Friendly Street Poets

POETS ON AIR

Our inaugural program  today, Tuesday 7th September at 3.30pm

Radio Adelaide 101.5 FM ~ Community Radio at its best

Thank you the South Australian government for their support of this program through Art SA

Please come to our September Poetry reading

Everyone is welcome!

Book in at 6.30pm for 7pm start.

Every variety of poetry, spoken word, rap, hip hop, lyric narrative & there is no censorship. Each poet has 3 mins at the open microphone. Every poem read at the meeting is eligible for selection in our annual Reader. Please bring two copies of your poem.     Cost $4 unwaged /$5 waged. Fruit Juices & wines free inside.

Guest Poet: Larry Buttrose (NSW)

Thank you to the South Australian Government for their continued support of the Arts, through Art SA.

Friendly Street Poets are taking 700 poems to the Royal Adelaide Hospital on Wednesday 1st of September, the first day of Spring. These poems will be placed on all the luncheon trays of  all the patients. We hope these positive and cheerful poems will give some pleasure to the patients in hospital. We hope they will share them with their family, friends, other visitors and the staff of the hospital.

This is Friendly Street Poets contribution to National Poetry Week 2010.

IMAGE BY DAVENA HOOSON

This was made possible through the permission of Minister John Hill, the Management of the RAH and their staff. We thank them all for this opportunity to shares thoughts, feelings, ideas and comfort through poetry.

Thanks also to the SA Government fot their continuing support of the Arts in SA. In particular providing grants through Arts SA to develop and encourage community initiatives and participation in creative activities.

Sunday 29^th August 2010

The Gallery 12 James Street Salisbury 2 – 5pm

EVERYONE IS WELCOME TO THIS FREE EVENT  !

You are invited to read, perform or listen to poetry at this offical Friendly Street Poets meeting.  Poets have 3 – 4 minutes at a open mic. to read or perform their work.  Every poem read is eligible for selection byour editors, Tracey Korsten & John Pfitzner, for publication in the annual anthology. So, please bring 2 photocopies of your poems, clearly labeled with your name and contact details on each page.

A free book for every new member – membership cost: $4 conc./$5 waged. Special door prizes and a best poem of the afternoon prize.

Guest Poets: Suzanne Reece FSP Mentored Poet 2009 & royce FSP REBELSLAM! Champion

Doors open to book in at 1.30pm.

Thanks to the South Australian Govenment for their support of Arts, through Arts SA

& to the City of Salisbury for their continued support of this community writing festival.

A major exhibition of Australian artist Rupert Bunny is now showing at the Art Gallery of SA. It covers all the eras of Bunny’s amazing working life. Friendly Street Poets are presenting poetry relevant & responsive to Bunny’s work and the times of their creation.  The Performers are: Kate Alder, Elaine Barker, Christine Courtney, Genny Drew, Tess Driver, M.L.Emmett & John Pfitzner. Several poems by Valerie Volk with be read by Elaine Barker. The first of two Sunday readings is at the Art Gallery of SA, North Terrace,  Adelaide on:

Sunday 22nd August 2010 2– 2.30pm

Please come along & see the work of this brilliant artist and hear Friendly Street Poets perform.

Thanks to the SA Government for its support of the Arts through Arts SA.

WHERE WORLDS COLLIDES

Friendly Street Poets invites all its members and members of the public

to attend this exciting afternoon at

The Science Exchange Main Auditorium

55 Exchange Place Adelaide

Saturday 21 August 2-5pm

Introduced by Wilson Da Silva

(editor of COSMOS magazine)

Three Sessions explore the fertile space of the science-arts interface, where researchers and artists of all sorts are challenging the existence of a divide between them. This afternoon will bring together contemporary writers of all genres with scientists in a celebration of science and the written and spoken word in all their wonder. It will feature readings from diverse wordsmiths occupying both sides of the divide, championing the case for bridging the gap and showcasing some of the wonderful work going on where worlds collide.
Winners of the national RiAus Sci-ku and the Science Made Marvellous competitions will be announced and winning entries read.

A National Science Week event ~ Science Made Marvellous.
It event is run in association between Friendly Street Poets with COSMOS magazine,
the SA Premier’s Reading Challenge & SAWC.

kansas dreaming

i move through the night
bursting the blistered sac of conformity
follow music until it erupts out of trance-dance
let the mushrooms play latino riffs
on this amazon moon, &
never underestimate the power of ghosts
even for a skeptic
there’s magic that refuses to budge

dorothy checked out of this hotel years ago
believing it was all a sugar-junkie’s dream
but i flung my red shoes into the river
found it’s better to dance the vision
with burning feet
than to tiptoe through the glitterati’s minefield
collared & sequinned like paris h
even for a dreamer
there’s reality that refuses to budge

reality that slides into focus
like wood under fingernails
a caress
that allows exquisite abandon…
there’s no place like home
Jenny Toune

Friendly Street Poets will be holding an official meeting at the

St Peters Library on Sunday 8^th August 2010 2pm – 4.30pm

There will be a performance of poets followed by an afternoon tea provided by the Norwood Kensington & St Peters Council and their Library staff. This will be followed by and an open microphone reading. Each poet has the usual 3minutes access to the uncensored microphone. Any poem read at the meeting by a FSP member is eligible for selection by our editors for the annual anthology. Our brilliant MC Ivan Rehorek ~ Avalanche will introduce FS poets: David Ades, Betty Collins,  Jules Leigh Koch, Lilliana Rose, Jill Wherry, Royce K,  Margaret Fensom, Kate Alder, Suzanne Reece, Elaine Barker, Thom Sullivan & Ros Schulz.

There will be prizes for best poems and some door treats! You can renew your membership to FSP or join for the first time: $4 concession /$5 waged.

EVERYONE IS WELCOME!

Thanks to the South Australian Government, through Arts SA, for their continued support of the Arts in this state and, in particular, Friendly Street Poets and their publishing program.

This event is FREE of charge.

Please join FRIENDLY STREET POETS Group on Face book

Please come to our August Poetry reading

Malcolm Reid Building 2^nd Floor Atrium above Caffe Brunelli, East Rundle Street

Everyone is welcome !

Every variety of poetry, spoken word, rap, hip hop, lyric narrative & there is no censorship. Each poet has 3 mins at the open microphone. Book in at 6.30pm for 7pm start. Every poem read at the meeting by a FSP member is eligible for selection, by our editors Tracey Korsten & John Pfitzner in our annual anthology. Please bring two copies of your poem to place in the Readers’ Box. Cost $4 unwaged/ /$5 waged. Fruit juices & wines free inside. There will be no guest poet because there will be the annual AGM before the meeting.

Thanks to the South Australian Government, through Arts SA, for their continued support of the Arts in this state and, in particular, Friendly Street Poets and their publishing program.

FRIENDLY STREET POETS & RiAus

We held a very successful poetry reading and an open mic. poetry reading at

RiAus: 55 Exchange Place Adelaideon Tuesday July 20^th 7pm  – 9.30pm

The poetry readings available as a podcast to download (.mp3 file) at

http://www.riaus.org.au/custom/files/media/podcast_friendly_street_poets.mp3

Thanks to the South Australian Government, through Arts SA, for their continued support of the Arts in this state and, in particular, Friendly Street Poets and their publishing program.

www.riaus.org.au/science/home.jsp