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| Stackhat |
Brought
to you by BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! in partnership with the Ainslie and Gorman Arts Centres, the Salt Room is the poetry and performance night the Australian
Capital Territory deserves.
Bringing
together local, national and international writers and performers it showcases
some of the best that poetry can be.
For this
event we have brought together Melinda Smith, Stackhat, Danny Wild and Raphael
Kabo.
All MCed
by Joel Barcham and Andrew Galan
Read
below for more information about each of our performers and follow this link for information
about the event
Canberra
local Melinda Smith won the 2014 Prime Minister's Literary Award for her fourth
poetry collection, Drag down to unlock or place an emergency call (Pitt St
Poetry, 2013). This year she has performed at the Sydney and Newcastle Writers'
Festivals, and the National Folk Festival. Sometimes her poems are funny, sometimes
they are about being female, and sometimes they contain adult themes. At least
one of them is all three. Some text installations of hers are currently on show
at the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House. She tweets as
@MelindaLSmith and is definitely #notboring.
Stackhat
For over
a decade I’ve been actively involved in the Australian music scene, exporting
my experimental hip-hop style from my hometown of Queanbeyan to Sydney’s
Inner-West and even parts of Brooklyn NYC.
Staying
true to my DIY roots I do all my own producing, scratching, beat boxing,
singing and rapping at home in my small bedroom studio.
In 2011 I
was commissioned by The Redroom Poetry Company to score a soundtrack for ‘The
Analogue Crusader’, an animation that won ‘Best Short Film’ and ‘Best Sound
Design’ at the Lucky Film Festival and later went on to be screened at the
Museum of Contemporary Art. As a direct result of the animations success, I was
then asked to design a syllabus for The Redroom’s Unlocked Initiative, a
program teaching poetry in federal prisons around NSW with a direct focus on
Hip-Hop. An opportunity which also helped me secure my job as curator/host of
Sydney’s longest running mobile spoken word event Caravan Slam.
Since
then I’ve been featured on underground mix-tape ‘Free the Beats’, collaborated
with world-renowned street artists Jodee Knowles and Anthony Lister, written
feature articles for German Hip-Hop magazine HHV, had tracks used by T-World
Magazine NYC and in recent times set up a regular live music program at
Villawood Detention Centre called 'Rock the Boats'.
Danny
Wild is a visual artist living and working in Canberra, Australia. Danny has a
multi-faceted practice that spreads across audio, video, installation and performance.
Repetition, routine and suburban life is at the core of Dannys practice.
Recently, Danny has presented a number of site specific performances as part of
You Are Here and Art, Not Apart art festivals, undertook the 2014 Canberra
Contemporary Artspace Studio Residency Program and was a recipient of the
Australia Council ArtStart Grant, with which he toured an audio visual
performance work to New York and Canberra in late 2014.
I am a
performer, writer, and reader of poetry, an author of short stories, a
traveller, a wordsmith, a slam poet, a web designer and itinerant coder, a
collector of mental paraphernalia, a maker of zines, an incubator of brain
eggs, a very good cook, a rubbish actor, a passable playwright, a writer of
love letters to cities, an excellent editor, and an ardent believer in the
power of Shakespeare to cure all ills.
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| Photograph by Adam Thomas |
