Spoken word at Smythesdale

Performers of prose, poetry and storytelling are invited to an open mic event at the Smythesdale Community Music and Art Fiesta on Sunday October 20.

It incorporates the Woady Words open mic poetry competition, with full details of that to be available on the day.

The event is at Throo the Gate Cafe, 42 Brooke St, from 2pm.

Inquiries to Barry on 0487 225 881 or barry@redechidnastudios.com

Check out the Facebook event.

Reading the Lifeline at Words in Winter

If all the world’s a stage, then we’re breaking down the big show into bite-sized acts. Five-minute acts, in fact, each one themed on a decade in a lifetime.

Words Out Loud is thrilled to be presenting Reading the Lifeline: an exquisite corpse as part of the Daylesford Words in Winter festival.

We’ve assigned five writers to each write about a decade in a lifetime, round robin style, but there’s a catch – the last line of each piece must be the first line of the piece that follows, including that of the very last reading.

Join our delvers Rebecca Fletcher, Kirstyn McDermott, Jason Nahrung, Megan Riedl and Zoe Werner as they peel back the layers of human life, a decade at a time, while celebrating the connections between us all.

Reading the Lifeline is on Saturday 17 August at 6pm at the Daylesford Hotel, 2 Burke Square. $5 entry. There will be chapbooks available so you can revisit the exquisite corpse ‘in the flesh’. All welcome.