SlamShop is a slam poetry workshop for young people aged 13–18 years. Come and raise your voice!
Experience the art of slam poetry with Andrew Cox and Yleia Mariano of Canberra Slam. Unpack your own story and learn the tools to share it, with power and confidence.
By the end of this workshop you will have written a poem, and learned how to perform it in your authentic voice.
Participants in this workshop are invited to perform their work at the Fresh Voices Showcase on Saturday 8 July from 2.00pm - 3.30pm at the Street Theatre.
Also on 8 July at the Street Theatre, you can make a zine at the Poetic City Zine Fair, and see some more slam poetry at the SlamCity Showcase!
Tickets: $5 Full/ $0 Access (if cost is a barrier to participation)
Slamshop is open only to young people aged 13–18 years.
Andrew Cox (he/him) is a proud Filipino/Australian who creates and lives on Ngunnawal & Ngambri country (Canberra) Australia. Currently, Andrew produces and leads Canberra Poetry Slam, the capital's new and exciting home for stories and spoken word.
With a desire to see people experience poetry and engage deeply, his live performances are memorable for intensity, honesty and abstract storytelling.
Andrew's work has been shortlisted for national writing prizes, notably for Innovation in Spoken Word and his writing published in multiple anthologies, recognised as an emerging voice in Australian poetry.
Yleia (they/her/siya) is a Filipino poet, raised on Dharawal country.
They’ve been kicking around on the poetry side of Instagram since 2020, and made their debut on the slam poetry scene in June 2022 at the Canberra Slam, eventually going on to become the Inaugural Canberra Slam Champion in November. Their poem ‘kinder gods’ was published in the Sweet & Sour Zine’s fourth issue, ‘Journeys’, and in their first feature set, performed at the Canberra Slam in February this year.
Yleia has been writing poetry and stories since they could hold a writing utensil and believe that “To write is to come home.” (to quote Merlinda Bobis).
