7-ON PLAYWRIGHTS: Readings of jazz poetry from extempore

Saturday, 8 January 2011

Readings of jazz poetry from extempore

If you happen to be in Sydney next Saturday, why not come along to the Readings of jazz poetry from extempore at the Macleay Bookshop, 103 Macleay Street, Potts Point? I'm (this is Noëlle) reading along with fellow poets Andrew Lindsay, Lynn Hard, Nigel Roberts and Arjun von Caemmerer.

Saturday 15 January, 6:00—8:00.

Hope you can come.

1 comment:

Terese said...: Hi, let's play where are they now and think about women playwrights.
Taking the last 10 years of winners of the Patrick White Playwrights Award, there have been 5 women. Ningali Lawford whose imdb entry does not credit her writing. Patricia Cornelius work can be found through the www.doollee.com/Playwrights database both published and performed and unpublished. Bette Guy has been writing for 20 years now and credits work with both professional and amateur theatre. Alisa Piper is only known today for her acting.
The question I put forward is How important is it to make the connection from creativity to commercialism. Are we a generation of women writers with uncommercialised creativity? Does it matter? Do we want it to? I googles "women's playwrighting collectives" and came up with 1000s of entries. Maybe as women writers we are just working it too tight at the margin. I am going to vote for positives here though.; 4 February 2011 at 18:55

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7-ON Playwrights was established in 2005 by Donna Abela, Catherine Zimdahl, Ned Manning, Noëlle Janaczewska, Vanessa Bates, Verity Laughton and Hilary Bell. Seven minds that don’t think alike but are simpatico in this—our belief in the transformative properties of our artform and its place in Australian culture. With over 200 plays between us, our work has been produced on stages across Australia. Internationally, we have been produced in Botswana, the US, the UK, the Czech Republic, Sweden, Hong Kong, Ireland, New Zealand, Germany, Denmark, France, Canada, Vietnam, Korea and Japan. We have over 40 awards between us including: 14 Australian Writers’ Guild Awards, 4 Griffin Playwriting Awards, 3 Premiers’ Literary Awards, 4 Inscription Awards, an Adelaide Critics’ Circle Prize, a Phillip Parsons Young Playwright’s Award, a Wyndham Campbell Prize, a Centenary Medal, a Patrick White Playwrights’ Fellowship, and a Human Rights Award for Drama. As 7-ON we advocate for playwrights, initiate performance and publishing projects, and support and celebrate each other’s work. We create projects that are best served by a multitude of voices. These have included The Seven Needs (Griffin, 2007), Thus Spake Zarathustra (Wollongong University, 2008), Long Shadows (STC workshop, 2009), Platonic (Hothouse development, 2013), We Are The Ghosts Of The Future (Rocks Discovery Museum, 2015), and various works under the banner of Old Texts Revisited (ABC Radio, 2009), I Contain Multitudes (Novemberism Playwriting Festival, 2011) and No Nudity, Weapons or Naked Flames (MayDay! Playwrights’ Festival, 2013) which presented a selection of monologues from our anthology of the same name published by the Federation Press in 2012. We are also included in Currency Press’ anthology of short plays Short Circuit (2009).