It’s a double dipper on Monday, December 12, with the Poetic Justice Youth Poetry Slam running in the afternoon, followed by an Open Mic Night featuring our guest readers the Christchurch poets. It’s all going on, and it’s all good.

Where: The Creek, Dunmore Street, Wanaka
When: Monday 12 December

Youth Slam from 3.30pm.
Open Mic Night from 7pm.
All welcome to read, all welcome to watch!

Poetic Justice Open Mic Night - 12 December, Wanaka -- Live Poetry!

Poetic Justice Youth Poetry Slam

 

 


A few choices photos from our recent Open Mic nights!

 

Wanaka writer Kate Bariletti

 

Lauren and Dylan Rimmer abscond with Poem Bunny

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Words and music: Angela Mote-Andrews and Laura Williamson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Liz Breslin on the mic

 

 

Simon King and Sam Hudson from BeatsFM

 


Calling all young poets! Join us for Wanaka’s first Youth Poetry Slam – bring along three of your best poems and try to make it all the way to the last round to win some awesome prizes. Poetry, spoken word, freestyle – if you wrote it, we want to hear it!

There are three age groups:
8 and under (starts 3.30pm)
9 to 13 (starts 4.30pm)
14 to 19 (starts 5.30pm)

When: Monday 12 December
Where: The Creek, Dunmore Street

Email us for more info on poeticjusticewanaka@gmail.com.

 

YOUTH POETRY SLAM! December 12 @ The Creek.


The October episode of IN Verse – 30 minutes of spoken word and poetry with Poetic Justice is online now. This month’s guest poet is Poetic Justice regular Jan Kelly. Listen here on our PODCAST page.

We’ll be back live on Sunday, November 27 at 5.30pm. Thanks to Wanaka Beats for putting local poetry on air!

 


We’re back in November with another Open Mic Session, this time at a NEW venue.

Join us at The Creek on Dunmore Street On Monday, November 7 at 8pm. The theme is Words & Music – sing if you want to, but you really don’t have to. All welcome to read, all welcome to watch, best poem as voted by the audience wins a bottle of Olssens wine!

 


Thanks to all who joined us for our Flights of Fancy Open Mic night, and congrats to Simon who won the bottle of Olssens wine. You can read his winning poem here.
Next Open Mic session is Monday, 7 November – we’re getting a bit big these days, so are trying out a new venue. Watch this space for updates!

Simon finds inspiration in a bottle of Olssens Bannockburn Club chardonnay


Join us for our next Open Mic -  Monday night, 8pm at Kai Whaka Pai for an evening of poetic flights of fancy. All welcome to come and read, all welcome to watch/listen to our new, very own, amp and mic. Aren’t we flash! And remember, the best poem walks away with a bottle of beautiful Olssens wine and the pleasure of Poem Bunny’s company for a month.

Where: Kai Whaka Pai, Ardmore Street, Wanaka

When: Monday, 10 October, 8pm


And … episode three (really four) is up as well. Happy listening, poetry fans.


Well, it’s actually episode three, but we forgot to push “record” when we did episode two … never mind, who’s counting. Navigate on over to our Podcast tab to hear the latest recording of IN Verse: 30 minutes of spoken word and poetry with Poetic Justice Wanaka.

We’re live on Wanaka Beats the last Sunday of every month at 5.30 PM. That’s 107.3 or 88.0 FM if you’re in Wanaka, or live online at  shoutcast.com.


Thanks to all who joined us for last week’s “XTreme [sic]” themed Open Mic session. Congratulations to Jan Kelly, whose poem She won her a bottle of Olssens wine.

Join us on Monday, 10 October for our next Open Mic, themed “Flights of fancy”. From 8pm, upstairs at Kai Whaka Pai, Ardmore Street, Wanaka.




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