https://www.facebook.com/events/1769757263163358
Climate poetry! Creative responses to the climate and ecological crisis from poets, writers and other citizens in Perth, Western Australia
Michael Williams, Liana Joy Christensen, Allan Padget, Tara Hurst, Deanne Leber, Natalie D-Napoleon, Jackson, Allan Boyd
Limited open mike
via Zoom
Monday 4 May 2020
7-9pm AWST (Perth, Western Australia: UTC+8)
PDF and print books will be for sale online, raising funds for the Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) and the WA Forest Alliance (WAFA).
Hosted by Voicebox.
MC Vivienne Glance.
Details and links at
https://www.facebook.com/events/1769757263163358
‘Letters to Our Home’ was conceived during the Australian bushfire crisis in the summer of 2019/2020. It was inspired by the northern hemisphere publication ‘Letters to the Earth’ and like that publication we hope creative responses to the growing climate, biodiversity and environmental crises will help us come to terms with the situation we collectively face, nurture our spirits and inspire us to take, and to demand, action.
The contributors to this collection vary from school-age children to parents, workers and retired people, published poets and newcomers. They write from their hearts and are inspired by their passion to see art as a selfless act of giving, and as activism.
We hope you enjoy this brief journey around Western Australia’s unique precious places and how we as humans live within them.
Profits from the sale of Letters to Our Home will be split between the Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) and the WA Forest Alliance (WAFA). The EDO fight tirelessly to protect the environment from legislative harm, and WAFA has worked for decades to save our old-growth native forests from destructive logging and other harms.
We’ll have 8 readers from ‘Letters to Our Home’, and short open mic brackets to start and end.