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Venues

Our 2018 festival venues and accessibility information:

Ashfield Civic Centre

Better Read Than Dead, Newtown

Corelli’s Cafe, Newtown

Imperial Hotel, Erskineville

New Moon, Lewisham

Newtown Neighbourhood Centre

Red Rattler, Marrickville

YOKE HQ, Redfern

 

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We base our work from the land of the Gadigal & Wangal peoples of the Eora nation. Sovereignty never ceded. We wish to pay respects to elders past and present, and all First Nations storytellers. This always was and always will be Aboriginal land.

Unspoken Words Storytelling is supported by Inner West Council.

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That's a wrap for our residency with @innerwestcouncil! Jan-July this year we had a studio of 12 artists in Lewisham, with each of us working on creative projects and also putting on public gigs. Studio artists were @ha_jer98, @eunice.andrada & @nathan.shephard (cuties pictured here), @_aliencry, @nickbaldas, @melo_drachel, @roachwilfred, @irritable.vowel, @caramelsaucemel, @garrytrinh, Ellen O'Brien & Fabiola Barba. Big thanks to council for having us. . The residency had artist dinners, scratch sessions, mental health and creativity workshops, hive open sessions, a salon on chronic pain & creativity, and a huge PRIDE 50 event that opened our artist studio to the public and also commemorated the #stonewall uprising. We got some truly special performers / speakers on the day, including Ken Davis (78-er) and the @sglchoir. Thank you to all who participated in any of the residency happenings! . For the rest of the year, Unspoken Words Storytelling is resting and enjoying gigs made by our fab peers, as well as still hosting our monthly free book club at @betterreadbookshop. Seeya around! 🌱🌈💧🔥 . Image was taken at PRIDE 50 by @back2back_media xxx
Hey folks! Please note we've swapped around the two titles originally planned for Aug & Oct book club. Next up is the brilliant Audre Lorde's collection The Black Unicorn. Our new plan for the rest of the year is as follows: - Aug 26: The Black Unicorn by Audre Lorde - Sept 23: No Friend But The Mountains by Behrouz Boochani - Oct 28: Night Sky With Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong - Nov 25: BYO poem! As always, let's read with open hearts, think critically, talk with interpersonal & spatial awareness, and remember to eat your hummus. Our meetings are free, casual, non-academic, and loosely structured. Always open to your feedback! Looking forward to seeing you all again at @betterreadbookshop on Monday 26 Aug. The title of the month is 10% off, let the friendly bookstore staff know it's for book club! xx @irritable.vowel & Zak
Book club tonight! We're reading The Lost Arabs by @omarjs (@uqpbooks 2019). 6.30 - 7.30 at @betterreadbookshop, Newtown, free entry & 10% off the title if you tell the bookshop it's for book club. . From a review of this stunning book, by John Kinsella: "Omar Sakr’s new volume of poetry The Lost Arabs is a remarkable and essential work. In a disenfranchised and dislocated country of flesh and spirit, Omar Sakr shows us ways to reclaim, how to hear and maybe hear beyond the ‘barking angels’, the brutality of dispossession and familial disconnection. But he also offers us various routes through to family, to articulations of justice, to the deepest empathies which come out of stress and loss, and into places where we have to recognise and acknowledge the trauma of communities whose intactness is under constant pressure, and often violent assault. He shows alienation as an imposition of power structures, and he speaks from edges where he knows his own fate and all our fates are determined by conflict over other people’s spaces. He writes: ‘Like any land I have been fought over with some claiming to love me/ more than others, some who are of me and some who are invaders, new comers.’"
The last event of our Lewisham residency is on Wed 17 July! HEATPAK is a casual salon for artistically inclined folks who live with chronic pain or chronic illness. It's free and full details on our FB and website. Spread the word 🐌
@nickbaldas' hope butterflies bring ideas of unity and action. Over 2000 of them fluttered on our ceiling when we gathered to open the studio and hear stories of LGBTQIA love and resistance. These wings are in constant movement 🍂🍃🌼 bringing those vibes today xxx . . 📷 @back2back_media
Just another thankyou to everyone who made it to our Pride 50 event, from our friend Buddy here. It was special 💜 . . 📷 by @back2back_media
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