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Slamalama News... Come join us on March 31st for features from Abe Nouk and Nel Da Silva!
For centuries Artists have been fascinated by the mysteries of what lies at the centre of our universe, our being, our purpose on the planet.
Into the centre we go.
The theme this month at Slama is optional but we love trying to enchant your writing flow zone and build a fire under our collective explorations!
Some questions to consider if you'd like to tackle the theme this month.
What is at the centre of your practice that you keep spiralling back to?
How does the contents of your centre (physical or metaphorical) stabilize your work, your practice, your life?
How can you make this theme work for you?
How can you speak to it?
What can you learn from it?
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#‎innermostslama‬
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Our next event...
JUST ANNOUNCED:
Exploring the Core
Featuring Nel Da Silva and Abe Nouk
When: Thursday March 31st 2016, 7pm
Where: 24 Moons, 2 Arthurton Rd, Northcote
Tickets: $18 EARLY BIRD Bookings recommended
See our events page for more details!
At Slamalama we pow wow. We give props. We pace. We take risks. We practice. We co-create equality and safe space. We honor where we have come from. We dream about where we can go.
What's your story? Feel it. Write it. Sign up and hit the stage on the last Thursday of every month.
Michelle and Luka have a serious chat pre show
(August's Jam Slam 2014)
“Slamalamadingdong has given me a safe place to gather, to be however I need to be in a city, it has given me a place to take off my mask, it has given me a family of understanding, it has given me something honest to look forward to. It has provided a way for our community to preserve culture through story telling."
-Mel Balkan
Check out the
Slamalama photo
albums on Flickr!
Starting June 2016 the sign up for the slam will start at 7pm. Show starts at 7:30pm.
Hello. My name is Slamalamadingdong.
"Thanks again for the event
last night Michelle and crew!!
It was soo refreshing, such a
great atmosphere and so many
nice people. "
-Ricardo Armillei, February 2014
Slamalama Mama Michelle Alina Dabrowski
Slamalama Founder and Producer Michelle Alina Dabrowski is a Canadian multi-disciplinary Artist, Poet, Arts Educator and Community/Arts Development Practitioner based in Melbourne Australia. From Montreal’s Blue Metropolis Festival to Melbourne’s Forum Theatre, Michelle has performed, taught and produced internationally for the past ten years. As a passionate and trail blazing entrepreneur Michelle is well known for actively engaging groups of artists to create charismatic and transformational social movements through her work in communities. She gave birth to and co-ordinated the Montreal Throw Poetry Collective (2006) and is the current Founder and Artistic Director to Slamalamadingdong; a cross disciplinary community platform and poetry slam series. Helping students find and refine their voice through the medium of creative performance Michelle has facilitated over five hundred and seventy two workshops in schools and has coached artists from all mediums supporting and leading them to a place of risk taking and performance break throughs. Her work has been featured on the
Indiefeed Performance Poetry Channel and on Triple RRR’s Aural Text Radio Program. Published in 2012, Michelle’s latest collection of poetry is Curb Side Angel Spit. A live album featuring performances from her latest nationwide tour alongside Poet Joel McKerrow, can be found at www.bandcamp.com/SoleofAustralia.
Michelle is known for breaking into Polish or Jamaican accents mid-conversation and has been likened to a meerkat, standing tall, stretching out her white blonde fur to the sun, always found in community.