Assorted Sporks is a queer friendly regular poetry and performance night at Mamma Chen's on Thursday February 27th
Featuring Josie/Jocelyn Suzanne
Theme: Housing
Themes are not mandatory, they are just to encourage you to experiment with your writing and improvisation. Feel free to make it weird.

Josie/Jocelyn Suzanne is a writer/freelance editor living on unceded Wurundjeri land in Naarm. She has been published in Overland, Meanjin and Rabbit Journal among others. In 2023 she was shortlisted for the Kat Muscat fellowship, in 2022 the Val Valis award. She was the winner of the 2021 Harri Jones award, and was one of the recipients of the Next Chapter fellowship. She is a genderqueer trans femme.

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.

COST: Free

ACCESSIBILITY: Wheelchair accessible venue. Stage is not wheelchair accessible but microphone can be handed down. Toilets are wheelchair accessible.

Full statement of venue accessibility here: https://mammachens.com.au/access/