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Sydney Poetry Lounge

October Sydney Poetry Lounge - Steer & Cadenhead w/ Open Mic

Where
63 Bay St
Glebe NSW 2037
Australia
The Glebe Hotel, upstairs in the Nude Room
When

Wednesday 16 October 2024 from 7pm to 9pm

Doors open at 6:30pm

Cost

Adult: $10Concession: $5

Welcome to the October edition of the Sydney Poetry Lounge, featuring poetry from Lou Steer and Gabi Cadenhead, and our incredible open mic!

Join us upstairs at The Glebe Hotel for a night filled with powerful spoken word performances and heartfelt poetry.

$10 entry, $5 concession, tickets available on the door or via eventbrite

15 x 2-minute open mic slots available, sign-up at the door from 6:30pm.

Lou Steer

Cabaret poetry diva Lou Steer takes her poetry to the people. Highlights include performing for 100,000 people at Newtown Festival in 2015 and 300 micro performances over 3 days in The Prophet Remix in 2016. In 2017, she was the first poet to be elected as a local government councillor on Inner West Council and served until 2021. With her poetry performance group Fierce Violets, she has performed to acclaim at Sydney Fringe Festival (2022, nominated in spoken word, and 2023), Maitland IF Writers Festival (2022) EDGE Sydenham (2023) and Oxford Cabaret Festival (2023). In 2023, she received a grant from Inner West Council to develop an hour length performance, A Pocketful of Fierce Violets. She produces and presents Close to Home on Radio Skid Row 88.9FM, which streams internationally. She is a representative of World Poetry Movement Oceania. Between 2015 – 2018, she convened the largest Inner West slam poetry event, Caravan Slam. Lou’s poems are widely published and anthologised and her performances are broadcast on YouTube and SoundCloud. Her first book, Raw Like Sandpaper, will be published in late 2024.

Gabi Cadenhead

Gabi Cadenhead is a poet and composer living on unceded Gadigal and Wangal land. Their creative practice is one of intersections - between story and sound; between performance and protest; between embodiment, queerness, and the sacrad. Gabi's poetry has been published in #EnbyLife journal, Insights Magazine, and Sunder Journal, and they were awarded highly commended in the 2024 Calanthe Prize for unpublished poetry. Gabi is a winner of the Bread and Butter Poetry Slam and in 2022 they were selected for Express Media's Toolkits: Poetry program

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