (WRWW) champions diverse female voices. We curate a warm, open and inclusive space for all to come and be inspired by these shared narratives. The space we emerge from is queer and trans positive.

We look forward to sharing this special Second Edition Melbourne event with you. Tell your friends!
An inspirational night gauranteeed!

The Toff in Town
Second Floor Curtin House252 Swanston Street
Melbourne. 3000
Doors Open 6.30pm
Show Starts 7 pm Sharp
Tickets: $20 Full $15 Concession

Time: 7:00pm.

Admission: $18-30.

Age restrictions: No Minors.

Box office: 0420539577.

Inimitable front woman, writer and performance artist Candy Royalle and her incredible band The Freed Radicals have just released their latest album “Birthing the Sky, Birthing the Sea”. Fresh from debuting it at The National Folk Festival’s 50th anniversary where they performed multiple packed out shows, they are now bringing it to the Red Rattler Theatre in Marrickville. Their latest offering is as genre bending as their previous works – an incredible mash up of poetry, funk, rock and hip hop as well as experimental soundscapes. They’ll be joined by surreal show girl and self confessed sex clown Betty Grumble. It’s a challenging show, traversing political and deeply personal terrains. Punters be warned – this show is not for the feint hearted: it is high energy and deeply moving. There will be sweat, tears, blood and the sound of many hearts breaking wide open.

Time: 9:00am.

Time: 10:00am.

Workshop in conjunction with Mardi Gras and the Red Room Company

Time: 7:30pm.

Admission: $15/$19.

Age restrictions: No Minors.

We’re taking performance artists and poets, throwing them in the ring with improvised tunes and stirring it all up with live improvised dancers and responsive art. No paper on stage. No strings attached. All new work. Not like anything you’ve ever seen before!

FEATURING:

Romy Hoffman (Macromantics, A-Gender, ROMY)

Candy Royalle (MC)

Skye Loneragan

Catherina Behan

Nicole Barake (W I F E)

Tom Hogan (Scott Sandwich)

Iris Mayhem (Betty Grumble, Emma-Maye Gibson)

Ash Bee

Tickets

$15 Presale: http://www.daisytickets.com/Event/Sydney-PERFORMOETICS-tickets-June-22.aspx

$19 on the door (limited number).

Time: 8:00pm.

Admission: $25/$20.

Address: 35 Erskineville Road, Newtown, NSW 2043.

Hell-bent on keeping the spice & spirit of performance alive in Sydney

Pretty Peepers cabaret & music salon comes back to life for a second unbelievable Sydney season. Strap into your harnesses for a very special night of quirky, cheeky, absurd and surreal on Friday 25th May.

Sexy and Funny mingle in this twinkling & unique night of psychedelia. Known for its theatrical extravagance, Pretty Peepers Cabaret is the underground pleasure palace of artistic and intellectual abandon, where the diversity of creativity, illusion and desire are celebrated in a variety night of eight shows with Sydney’s top DJs filling in the breaks.

Pulling performers from different genres and sides of the creative underbelly, Pretty Peepers sees itself exploring art through story, expressions of social satire, sexy, vulgar, topical and not so.

Glitta Supernova continues to nurture her guest artists and freedom with nil censorship and hopes for a cabaret of combined artist and audience growth.

The much awaited Pretty Peepers is back on Friday May 25th with a line-up of rebel “arousers”: Dickie and Dickie, Betty Grumble, Drew Fairly, Cherrie Lush, Matthius the Libidinous, Bonnie La Toosh, Candy Royalle (feat Soul Boy) with your hostess with the moistest Glitta Supernova & DJ Ben Drayton.

A night where parody is a recipe for fun and fury. Prepare yourself for humour, commentary, fashion, nudity, colour, pizazz, politics, song, dance and the unexpected.

Pre-Sale tickets can purchase online at http://prettypeepers.bigblock.com/ or on the door.

Doors open @ 8pm show time @ 9pm sharp.

Time: 6:00pm.

Admission: $10.

Age restrictions: All Ages.

Address: Level 1, 47 George Street, The Rocks.

Word Travels, in association with photographer Chris Peken presents his exhibition “Exposed”. Performers include:

Candy Royalle
Benito Di Fonzo
Skye Loneragan
Hosted by Miles Merrill

Time: 12:00pm.

Age restrictions: No Minors.

Address: Jonson Street.

I will be appearing at David Hallet’s “Writers at the Rails” event as part of the Byron Bay Writers Festival.