Poem Seeds and Stories: a creative morning for mutual aid

Seeds are the organic, powerful things of hope, growth and gardens. Join walking artist Amy Tsilemanis and poet and author Nadia Rhook in the beautiful Food is Free workshop space and surrounding gardens, where we’ll spend a nourishing morning together  ­– sharing stories in and about gardens, creating seed-y, organic poems, and connecting with the layered life of Ballarat East, on Wadawurrung Country.  

Activities include:

   Audio stories and walking in the Ballarat East gardens with Amy

   Poetry and poem prompts with Nadia

   Organic poetry collage activity

Your ticket also includes:

   Light homemade morning tea (v/gf options)

   Collage materials

The spirit of the morning:

We offer this event in the spirit of supporting Palestinian freedom and self-determination. All proceeds for ticket sales will go to mutual aid to support the families of our friends Aseel and Hadeel, who are surviving the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

More campaign details and links to donate directly are here:

For Hadeel and family: https://chuffed.org/project/babyhelp

For Aseel and family: https://chuffed.org/project/173297-help-aid-aseel-and-her-family

Your facilitators:

Nadia Rhook is a non-Indigenous writer, historian and editor, living in Ballaarat, on beautiful Wadawurrung Country. Nadia writes about ecology, colonialism and love, and is the author of boots (UWA Publishing) and Second Fleet Baby (Fremantle Press). Her forthcoming poetry collection, Stone Veins, traces histories of bluestone mining and haunting, and will be released by Cordite Books in 2027. www.nadiarhook.com @nadiarhook.writer

Dr Amy Tsilemanis (A.T Studio) is an artist, producer, curator, and researcher, based in Ballarat Australia on Wadawurrung Country. She works in the GLAM sector, and across audio storytelling, poetry, collage, participatory walks, and installation, exploring connections to place and to each other through time. https://amytsilemanis.com.au/ @amytinderbox