A quick reminder about our launch party this Thursday, celebrating the release of our eagerly-awaited 18th issue.
There’ll be poetry sets by Canberra favorites Julian Fleetwood, Adam Hadley and Andrew Galan, and entertainment of the musical kind from the stylish girls of Ah! Pandita. www.myspace.com/ahpandita
Entry is by donation and money raised will go towards production [...]
If you’re a Canberra local, you may have heard by now about John Hargreaves’ plans to axe the Canberra Fringe Festival. He also plans to redirect the $30,000 of funding to the National Folk Festival to “do something Fringey”. Now, we at lip love the Folkie, but given the nature and accessibility of the two [...]
Oxfam Australia has devised a clever way to enable us to spend time with our friends, save money, re-vamp our wardrobes, and help stamp out global poverty.
From 1-30 September 2009, Oxfam is encouraging us to host (or attend) an ‘Exchange for Change’ party to swap clothes we no longer love, need, or wear to raise [...]
Traverse Poetry is giving young Canberra poets a chance to learn the art of performance poetry from professionals at the free, one-day Works in your face workshop.
Running from 10am – 3pm on Sunday 2 August, the workshop will include the techniques professionals use to wow audiences and win national and international poetry competitions.
The workshop is [...]
After raging seasons at Melbourne Fringe and The Melbourne International Comedy Festival, La Petite Mort – The Orgasm is performing for one night only at Melbourne’s Butterfly Club before she heads over to The Edinburgh Fringe.
Isabel Hertaeg, who has trained in acting, singing, and dance in Australia and Latvia, has gone back to the naughty [...]
Australian Star Poets Slam at the Front
This June Canberra lipsters who are poetry fans will be treated to two very different performances from visiting Melbourne and Perth poets Tobias Manderson-Galvin and Rhys Rodgers.
Held at The Front Gallery & Café on the last Friday of every month, Traverse Poetry Slams begin with a feature poet [...]
Canberra’s newest gay bar, Hush Lounge brings a Kings Cross favourite to Canberra’s door this June. Starring Canberra’s Miranda O’Hare, Hard On is a short series of new Australian plays that each encapsulate the fun, glam, stupidity and soul that is the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.
Get the low down on writing for magazines with a young writer from Logan. This workshop will give you the who, what, when, where, and why of freelance writing, particularly with up coming mag, lip.
Workshops will be held at various Logan City Council Libraries around Logan, Queensland during the June/July school holidays. Contact Youth Outreach [...]
‘Show Your Texts’: Women-Only Poetry Slam
Canberra-based lip-sters will be pleased to know that Traverse Poetry, an artsACT-funded youth organisation, is holding another of its Poetry Slams on Friday 29 May.
Show Us Your Texts celebrates the contribution women have made to poetry in Canberra culture. Only women will be asked to perform at the event, [...]
Saturday 16 May: Young writers will have a chance to discover the secrets of publishing at Getting Published, a free panel held at Civic Library.
Have you always wanted to be published, but don’t know where to start?
Is your inbox full of polite (and not so polite) rejections?
Want to find out how successful writers get noticed?
At [...]
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