Yarra Valley Spoken Word Friday 11th July 2025
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
Feature Poet Bert Spinks
Bert Spinks is a poet, writer and bushwalking guide from Tasmania. He lives in an old train carriage in the forest. Bert’s work is largely about the relationships humans have with the environments in which they live. He has performed his stories and poems in a wide variety of settings over the last 15 years.
Bert was looking to create more opportunities on the mysterious mainland, and made the effort to get in contact with Yarra Valley Spoken Word and requested to attend. We’ve caught him travelling towards East Gippsland to make work commissioned for their Winter Festival (July 12-22) and are thrilled to be one of his stopovers on the way…
