Open late — Inciting Joy Celebration & Multilingual Poetry Reading/Listening Circle with guest speaker Jaye Kranz

Faaosofia Le Olioli /Aguçando Alegria/ Ka jingpynshlur ia ka jingkmen / Inciting Joy

Open late — Inciting Joy Celebration & Multilingual Poetry Reading/Listening Circle with guest speaker Jaye Kranz
Friday, 23 May, 6:30-9:00 PM - Closing evening in the exhibition space (change of date)
Location: correspondences Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country 39 Sydney Road Bulleke-bek (Brunswick) VIC

Once a month, at correspondences, on a Friday, from 6:30 p.m., we explore our latest artist residency exhibit together. Then, we settle down to read or listen to poetry together until 8:00 p.m. We ask our guests to please bring a poem to share/read in whatever language they like. Or, just come to listen. All are welcome - writers of poetry, lovers of poetry and those who might be new to poetry.

On 23 May, our poetry reading circle celebrates the final two weeks of Inciting Joy, our current artist residency project. We are honoured to have poet, writer, musician and documentary audio maker Jaye Kranz with us as our guest speaker to mark this special occasion. From 6:30 p.m., guests are invited to explore Cecilia Sordi Campos' latest visual art exhibit. Then, we will hear from our speaker. Afterwards, we will enjoy some refreshments together. If folks wish to linger, they can join our poetry circle to share a little poetry before the evening ends. Our doors remain open until 9:00 p.m.

If you're unable to make it, please join us another time throughout the week. We'd also love you to join us the week after for Inciting Joy: A Celebration & Community Performance, 30 May, 6:30-9:00 PM at Balam Balam Place, where Tiana and our community singers - including Cecilia - will perform! Tickets are available now [here].

Credit: Cecilia Sordi Campos, Alegria # 6 (detail), 2024, mixed media, dimensions variable © Cecilia Sordi Campos

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Attendance is free. Bookings are essential. Donations to support our ongoing work are gratefully received. 

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Guest Speaker Jaye Kranz

Bio: Jaye Kranz is a poet, writer, musician and documentary audio maker living on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung people in Naarm (Melbourne). She is the recipient of an Emerging Writers Grant from the Australia Council for the Arts (now Creative Australia) and the Queens Trust Fund (for Writing). She was awarded the 2025 Plaza Prize for Poetry (judged by Natalie Diaz). Her poems have appeared in: Best of Australian Poems, Verse Daily, The Cincinnati Review, West Branch, The Florida Review, Foglifter, The Marrow International Poetry Journal, and Frozen Sea. Her fiction and nonfiction has been published in The Monthly, Australian Book Review, short story collections and a compendium of four novellas. Jaye was shortlisted for the 2024 Tom Collins Poetry Prize and her award-winning sound-rich audio features have been commissioned for BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 3, ABC RN, Arts Centre Melbourne, and the State Library of Victoria. Her debut album, The Wolves, released under her moniker Brighter Later, was nominated for the Australian Music Prize. She is writing her first collection of poems. Find her at www.jayekranz.com

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Acknowledgements
We respectfully acknowledge the Sovereign Custodians of the land and waters upon which we live and work, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders, past, present and emerging. We extend this respect to all First Peoples.

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