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hester ullyart's COMMON GROUND spoken word / kā tūka toikupuDECEMBER 1st ( sunday / rātapu )
#15 feat. JAMES NORCLIFFE, S. J. MANNION, KIRSTY DUNN
I've squeezed a CG in before the end of the year due to popular demand and my own self missing doing them (had some other projects on, sorryyyy)
and what a beauty we have as a summer treat to kick off our December! Artist bios at the bottom of this post. You won't be disappointed.
Details:
7pm official door
7.10 start of open mic (share, listen, be welcome and please come earlier if you want to make sure to get your name on the list as it is growing a little too large time wise some nights and I have had to start capping it- a happy problem but I hate turning people down!)
8.15ish break
8.30ish re-begin, featured sets
Suggested koha $10-15 if you are able
I know times are hard for many, if you can't, no judgement
if you can, it helps to pay for time, artists, costs, & is deeply appreciated
gratitude to @sherpakai for their warm hospitality
nau mai, haere mai
bring the gifts forward!
hx
ARTIST BIOS
S. J. MANNION
Síle is Bean na hEireann/proud Irish woman, and tauiwi/citizen of Aotearoa/New Zealand. Published variously and widely, she reads everything and writes anything; poems, songs, small stories, essays and the odd odd review.
JAMES NORCLIFFE
James Norcliffe is an award-winning poet, novelist and short story writer with work appearing in journals world-wide and translated into several languages. He has published ten collections of poetry, most recently Deadpan (Otago University Press, 2018) and Letter to ‘Oumuamua (Otago University Press, 2023), more than a dozen novels for young people, including the Mallory, Mallory series (Penguin, 2020 and 2021), and a novel, The Frog Prince (Penguin Random House, 2022). His flash fictions have been included in Flash Fiction International (W. W. Norton, 2015) and Breach of All Size (The Cuba Press, 2022). His junior novel The Crate, a ghost story set on New Zealand’s West Coast (Quentin Wilson Publishing) was published last year. His Selected Poems are forthcoming from Otago University Press.
Besides his long list of publications, he was also poetry editor for the Christchurch Press and had a long-time involvement in takahē magazine. As an editor, he worked with Harry Ricketts and Siobhan Harvey as editor of the major anthology Essential New Zealand Poems – Facing the Empty Page (Godwit/Random, 2014), and he co-edited Bonsai: Best small stories from Aotearoa New Zealand (Canterbury University Press 2018), Ko Aotearoa Tātou | We Are New Zealand, (Otago University Press, 2020) and the annual ReDraft anthology of youth writing (Clerestory Press). His residencies have included the Burns Fellowship, the Randell Cottage residency in Wellington, the Tasmanian Island of Residencies residency, and the University of Iowa International Writers’ Programme.
He has read at festivals and occasions in Aotearoa-New Zealand, the UK, Australia, Canada, the USA and Colombia.
In 2022, James was awarded the Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement in Poetry, and in 2023 he was awarded the Margaret Mahy Medal.
KIRSTY DUNN
Kirsty Dunn (Te Aupōuri, Te Rarawa, Ngāpuhi) is a writer and researcher based in Ōhinehou (Lyttelton), Aotearoa (New Zealand).In addition to holding a Learner driver’s licence for 21 years and being a founding member of “The Backstreet Girls” (a deadly-serious and award-winning tribute act formed in the summer of 1996), she is a mum, reo-learner, playlist enthusiast, poet, lecturer at the University of Canterbury, and self-appointed hype-girl for Māori and Indigenous literature.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Sherpa Kai, 5C Norwich Quay, Lyttelton 8082, New Zealand,Lyttelton, New Zealand
