Where does it hurt? - Poetry reading
Fundraiser for Rape Crisis
2pm, July 17

Toi Pōneke Gallery

Featuring poets Emma Barnes, Rachel McAlpine and Briana Jamieson alongside the artist Maisie Chilton.

Artist Biographies:

Maisie Chilton is a Waihōpai born, Pōneke based artist, poet and teacher. As a self-taught creative, she uses mahi toi as a means to address, process and heal the physical and mental tension caused by disability and repressed trauma. She is the co-editor and production manager of Salty, an art-poetry zine focusing on the introspective process of healing and self-reflection, and has been widely published.

Emma Barnes (Ngāti Pākehā: they/them) lives and writes in Pōneke / Wellington. They have just released their first book I Am In Bed With You. For the last two years they've been working with Chris Tse on an anthology of LGBTQIA+ and Takatāpui writing to be released this year by Auckland University Press. They work in Tech and spend a lot of time picking heavy things up and putting them back down again.

Rachel McAlpine was first published in 1975. As a "strident feminist" author of poems, plays and novels, she was well known in the '70s and '80s. Then she turned her attention to digital communication, and so How To Be Old is her first poetry collection this century. She will read poems about being young and being old.

Briana Jamieson is a Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington artist and writer. She is co-curator of poetry for Welcome to Nowhere and founding editor of Mineral Press, a publishing project with a focus on the poetic. Examples of her paintings and poetry can be found at brianajamieson.com