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Jan 26 2012

What A Piece of Work: Queer Verse

An evening of contemporary Australian poets presenting new, recent and developing works.

Our poets include acclaimed and multi-published poet and author Peter Rose, also editor of Australian Book Review; Margaret Vandeleur, a master of the short piece, and author of the novel The Catch; the superb young poet Lia Incognita; the multi-award-winning Maria Zajkowski; queer crip activist and occasional poet, Kath Duncan; award-winning West Indian-Australian political writer and poetry slam champion, Maxine Clarke; the prolific and much published Tony Page, who has carved a reputation as a poet in Asia over the past decades; and the unforgettable young poet Rhys Rodgers, recently returned from performing in Europe and the USA.

Where: Hares & Hyenas
Date: Monday 30 January
Time: 7:30pm
Price: Full $15; Concession $10
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Jan 14 2012
coffeebrat: Secret Side of a City//The Age “…it takes a certain sensitivity - and some imagination - to discern the true nature of a particular story, or to guess what went on at a certain building, or to suspect the ulterior purpose of a public lavatory. ”People see a place differently if they have a particular interest,” he says. ”So you can be walking down Swanston Street in 1950, 1960 or 1970 and see things that other people don’t see at all - or see them but have no idea what they mean. Or you can see them with what might be described as a ‘queer eye’, a gay sensibility.” Such places might be the vegetarian restaurant in Swanston Street that was once Val’s coffee shop - a much-loved bohemia frequented by artists, theatrical types, activists and camp men and women (as they were then known). Or what is considered Melbourne’s oldest gay pick-up spot, a urinal outside the Queen Victoria Hospital, known as such since the 1860s (it was removed in the 1990s). Because homosexuality was criminalised for so long in Victoria, it was pushed underground into such places. ”For camp women and men, social disapproval made it difficult for romantic or sexual relationships to emerge in the ordinary ways available to heterosexuals - through family, church, clubs and at work,” Wayne Murdoch writes in Secret Histories. The walks that Willett conducts range about the CBD and inner suburbs. This year’s walk, as part of the Midsumma festival, will focus on the ’50s, an era when suspicion, oppression and police entrapment of gay men were at their height. The Midsumma history walk is on January 22. Bookings at midsumma.org.au, alga.org.au

coffeebrat:

Secret Side of a City//The Age

“…it takes a certain sensitivity - and some imagination - to discern the true nature of a particular story, or to guess what went on at a certain building, or to suspect the ulterior purpose of a public lavatory. ”People see a place differently if they have a particular interest,” he says. ”So you can be walking down Swanston Street in 1950, 1960 or 1970 and see things that other people don’t see at all - or see them but have no idea what they mean. Or you can see them with what might be described as a ‘queer eye’, a gay sensibility.”

Such places might be the vegetarian restaurant in Swanston Street that was once Val’s coffee shop - a much-loved bohemia frequented by artists, theatrical types, activists and camp men and women (as they were then known). Or what is considered Melbourne’s oldest gay pick-up spot, a urinal outside the Queen Victoria Hospital, known as such since the 1860s (it was removed in the 1990s).

Because homosexuality was criminalised for so long in Victoria, it was pushed underground into such places. ”For camp women and men, social disapproval made it difficult for romantic or sexual relationships to emerge in the ordinary ways available to heterosexuals - through family, church, clubs and at work,” Wayne Murdoch writes in Secret Histories.

The walks that Willett conducts range about the CBD and inner suburbs. This year’s walk, as part of the Midsumma festival, will focus on the ’50s, an era when suspicion, oppression and police entrapment of gay men were at their height.

The Midsumma history walk is on January 22. Bookings at midsumma.org.au, alga.org.au

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Upcoming: 2012

lia-incognita:

It seems I’ve got quite a few spoken word performances lined up during Midsumma: 

I’m also likely to make an appearance at Word is Out Poetry Slam (Mon 23 Jan at H&H) to defend my title from last year.

It’s a pretty amazing program for spoken word this year, partly I think because H&H have 20 shows on to celebrate their 20th anniversary. My picks are Quippings (a night of “freaktastic delights” hosted by Kath Duncan - Tue 31 Jan) and Australia Day Hangover (programmed by OutBlack convenor Bryan Andy - Fri 27 Jan).

I also have some really exciting stuff coming up as part of the Ladies of Colour Agency - wait and see. 

oh man!  all this and only one 40 degree day so far.  summer in melbourne, you are  doing well

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lia-incognita: a performance night featuring people of colour spoken word, music and more THURSDAY 26 JAN 2012 doors at 7pm part of Midsumma & ‘They’re a Queer Mob’ at BLAK DOT GALLERY 413 Lygon St, East Brunswick wheelchair accessible - blakdot.com.au $3 self-identified POC / $5 solidarity pocthemic@gmail.com poster by Arlene Texta Queen

lia-incognita:

a performance night featuring people of colour

spoken word, music and more

THURSDAY 26 JAN 2012

doors at 7pm

part of Midsumma & ‘They’re a Queer Mob’ at

BLAK DOT GALLERY 413 Lygon St, East Brunswick

wheelchair accessible - blakdot.com.au

$3 self-identified POC / $5 solidarity

pocthemic@gmail.com

poster by Arlene Texta Queen

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Jan 13 2012

They’re a Queer Mob

textaqueen:

Opening next week, I’m in this group show at Blak Dot with a portrait of Crystal McKinnon. 

as part of Midsumma, Blak Dot Gallery presents

They’re a Queer Mob

A vision of queer culture from non-western perspectives. A mob of artists with cultural roots in Indigenous Australia, the Pacific, Africa, and India offer their alternative visual experiences

Featuring Jules Renton, Renuka Rajiv, Meera Sethi, Arlene TextaQueen, Kamahi Jordan King, Peter Waples-Crowe, Cecilia Kavara, Kimba Thompson, Salote Tawale, Susan Forrester and Jacob Tologata

Opening night will be a party with various performers scheduled to entertain all evening.

The exhibition features an informal discussion on GLBQT diversity in Indigenous cultures. With speakers covering such topics as the third gender in Indigenous cultures such as faafafine (Samoa), fakaleiti (Tonga), rae rae (Tahiti Nui) and sistagirls (Indigenous Australia). Also to be covered is the continuum of specific Indigenous sexualities which have become distinct parts of Western GLBQT minority culture.

opening Thurs 19th January from 6pm

Blak Dot Gallery 

413 Lygon St, Brunswick East

19 January - 5 February

Thu - Sun 12-5pm

 www.blakdot.com.au

http://www.facebook.com/events/214874975265846/


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