Australian Poetry Slam - Queensland
Slam facilitators
Tessa Leon
Emerging from slam origins, Tessa Leon is an acclaimed Australian performance poetry entrepreneur.
Since winning Queensland's Poetry Unearthed competition in 2006 Tessa has been writing and performing regularly as a spoken word artist, slam MC, cabaret hostess and arts reviewer. In 2007 she was awarded the People's Choice Award at the Performance Poetry World Cup and went on to feature at the Brisbane Writer's Festival, The Queensland Poetry Festival, Woodford Folk Festival and the first Writer's Fringe Festival in Brisbane.
For the past two years she has been an active member of ouTsideRs, Australia's premier performance poetry/slam collective and in 2008 she came on board with the State Library of Queensland for the Australian Poetry Slam. Also training in physical theatre and circus, Tessa is presently working to ensure her crooked elegance continues to taint literary stages throughout the country.
www.tessaleon.com.au [new window]
David "Ghostboy" Stavanger
Ghostboy is recently back from a spoken word and slam mentoring tour of the USA, funded by Arts Queensland. He won the Performance Poetry World Cup (2005) and is Queensland's "slammaster" having coordinated two of the nation's biggest slam events in the Australian Poetry Slam (Queensland) and the WordFood slam at the Woodford Folk Festival.
Ghostboy has performed his work on ABC and Triple J radio and at various festivals including the Brisbane Writers Festival, Byron Bay Writers Festival, and "NightWords" at the Sydney Opera House. He is also a renowned poetry workshop facilitator and presenter with five years experience in creating and delivering highly innovative workshops in schools and festivals including the Voices on the Coast & Somerset youth festivals. He has released two books of poetry, a spoken word CD and recently an album with his Green Room Award nominated punk cabaret ensemble Ghostboy with Golden Virtues. www.myspace.com/holyghostboy [new window]
2011 Partners
Word Travels http://www.wordtravels.info/ [new window]
Brisbane Powerhouse http://www.brisbanepowerhouse.org/ [new window]
Brisbane Writers Festival http://www.brisbanewritersfestival.com.au/ [new window]
More information
- Phone: +61 7 3840 7424
- publicprograms@slq.qld.gov.au
