There is a performance of poetry on Sunday 5th of June, 2011 at The Briars Park, Mt Martha. The event which starts at 2pm, coincides with
World Environment Day and is being held to launch the Mornington Peninsula "Go Green" poetry competition. The competition is presented by the South Eastern Centre for Sustainability ,with the talented Andrea Louise Thomas, sharing her performance poetry skills to introduce this artistic sport, and possibly entice you to enter.
The Mornington Peninsula National Park
The
Go Green poetry slam is is inviting entries from those wishing to display their performance poetry skills, as well as written entries. The competition is open to all ages, with special categories for primary and secondary students. Entries are welcome from 5th of June to the 15th of September, 2011. Judging will take place in October as part of the Mornington Peninsula Festival of Arts and Ideas: Arts Alive 2011 program.
The Weedy Sea Dragon by J & A Jonez. Flickrr cc.
This event is aimed at evoking thought, inspiration and discourse on sustainability and environment. Sustainability can refer to how you water the garden, what energy you use, or the impact of increasing traffic flow on the natural environment; The local flora and fauna. A donkey orchid or a manna gum. The gentle wattles or a Kookaburras song. The Koalas that were at Somers Beach or Gunnamatta beach.
Koala @ Peacedale by Lauri Vain. Flickr cc.
Along with
Andrea Louise Thomas, the current Mornington Library Poet in Residence and Benjamin 'IQ' Sanders, each experienced performance poets who will present environmentally inspired works for those attending this Sunday. Andrea, by the way is the Competitions Director.
Afternoon tea will be served and speeches made. The local member for Flinders will open the event, and you may get the opportunity to bend his ear on eco politics whilst there. As he is a patron of the South Eastern Centre for Sustainability, it might be interesting to discover what he sees as relevant to the environment and sustainability for the Mornington Peninsula in a time when infrastructure and development is creeping beyond the suburban limits.
Gunnumatta
So, if you feel inspired, passionate, empowered to communicate, incite thought or discuss sustainability now, then or for the future, this might be your opportunity.
Maybe you would like to learn more about performance poetry and support World Environment Day, the event on Sunday 5th of June may well be something you will find stimulating and inspiring.
You might even be inspired to do something other than spending your weekends glued to the television, or attending at a game where grown men chase a pig skin ball around to kick between a few sticks at either end of a concrete stadium.
Westerfield after the dozers
The
South Eastern Centre for Sustainability asks that people wishing to attend RSVP by phone : 0439388676 or via
email.
