Rising Voices Workshop: Embodying Words for Stage

As part of the Rising Voices Fellowship, Mother Tongue Poetry is presenting a series of public workshops to upskill and equip local writers beyond our core fellowship group. The workshop themes will be set by the journey the Fellows decide to take and will be designed to support their progress whilst also allowing the wider community to engage with the program.

The Rising Voices Fellowship is made possible through a Banyule Arts and Culture Project Grant.

WORKSHOP: Embodying Words for Stage
Bring a couple of poems and explore different ways to activate and breathe your words to life using mindfulness exercises and theatrical and performance techniques with trained workshop facilitator and award winning multihyphenate performer Tariro Mavondo. This will be a warm, welcoming and non judgement explorative container to kinaesthetically and somatically build muscle memory on how to tap into your performer self and give yourself permission for your unique essence to shine bright no matter what stage you are on.

LOCATION:
Ivanhoe Library and Cultural Hub - Wilim Ngarrgu Community Meeting Room 1
Fully Wheelchair Accessible

FACILITOR BIO:
Tariro Mavondo has been a creative workshop facilitator for nearly twenty years her origin story as a facilitator started at the Centre for Cultural Partnerships at the VCA working in public housing estates with primary school students and in primary schools in the western suburbs of Naarm. After Tariro graduated from the VCA with a Bachelor of Dramatic Arts and an Irene Mitchell Award for acting and her ability to make connections in the art sector through her community arts practice she travelled to California and trained in movement based expressive arts facilitation at The Tamalpa Institute in 2015-2016.

Since then Tariro has been a Lead Artist Facilitator at St Martins Youth Arts Centre, Lead Artist Facilitator, Assistant Director, Artistic Director/co-CEO at Western Edge Youth Arts, Lead Artist Facilitator at Platform Youth, Poetry Facilitator at Centre for Poetics and Justice, Facilitator School’s Facilitator at Bell Shakespeare, Facilitator and mentor in the Kwabo Incubator Program, Facilitator for The Hate Race Labrish Program at Malthouse Theatre and has provided 1:1 workshops for artists in St Lucia and Barbados.

Tariro also facilitates her own workshops independently her flagship offerings are Kuenda Mberi and Sankofa. Tariro has a facilitated in education, prison, community, hospital, art sector settings and is passionate about supporting people’s personal and professional growth. 

Mother Tongue Poetry is a local organisation committed to equipping and amplifying the voices of women and gender diverse people who align with the experiences of womanhood. 

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