We are excited to announce the first Adelaide City Library Poet In Residence for 2024. Tikari Rigney is a non-binary Kaurna, Narungga and Ngarrindjeri visual artist, curator and poet. Working in a range of mediums from performance, illustration sculpture to writing. Their practice references their queer bodily experience, Aboriginality and the complexities of human connection.
“This residency is in response to environment, displacement, the feeling of home or lack thereof in your own body, with people around you, places and spaces. In response to what is going on in the world and in my own little world. The exhale of safety and warmth that comes from a place or person that creates an idea of ‘home’ is like no other. Exploring the ‘home’ that the city library will become for me over the month of May and its potential to feel like home for so many.”
Adelaide City Library
3 Rundle Place / 77-91 Rundle Mall
Adelaide SA 5000
FREE
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There will be several sessions during May:
Workshop 1: for someone to love the whole you is to…
Wednesday 8 May
5.30 – 6.30pm
We will come together to have a yarn about the ‘how to be loved’ theme for the workshop. Brainstorming key language around what this means to us and do poetry writing activities with guidance from me, Tikari.
Workshop 2: home is more than a place, it’s a feeling
Wednesday 15 May
5.30 – 6.30pm
We will come together to have a yarn about the ‘home’ theme for the workshop. Brainstorming key language around what this means to us and do poetry writing activities with guidance from me, Tikari. We will also bring in to share sources that inspire us which could include images, music, writing, poetry etc.
Workshop 3: the many versions of you
Thursday 23 May
4.30 – 5.30pm
We will come together to have a yarn about the ‘versions of you’ theme for the workshop. We will spend time responding to writing prompts and completing a collaborative piece. Brainstorming key language around what this means to us and do poetry writing activities with guidance from me, Tikari.
Workshop 4: seasons change and so do you
Wednesday 29
May 4.30 – 5.30pm
We will come together to have a yarn about the ‘seasons change’ theme for the workshop. There will be reflection and sharing time in relation to the previous workshops, reading inspiring material and our own poems we’ve created.
Drop in Sessions
Saturday May 11, 18 and 25
12.30 – 2.30pm
Performance
Tikari Rigney – Soulful home – Poetry Performance
Friday May 31
6:00 – 7:00pm
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