Assorted Sporks ft. Hal Simons

Assorted Sporks is a queer friendly regular poetry and performance night at Mamma Chen’s on the last Thursday of the month.

October 31st Features the delightful Hal Simons

Theme: Masks, Masking, Costumes and Facades

Themes are not mandatory, they are just to encourage you to experiment with your writing and improvisation. Feel free to make it weird.

Hal Simons was born at a very young age.
From there, to be honest, things have been a bit of a mixed bag.
Their poetry brings humour to many sombre and serious topics and wields their experiences of chronic pain, depression, grief, and love with heart-warming and heart-wrenching gusto.
Often found whirling around Melbourne in his kilted and caffeinated form, or curled up and napping with cats.

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.