Four spring days celebrating Australian Poetry in the magnificent Arcadia Theatre, home of the Australian Poetry Hall of Fame.
Featuring: the Fishing for Poets Comedy Poetry Championship 16th and 17th of Nov, poetry writing and performance workshops 14 to 17th of Nov., performances, Australian Poetry Film Festival, and the Poetry workshop series featuring some of the top poets in Australia.
The Poetry Workshop series will get you both writing and performing poetry with some of Australia's Top Comedic Poets.
This series of workshops is available for everyone and attendance is flexible. If you are a "never wrote" beginner to seasoned performer then you will get something from these workshops.
Program as follows and attendees are welcome to attend one or all of the workshops.
6pm Australian Poetry Film Competition- Gala Screening of films
Friday 15 November
10:30am Workshop Writing Rhyme
11:00am Workshop- How I wrote over 800 poems in a year and you can too.
11:30am
12:00am-1:30pm LUNCH BREAK
1:30pm Practice for Writers
2:00pm Humorous Writing
2:30pm Performance Workshop
5pm Guyra Poets Showcase
6:30pm Australian Poetry Film Festival Winners announced.
Saturday 16 November
8am- 9:30 Poet’s Breakfast-Walk Up opportunity
10am - 4pm Fishing For Poets Comedy Poetry Performance Competition
6pm Poets and musicians Variety Show
Sunday 17 November
Poet’s Breakfast- One Minute Poets Brawl (Prompt given on the Saturday Morning)
Fishing For Poets Poetry Performance Final and Announcement of Winners.