social distancing | Words Out Loud

Welcome to the second of our podcast series, established in response to the COVID-19 lockdown.

Unfortunately, two submissions for our April edition got caught in the spam filter, so we’re winding back the clock to include them here, with our apologies.

All up, we have 13 artists presenting work, and we greatly appreciate those who contributed using whatever recording device was at hand to get these to us.

Listen to the podcast here

If you are interested in seeing more of the book about the Ballarat Memorial Concert Band history mentioned by George Williams, there is information on a launch event on Facebook.

We will be hitting the internet again for our June edition as we await the lifting of crowd restrictions that will allow us to once more take the stage, with details for submissions to be released shortly. For now, we hope you enjoy the May edition.

With the novel caronavirus causing havoc on events, Words Out Loud has joined those events offering online outlets for creativity while social distancing is in effect.

We felt compelled to cancel our March event following the declaration of a state of emergency in Victoria, and the edition scheduled for April 16 also cannot go ahead, so our chance to launch at our new venue is further delayed.

So in the place of the April event, we’re providing this special podcast edition drawing on works prepared for both March and April. It’s no surprise to find COVID-19 a subject in some of them.

We greatly appreciate the writers who came on board, recording their work at home and emailing it in to us. Some also took advantage of the opportunity to send in photographs to accompany their work. Brooke’s song was so enjoyable, we waived our prohibition on songs!

Listen to the podcast here

We hope you enjoy this special edition, and look forward to resuming regular events as soon as the situation allows. In the meantime, stay tuned for details of May’s podcast event; stay home if you can, stay well, stay safe.