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Spoken word poetry - poetry with a difference - fundraising event
Organiser name: The Parenting Place
Date: Wednesday 23 May 2012
Start time: 7:30 PM
End time: 9:30 PM
Address: The Parenting Place, 300 Great South Road
Suburb: Greenlane, Auckland
Contact info: The Parenting Place ph 09 524 0025
Email: info@theparentingplace.com
Single ticket: $20.00 (admits one person)
Poetry that isn't meant to be read but meant to be heard, experienced and enjoyed. Members of the South Auckland Poets Collective will showcase their experiences, thoughts and feelings about life through their brand of spoken word poetry. All proceeds from ticket sales will go towards the SAPC performance at The Brave New Voices Conference, July 2012 in San Francisco. Ticket price includes a glass of wine or juice. The cafe will be open for sale of coffee, Rush Munro ice creams and sweet slices.
South Auckland Poets Collective
The South Auckland Poets Collective started in 2008 through a Youthline initiative to get young people interested in poetry. Currently there are 10 members. Since starting they have performed at Te Papa Museum, many galleries, Splore Festival and Fringe Festival (both Dunedin and Auckland). The group is made up of youth workers, actors, students and people who just love literature.
Zane Scarborough, a member of SAPC, is the Manager of Attitude, the youth division of The Parenting Place. Since 2006 Zane has been travelling the country presenting the Attitude programme in New Zealand high schools. He has delivered over 1000 presentations to more than 100,000 teenagers throughout the North Island. The Attitude programme includes topics such as drugs, alcohol, sex, depression, youth suicide, and the safe use of social media and technology. This year Zane won the first Trans-Tasman Poetry Slam held in Melbourne and won first place in Poetry Idol at the Readers and Writers Festival.