Workshop your poem: with Fleassy Malay

Workshop your poem: with Fleassy Malay

Friday, December 4th
6.30pm-8pm
Old Government House, Parramatta Park
Home of WestWords, Western Sydney Centre for Writing

Join this workshop with a poem you’re ready to refine. In this poetry workshop, participants will learn to ‘edit on the tongue’. Come prepared to speak your poem out loud and workshop your poem on a microphone -- with the support and guidance of special guest workshop host Fleassy Malay. Learn to develop and adapt your poem with the discoveries made throughout the process.

Tickets are $25 for adults
Tickets are $20 for concession

Two times TEDx speaker, award-winning poet, Fleassy Malay, is an internationally renowned, evocative and powerful spoken word artist, speaker and educator. They are a global advocate for Women’s and LGBTQI+ rights and a fierce voice for the power of authenticity and courage as a social change tool.

Fleassy is the founder of Melbourne’s acclaimed NFP organisation and Women's Spoken Word event, Mother Tongue Poetry. Winner of the Reciter of the year at the 2022 National Folk Festival, and Nominated to represent Melbourne at Slamovision in Dublin Unesco City of Literature in 2025. Fleassy was also on the first slam team to represent Australia in the National Poetry Slam USA in 2017. Fleassy has a theatrical and yet deeply authentic performance, writing, and speaking style, renowned for captivating their audiences with depth, honesty, and humour. They are a queer, neurodivergent, British poet now living and raising a child in Naarm, on the lands of the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation.

Where:
WestWords Centre for Writing at Old Government House, Parramatta Park
Cnr Pitt and, Macquarie St, Parramatta NSW 2150
"The Welcome Room"

Parking is available in Parramatta Park, free after 6pm. Parramatta Station is within 15 minute walking distance. 

Any questions, please contact ally@westwords.com.au