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Friday 1 April, 2022

Open Microphone

MOONSHINE on the MICROPHONE

It is happening again this coming Thursday 7 July!
Collingwood’s own voice!
MOONSHINE OF THE MICROPHONE

Poets, story tellers, singers and musicians – you can register on the night. As Bob Dylan said, get on down to the MAD Cafe and ‘let your poor voice be heard’!!

Poems and stories and music plus a whole heap of bonhomie – The bar and kitchen will be operating as usual so plenty of time for a meal beforehand and drinks throughout the evening.

Hope to see you there, this Thursday.

Moonshine on the Microphone
MAD Cafe, Collingwood
This Thursday 7 July 2022, 7.30 pm.
$5 on the door

THE FUTURE IS NOW

One thing the bizarre use of mandates and vax passports has created is an alternative way of living, socialising and getting things done for those excluded from what was once ‘normal life’.

With the slow lifting of these passports and mandates – government is still hiding behind individual businesses by letting them decide for themselves if they will still require these measures – we have to decide what the future of Moonshine on the Microphone will be:

Do we continue? – Yes/No
How often do we hold it? – Fortnightly/monthly
Alternate Venue with Mussel Inn? – ‘Moonshine’ at one venue, ‘Acid’ at the other
Where do we hold it? – MAD/Mussel
What day do we hold it? – Wednesday/Thursday/Friday

You can let us know your thoughts through the comments box below. It would be good to get some feed back.

Spoken Word Live Performance

CARRIE RUDZINSKI & OLIVIA HALL

THEY are back, performing their new show Hysterical at the Mussel Inn on Thursday 19 May 2022. Don’t want to miss this one!

Women are frequently told they are too emotional – too hysterical – to be taken seriously, to be leaders of countries and companies, to be believed when pointing to their own hurt. Hysterical challenges these myths with poetry that confronts body politics, systemic sexism, and weeping uncontrollably in the supermarket.

Witness the reunion of internationally acclaimed poets Carrie Rudzinski and Olivia Hall, after the success of their previous show How We Survive.

Rudzinski is an award-winning poet, published author, and teaching artist and Hall is a celebrated poet and performer with a Masters in Gender Studies.

Hysterical intertwines social issues and personal stories to create a performance that is both confronting and accessible, powerful and needed. By weaving their voices together in duet, Rudzinski and Hall deliver a powerhouse performance encouraging the audience to laugh, cry, and experience emotion together.

Fierce, feminist, and fulfilling, Hysterical celebrates the multitudes of women and will leave you feeling empowered and alive. Come celebrate the hysteria in all of us.

Book via Eventfinda or enquire direct at The Mussel Inn or go here: hwspoetry.com/tour-dates

An Undivided Community

FREE UP THE MICROPHONE – on the move

It’s been quiet on the Village Green these last few weeks so thought we would try a relocation for a while. SOMA Cafe in Takaka have kindly welcomed us to their place for a lunch time session following on from Standing with Signs. We plan to be set up at Soma from 12.45 pm each Friday. We hope you can come and join us and take part in the open mic sessions with songs, provocations and poems.

The location changes but the message remains almost the same. The big thing is still that masks must be worn in retail outlets. It’s time to stop this foolishness and acknowledge that mask wearing is largely ineffective when it comes to stopping the spread of a virus. And they are the single biggest instrument of division still plaguing our community. They must go.

And although the ‘mandates’ have gone – or at least put into the back pocket for now – we want to see it mandated that people who lost their jobs must be offered them back with reinstatement of lost wages.

The vax passports have gone into the back pocket too which means all events can run freely for now and we must make certain it stays this way for evermore.

So you can see, the work is not done yet. And there is nothing like a poem or a song or a few well-chosen words to Free Up the Microphone and strengthen the heart in its bold stand. Planning to be at Soma Cafe, Takaka, every Friday from 12.45 pm, holding the space for an undivided community.

Free Up The Microphone
Soma Cafe, Takaka
Fridays, 12.45 pm