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Ring In National Poetry Day With A Slam!
Ring In National Poetry Day With A Slam!
Celebrate National Poetry Day on August 28th with New Zealand Poetry Slam’s Auckland Regional Slam Heat featuring Courtney Sina Meredith.
The only poetry slam in Auckland on National Poetry Day, this night will be an exciting blend of performance and poetry in which members of the audience decide who wins the competition! Blending personal narratives with passionate performances, poets battle it out to win a spot at the Finals.
Open to the first 12 poets to sign up, the top winners will move into the Auckland Finals this October. Winners of the Auckland Finals win a trip to Hamilton to represent Auckland at the National Slam Finals this November.
The only national adult poetry competition in the country, New Zealand Poetry Slam brings together poets, audience members, and a chance to be crowned New Zealand National Slam Champion.
Featuring Courtney Sina Meredith
Courtney Sina Meredith is a poet, playwright,
fiction writer, and musician. She launched her first book of
poetry, Brown Girls in Bright Red Lipstick (Beatnik),
at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2012. Meredith describes her
writing as an ‘ongoing discussion of contemporary urban
life with an underlying Pacific politique’. Her poetry and
prose have been translated into Italian, German, Dutch,
French and Bahasa Indonesia. In 2016 Meredith will be the
writer in residence for the Sylt Foundation in northern
Germany. She is currently Partnerships Manager at the
Faculty of Arts, MIT, in Auckland.
Auckland
Regional Slam Featuring Courtney Sina
Meredith
Date: 28th August, 2015
Time: Doors
7pm, Show 7:30pm
Venue: Black Room at Manukau Institute
of Technology’s Faculty of Creative Arts (50 Lovegrove
Crescent, Otara)
Price: $5 at the door
This event is all ages and uncensored. Competing poets must be 18 years or older.
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For more information: newzealandpoetryslam@gmail.com
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