On at the same time
Express yourself! Poems, songs and sounds
Sun
26
Sun 26 Oct 3:00 PM
Tim and Gina Fairfax Discovery Centre | National Museum of Australia
Wheelchair
General Admission
60 Mins
October
This is a workshop for budding young poets and those who want to use their voices in different forms to say something about what they see around them!
Maxine Beneba Clarke has written limericks, haiku, verse, tongue-twisters, sonnets and more in Stuff I’m (Not) Sorry For. Ever experienced the unbearable itch of chicken pox? Annoyed at having to use your parent’s Spotify account? Smashed a window with a cricket ball? Enjoyed the glorious sweetness of fairy floss? Worn your afro high and proud? Felt anxiety at reading a text message? Or do you want to say something else entirely? Get tips for sharing your experience of the world in your own special way.
For ages 9-12.
Maxine Beneba Clarke is one of Australia’s most celebrated poets. She is the author of over fourteen books, including the bestselling memoir The Hate Race, the ABIA and Indie award-winning short fiction collection Foreign Soil, the Victorian Premier’s Award-winning poetry collection Carrying the World, the ABIA award-winning poetry collection It’s the Sound of the Thing, the Kate Greenaway Medal longlisted illustrated poem When We Say Black Lives Matter and the CBCA honour book The Patchwork Bike, which also won the Boston Globe Horn Prize for Best Picture Book. Her latest works are Beautiful Changelings and Stuff I’m Not Sorry For. She was the inaugural Peter Steele Poet in Residence at The University of Melbourne.
Maxine Beneba Clarke has written limericks, haiku, verse, tongue-twisters, sonnets and more in Stuff I’m (Not) Sorry For. Ever experienced the unbearable itch of chicken pox? Annoyed at having to use your parent’s Spotify account? Smashed a window with a cricket ball? Enjoyed the glorious sweetness of fairy floss? Worn your afro high and proud? Felt anxiety at reading a text message? Or do you want to say something else entirely? Get tips for sharing your experience of the world in your own special way.
For ages 9-12.
Maxine Beneba Clarke is one of Australia’s most celebrated poets. She is the author of over fourteen books, including the bestselling memoir The Hate Race, the ABIA and Indie award-winning short fiction collection Foreign Soil, the Victorian Premier’s Award-winning poetry collection Carrying the World, the ABIA award-winning poetry collection It’s the Sound of the Thing, the Kate Greenaway Medal longlisted illustrated poem When We Say Black Lives Matter and the CBCA honour book The Patchwork Bike, which also won the Boston Globe Horn Prize for Best Picture Book. Her latest works are Beautiful Changelings and Stuff I’m Not Sorry For. She was the inaugural Peter Steele Poet in Residence at The University of Melbourne.
