For the 2024 Summer Slam, we have some quite amazing prizes from our very generous donors. We’ll be letting you know about every one of our supporters.
First cab off the rank is The Finest Filth Variety Hour. We’re talking two tickets to each of two shows at Adelaide Fringe: Camp Crush and Show Pony.
Click on the pics for more info about the shows.
Great start to the 2024 Summer Slam! Fabulous audience and poets featuring a bunch of new faces! Congrats to winner Nicola Watson, runner-up Kerry Cook and third place Terry Anne, who have all qualified for the Summer Slam Final at Jive on Thursday 1st February.
If you missed this one or if you’d like another chance to reach the final, there are two more heats: Heat 2 on 19th January and Heat 3 on 27th January. Click on the buttons below for more info and booking.
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Campbelltown Public Library
171 Montacute Road, Newton
Saturday 27 January 2024
Doors and sign-up from 6:30pm for 7:00pm start
$10 entry at trybooking or at the door for both audience and competitors.
Slam it into 2024! Spoken Word SA’s annual Summer Slam is back. In a friendly, low stakes – but high fun – competition, poets will bring their words and voices to stages around Adelaide. The top three scoring poets from each heat will make it to the final… along with two “wild card” entrants! Our wild cards will be stand-out performers from any heat that didn’t get through … ... Read more ...
Sarah’s Sister’s Sustainable Cafe
117 Semaphore Road, Semaphore, SA 5019
Friday 19 January 2024
Doors and sign-up from 6:30pm for 7:00pm start
$10 entry at trybooking or at the door for both audience and competitors.
Slam it into 2024! Spoken Word SA’s annual Summer Slam is back. In a friendly, low stakes – but high fun – competition, poets will bring their words and voices to stages around Adelaide. The top three scoring poets from each heat will make it to the final… along with two “wild card” entrants! Our wild cards will be stand-out performers from any heat that … ... Read more ...
State Library of South Australia
cnr North Terrace and Kintore Avenue, Adelaide SA 5000
Saturday 13 January 2024
Doors and sign-up from 6:30pm for 7:00pm start
$10 entry at trybooking or at the door for both audience and competitors.
Slam it into 2024! Spoken Word SA’s annual Summer Slam is back. In a friendly, low stakes – but high fun – competition, poets will bring their words and voices to stages around Adelaide. The top three scoring poets from each heat will make it to the final… along with two “wild card” entrants! Our wild cards will be stand-out performers … ... Read more ...
Katherine Sortini, winner South Australian Poetry Slam 2023 performing at the State Final Goodwood Theatre, Goodwood 30th September 2023.
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The poetry fun never stops here in Adelaide, and during November as part of Feast Festival, Adelaide City Libraries is hosting a unique poet in residence experience!
Feast Poet-in-Residence Jacinta Way presents “Sonder”.
Have you ever looked at a stranger on a bus and wondered what they were thinking, where they grew up and when they stopped believing in the tooth fairy? Join local theatre-maker and poet, Jacinta Way, in a one-on-one guided conversation with a complete stranger. Ask the questions you’ve always wanted to ask in a safe space and finish your meeting by creating a … ... Read more ...
The “Nature Festival – Be Natural Poetry Slam” brought out a fine group of poets, including some excellent new faces, for a fabulous night of nature-inspired poetry. Guest poet Matthew Pankhurst entertained us with hedgehogs, mice and other denizens of the wild. Congratulations to winner Radhe Krishna, runner-up River Hill, and third-place Tracey O’Callaghan.
Special thanks to Dymocks Adelaide for hosting the event and providing prizes and the Nature Festival for supporting the event. Prizes also were donated by Paroxysm Press and Ian Gibbins.
Pics by Ian Gibbins.