The original custodians of the Yarra Valley, the Wurundjeri people, didn’t write. Their wisdom travelled through time in songs, stories and dance. We acknowledge this land’s indigenous ancestors and elders, oral historians of the dream-time. This poetry gathering sits on the shoulders of countless generations of wisdom keepers and spoken-word story tellers.
Welcome to our Yarra Valley Spoken Word Community.
We meet at The Dreaming Space Academy at Yarra Valley ECOSS, Wesburn on the second Friday of the month and welcome you to join us and share your musings.
Ours is a space to share the power of the spoken word, be inspired by our community of artists and learn to write and share life’s depths through this life changing art form.
Families are welcome until after supper, we have a feature artist each month and then Open Mic.
Spoken Word is an inclusive project.
Entry and Supper is now by donation, we never turn people away!
Suggested Donation:
$15 Full / $10 Concession
$5 Supper, $5 Chai
Program
6pm – Doors open/Music
6.30 – Poetry workshop & open mic
7.00 – Dinner
7.30 – Feature poet (12yrs+)
8.00 – Open mic
Call Andy: 0415 734 744 or Chris: 0414 306 772
or search Yarra Valley Spoken Word on Facebook.
Hi fellow Spoken Word fans!
Please join us in welcoming Nathan Derek Spotswood as Feature Poet Friday 13th June 2025.
Nathan’s Bio:
Spoken word performer, prolific thinker, and ineffably profound wordsmith Nathan Derek Spotswood will be offering the Yarra Valley arts community a rare glimpse into his collected works, to observe the tenacious nature of his creative exploration.
Developing an insatiable infatuation with the possibilities of the written word, he aims to activate an enduring contribution to the creative vocation of the literary arts in amazing and exciting ways.
The prowess he possesses by being able to access his uncommonly capacious vocabulary has allowed him to delve with such an immersive leap traveling down the countless quantity of wormholes within our consciousness.
By recapturing his childlike curiosity and courageously following it into uncharted worlds he arrives at immaculate destinations.
This propulsive operating system perpetually birthing contemporary components of his imagination eventually returns to reality to illuminate a conceptual path lighting the way for others to follow and discover an aspect of the universe that was previously concealed but now appears to them on the page with magnificent clarity.
Optimistically, this process becomes a powerful catalyst for further introspection within themselves thus launching the inception of an additional element that ultimately becomes ingrained within one’s intrinsic nature, radically realigning fate as this different course of trajectory wouldn’t have emerged into one’s independent senses, awareness, epistemology and worldview without encountering the astonishing transformative quality of words… placed together in a unique sequence that supplies them with the power to pounce off the page into our lives, redefining what one manifests, never to be the same again.
More biographical information about Nathan Derek Spotswood can be found online by navigating his official entrepreneurial website: touchthepaintproductions.com.au
Nathan invites you to Transform your fate Friday the 13th of June!
