CRAP is coming in 🔥HOT🔥 from the amazing talent we saw perform at our Stand Up Comedy Showcase earlier this month

*drum roll please*

We are holding our first ever 👄 POETRY SLAM👄 besties!!!

That's right - a finger-snapping performance poetry showcase night hosted and headlined by Mohammad Awad, the insanely talented Queer/Arab/Muslim and Writer /Director/Poet/Playwright!!!

Featuring amazing POC talent including, Elena Garcia Araujo: Mexican and South American journalist, photographer and poet & Hebah Ali: Co-director of CRAP's first-ever POC revue and talented up and coming writer based in Western Sydney.

PLUS we have ✨new talent✨ and all we can say -- is be prepared...the talent WILL KNOCK YOUR SOCKS OFF!! 🧦
Our lineup from our performance poetry workshops were coached by none other than Mohammad himself🕺

Sign up here to perform:
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Headliner bio🎤

Mohammad Awad is the insanely multi-talented person who’s running out of ways to express himself. While he spends most of his time as a spoken word artist, he also writes and directs short films and visual poems such as The Flower, The Messenger and Beauty Marks.

Published in an anthology series ‘Arab, Australian, Other’ among writers such as Sara Saleh and Randa Abdel-Fattah as well as The University of Sydney Student Anthology 'Diversity’. He has been featured in the Daily Telegraph, 614 Magazine, Honi-Soit magazine, and is a Bankstown Poetry Grand Slam finalist for three consecutive years. Mohammad is a NSW State finalist in 2019s Australian Poetry Slam, taking first place in Western Sydney finals. He has also featured in the Sydney Writers Festival, Sydney Mardi Gras,
Sydney Living Museums - After Dark, The ICC, Sydney Festival 2019, The West Ball 2020/2021, Word in Hand, Red Room Poetry, Giant Dwarf Theatre, Westside Slam, Enough Said Slam,
Weave Youths’ Mad Pride Concert, White Ribbon events and Project Opinion. In addition to being featured on ABC and SBS television, ABC Radio, SBS Radio, Eastside Radio, 2SER and FBI Radio.

Featuring bio's 🎤

✍🏾 Hebah Ali ✍🏾

Writer and director based in Western Sydney. She graduated from UTS in 2021 with a degree in Communications (Media, Arts and Production) and directed her first short film ‘Angrezee’ in 2021. She is passionate about diversity and representation in the arts and is co-directing CRAP’s first-ever POC Revue

💃🏻 Elena Garcia Araujo 💃🏻

An Australia-born fierce and creative Uruguayan & Mexican journalist, photographer and poet. She is currently pursuing a degree at the University of Technology in Sydney, majoring in Journalism, her goal is to gain as much hands-on experience as possible and to continue to create meaningful documentaries that create reform and impact, she is particularly passionate about social justice issues around gender and race. Her poetry is all about authenticity and vulnerability as a human soul and around her identity