5 June 2013
Spoken word artist, Angela Willock, and violinist, Megan Bartholomew, came together by the happy accident of sharing a bunker-style residence with limited rehearsing space.
Angela has been performing as a poet for around 18 months, and has featured at local festivals such as Island Vibe and Anywhere Theatre as well as being a state finalist for the National Poetry Slam in 2012. She was the People’s Choice Award winner at the Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival Slam in 2013 and is currently touring Australia’s east coast as a part of the Roar Poets.
Megan studied music at the University of Queensland wants to learn to teleport when she grows up and has been exploring the spoken word music world with the assistance of her (ninja hoodie wearing) housemate.
Angela and Megan first performed together as part of the Raw Poet Raw showcase event at The Box in 2012, and look forward to bringing you a taste of their meld of spoken word narratives and classical violin as part of this year’s Brisbane Emerging Arts Festival.
5 June 2013
FEET TEETH are a digitally-mangled, electro-acoustic, free-jazz Brisbane-based trio featuring trumpet, drums, marimba, Commodore 64, and electronics. FEET TEETH use live processing and improvisation that draws on jazz, minimalism and noise traditions. Initially a two piece, their debut CD was released at the Judith Wright Centre as part of the Valley Jazz Festival in mid-2011 and has received airplay on ABC Radio National’s Sound Quality, 4ZzZ and FBi.
In 2012 FEET TEETH expanded into a trio and have since performed at the Brisbane Festival (2012), Crossbows Festival (2011) and toured the East Coast including playing at The NOW Now (Sydney). Their second full length, Aphthae Epizooticae, released on cassette tape on Canberra’s hellosQuare Recordings, will be launched in June alongside performances from Scanner (UK) and presented by Room40.
FEET TEETH will present a new work in Brisbane Emerging Art Festival
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3 June 2013
Eleanor Jackson is a Filipino Australian poet, performer, arts producer and radio broadcaster.
Two-time winner of the Midsumma Poetry Out Loud slam and recent National Poetry Slam finalist, Eleanor has featured at the Overload Poetry, Queensland Poetry, Melbourne Writers, Brisbane Writers, Anywhere Theatre and Woodford Folk festivals.
Her audio poems have been published in Overland Journal, Going Down Swinging and the Cordite Poetry Review, while recordings of her work have been featured on RRR’s “Aural Text”, 3CR’s “Spoken Word”, ABC Radio National’s “Night Air” and the online poetry channel, “IndieFeed: Performance Poetry”. Her video poetry collaboration with Doubting Thomas “Just before you died” was the winner of the Queensland Poetry Festival Filmmakers Challenge in 2012 and has been featured on Wunce Magazine and Slam TV.
Eleanor is the Spoken Word curator for Brisbane Emerging Art Festival 2013
1 June 2013
Simon describes himself as “one of those poorly ironed white collars that got halfway up the career ladder and realised it had left something behind”, namely writing.
Daylighting in education, moonlighting in poetry, the sum total of his awards list is two jars of jam, although he is one of the esteemed, monthly call-back poets for Speedpoets, one of the best-loved and longest-running of Brisbane’s poetry events.
Simon’s work explores the sublime and the ordinary in the colliding territories of landscape, the body, and the whole human mess. While his forays into performance poetry may be humble so far, he has an open, gentle performance style, a generous grasp of human emotion, and a willingness to carefully peel back the seemingly ordinary to reveal what lies underneath.
Simon will perform spoken word in Brisbane Emerging Art Festival 2013
1 June 2013
After years of performing and being involved in theatre shows, hip-hop crews, poetry collectives, bands, beatmaking and DJing, Darkwing Dubs has come to the fore as one of Brisbane’s most exciting and dynamic performers. With a wry sense of humour, tongue in cheek observations of the world and a little bit of earnest ear bashing, his performance poetry has allowed him to travel across the country as a word-smith with the best of them.
31 May 2013
Liz (aka big badbetty )is a middle aged housewife from the suburbs who lives a life of so called domestic bliss that involves juggling many children, cooking many meals, and working too hard paid and unpaid. Sounds familiar?
Liz does not see her work as confrontational, she merely sees herself as an observer of life and has worked in many varied and unusual settings, which have equipped her with the material she writes about. She believes that there are no limits as to what she writes about, and makes no apologies to those she may offend, however she believes that every story should be told and heard. Most of her words are dictated while in the company of dogs at 5am on the coldest of mornings.
handsome husband
… what a success
your soul is empty
… what a shame.
There’s a kind of paradox of directness and tenderness in the way that Liz relates to you and what her work presents. Audiences have reacted as rabbits caught in headlights who slowly recover when the glare of words cease. However Liz’s aspiration is that her words may provoke further thought and action.
Writers who have inspired her are Dylan Thomas, Myles Na Gcopaleen, John Cooper Clark, and the Sex Pistols - amazingly they are all men who have inspired her feminist works, go figure that one, but that’s Liz, an anomaly.
29 May 2013
Betsy Turcot has featured at Queensland Poetry, Melbourne Overload, Brisbane Emerging Arts, Anywhere Theatre and Woodford Folk festivals. She is a guest MC, curator and feature at Brisbane’s spoken word poetry event, Words or Whatever, and has contributed to the Melbourne Poetry Map.
Betsy was co-author of the poetic play, She Stole My Every Rock and Roll with fellow poet, Eleanor Jackson and has been a member of The Broken Records Collective with Doubting Thomas and Darkwing Dubs. She is the author of the chapbook Blister and performed the poetic dialogue, Chosen Family, for the AnywhereTheatre Festival with The Belles of Hell.
Betsy was a participant in the 2012 Brisbane Emerging Arts Festival and, together with Eleanor Jackson, will be collaborating with the Aboriginal Centre for Performing Arts on a collaborative work lifting lightly from the poetry of Judith Wright.
22 May 2013
Tony Mutton is a dark, um, “horse”.
Blogging furiously at Darkarsean, Tony’s work is muscular and clear, sometimes even a bit hard, but it’s more like the hard of a calloused palm than anything more sinister.
Writing for almost four years now, Tony has been an active presence in Brisbane’s grassroots poetry community, reading at venues such as Speed Poets, Jam Jar Poetry Slam, the Woodford Poetry Breakfast and Kurilpa Poets. He was a “words of honour” feature at the Words or Whatever Women’s Showcase in 2012 and received an encouragement award at the Urban Country Music Festival Bush Poetry Comp. His work has been published in Plum Tree Books – Poetry Anthologies including: Song of Sahel, The Butterfly Effect and All the Lonely People.
As organiser of the Poetry Open Words event, Tony’s has focused on supporting other new writers and showcasing “dead poets” with a connection to Queensland.
Tony will be performing as part of the spoken word program at Brisbane Emerging Art Festival 2013
