BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! @ THE PHOENIX PUB

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! IN THE PHOENIX PUB

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!
Wednesday 21 June, 7:30pm
The Phoenix Pub, Civic, East Row

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! WANTS YOU FOR THE POETRY SLAM!

Two minutes, your original material, no props, no musical accompaniment, all for first prizes!

All in the Phoenix Pub!

Because BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! wants you!

Sign-up with the Score Adder from 7:30pm! Poetry Slam from 8pm! Prizes and glory!

Be there!

And because BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! is the Poetry Slam we give you feature acts!

Feature Act

ARTEMIS SEVEN

“Artemis Seven is the child of the goddess Artemis and an AI, created to stave off the inevitable demise of the ancient gods in the new world. The first prototype to survive the merge, Artemis is by nature so experimental that even she doesn't know what she's doing until it's been done.”

Feature Act

Abhi Gupta

“Abhi Gupta has a forthcoming biography, it will be his first.”

So join the Score Adder, the audience, the Sacrificial Poet, the bar staff, The Master of Conflict, the sound guy, the poets, all the MCs, and the toilet goers, for Poetry Slam in the Phoenix Pub!

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!

The Poetry Slam

18 November - Ruckus Melbourne

On 18 November I will feature at Ruckus Melbourne. Come along, it is a Grand Slam, there will be wall to wall poets, bring a non-poet.

 

Poetry Slam. Also featuring, ‘Joana Simmons - comedy legend and fitness guru’.

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! - 21 October at the Phoenix Pub

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! WANTS YOU

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! is The Poetry Slam and it wants your words on stage!

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! is The Poetry Slam and it wants you in the Phoenix Pub!

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! is The Poetry Slam with the most 1st prizes that are/have/will be across all space and time!

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! is The Poetry Slam that gives you two minutes, with no props, no music, and your original material, in the Phoenix Pub, all for Prizes!

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! is The Poetry Slam!

So, For Glory! Glory!

Prizes!

Poetry!

And for House Audio & Visual and Feature Acts and Short Film!

Be at BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!!

THESE ARE OUR FEATURE ACTS

Feature Act of House Audio and Visual - Danny Wild

Danny Wild is a visual artist living and working in Canberra, Australia. Danny Wild is an artist that works between kinetic sculpture, sound, performance, two and three-dimensional video, graphics, and combinations of all of the above. Danny Wild is a founding member of audio visual collective Zonk Vision, with whom he has undertaken a residency at Federation Square, toured the east coast of Australia, taken part in arts festival Underbelly Arts on Cockatoo Island, as well as undertaken many self organised exhibitions and events since 2010. Recently, Danny Wild has undertaken the 2014 Canberra Contemporary Art Space Studio Residency Program and is a recipient of the Australia Council ArtStart Grant, with which he toured an audio visual performance work to New York and Canberra.

Feature Act of Short Film - Chinese Casting Couch by Roshelle Fong

Roshelle Fong is a performer, filmmaker and Leap Year baby. She has produced and performed in film, spoken word, stand-up comedy, theatre and performance art pieces around Canberra, Sydney and Melbourne including Woodford Folk Festival, RAW Comedy Festival, YouAreHere Festival, Australian Poetry Slam and the Living Museum of Erotic Women. She is currently acting in a touring high school play about drug use and rape culture with Phunktional Ltd.

So join Andrew Gayland, The Master of Conflict, The Score Adder, and The Sacrificial Poet in the Phoenix Pub.

Signup from 7:30pm!

Poetry slam from 8pm!

Prizes, glory, infamy, poetry, space and time!

And it’s all over by 11:30pm!

Remember, two minutes, no props, your original material, for prizes, for glory, for infamy…

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!

JOIN BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! FOR POETRY

YES POETRY

INSIDE THE PHOENIX PUB

Because we want your words on stage for two minutes with no props no music and your original material – all for first prizes.

And that is why BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! provides stage, lights, MCs, microphones, toilets, bar, floor, ceiling, seats, stools, tables, handrails, score adding, feature acts, dings, The Master of Conflict and sound!

Because then we can provide prizes, more first prizes than any other slam that ever existed will exist can exist or hasn’t existed - because there are no other poetry slams.

IT’LL BE A VICTORIOUS NIGHT

AND THESE ARE THE FEATURE ACTS

Amanda Stewart

Amanda Stewart is a poet, author and vocal artist. She has created a diversity of publications, performances, film and radio works in Australia, Europe, Japan and the US working in literature, music, broadcasting, theatre and new media environments. She also worked full time as a producer/presenter at ABC Radio in Sydney for many years. Her book and CD set of selected poems, I/T was shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards and won the Anne Elder Poetry Prize. She is currently working on a solo album for the experimental music label, splitrec and on a new collection of poetry.

Aaron Kirby

Aaron Kirby makes poetry to understand and explain the world he experiences. Believing the poet requires no particular credentials he presents none.

Remember, BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!

Signup from 7:30pm

Poetry slam from 8pm

Prizes, glory, infamy, poetry.

Wed. 19 August, the Poetry Slam in the Phoenix Pub, 7:30pm

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! On stage! In the audience!

At the bar! In the Toilets! In the Phoenix Pub!

Bring words for the Poetry Slam!

This month we feature Ryan Schipper

& the Blue Angel and Dr Wiedemann.

Ryan Schipper

Ryan Schipper is the rotten lettuce at the back of Canberra's poetry refrigerator. While you survey half-jars of marmalade and leaking takeaway containers, Skip guards the final beer with an ascetic pestilence. Like all fridgethings, he is repulsive, but ultimately, fascinating.

The Blue Angel and Dr Wiedemann

Arc back in time as the Blue Angel and Dr Wiedemann bring you the musty era of Weimar on a battered silver tray. Lightly philosophical and yet comical the Blue Angel and Dr Wiedemann are happy under the spot light singing and playing their original songs as well as sharing stories from another world. The Blue Angel and Dr Wiedemann are somewhat ethereal characters influenced by their own bygone ghostly past.

Two minutes! No props! No music! Your original material! The Phoenix Pub! 1st Prizes!

7:30pm is the sign-up! Poetry Slam at 8pm!

Join the Master of Conflict, The Score Adder, Andrew Gayland and the Sacrificial Poet for Poetry!

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! - Wednesday 15 July, 7:30pm @ The Phoenix

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! IN THE PHOENIX PUB

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! is the Poetry Slam, that means you get 2 minutes on stage with no props or music with your original material for prizes! 1st prizes!

And victory!

Or defeat

tragic - tragic defeat.

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! is the Poetry Slam, that means you the audience with your yelling arms, your yelling legs, your yelling heads, all for victory!

Or defeat

tragic - tragic defeat.

And this month it is open season on the Australian Poetry Slam, which means BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! is the heat one for the Australian Poetry Slam, yes, who will go through as victors to face more victors in a battle to decide who will be more victors, yes victors!?

Defeat! Victory! Poetry!

And we have feature acts!

Reuben Ingall

‘Reuben Ingall is a music-maker from Canberra, Australia. Born in 1986, Ingall began self-releasing music in 2003. He has produced music in a wide range of styles, from soundscapes to glitch beats to what he terms ‘sad pop’, often using guitar, voice, and field recordings as a starting point for iterative digital manipulation.’

Angela Peita

‘Angela Peita is a Brisbane based spoken word artist, workshop facilitator, producer and co-host of Ruckus Slam. She is a Queensland Poetry Slam finalist, two-time Nimbin Performance Poetry World Cup semi-finalist, and Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival Slam 2013 people’s choice award winner. Angela has performed at events across Brisbane and the east coast of Australia. 2015 began with Angela’s debut at Woodford Folk Festival performing at several programmed events.’

And filling the Hadley Memorial Slots is Canberra's answer to William Shatner! The Flying V (aka Vermilion Sands aka Varisht Gosain).

So join BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! for poetry! Sign-up from 7:30pm or when the Score Adder says sign-up! Poetry slam at 8pm! It all ends at 11:30pm! And remember: no props, no music, your original material, victory, defeat, wear shoes.

The Salt Room - Friday 17 July, 7:30pm @ Gorman Arts Centre

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

Melinda Smith

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

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.

Raphael Kabo

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.

Photograph by Adam Thomas

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! WEDNESDAY 18 FEBUARY @ THE PHOENIX

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!

YOU AND BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! IN THE PHOENIX PUB

FOR POETRY!

BECAUSE WE WANT YOU!

TO POET JUDGE CHEER YELL GET DRUNK GET TO THE BATHROOM AND SCORE!

ALL FOR PRIZES!

Because BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! provides a stage sound two MCs The Master of Conflict The Score Adder The Sacrificial Poet five judges two microphones feature acts sound and audience so you can claim victory and call yourself an award winning poet or judge or audience member or toilet goer or something like that. Award winning! NO MORE COMMAS!

Anyway because BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! is BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! we provide you with a house band and special feature act!

Fossil Rabbit

‘Fossil Rabbit is the solo project of Chris Finnigan making multi-layered melodies and beats with a guitar, loop and effects pedal. Drawing inspiration from a range of post-rock and lo-fi electronica influences, Chris produces an ambient, beat-driven and atmospheric sound.’

FOSSIL RABBIT ALSO KNOWS COMMAS!

And filling The Hadley Memorial Spots is the Zoe Anderson!

7:30PM TO SIGN UP IN THE PHOENIX PUB TO POETRY SLAM!

8PM IN THE PHOENIX PUB TO START THE POETRY SLAM!

JOIN BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! IN THE PHOENIX PUB!

And remember two minutes no props no music your original material

During the evening BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! will ask you for $5 to pay the feature act and for the running of BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! Pay it if you can but not if you are performing!

ArtsHub on poetry in pubs

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!
Photograph by Adam Thomas

Late in January I was interviewed for ArtsHub on what makes a successful night of poetry in a pub. I talked quite a bit but the one important thing I did not say was to remember that the event is a show. You can read the interview here, it draws on the views of a number of other poetry organisers.

Open Studio in El Bruc

I am part of an open studio at the Can Serrat International Art Centre here in El Bruc, Catalunya, on 28 June.

Open Studio - Can Serrat

There will be exhibitions of art from several of the other current residents, including Ariel Grout.

From a 2012 Open Studio by Ariel Grout

Readings from three other writers, including India’s Vikram Kapur  and West Australian Helen Hagemann. 

Read Vikram's When the White Man Came for Chai on his website (first published in Ambit Magazine, Issue 204, UK, April 2011).

Amanda Coghlan will have an installation of nine images focussed on the campaign for Catalunya's independence and the preservation of El Bruc.

I'll be performing a combination of poems from my developing manuscript for all the veronicas (the dog who staid) and That Place of Infested Roads (life during wartime) published by the Knives Forks and Spoons Press.