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SUP CENTRAL IS LIVE WITH SOME INCREDIBLE FEATURES!!!Stand Up Poetry Open Mic nights make spoken word poetry relevant and accessible by providing a public platform for emerging spoken word poets.
Open mic is open to all styles, ages and backgrounds. Bring a poem, verse or just yourself!
Sign up on the day.
This is an uncensored space but hate speech free.
FEATURES:
Jennifer Rockwell (she/they) is a performance poet and writer based in Tāmaki Makaurau. Their work has been published in The Poetry New Zealand Yearbook and Aotearoa, English for Schools. They won the WORD- The Front Line Grand Slam, Going West Writers Slam, JAFA Qualifying Slam, was runner up in the JAFA Auckland Regional Finals, and represented Tāmaki Makaurau at the 2021 NZ National Poetry Slam. There debut collection 'Vultures' (Dead Bird Books) is now available in stores across the country.
Ngaio Simmons is a Māori/pākehā spoken word artist and educator born and raised on the island of Oʻahu on Kānaka Maoli land in the unceded nation of Hawaiʻi. Now permanently residing in his ancestral homeland, Aotearoa, Ngaio is still writing about diaspora, identify conflict, and what it means to be Indigenous and queer in a world that repeatedly rejects both. An Auckland Poetry Slam Champion anmd Word - The Front lince Coach, Nagio has been published in Contemporary Verse, Flux Hawaiʻi, Literary Hub, Ora Nui, Hawaiʻi Review, and Bamboo Ridge, among others.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Grey Lynn Library, 474 Great North Rd, Grey Lynn, Auckland 1021, New Zealand,Auckland, New Zealand