This last month of the year we are featuring Mary Williamson, another Perc.U.lations regular!
Not only has Mary bottle-raised a mountain lion, crewed on a tall ship and been licked by an echidna, but she has raised three children (and they all survived)!
Mary came late to sharing spoken word creations although she credits her love of the Stories of Things to her father and the deeply abiding sense that she had a voice she needed to use..
A reflective, and highly visual poet and writer, Mary debuted on the open mic in a Mother Tongue event at The Seven Sisters Festival at the beginning of the pandemic in Australia. She has continued sharing at a mixture of online and in person events including Mother Tongue - Women Speak, Ballarat Spoken Word, Wordcraft, Girls on Key, Cherry Poets, Kafe Perc.u.lations, Words Aloud and Your Place (Aotearoa), painting with words and emotion on both the page and the stage.
She sees poetry as her active recovery from life, exploring the human condition through a multi-mind lens with compassion and curiosity.
Our Poetry and Spoken Word events are (usually) held on the second Saturday of the month at 3 p.m., with a Poetry Writing Workshop running from 2 pm to 3 pm for anyone interested.
*** Please note that the market will NOT be going ahead and parking IS available behind the medical centre***
An 'open mic' is available for as many poets as possible before and after our feature (or as much poetry as we are happy to share before our time is up).
This gig is happy to celebrate young poets (the Little Aesthetics program for anyone 12 and under) as well as people who read the works of other poets (the Rhetorical Recreation Society). If you have work you would like other people to present, you will always find cheerful readers too.
The venue for Perc.U.lations is the wonderfully generous Kafé on Hemmings (86 Hemmings St), in Dandenong, about a 15-minute walk from either Dandenong or Yarraman train stations. There is also handy, free parking available behind the medical centre on the opposite corner.
This event is ticketed using ‘Pay as you Feel’ via Eventbrite, as the Kafé will continue serving the general public. Open-mic and feature presenters are therefore asked to keep their works in the 'PG' range for this event.
Perc.U.lations is affiliated with Radio Laria and is committed to highlighting the voices of women and gender-diverse poets. 50% or more of all features throughout the year will be women, however, men are also encouraged to apply to this event and the open mic is open to anyone.
COST: Pay as you feel - Ticket Link
ACCESSIBILITY: Wheelchair access to venue,Wheelchair access to stage / performance space