About this Event
SPOKE & BIRD RETURNS TO THE STAGE THIS SEPTEMBER!
Come join our second join at our fabulous new venue, ULTRASUPERNEW with an all-star lineup featuring sets by poets ANG SHUANG, PHONG HUYNH, TASFIA & JEDIDIAH HUANG.
TICKETS
Early bird: $10
Regular: $15
SAFETY RULES
Tracetogether check-ins required.
Audience members are allowed to enter in groups of 5 at the most.
Masks should be worn at all times by audience members unless eating/drinking.
ABOUT OUR FEATURES
ANG SHUANG
Ang Shuang graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. Her writing has been published by the Asian American Writers' Workshop, the Rumpus, and Quarterly Literary Review Singapore. Shuang enjoys crisp cider, Taylor Swift songs, and snuggling with her dog. Her debut collection, How To Live With Yourself, is forthcoming in November.
PHONG HUYNH
Phong is a painter and writer based in Singapore. He is currently completing his Masters in Creative Writing at LaSalle School of the Arts and writing a novel about gay conversion therapy in Singapore. He has been published in the Best Asian Short Stories 2020 and self-published a poetry anthology called Air. His writings explore the love and tensions of LGBTQ community in Singapore, the unspoken eccentricities of Asian family and the search for self-identity in modern life. Phong has a cat that is both his muse and his Tiktok star.
TASFIA
Tasfia is a Singaporean-Bangladeshi poet – former Australian Poetry Slam Victorian State Finalist (2017), YODA Spoken Word Champion (2018), two-time representative of Singapore in the Causeway Exchange Slam (2018 & 2019). She is the convener of Wild Poets’ Den, Singapore’s first alcohol-free poetry open mic which includes sign-language interpretation and accessibility elements in collaboration with Equal Dreams SG. Her poems have been published in the ‘Fight Evil With Poetry’ anthology, Mahogany Journal, The Arctic Circle’s Artists & Climate Change blog and SingPoWriMo Issue #4. She moonlights as a sustainability innovation professional when not wearing her poet hat. She writes on home, immigration, love and empowerment.
JEDIDIAH HUANG
Jedidiah is a Singaporean spoken word poet. His attempts at processing his trauma have led him to be published in three anthologies, become a YODA Spoken Word Runner-Up (2018), win the 2019 Goh Sin Tub Creative Writing Competition ($10,000 prize), become a finalist at the 2020 National Poetry Competition and represent Singapore at the Causeway Exchange Slam 2019. He is obsessed with stories and all the best ways to tell them.
Jed and Tasfia have performed together on several stages, including Spoke & Bird and the Causeway Exchange Slam where they represented Singapore in 2019
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
UltraSuperNew Gallery, 168 Tyrwhitt Road, Singapore, Singapore
SGD 10.00 to SGD 15.00