6pm Speakeasy - Christmas Edition! - ft Erik Kennedy

6pm Speakeasy @ Austin Club: a spoken word event in the heart of Ōtautahi's CBD.

Coming at you live with a fresh new feature, last Wednesday or Thursday of every month.

MCed by Jor Dansaren and generously hosted by Austin Club Basement Bar - 161 Cashel Street, Christchurch.

Tickets available on following scale:

$5 - early bird/concession

$10 - general admission

$15 - generous admission

Tickets of each type limited - please consider choosing a ticket according to your capability to contribute. For any ticketing queries, please contact Jor Dansaren via Facebook..

Donations also welcome!

Door sales may be available, cash only.

Open mic sign ups from 5.45pm. Open mic kicks off 6pm with feature to follow.

This is the last 6pm Speakeasy of the year and we encourage you to bring a festive spirit! Dress up, wear a particularly ugly Christmas sweater, get in on the last open mic for the year.

November Christmas Edition feature: Erik Kennedy!

Erik Kennedy is the author of the poetry collections Another Beautiful Day Indoors (2022) and There's No Place Like the Internet in Springtime (2018), both with Te Herenga Waka University Press, and he co-edited No Other Place to Stand, a book of climate change poetry from Aotearoa and the Pacific (Auckland University Press, 2022). He edits poetry for takahē and was convening judge in poetry in the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. His extra-poetical interests include the sea, cats, football, old churches, vegan cookery, and the fall of capitalism. Originally from New Jersey, he lives in Ōtautahi Christchurch.

Head on down and Speakeasy with us!