Assorted Sporks is a free queer friendly regular poetry and performance night at Mamma Chen's on Thursday November 20th

Featuring: Osi Fisher

Theme: Memories

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

Osi Fisher is a performance poet. Inspired by American minimalism and the sound of language, he writes about the following subjects, among others:

- The stutter; the gap between the words where they might begin to change or suddenly move onto a different subject.

- Shape and cadence; how much is communicated in speech beyond just the words themselves.

- Internal experience, and the difficulties of putting what we are into a sentence-shaped box that can be understood.

- His cat, Ronly H. Bing.

7:00 pm Start, host will be there from 6pm.

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 (15 words to a theme to music). Completely free. For more information check the 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.