Poetry for Plebs: Performance
IMPORTANT TO NOTE:
For ages 15 to adult - Suitable for ALL skill levels
Venue is HAPPYMESS STUDIO (mobility aid accessible)
Course runs for 5 HALF-DAYS - Monday to Friday 1pm until 4pm
Need an NDIS invoice? Call Nicole on 0419 379 146 during business hours BEFORE booking.
Have something to say?
Learn how to express yourself with the spoken word. Lift your poetry off the page and bring it alive for performance.
Keen on writing poetry too?
Don’t miss out on a morning session with this tutor in ‘Poetry for Plebs: Penning’ here.
IMPORTANT TO NOTE:
For ages 15 to adult - Suitable for ALL skill levels
Venue is HAPPYMESS STUDIO (mobility aid accessible)
Course runs for 5 HALF-DAYS - Monday to Friday 1pm until 4pm
Need an NDIS invoice? Call Nicole on 0419 379 146 during business hours BEFORE booking.
Have something to say?
Learn how to express yourself with the spoken word. Lift your poetry off the page and bring it alive for performance.
Keen on writing poetry too?
Don’t miss out on a morning session with this tutor in ‘Poetry for Plebs: Penning’ here.
IMPORTANT TO NOTE:
For ages 15 to adult - Suitable for ALL skill levels
Venue is HAPPYMESS STUDIO (mobility aid accessible)
Course runs for 5 HALF-DAYS - Monday to Friday 1pm until 4pm
Need an NDIS invoice? Call Nicole on 0419 379 146 during business hours BEFORE booking.
Have something to say?
Learn how to express yourself with the spoken word. Lift your poetry off the page and bring it alive for performance.
Keen on writing poetry too?
Don’t miss out on a morning session with this tutor in ‘Poetry for Plebs: Penning’ here.
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YOUR COURSE TUTOR
Jason John
Jason’s melding of Dr Seuss and Pam Ayres with politics, sex and religion saw him win the 2019 Bellingen Poetry Slam and place third at the Australian Poetry Slam final the same year.
Recently he has brought his extensive experience leading workshops of all kinds to poetry – running workshops for Bellingen Arts Week in 2021, Bellingen Poetry Slam Poets 2020-2025 and Camp Creative in 2023 & 2025.
He loves the opportunity to help people turn a blank page or screen into writing, then scribbles, then more writing, and the writing into words spoken on stage.
You can read and watch some of his work at ecofaith.org - or the links below.
“Jason John did a great job as tutor. He had great organisational skills and time management. He created a safe space to share and be vulnerable.”
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Everything is invitational, as we try performing pieces of poems from the morning session, or that we’ve brought with us.
Mostly we will perform our own work, but we may play with performing other people’s. Sessions will be heavy on getting stuck into performing, editing in the light of performing, and performing again!
All kinds of poets and poems and performers are welcome!
You’ll be welcome to stay within your comfort zone, or the group can help you step out of it.
Students will leave with greater confidence, self-awareness, and/or desire for public performances, whether to a few friends or loved ones, or crowds. If they like, they will leave with the memory of performing to the group, perhaps busking to passers-by, and performing at some of the Camp Creative events.
Each day there will be the opportunity for group feedback for those who want it, and time to reflect on the experience of performing.
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Please bring the following on your first day of class:
Paper
Pens
Laptop or phone, if you prefer creating on them
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Sufficient ability to write and speak English to participate.
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NOTE: THIS IS A PLAN ONLY AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE
DAY ONE
We will jump in the deep end, getting used to microphones, speaking to an audience, and starting to share some of our poems, and perhaps others’.
DAY TWO to THREE
We will explore some more techniques, and edit our poems to make them as easy to perform, and effective as possible, in the light of feedback from others, and our own experience of performing them.
DAY THREE to FOUR
Weather permitting we will mix in some outdoor performing, and perhaps busking. By now we will have some pieces we know really well, and perhaps have memorised some of. There might be an open mic at Camp Creative on Wednesday night that some might want to enter.
DAY FIVE
Perhaps another round of busking, some of us might like to perform at the Camp Creative finale, and take our poems away with us to share at a local open mic or slam, possibly even aiming for all that prize money at the next Bello Poetry Slam in June!
