Sunday, January 26, 2014

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!

THIS IS THE BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! INVITATION FOR FEBRUARY!
Read on if you want to know more.

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

It is The Poetry Slam because it gives you two minutes, two microphones, one stage, two and sometimes three MCs, one audience, one The Master of Conflict, one stage, one The Sound Guy, five Judges, one The Sacrificial Poet and more 1st prizes than you can currently know; all because we want your original words on stage, with no props and no music, all for glory.

Photo by Adam Thomas



That’s correct, POETRY SLAM!
GLORY!
1st PRIZES!

All where you can buy alcohol and this year with extra toilet options inside the Phoenix Pub!

EXTRA TOILET OPTIONS!

And we are not content with giving you all that so we also give you two feature acts!

Jennifer Compton
Jennifer Compton lives in Melbourne and has had work published all over the world and has read at many festivals. She is also a keen open miker and has been known to slam. Very, very gently. Her book, Barefoot (Picaro Press), was shortlisted for the John Bray Award at the Adelaide Festival in 2012.


The Blade Winner
Canberra’s songwriter and singer, he’s the answer to a hard life, he’s a pirate, he’s the man who’ll give Stagger Lee a tasty present for Christmas, he’ll whistle into your heart, sweet Babylon– he’ll put a glowing moon in the cave of your heart, all because he is the sweet drivin’ man.


And in memory of long departed Hadley (MAY HE REST IN PEACE) we bring you to fill The Hadley Memorial Slots, TO FILL THE HADLEY MEMORIAL SLOTS, we bring you Roshelle Fong.


So join BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!, 7:30pm, The Phoenix Pub, Wednesday 19 February.

And remember, no props, no music, and your original words, for prizes!

Photo by Adam Thomas

Wednesday, January 08, 2014

Flyer designs for poetry

Last year I started designing flyers for our poetry slam here in Canberra, BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!, as well as for another gig, Word Co-op at the ANU Food Co-op, and for the launch of my book That Place of Infested Roads at the Phoenix Pub.

I’ve been designing the poetry slam posters for a while now. We were lucky enough to have great poster designs from Anne Lander for several years for BAD!SLAM!ON!BISCUIT!, but now she is a successful designer living in the United Kingdom. We miss her for more than her designs, but we do miss those.

My favourite Anne Lander poster

Artist Paul Summerfield has also been nice enough to design some of our posters, now he’s busy making art and holding successful exhibitions.


While I’m not going to reach their level of design and art, I am hopeful that I am improving as I develop posters and flyers to let people know about our poetry events here in Canberra.

Below are my efforts at flyers from 2013 for BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!, Word Co-op and the book launch.

My first effort at a flyer


The flyer for the first Word Co-op


The flyer for my October book launch


My Fahrenheit 451 BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! flyer


This is my November 2013 flyer effort


I designed this one in December but haven't used it yet

I am enjoying making them, I get to play with images and fonts I like, and I am this year contemplating using some photographs I've taken.

Saturday, January 04, 2014

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! JANUARY 15, THE PHOENIX

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! gives you a stage microphones an audience MCs judges scores The Master of Conflict and adding for your two minutes of your original material on the Phoenix stage for prizes!

So many prizes, all first prizes!

BECAUSE BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! IS THE POETRY SLAM!
AND WANTS YOUR WORDS!

And because we are the poetry slam we bring you from Scotland:

Billy Liar
'Scotland's finest angry young man turned incredible storytelling acoustic punk poet.

Armed with lyrics that reveal an old soul and trusty chords, acoustic punk troubadour Billy Liar has been making the rounds throughout the UK and Europe, bashing out singalong songs and bitter ballads in equal measure.'

And we bring you from Canberra’s Inner North:

Zoe Anderson
'Zoe Anderson is a beekeeper, bird lover and performance poet.'


Filling The Hadley Memorial Slots will be Charlie Quinn!


And so you are not confused and think that is it for feature acts!
NO THAT IS NOT IT.
From England we bring you:

Captain of the Rant
'Captain of the Rant is a performance poet currently gallavanting around Australia. When given the opportunity, he shouts remembered words at people.'


So join BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! at the Phoenix Pub, sign-up at 7:30pm, and remember we want your original material, no music, no props, all on stage for two entire minutes.