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Unspoken Words Storytelling

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21.01.2022 Next Friday our colleagues at National Young Writers' Festival are launching their program! Real fab lineup including Srisha Sritharan, Pola Fanous, Robin Eames, Elliot York Cameron & Allison Gallagher https://www.facebook.com/events/2475114316108890/?ti=as

17.01.2022 This month's book club: No Friend but the Mountains by Behrouz Boochani. Mon 23 Sept, Better Read Than Dead Newtown, 6.30-7.30, free. Event: Unspoken Words Poetry Book Club From translator Omid Tofighian: "What is more horrific: immigration detention centres constructed as anomalies of a liberal democracy, or systematic state torture imagined as something distinct from fascism?... "Behrouz Boochani finished his book, No Friend but the Mountains: Writing From Manus Prison, approximately a month after being forcibly removed from the original Manus Island immigration detention centre. He completed it following the intense 23-day siege of the prison and the horrific experiences associated with the standoff, eviction and transfer of refugees." READ THIS BOOK, whether or not you come to book club. If you get it from Better Read you get 10% off, tell them it's for book club.

17.01.2022 Highly recommend this reading and performance by the wonderful Mascara Literary Review!

14.01.2022 Wishes for a striped & fab weekend to all! This image is Nathan Shephard speaking at PRIDE 50, our #stonewall commemoration and artist studio open day in June. Image by Bakri Mahmoud

12.01.2022 #throwbackwednesday to our PRIDE 50 gig in June, ft. Wilfred Roach! Wil shared a story of a rare & large & beautiful butterfly -- truly stilling & captivating! Thanks to all who came along, performed, exhibited, and helped out! PRIDE 50 was our artist studio open day with Inner West Council and also a commemoration of the 50th anniversary of #stonewall. Image by AbuBakri Mah

10.01.2022 Heatpak: chronic pain, chronic illness & creativity is this afternoon / tonight! See you there for some casual arts sharing and conversation

10.01.2022 Book club tonight! We're reading Night Sky with Exit Wounds by the brilliant Ocean Vuong. A poem from the collection is below. 6.30-7.30 at Better Read Than Dead, it's free and we have snacks! 10% off the book when you let them know it's for book club. See you soon @ Better Read Than Dead

05.01.2022 Book club tonight! We're reading The Lost Arabs by Omar Sakr (UQP 2019). 6.30 - 7.30 at Better Read Than Dead, Newtown, free entry & 10% off the title if you tell the bookshop it's for book club. Event details: https://www.facebook.com/events/1055944831252988/ 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 show...s 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.’" See more

04.01.2022 That's a wrap for our residency with Inner West Council! 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 Jer Eunice Andrada & Nathan Shephard (cuties pictured here), Centaur Lion-Yin, Nick Baldas, Melody Rachel, Wilfred Roach, Melanie Ree, Garry Trinh, Ellen O'Brien, Fabi Ola Barba Rangimarie & Emma Rose. Big thanks to council for having us. The residency had art...ist 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 Sydney Gay & Lesbian Choir. 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 Unspoken Words Poetry Book Club. Seeya around! Image was taken at PRIDE 50 by AbuBakri Mah xxx

04.01.2022 "I was listening to this person speak" Melody Rachel performs at our PRIDE 50 gig last June to open the residency space and commemorate 50 years since #stonewall. Thank you Melody! Photo by AbuBakri Mah

03.01.2022 Carielyn talking community justice, decolonisation & videopoetry at our PRIDE50 gig in June thank you Carielyn! Photo by Bakri Mahmoud

01.01.2022 Pink & blue friday wishes to all from Nathan Shephard's installation 'there are no others', featured at our PRIDE 50 gig back in June the artist is pictured through a curtain of mesh and hanging leaves

01.01.2022 Book club tonight at Better Read Than Dead! We're reading Audre Lorde's genre-defining collection, The Black Unicorn. Title poem pictured here. You gotta read this masterful & timeless book. We'll be upstairs at the bookshop, 6.30-7.30, free entry and with snacks. Doesn't matter if you haven't read the book yet -- the meetings are casual and we read poems aloud and talk about their effect on us. See you soon