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Australian Poetry Slam Youth (formerly The Rumble Youth Slam until 2018) is a youth poetry slam held annually by Word Travels alongside the Australian Poetry Slam. It is open to young artists between the ages of 12 and 18, and consists of a series of heats in which young poets are encouraged to practice as well as workshops allowing them to ...
Officially launched as The National Today Show, [1] Today is Australia's longest running morning breakfast news program. [2] The show premiered on 28 June 1982. The original hosts, Steve Liebmann and Sue Kellaway , spent four years together before Liebmann left to present the evening news for Network Ten in Sydney.
Get Lit – Words Ignite was founded in 2006 in Los Angeles by Diane Luby Lane to increase literacy, empower youth, and energize communities through poetry. The inspiration for Get Lit began with a solo show [5] that Ms. Lane toured with internationally celebrated poet and advocate Jimmy Santiago Baca in venues ranging from high schools and universities to prisons. [6]
The Bankstown Poetry Slam (BPS) was founded in 2013 by Sara Mansour and Ahmad Al Rady, [5] and held in the southwest Sydney suburb of Bankstown. Since its inception, the poetry slam has featured notable poets such as Omar Musa, Luka Lesson, Jazz Money, Rupi Kaur and Rudy Francisco. It has held grand slams at the Art Gallery of New South Wales ...
Luka Lesson (Stage name for Luke Haralampou) is an Australian slam poet. He won the Australian Poetry Slam in 2011 [ 1 ] and has been described by Charlie Dark as "a young Saul Williams " [ 2 ] in reference to his composition and delivery of poetry in providing social commentary.
The Mary Gilmore Award is currently an annual Australian literary award for poetry, awarded by the Association for the Study of Australian Literature.Since being established in 1956 as the ACTU Dame Mary Gilmore Award, it has been awarded in several other categories, but has been confined to poetry since 1985.
From 10 to 11 December 2016 Salzburg, Austria, held a world-record poetry slam competition (28 hours of classic slam poetry) and broke the so-far-record of Nuremberg, Germany (25 hours), by Michl Jakob. The winner of the competition (Friedrich Herrmann) scored one point better in the finals than the second ranked (Darryl Kiermeier).
Sylvia Jeffreys (born 23 April 1985 [citation needed]) is an Australian journalist and television presenter. Jeffreys is currently co-host of Today Extra with David Campbell . She has previously been a news presenter on the Nine Network 's Today , reporter and presenter on Nine News and reporter on A Current Affair .