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Perth Poetry Club has wonderful poet Kaya Ortiz plus open-mike this Saturday 31st August, 2pm-4pm at The Moon Café and on ZOOM.
Kaya Ortiz is a queer Filipino poet of in/articulate identities and record-keeper of ancient histories. Kaya hails from the southern islands of Mindanao and lutruwita/Tasmania and is obsessed with the fluidity of borders, memory and time.
Starting out in nipaluna’s open mic scene in 2016, Kaya has performed spoken word poetry and oral storytelling in nipaluna/Hobart, Ngunnawal country/Canberra, Tarntanya/Adelaide, and Boorloo/Perth. In 2017 they competed in the Australian Poetry Slam at the local and state levels.
Since first being published in 2018, Kaya’s writing has appeared in various online and print journals and anthologies, including Cordite, Portside Review, Westerly, Australian Poetry Journal, Best of Australian Poems 2021, Breathing Space (Tasmanian Land Conservancy 2021) and After Australia (Affirm Press 2020).
In 2019 they were a Hot Desk Fellow at the Centre for Stories in Boorloo and a participant in Express Media’s Toolkits: Poetry program. They were also a participant in Westerly’s 2019 Writers’ Development Program. In 2020, 2021 and 2023, Kaya appeared at various writes festivals, including the Emerging Writers’ Festival, Perth Festival of Literature & Ideas, and the Margaret River Readers and Writers’ Festival. From 2022-23 Kaya was a mentee of the Four Centres Emerging Writers’ Program with WA Poets. In this time they were also awarded with an Emerging Writers’ Fellowship under the Centre for Stories’ Writing Change, Writing Inclusion program, to complete their first collection of poetry.
They were shortlisted for the 68th Blake Poetry Prize in 2024, and not to be outdone were winner of the 2024 Dorothy Hewett Award for their unpublished poetry manuscript Past and Parallel Lives.
By day Kaya lives, works and writes on unceded Whadjuk Noongar country, where their name means ‘hello’ in the Noongar language. By night, beside their beloved, they dream of wilderness and the call of the sea.
Please join us to celebrate poetry,
this Saturday, 31st August 2024, 2pm to 4pm Perth Aus WST (GMT+8hrs).
Kaya Ortiz plus open-mike
at The Moon Café, 323 William Street, Northbridge and on ZOOM
Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84254037443
A great space to be on a Saturday afternoon at The Moon and on Zoom.
In weeks to come, we have:
31-Aug-24
Kaya Ortiz + open-mike
7-Sep-24
Mega Open-mike event (Room only, No Zoom) (5 minutes max for each open-miker)
14-Sep-24
Jackson, visiting from NZ + open-mike
21-Sep-21
Danno Hansen & Angela Costi (VIC) + open-mike
28-Sep-21
Marngrook special (Elio Novello) + open-mike
It’s AFL grand final time, but come and learn about how Aussie Rules first started or did it start this way?
… All with open-mike, not to be missed …