Walking along a waterway being present with nature can be a healing practice, but how we understand that healing depends on how we’re relating to the place (and vice versa). Being grounded, outside, attentive to place is not a neutral experience, especially not in a settler colonial country on stolen Indigenous land, where our journeys to and experience of the place, and our own bodies, desires and identities are all different.
In queer solidarity with anti-colonial struggle, this Open Mic Creek Walk invites people to walk Black Gully wetlands and listen carefully to place and each other. The walk will start and end at the NERAM Café. And, as with a regular Open Mic night, a list of names of people wanting to read/sing/play their work or the work of others will be created. There is a five minute limit to readings/performances along the walk. We will walk along the creek stopping intermittently at specific spots along the way. We will bring a microphone. A small archive of the event will be created with names and titles of the performers, and (with full consent) images and text.
The open mic walk duration is a bit dependent on participation, but it will be a maximum of 2 hours long.
THE EVENT IS PART OF WINTER BLOOMING FESTIVAL: TICKETS AVAILABLE here
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