Gran Slam LIVE
Event description
Listen Up! A wild bunch of free-wheeling wordsmiths of wisdom are breaking into your lounge room.
This fully charged, provocative, entertaining and razor-sharp collective (who just happen to be between 60 and 99 years young) are ready to be heard and have a slam poem to lay down for you.
Gran Slam LIVE is a FREE, interactive spoken word event, live streamed direct to the comfort of your own home.
This BOLD affair will be hosted by award-winning comedian and cabaret artist, Jenny Wynter, with special guest appearances by Luka Lesson and Sarah Temporal and music by Gordon Hamilton and Tom Thum.
Get ready for a big Friday night IN, as these unsuspecting stars storm our virtual stage, raise the roof and share stories of life, freedom, skateboarding, loves, lost loves, lost keys, the comedy of biology, speeding fines, torn masts, dry rot and setting sail into a misty sea of metaphors!
Gran Slam is a project by Everybody NOW! Proudly presented by founding partners Feros Care.
NOTE: Event times are 7PM – 8:30PM AEDT or 6PM - 7.30PM QLD TIME
Event is held via vimeo. Click the Link below for access
https://vimeo.com/event/503110
ADDITIONAL INFO:
Gran Slam LIVE is the culmination of an 8 week online workshop program where 40 seniors from across Queensland and New South Wales have been mentored weekly by spoken word artists and writers Luka Lesson and Sarah Temporal.
The participants have not only written several new pieces of their own but have also created two extraordinary collaborative poems which have been lovingly crafted into two film clips accompanied by original music composed by internationally acclaimed musicians Gordon Hamilton and Tom Thum.
You'll be able to vote live as part of the digital event, as these poems go head to head in a state of origin battle with a difference.
Gran Slam was launched in 2019 and after a huge success it was back in 2020 with a COVID safe program delivered all online. Now more than ever we need to hear the voices of older Australians, amplified and visible to the world and that is what Gran Slam is all about.
Gran Slam is a collaboration between performance producers, Everybody NOW and people care provider, Feros Care - two organisations that share a commitment to smashing stereotypes around age and ability and supporting communities to live bolder lives.
Find out more about Feros Care
https://www.feroscare.com.au/g...
And Everybody NOW!