Assorted Sporks is a free queer friendly regular poetry and performance night at Mamma Chen's on Thursday the 26th of June

Featuring; Juniper Ruth Ariel Maffescioni

Theme: Canines

Themes are not mandatory, they are just to encourage you to experiment with your writing and improvisation. Feel free to make it weird.

Juniper Ruth Ariel Maffescioni (she/her) is an artist and poet living and working on Wurundjeri country.

Glassblower by day, and feral hedonist (poet) by night, Juniper recounts her experiences of love, transness, and deeply intimate t4t connections in her often erotic and visceral poetry. She tends to navigate her sensuality in a holistic sense. Juniper's writing finds boundless self love, healing, and human connection in the romanticising of the arbitrary, the intricate, and the intense.

7:00 pm for a 7:30 pm start, sign up will be available on the night.

5 minute limit.

Perform your poetry, creative writing or performance art on the open mic to a friendly audience or come and be part of the crowd. There are going to be themes, writing prompts and improvised creativity (2 lines to a theme to music). Completely free. For more information check the Facebook events closer to the date. Hosted by Loran Steinberg (they/them) Music by George O'Hara (he/they).

To keep this event a safe space for everyone, there will be no hate speech or your mic will be turned off and you may be asked to leave the stage.

Mamma Chen's is a wheelchair accessible venue however, the stage is not; we can organise lift access to the stage if you contact us at least a week prior to the event.

Mamma Chen’s acknowledges the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and the Bunurong peoples of the Kulin Nation, the true owners of the land that we live and operate on. We would like to pay our respects to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.