Name: How the Light Gets In
Start: 2024-10-06T13:00:00+10:00
End: 2024-10-06T16:00:00+10:00
Location: Mamma Chen's

'There is a crack, a crack in everything, it's how the light gets in' Leonard Cohen.
Four dynamic and much loved Melbourne artists share stories about life, love, and everything in between through music and poetry.
Featuring:
Elizabeth 'Lish' Skec
Jason Whatt
Peter O'Shea
Viki Mealings
This is a wheelchair friendly, sensory friendly Event accessible for people with mobility issues, people who are neurodiverse, and older people. Family friendly Event, all ages welcome.
Elizabeth ‘Lish’ Skec:
Music, poetics, theatre, sculpture, fire twirling. Elizabeth Lish Skec has written poetry, plays, short stories, comedy and songs for adults and children. Her poetry collection ‘Breath’ was published by Luckner Press 2014 and has been published in various anthologies world wide.
Lish is the founder and host of the current monthly gig Poetryspective at Pride Of Our Footscray Nightclub & Bar and the Poetryspective program online. Six years on and she has no intention of stopping.
Lish makes various forms of art. She has recently had reviews in the New York Times, The New Deli Daily, India and other countries. She currently working on two poetry collections and a new play.
Jason Whatt:
Jason Whatt is a Melbourne musician singer songwriter and performance poet.
He has been a member numerous bands including Coal and Dada Ono and has an ongoing solo project called Jason Whatt, Ghost Gang and other Experiments.
He has performed with his own show "City (un)lights" as part of the Sonic Poetry Festival 2023 and has written numerous scores for theatre and short film.
He is currently working on a score for a new theatrical musical and playing in band August Shallows as well as working on a new show for the 2024 Sonic Poetry Festival.
Peter O’Shea:
Peter O'Shea is a veteran of the Australian Music scene and a multi Golden Fiddle award winner.
He has played in countless bands, recording sessions, appeared on TV, radio and has been the subject of numerous media articles and also appearing in films and theatre productions as a Musician and actor, notably ‘Ned Kelly’, the 2003 film starring Heath Ledger.
He has 3 solo albums and has produced 4 music books.
Peter’s original compositions reflect the diversity and colour of his hometown Melbourne.
Viki Mealings:
Viki Mealings is the lead singer of the garage folk band 'Brittle Sun'. Brittle Sun have an expansive, diverse repertoire and their live performances are energetic and fearless.
Viki has published two chapbooks of poetry. The first, 'Delivery' in 2010 and the second 'Her Poetic Body', in 2017. Her poems explore themes of oppression, alienation, and hope.
In 2010 she won the Human Rights Arts and Film Festival poetry slam. In 2022 she won the Poetryspective Retroslam. Her poem 'The Smile' was featured in the Nurses and Midwives Art Exchange exhibition at RMIT Melbourne, as part of a collaboration between nurses and RMIT art students exploring nurses experiences of the pandemic. She is currently working on a new musical album.