A Brush with Poetry on this Sunday

ARTS: From riveting to riotous, Binalong’s next Brush with Poetry will be held on Sunday September 27, 1.30 for 2pm at the Mechanics Institute, Wellington Street, Binalong (note the changed address for this month only).

A shared mike session where anything can happen — poets and performers come from across the Southern Tablelands and Highlands, Canberra and Regions and neighbouring regions to perform at A Brush with Poetry.

Always bush poetry —humorous and sad; always contemporary poetry — a style and topic for every taste; sometimes Slam; often music and song.

Of course you don’t have to perform – just come along and cheer everyone on. Be moved; be entertained.

Enjoy the old world charm of Binalong’s blue stone Mechanics Institute. Bring your own refreshments and drinks – we’ll have the urn boiling and provide tea and coffee.

Everyone welcome. Appropriate donations appreciated.

A Brush with Poetry is a Binalong Arts Group Inc (BAG) event held on the last Sunday of odd months.

Next date: November 29 (back at the Black Swan).

Contacts: Robyn Sykes 62274377; Lizz Murphy 0428 005641.

A RAFT OF DRAFTS

Feeling all at sea? A series of six guided workshopping sessions facilitated by Lizz Murphy. Suitable for new and developing writers with a small folio of poems in progress. Develop your self-critiquing, drafting and editing skills. Advance those poems! See www.actwriters.org.au

Dates: October 10, 17, 24; (31^st off); Nov 7, 14, 21.  Time: 11am-1pm Venue: ACT Writers Centre, Gorman House Arts Centre, Braddon. Bookings and fees: ACTWC phone 6262 9191.

A BRUSH WITH POETRY

A riot of top quality new and published poets and performers from regional NSW and Canberra at the Black Swan Gallery. Shared mike – anything goes. MC/coordinators – Lizz Murphy and Robyn Sykes; mine host – Yvette Gilroy. A Binalong Arts Group (BAG) event. Appropriate donation welcomed.

Last Sundays 1.30 for 2pm: Black Swan Gallery

BIO

Lizz Murphy has published twelve books. Her seven poetry titles include Portraits: 54 Poems and Six Hundred Dollars (PressPress), Walk the Wildly (Picaro Press), Stop Your Cryin (Island Press) and Two Lips Went Shopping (Spinifex Press print and e-book). Shebird will be published this year by PressPress. Lizz is a member of Australian Poetry Ltd, ACT Writers Centre and Binalong Arts Group Inc.