Things to do: #3 See Nikki Patin in her Phat Grrl Revolution Tour

Chicago-based Def Jam poet and member of the American National Slam Team Nikki Patin is heading to New Zealand on her Phat Grrrl Revolution Tour. Her Wellington event is at Happy (underground, cnr Vivian and Tory streets) on Saturday (21 March) at 8 pm.

I was planning to go to this, because the reason she came over to NZ is because of the lovely Miriam Barr, whose Literatti group did a show with her. But after reading Miriam's write-up of Nikki's solo show, I'm definitely going. If this is your sort of thing, you should too.

Postscript: Oh, and I was totally blown away by Nikki Patin's impressions of her time in Auckland so far: http://theliteratti.blogspot.com/2009/03/nikkis-impressions-just-remember.html

UPDATE: From the Word Collective:

Word Collective is hosting a Def Jam poet, Nikki Patin, who is doing one show only in Wgtn on Sat March 21st after touring the motu.
Check her out on Youtube

The Wgtn Word Collective will be represented by two performers; Glenn Ashworth, with his hybrid word glide thru Pakeha and Maori kaupapa, and Ciara Mulholland, checking out of Godzone with a swansong appearance.

Tickets are $10 unwaged, $15 waged and the show starts at 8pm.

Word Collective events

Wellington poetry events info from the Word Collective:

Kia ora Spoken Word Whanau

A couple of updates:

Newtown library is hosting a spoken word evening this Friday July 18

"Read your own or someone else's"

Call Monty Masseurs (whata poetic name!) at the library for more info

Belfast Touring Poets
Happy
Monday 28th July

You may remember these hep cats from a Howltearoa show last year - they are big on the Poetry against Racism Kaupapa and are great performers. Apparently they want some Word Collective whanau to get up and speak and are keen to catch up with us before or after to nut out some ideas, re: World Domination or some such folly.

And of course if you need your weekly fix of spoken word, don't forget one of Wgtn's longest running open mics, at a new venue:

Poetry Studio is a weekly open mic poetry venue. Established in April 2004, it has happened every Sunday since then. It now runs from 3 til 5 pm at 128 Abel Smith Street. It's a relaxed gathering where you can listen to poetry of all shapes and sizes, or have a go at performing poetry yourself. Come along! Gold coin koha.

Get along and tell Steve Booth you heard about it from the Word Collective and he'll look after you!

Peace