23 Thursday January 7.00pm
Assorted Sporks feat. Josh Cake
FREE ENTRY
Assorted Sporks is a queer friendly regular poetry and performance night at Mamma Chen’s on January 23rd. Featuring the incredible Josh Cake
Theme: Treats
Themes are not mandatory, they are just to encourage you to experiment with your writing and improvisation. Feel free to make it weird.
Josh Cake was born and raised in Melbourne and now lives in Paris. Josh has published poems in Breakwater Review, Teesta Review, and Cordite. In 2024, Josh performed poetry features in Morocco, France, Germany, Poland, Belgium, England, Scotland, and the US. Josh has won the Peseroff Poetry Prize from the University of Massachusetts, Slamalamadingdong, and Poetryspective’s Retroslam, and was named the Most Impactful Poet of 2024 by the Australian Enterprise Awards. You can find Josh’s debut spoken word album words to regret when i’m better at editing at www.joshcake.com
Josh likes treats. Give Josh treats.
7:00 pm for a 7:30 pm start, sign up will be available on the night.
5 minute limit.
Perform your poetry, creative writing or performance art on the open mic to a friendly audience or come and be part of the crowd. There are going to be themes, writing prompts and improvised creativity (2 lines to a theme to music). Completely free. For more information check the Facebook events closer to the date.
Hosted by Loran Steinberg (they/them) Music by George O’Hara (he/they).
To keep this event a safe space for everyone, there will be no hate speech or your mic will be turned off and you may be asked to leave the stage.
Mamma Chen’s is a wheelchair accessible venue however, the stage is not; we are happy to pass you the mic if needed.
Mamma Chen’s acknowledges the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and the Bunurong peoples of the Kulin Nation, the true owners of the land that we live and operate on. We would like to pay our respects to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.