Assorted Sporks is a free queer friendly regular poetry and performance night at Mamma Chen's. Perform your poetry, creative writing or performance art on the open mic to a friendly audience or come and be part of the crowd.

Featuring; Yasi

Theme: The Good Ugly

Themes are not mandatory, they are just to encourage you to experiment with your writing and improvisation. Feel free to make it weird.

Yasi, a tradie by day, a poet otherwise, is also a part of the Slamtidote poetry collective. Bringing their poems about exploring the inner workings of themselves and learning to like what's ugly about them along the way,Yasi works on poems as an act of letter writing for themselves; be it between future and past versions of themselves, or even hypothetical caricatures of themselves that they haven't ever been!

Feel free to make it weird!

7:00 pm Start, Host will be there from 6pm.
5 minute limit.

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.

In 2026 Assorted Sporks alternates every two weeks on Thursdays with Musical Sporks. So dates are:

26 FEB / 26 MAR / 23 APR / 21 MAY / 18 JUN / 16 JUL / 13 AUG / 10 SEP / 8 OCT / 5 NOV / 3 DEC

COST: Free but you can support the event with bonus benefits at https://www.patreon.com/AssortedSporksPoetryandPerformance

RSVP at https://events.humanitix.com/assorted-sporks-featuring-yasi/tickets

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/