Walking On Water
Mon, 23 July 2001, 08:49 pmWalter Plinge1 post in thread
Walking On Water
Mon, 23 July 2001, 08:49 pmWalking On Water
prose, poetry, plays, performance
at the WA Rowing Club Boatshed
REVIEW
Walking On Water, Thursday 12 July 2001 at the WA Rowing Club Boatshed, Riverside Drive, Perth, WA. A cold night and choppy river didn¹t keep the crowds away. The audience warmed the room beautifully, and a night of audience participation kept it that way. As we planned to finish the evening with dancing, all the open readers/performers were first on the program - Alan Hancock with his text piece That Dream, Debbie Hills with her short story Molly, Suzie Kettle with her prose piece The Doves, Dennis Greene with four poems and Liz Mistry with 2 poems of feelings in words on paper.
Julienne van Loon was our first guest performer. Julienne is currently the Emerging Writer in Residence at the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers Centre. She is perhaps best known locally via her role as Lecturer in Creative and Academic Writing with the School of Communication and Cultural Studies at Curtin University of Technology. Julienne has had her sudden fictions, prose poems and academic writing published in journals such as
Mattoid, Scarp, Verandah, Sidewalk and Text and is currently working on a triptych of novellas as part of her PhD with the University of Queensland.
Julienne engaged the audience with some of her very interesting characters.
Our next performer was Peta Lithgo. Peta has had a passion for songs and music from places far and near from an early age! She also enjoys learning a little about other cultures through singing the songs in their languages.
Most of all, she says ³music is a joy². Peta sang songs from a variety of countiries, including I Live Not Where I Love, Ni Chicha Ni Limona, E Mambo, Shalom Aleichem, Erev Ba and Unzer Nigundl. She delighted the audience by bringing along various percussion instruments for them to play. When they got the hang of it, they became part of the performance.
Roland Leach was next. Roland is the Head of English at Presbyterian Ladies College, Perth. His two collections of poetry are Shorelines: Three Poets (Fremantle Arts Press), and Drowning Ophelia. He has set up a poetry press (Sunline Press) to publish Australian poets in hardback editions. He was the recipient of a Poetry Grant from the Australia Council where he
travelled to Easter Island, Peru and the Galapagos Island. He has won most of the prestigious poetry prizes in Australia - 1995 Newcastle Poetry Prize, was runner-up the following year, as well as winning the 1998 Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize and two Tom Collins Prizes. He wowed the audience with several poems - about the sea, Darwin¹s pistols, children dressed in yellow
and green and the Galapagos Booby.
The final performance was by Hora Shalom, Israeli Dance Group. This brightly coloured, dedicated group of dancers lit up the room with their costumes of pink, gold, aqua and blue. Not only do they dance well, but they enjoy it too, as demonstrated by their broad smiles. The audience clapped and tapped their way through the performance, until it was their turn. For the final dance, we were encouraged to get up and join in the fun and most of us did.
We certainly weren¹t cold when we left WOW for another night.
Make sure you don¹t miss the next WOW event on Thursday 9 August, 7pm for a 7.30pm start.
Our guests will be: Glen Spoors - singer songwriter, Margot Lowe - writer, Mal McKimmie - poet, Pascale Michelle and Margaret Claire - singer and piano accordionist. See you there.
prose, poetry, plays, performance
at the WA Rowing Club Boatshed
REVIEW
Walking On Water, Thursday 12 July 2001 at the WA Rowing Club Boatshed, Riverside Drive, Perth, WA. A cold night and choppy river didn¹t keep the crowds away. The audience warmed the room beautifully, and a night of audience participation kept it that way. As we planned to finish the evening with dancing, all the open readers/performers were first on the program - Alan Hancock with his text piece That Dream, Debbie Hills with her short story Molly, Suzie Kettle with her prose piece The Doves, Dennis Greene with four poems and Liz Mistry with 2 poems of feelings in words on paper.
Julienne van Loon was our first guest performer. Julienne is currently the Emerging Writer in Residence at the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers Centre. She is perhaps best known locally via her role as Lecturer in Creative and Academic Writing with the School of Communication and Cultural Studies at Curtin University of Technology. Julienne has had her sudden fictions, prose poems and academic writing published in journals such as
Mattoid, Scarp, Verandah, Sidewalk and Text and is currently working on a triptych of novellas as part of her PhD with the University of Queensland.
Julienne engaged the audience with some of her very interesting characters.
Our next performer was Peta Lithgo. Peta has had a passion for songs and music from places far and near from an early age! She also enjoys learning a little about other cultures through singing the songs in their languages.
Most of all, she says ³music is a joy². Peta sang songs from a variety of countiries, including I Live Not Where I Love, Ni Chicha Ni Limona, E Mambo, Shalom Aleichem, Erev Ba and Unzer Nigundl. She delighted the audience by bringing along various percussion instruments for them to play. When they got the hang of it, they became part of the performance.
Roland Leach was next. Roland is the Head of English at Presbyterian Ladies College, Perth. His two collections of poetry are Shorelines: Three Poets (Fremantle Arts Press), and Drowning Ophelia. He has set up a poetry press (Sunline Press) to publish Australian poets in hardback editions. He was the recipient of a Poetry Grant from the Australia Council where he
travelled to Easter Island, Peru and the Galapagos Island. He has won most of the prestigious poetry prizes in Australia - 1995 Newcastle Poetry Prize, was runner-up the following year, as well as winning the 1998 Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize and two Tom Collins Prizes. He wowed the audience with several poems - about the sea, Darwin¹s pistols, children dressed in yellow
and green and the Galapagos Booby.
The final performance was by Hora Shalom, Israeli Dance Group. This brightly coloured, dedicated group of dancers lit up the room with their costumes of pink, gold, aqua and blue. Not only do they dance well, but they enjoy it too, as demonstrated by their broad smiles. The audience clapped and tapped their way through the performance, until it was their turn. For the final dance, we were encouraged to get up and join in the fun and most of us did.
We certainly weren¹t cold when we left WOW for another night.
Make sure you don¹t miss the next WOW event on Thursday 9 August, 7pm for a 7.30pm start.
Our guests will be: Glen Spoors - singer songwriter, Margot Lowe - writer, Mal McKimmie - poet, Pascale Michelle and Margaret Claire - singer and piano accordionist. See you there.