BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! 7:30PM 18 APRIL @ SMITHS ALTERNATIVE

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An interview with Nick Delatovic

The second interview for the May edition of the Salt Room is with Nick Delatovic. Nick created This Band Will Self Destruct Vol. 1-3 and we will be screening Vol. 2. The first volume was screened at BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! on 15 March.

The interview questions are found questions, this month taken from a Face to Face interview of Dame Edith Sitwell by John Freeman and an interview of Dorothy Parker by Marion Capron at the Paris Review.

This Band Will Self-Destruct 1.1- Going Home from Luke McGrath on Vimeo.

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Book Launch - For All The Veronicas (The Dog Who Staid), Wednesday 27 April, 19:30–22:00

Presented by BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! with the support of the Ainslie and Gorman Arts Centres.

Wednesday 27 April you are invited to a night of poetry, music and performance from some of Canberra’s most original writers, musicians and performers. Including Eleanor Malbon, David Finnigan, Nick Delatovic and Melinda Smith, this gathering is to launch Andrew Galan’s latest collection, For All The Veronicas (The Dog Who Staid) - New Poems, published by Brisbane’s Bareknuckle Books. The event will be MCed by BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!’s Joel Barcham.

So join us at the Gorman Arts Centre from 7:30pm for an 8pm start.

Cost: Free.

Drinks and books available for sale at the event.

If you would like more information about each of our performers please read on.

Andrew Galan

Andrew Galan is an internationally published poet and co-producer of renowned poetry event BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!. Described by reviewers as ‘riddled with satire’, his poetry is gut, direct, and imagination and reality meeting to eat and fight. Showcased at events including the Woodford, National Folk and Queensland Poetry festivals, and Chicago’s Uptown Poetry Slam, his verse appears in journals such as the Best Australian Poems, Jet Fuel Review and Cordite. That Place of Infested Roads (life during wartime) - KF&S Press, 2013 - is his first book. His latest is For All the Veronicas (The Dog Who Staid) - Bareknuckle Books, 2016.

Andrew Galan // ART, INDUSTRY, ARCHITECTURE AND PETS from F K on Vimeo.

Melinda Smith

Melinda Smith won the 2014 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for her fourth book of poems, Drag down to unlock or place an emergency call (Pitt St Poetry, 2013). She has performed her work all over Australia. She is based in Canberra, and is currently poetry editor of The Canberra Times. Her next book of poems will be out later in 2016.

Nick Delatovic

Nick Delatovic is a writer, producer and performer based in Canberra. He has been one of the folks behind You Are Here festival since 2011, creating and assisting with hundreds of experimental arts events in that time. An alumni of the Street Theatre's Hive program for emerging writers, Nick has written stage plays including Rig (2011) and The Last Prom (2013). He is currently touring Bomb Collar, his one-man sci-fi cabaret musical. As one half of music-and-film production company Lick Nuke he has created dozens of music videos and the odd short film, including the Screen ACT-commissioned Lights (2013).

Nick Delatovic - Wishing from Luke McGrath on Vimeo.

David Finnigan

David is a writer, theatre-maker, festival producer and pharmacy assistant from Canberra, Australia. With science-theatre ensemble Boho, he works with research scientists from institutions including University College London, the Stockholm Resilience Centre, CSIRO and the Australian Academy of Sciences. He has been a resident artist for the Battersea Arts Centre in London, Tanghalang Pilipino in Manila and Campos de Gutierrez in Medellin, Colombia. David has been commissioned to create new work for organisations including, Coney, the Powerhouse Museum, the Canberra Street Theatre, Opera Australia, the National Film and Sound Archive, and the Free Word Centre in London, and his scripts have been nominated for the Max Afford National Playwrights Award and the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award. David is a Churchill Fellow (2012) and an Australia Council Early Career Fellow (2014-16) and founded and co-directed two ongoing arts festivals: the Crack Theatre Festival in Newcastle (2009-10), and the You Are Here festival in Canberra (2011-13).

Eleanor Malbon

Ellie is a Canberran who writes poetry. She performs predominantly in Canberra; including for BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!, Feminartsy, RIP publishing, Grapple publishing, Scissors Paper Pen, the Canberra Poetry Slam, You Are Here festival and various other charming pop up events.

THE BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! CANBERRA NATIONAL ANTHEM

On Wednesday 16 March, 8:00pm in the Phoenix Pub, BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! launches the Australian Capital Territory’s definitive national anthem, THE BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! CANBERRA NATIONAL ANTHEM.

THE BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! CANBERRA NATIONAL ANTHEM

To fix Canberra’s Centenary Celebration’s failure, BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! commissioned Canberra’s renaissance person of fitness and music, Nick Delatovic, to compose THE BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! CANBERRA NATIONAL ANTHEM.

The inaugural singing is at BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! in the Phoenix Pub, before forever being free online under creative commons.

Find the lyrics in Bill Poetries (as part of the Noted Festival) and in your very own songbook available at the Phoenix Pub on the night.

Be part of history as BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! gives Civic, the inner north, the Australian Capital Territory, Australia, the World what they’ve always needed- THE BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! CANBERRA NATIONAL ANTHEM.

Supported by BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!, YouAreHere and Noted.

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Since 2009, BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! has fought for poetry in the Australian Capital Territory! It’ll fight anyone for poetry, even when no one wants poetry fought for. Which is frequently. To that end, with the support of the Phoenix Pub, it runs BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! as the World’s first and last poetry slam in The Phoenix, and with the support of the Ainslie and Gorman Arts Centres it runs the Salt Room in the Gorman Arts Centre. The Salt Room is the poetry night Canberra deserves. The longest-running team behind BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! contains Andrew Galan, Joel Barcham and Amanda Coghlan, with regular assistance from Canberra’s documentator of Canberra’s Arts Scene, Adam Thomas.

Thanks to Merloc where the recording is taking place, and thanks to Ryan Schipper for his support as one of the producers.

Thanks also to long-time sponsors Impact Comics and The Games Capital.

RIP BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! co-founder Adam Hadley.

Situation Normal x (FOR FUTURE REFERENCE)

Bring everything you’ve got.

This month with feature performances from

Nick Delatovic

And

Brian Hinksman

5:30 to 8:30pm.

artists + performers + poets + experiments + open mic = stuff happens.

Smiths alternative bookshop, 76 alinga street, canberra, friday 1 october 2010.