Mother Tongue 5 featuring Charlotte Roberts and Tami Sussman
Friday, May 17 @ 7.30pm / Melbourne Physical & Natural Studio, 1/393 Smith St, Fitzroy / $15-12 / Women Only Open Mic (Male audience welcome)
Dan Poets featuring Freddy Tiernan
Saturday, May 18 @ 2pm / The Dan O'Connell Hotel, 225 Canning Street, Carlton / Free / Open Mic
MelbourneSpokenWord.com presents spoken word at Conduit Arts featuring Benjamin Solah, Amanda Anastasi, Steve Smart, Kerry Loughrey, Randall Stephens and Santo Cazzati
Saturday, May 18 @ 8pm / Conduit Arts, 83 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy / $5
Muses, Musos & The Barelycorn featuring Maurice McNamara, Cece Ojany, Justine Walsh & Steve Smart
Sunday, May 19 @ 7pm / The Barley Corn Hotel, 177 Johnston Street, Collingwood / Free / Open Mic
Passionate Tongues featuring Michael Waugh
Monday, May 20 @ 8.30pm / Brunswick Hotel, 140 Sydney Road, Brunswick / Free + Raffle / Open Mic
Dan Poets featuring Benjamin Solah
Saturday, May 25 @ 2pm / The Dan O'Connell Hotel, 225 Canning Street, Carlton / Free / Open Mic
West Word featuring Bela Farkas
Sunday, May 26 @ 2pm / Dancing Dog Cafe, 42 Albert Street, Footscray / Free / Open Mic
One night stanza with Anis Mojgani supported by Ken Arkind, Carrie Rudzinski, Randall Stephens and Steve Smart, Michelle Dabrowski, Grace Vanilau and Ajak Kwai
Sunday, May 26 @ 7pm / The Performance Space, Footscray Community Arts Centre, 45 Moreland Street, Footscray / $15 (ticketed)
Port Phillip Gilgamesh Readings featuring Ken Arkind and Carrie Rudzinski
Monday, May 27 @ 7pm / Claypots Evening Star, Sth. Melbourne Market, Corner Cecil & York Streets, South Melbourne / Free / Open Mic
"How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the MPU's May Event" featuring Chris Mooney Singh and Wendy Fleming
Wednesday, May 29 @ 7pm / The Basement (1:1 Architects), 31 Niagara Lane, Melbourne / $10-8 / Open Mic
More upcoming events...
Brisbane’s Darkwing Dubs is “set to put a fire under Melbourne spoken word’s cold winter ass” with a live show and two-day workshop from Friday the 13th of July to Sunday the 15th. The host of Jam Jar poetry impressed Melbourne poetry events with shows last year at Slamalamadingdong, Sweetalkers, and Passionate Tongues. He’s definitely one of the most unique and engaging performers in Australia mixing the moving and amusing, spoken word, hip hop and theatre.
