Mall Stories 2013

Julian Fleetwood has put together Mall Stories as part of YouAreHere for two years.

Mall Stories is a walking tour composed of words by writers from around the world and centres on the Mall experience. The first tour, Mall Stories 2012, took place within the Canberra Centre.

This year the collection has extended into a tour around Canberra’s civic centre, mostly outdoors, while continuing the exploration of the growing mall named the Canberra Centre.

I am stoked to be alongside writers and artists such as Monica Caroll, Pascalle Burton, Daniel Ferri, Art Rush and Marcus Westbury, as well as a bunch of others from Canberra and the wider world.

You can download Mall Stories 2013 and Mall Stories 2012.

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! 730pm @ The Phoenix Pub

If it wasn’t for HAMBURGER you wouldn’t have BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!

So the July BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! is hereby declared HAMBURGER BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! in July!

And in honour of HAMBURGER BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! in July! we bring you:

Two microphones, a stage, an audience, THE MASTER OF CONFLICT, score adding (by The Score Adder), two MCs (likely including the above THE MASTER OF CONLFICT) and

WE GIVE YOU TWO MINUTES TO PERFORM YOUR ORIGINAL MATERIAL WITH NO PROPS OR MUSIC ON A STAGE.

And there will be judging.

And because no HAMBURGER BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! in July! is complete without not only bringing you the stage with the two microphones, the opportunity to perform your poems to an audience, judging by The Master of Conflict, and the judging by the judges in the audience, and the adding up, we also bringing you two feature acts.

Feature Act I is:

HAMBURGER Julian Fleetwood

HAMBURGER Julian Fleetwood was a misguided teenager who wrote a terrible text adventure based on a Terry Pratchett joke, BUT THIS IS NO JOKE, zombies are attacking Canberra and there's only one person who can save the city: YOU!

Feature Act II:

HAMBURGER Rafe Morris

HAMBURGER Rafe Morris writes songs. HAMBURGER Rafe Morris plays these songs in front of people. Sometimes he plays with a band called HAMBURGER The Well Dressed. Together they're called HAMBURGER Rafe and HAMBURGER The Well Dressed. They're pretty good. But for this night you just get HAMBURGER Rafe Morris.

So remember: NO MUSIC, NO PROPS, 2 MINUTES, YOUR ORIGINAL MATERIAL!

7:30PM at The Phoenix, East Row, Canberra, not HAMBURGER not provided.

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! 7:30pm Wednesday 18 July 2012, inside the Phoenix Pub

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! @ The Phoenix, 730PM Wednesday 20 July

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! is your every Third Wednesday of the Month POETRY SLAM!

At the Phoenix

Bring words, elastic, moments, arm waving, whispering, chanting, the grand potato and your uncle to BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! at 730pm.

And this month because he doesn’t have to fly on a dead zebra we bring you:

JULIAN FLEETWOOD

He’s a poet from Canberra and currently the writer in residence at the Front, which means they have to give him free coffee. AND FREE COFFEE IS AWESOME! If you ever go to the Front and Julian Fleetwood is there hit him up FOR FREE COFFEE! And make him perform a poem too!

And because we are the greatest slam in the world we bring you:

BRASS’ERE

That’s correct, Brass’ere

They’re a brass band. AND BRASS BANDS ARE AWESOME!

They have brass instruments and can play them and will be at BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! playing them.

For those who have no idea what any of this is about:

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! gives you a microphone, a stage, an audience, five judges, prizes, many prizes, two MCs, two minutes, the Score Adder and THE MASTER OF CONFLICT. All in a pub so you can drink alcohol!

So join your hosts Andrew Galan, Jacinta, the Master of Conflict and the Guest Score Adder for BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!

NO MUSIC, NO PROPS, 2 MINUTES, YOUR ORIGINAL MATERIAL!

7:30PM The Phoenix, East Row, Canberra.


(P.S. The poster is awesome, thanks Anne Lander.)

One Hundred Words on the TWELVE NOVEMBER CANBERRA AUSTRALIAN POETRY SLAM FINAL

Poets from the Canberra BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! and Front Slam filled the air with words Friday night at Smiths Alternative Bookshop. They came to sock it out to represent their Slams at the Australian Poetry Slam National Final. CJ Huet stole the audience with the Underbelly of the Can as Raphael Kabo gunned down Ned Kelly; both narrowly beat Jack-in-the-Box Will Small and Sledge-Hammer Josh Inmania. The Phoenix Pub BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! will take pride in taunting that Front Slam for the next year, both finalists came from BAD!SLAM! nights of heckling, applause, general yelling, the occasional anarchist riot, cider, whiskey, beer, and much poetry.

(Thanks to Johnboy for filming and the RiotACT who did a short write-up of the night here)

Australian Poetry Slam ACT Final

Time	12 November · 19:30 - 22:00
Location	Smiths Alternative Bookshop 76 Alinga Street Canberra, Australia
More info	You are invited to the sausage-fest final of the ACT heats of the AUSRALIAN POETRY SLAM TWENTY -TEN. TEN FINALISTS The Flying V, CJ Huet, Michael Klapdor, Raphael Kabo, Josh Inmania, Will Small, Malcolm Coller, Gerard Atkinson, Barry McGloin & Darian Issac will be judged by you who decide who will represent Canberra’s BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! and Front Slam at the 2010 AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL POETRY FINAL. Be there JUDGE THEM Cash Prizes for the winner and runner-up donated by the ACT Writers Centre and the Audiences of BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! and Front Slam! A door prizes for you to win too. And with special guest YES SPECIAL GUEST Sacrificial Poet and Feature Performer JACINTA! Be there, 730pm... “The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.”