Eastern Riverina Arts & Southern Tablelands Arts are offering young poets an opportunity to be part of the Virtual to Actual Performance Poetry project.
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Budding poets aged 13-18 years old and living within the Eastern Riverina Region can sign up to join local performance poet Jackie Okot for a series of online weekly ZOOM poetry sessions.
Executive Director of Eastern Riverina Arts, Dr Tim Kurylowicz says, "It's always been the case that young writers manage to capture their times in fresh ways that fuel the imagination. We want to empower that next generation of writers, thinkers and performers to step up and speak out!"
"We're going to use zoom to bring together some outspoken young people from across our region, and connect them with the practicing and published writers at the Jugiong writers festival, to give them the best shot at getting heard. Performance poetry is a great way to express your creativity and your views, crafting your words and adding that performance element that can your poem to life," he says.
The ZOOM workshops are free and will provide a chance to work on your writing, performance techniques and develop live and online poetry events such as poetry slams and open mic sessions.
The workshops start 27 October and go for seven weeks. A second term of workshops will also be offered in early 2021, after which organisers hope face to face workshop may be possible.
Each young Eastern Riverina poet will be supported to attend the Jugiong Writers Festival to watch their mentors perform live.
Virtual to Actual Performance Poetry is possible through a partnership between Southern Tablelands Art, Eastern Riverina Arts, Jugiong Writers Festival and Southern Highlands Writers Festival.
Budding poets and slam fans from Bland, Coolamon, Cootamundra-Gundagai, Junee, Lockhart, Temora, Snowy Valleys and Wagga Wagga can sign up and get more info at www.easternriverinaarts.org.au