Florence had a chat with Izzy Roberts-Orr, slam poet Luka Lesson and hip hop musicians Mata and Must, about the diverse array of performance-driven events they have organised for Amnesty International’s ARTillery Youth Arts Festival.
ARTillery is running until 10 December in Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane and Canberra.
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We talk to Eleanor Jackson, the producer of the "Melbourne Poetry Map: Audio Graffiti" about the poems made for this audio tour of Melbourne's CBD. The Melbourne Poetry Map will be launched at the Overload Poetry Festival on September 16 at the Loop Bar from 7.30pm-9.30pm.
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Florence chats to Isabella Mead, the co-creator of the poetry and animation artwork called "For I will fly to you", part of the Poetronica event lineup at the Overload Poetry Festival. View "For I will fly to you" online at: http://www.experimenta.org
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We chatted to Luis Gonzalez Serrano, the Artistic Director of the Melbourne Overload Poetry Festival, about freedom of speech, censorship in Australia, video poems, the launch of the Melbourne Poetry Map project, the Tri-Nations Poetry Slam held on Skype and all the highlights that Luis has in store for the festival. The Overload Festival will go from 10-19 September 2010.
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We chat to emerging poet Bronwyn Lovell about her latest poetry collection featuring the phonetic alphabet, her experience as a literacy instructor to underprivileged children in Queensland, working at a children's book publishing company in England and her Honours thesis on the Poetics of Voice Narration in Film.
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Ezra comes on the show to talk about his Election Day special live poetry and music event, "The Big Kids Political Party". It will be held this Satuday August 21 from 1-2pm at the Flinders Street end of The Atrium, next to the Fed Square book market.
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Florence and Jorja discuss sci-fi poetry and upcoming "The Science of Poetry" event hosted by the Australian Poetry Centre to celebrate National Science Week.
"The Science of Poetry" will be held on Wednesday August 18 from 7-8pm at the Croft Institute (21 Croft Alley Melbourne). Tickets are $10, avaliable at the door, or can be booked at: http://www.australianpoetrycentre.org.au/?page_id=1255
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