Assorted Sporks Poetry and Performance Featuring Ricky Atkins

Assorted Sporks is a free, queer friendly regular poetry and performance night at Mamma Chen's on Thursday November 5th Featuring; Ricky Atkins Theme: Body & Self "Ricky Atkins started his journey as a stand up comedian, but not long after he first started performing, he was lured by a pack of evil poets to the dark side. Ever since his descent into poetic villainy, he's been doing open mics and exposing the innocent masses to such dangerous ideas as queer pride, self acceptance, and sex positivity. This will be his first feature, and given he has been piloting the same flesh vessel for 29 years, he chose a topic which reflected this. The latest cog in his dastardly plan is to evilly give voice to people's varied experiences with piloting their own flesh vessels, positive, negative and everything in between, and to speak on his own experiences with having a body. Themes are not mandatory, they are just to encourage you to experiment with your writing and improvisation. Feel free to make it weird. You don’t have to register or get a ticket but it is helpful for numbers, do contact us on the Assorted Sporks instagram if you have any questions. We also have backing tracks by George available to anyone who wants musical backing for their poetry, find Assorted Sporks on Sound Click: https://www.soundclick.com/AssortedSporks to figure out what you want, or send us a message, otherwise we will not bring the tracks/laptop. You can also bring your own tracks. 7:00 pm for a 7:30 pm start, sign up will be available on the night. 5 minute limit. Perform your poetry, creative writing or performance art on the open mic to a friendly audience or come and be part of the crowd. Hosted by Quil Steinberg,(they/them) Sound by George O'Hara (they/he). For access Information: https://mammachens.com.au/access/ There is a wheelchair lift to the stage available by request. Mamma Chen’s acknowledges the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and the Bunurong peoples of the Kulin Nation, the true owners of the land that we live and operate on. We would like to pay our respects to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.