BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! 8:30pm on Friday 23 May at Smiths Alternative

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! IS THE POETRY SLAM!

AND IT WANTS YOU ON STAGE AT BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! IN THE SMITHS ALTERNATIVE!

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! WANTS YOU TO BE THE AUDIENCE IN THE SMITHS ALTERNATIVE!

And because it wants your words and your claps and your jeers it provides a stage, two minutes, an audience, two microphones, five judges, a sound system, The Sound Guy, two MCs, The Master of Conflict and The Score Adder and The Sacrificial Poet, all for your words all for your original words, all for the giving of prizes, all for the giving of the glory, all because it is the Friday night.

Now, because this is the poetry slam in the Smiths Alternative on the Friday night at the 8:30pm (no earlier because you’ll be chased by the broom of theatre) we also bring to you Hayley Shone!

This is what the Hayley Shone says about herself on the internet:

“Ranging from foot-tapping blues, melodic folk tunes, to humorous songs about the eccentricities of everyday life, Hayley Shone has a lot to offer. Bringing her unique songs to life, Hayley is a story teller as well as an accomplished guitarist who incorporates a fusion of finger-picking and tapping..”

YES, THAT’S RIGHT! HAYLEY SHONE!

And because we are in Smiths Alternative on a Friday night we also need a house band and that house band will be the BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! house band The Brass Knuckle Brass Band.

"THE BRASS KNUCKLE BRASS BAND is a New Orleans style street funk group from Canberra. BKBB has performed to great acclaim and significant booty shaking at the Falls Festival, Corinbank Festival, the Snowy Mountains Music Festival, the National Folk Festival and most rooms in the ACT large enough to fit six horns and percussion. The band has also had the pleasure of sharing bills with a bunch of amazing funk and soul artists including Clairy Browne and the Bangin’ Rackettes, Saskwatch, the Cactus Channel and international trombone deity and James Brown sideman Fred Wesley."


And filling the Hadley Memorial Slots is JASON ANDREWS. His name is not normally all in capitals letters but from this time onward it will be.

LONG LIVE THE HADLEY MEMORIAL SLOTS AND MAY HADLEY REST IN PEACE!

So join BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! at Smiths Alternative at 8:30pm for the Poetry Slam on the Friday night. And remember no props, no music, and your original words, poetry slamming starts at 9pm.

The Poetry Slam Poster for BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!

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Letters to a Suburb from You Are Here

One of the projects I managed as a You Are Here co-producer this year was Letters to a Suburb.

Image credit: Pascalle Burton and Sarah Kaur

The project involved commissioning writers and artists with a connection to Canberra to write to a suburb within the Australian Capital Territory. I generally kept the terms of reference as vague as that for each of the people I asked to be involved, though sometimes I called specifically for a poem, or wanted a writer and artist to work together. 

The project got a great response at the independent publishing fair on Sunday 23 March. We set up a letterbox from which people could collect a letter and 90 copies were taken by visitors to the fair.

A small portion of the
independent publishing fair.
Image credit: Adam Thomas and You Are Here

The festival also posted one-hundred copies to random addresses within the suburbs to which the letters were addressed. I hope the recipients enjoyed the work they received.

Letters to a Suburb

You can check out all the work online on the You Are Here website by following the link above.

The letters commissioned come from David “Ghostboy” Stavanger, Pascalle Burton, Adam Hadley, Good Ghost Bill with Paul Summerfield, Duncan Felton, Matt Hetherington, Tessa Rose, Fiona McLeod with Aaron Kirby, and Zoe Anderson with Raphael Kabo.

The BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! Podcast number Twenty-two

Photograph by Adam Thomas

Florence Matthews, aka Florney, on the BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! Podcast, with a poem, with answers. Above is a photograph of him. Below you can listen to the Podcast.

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! Podcast Twenty-two - Florence (Florney) Matthews - Mount Roland by BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! PODCAST

There are two new BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! Podcasts.

Podcast twenty features Bela Farkas with his poem Toilets.

Podcast twenty-one features Alex Scetrine with her poem To the boy I've been stalking for over a year, I'm sorry but I thought you would have noticed by now.

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! @ SMITHS ALTERNATIVE, 7:30PM ON 15 APRIL 2014

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!

THE EPIC VOYAGES OF BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! TO SMITHS ALTERNATIVE!

YES THE EPIC VOYAGES. BE PART OF THOSE VOYAGES AND BRING THE TIM TAMS AND THE SALT AND LEMONS TO AVOID SCURVY AND THE SIBILING TO CHOP UP AS A DISTRACTION.

BECAUSE BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! VOYAGES.

What is this voyage of BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! to Smiths Alternative for?

I hear you ask.

IT IS FOR THE POETRY SLAM.

That means we want your words on stage for two minutes with no props no music for prizes.

And we want you – the audience – for all of the night to yell and clap and jeer and heckle and drink.

And we want you there judging because what would poetry be without judging.

And for that we give you a stage, two microphones, audience, MCs, The Master of Conflict, The Score Adder, The Sacrificial Poet, The Sound Guy, The Feature Acts and The Toilets. And The Lights too.

AND WE PROVIDE THE MOST FIRST PRIZES EVER FOR THE CLAIMING BY THOSE WHO WIN 1^ST PRIZE.

So join BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! at Smiths Alternative on Tuesday 15 April, 7:30pm with your original words, no propos, no music.