Talk to the body: poetry in motion
Friday 25 October, 5:35 pm
The Capitol Theatre
Image by Elijah Grimm
How do our bodies move through time and space? What will ageing look like in a future shaped by AI and automation?
Alex Creece (poet, collage artist, average kook), Beau Windon (poet, author, fanboy) and Frankie van Kan (interdisciplinary queer artist and serial nudist) take to the stage to explore growth, change and metamorphosis – physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually – through original works of poetry. MC’ed by poet, novelist and drama enthusiast Clare Strahan, this session will culminate in a special performance of the collaborative audience poem assembled from your contributions during the Phases/Futures: verse by verse event.
Featuring
Alex Creece
Alex Creece is a writer, editor, poet, collage artist and average kook living on Wadawurrung Country. She works in editorial roles for Archer Magazine, Cordite Poetry Review and Sunder Journal. Alex's debut poetry collection is Potty Mouth, Potty Mouth (Cordite Books, 2024).
Find Alex at Instagram @roguedyke and creecedpaper.com
Photography by Hailey Moroney (@haileymoroney_)
Beau Windon
Beau Windon is a neurodivergent writer of Wiradjuri descent based in Naarm. He writes quirky stories about quirky people and all of the dark goo living inside him. He is a finalist for the 2024 Writers Prize in the Melbourne Prize for Literature and is more confident on a stage in front of an audience than in social gatherings.
Find Beau at Instagram @whoisbeauwindon and beauwindon.com.
Vote for Beau in the Melbourne Prize Civic Choice Award at melbourneprize.org/vote-now/
Frankie van Kan
Frankie van Kan, aka Frankie Valentine, is an interdisciplinary queer artist working with live performance, costume, the written word and dance. Writer, sex worker and parent living in Naarm, she is devoted to spreading the gospel of pleasure through her work both onstage and off. Her practice explores the liberation of the female body, sex/uality, and queerness.
Her debut solo show, A Body at Work, directed by Maude Davey, recently completed a season at La Mama theatre and Adelaide fringe to rave reviews. She has performed all over Australia and Europe including Paris Burlesque Festival, Edinburgh, The National Gallery of Victoria, Sydney World Pride and Melbourne Writers Festival. She has written for Archer Magazine, Lip Magazine and Bowen Street Press.
Find Frankie at Instagram @frankievankan
Clare Strahan
Clare teaches fiction and creative nonfiction in RMIT’s Professional Writing and Editing associate degree, has a Master in Writing for Performance from the Victorian College of the Arts (University of Melbourne), and is undertaking a PhD (creative writing) at La Trobe University. She is the editor of five nonfiction books in the Actor of the Future series (Temple Lodge Publishing, 2014–22). She studied poetry under the esteemed mentorship of Dawn Langman and the late, great Dr Ania Walwicz. Cracked (Allen & Unwin, 2014) was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards and The Learning Curves of Vanessa Partridge (Allen & Unwin, 2018) was shortlisted for the Readings YA Prize. She’s the creator of the Literary Rats cartoon and flutters about the X-Twittersphere as @9fragments.
Find Clare at X/Twitter @9fragments and find details of Clare’s books here.