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Enough Said Poetry Slam is a stage for spoken word, where poets new and experienced can get up on stage and share their words with a captive audience. Our monthly event brings together lovers of poetry to share, click, listen, and compete for prizes, as well as some of the biggest names in poetry in Australia to perform for our audience.------------------
FEATURE POET: Jazz Money
SUPPORT FEATURE: Max Liberto
6:30pm - DOORS OPEN + SLAM SIGN-UP
7:00pm - POETRY BEGINS
ENTRY
$10 - standard
$5 - unwaged/student/concession
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VENUE
Our venue in 2025 is the Side Door Theatre on Crown St in Wollongong. It has a small door that can be found directly across the road from the Atchison St entry to Spotlight. It's a four-minute walk from Wollongong Train Station and a two-minute walk from the nearest free bus stop. Free parking can be found on surrounding streets, starting with Atchison St.
Side Door Theatre is a licensed venue, there will be drinks and snacks available for sale, please do not bring in outside alcohol. There are a number of toilets inside the venue.
Entry to the venue is down four steps from the front door and is unfortunately not wheelchair accessible. Please reach out to us if you have access needs and you'd like to discuss entry into the venue.
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POETRY SLAM RULES
Sign up at the door when you arrive if you'd like to perform. Everyone is welcome, from bedroom poets to experienced performers.
Three-minute time limit, no props or costumes, jump up on stage with a mic and share your original poem with a live and engaged audience. Rapping counts as poetry and singing is allowed, but not for the majority or all of the poem.
Random people from the audience become the judges, and the highest-scoring poet wins! 1st, 2nd & 3rd place prizes to be awarded!
But remember: The points are not the point, the point is poetry!
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FEATURED POET
Jazz Money is a Wiradjuri poet and artist who works across installation, publishing, digital, performance and film. Jazz is the author of two award winning poetry collections how to make a basket (UQP, 2021) and mark the dawn (UQP, 2024), and the director of the feature film WINHANGANHA (NFSA, 2023)
SUPPORT FEATURE
Max Liberto (He/They) is a poet and performer originally hailing from the Central Coast of Australia. He moved down to the Illawarra for university, and has been regularly attending poetry slams here ever since. His poetry grapples with his own identity and the world around him. Recently, it has focused heavily on a love of life as a way to combat the darkness in the world.
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We acknowledge our events take place on the land of the Wodi Wodi people of the Dharawal nation and pay our respects.
Enough Said Poetry Slam is supported by the South Coast Writers Centre.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Side Door Theatre, 231 Crown St, Wollongong NSW 2500, Australia,Wollongong, New South Wales
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