Guest Poet: Richard Von Sturmer
& Visual Poetry in the Courtyard w Zin Uru
Koha please for our wonderful artists.
First time readers especially warmly welcomed and encouraged.
when - 12 November 2024 , 7.30 pm - 11 pm
where: Cafe 39, 39 Ponsonby Road
Poetry Live! Presents Richard Von Sturmer
GUEST ARTIST - YOU (& the Wayfinders)
Let's make a collective Maze Poem! ok, so sometimes it's fun to try something new. Wayfinder Zin Uru (aka Christian Jensen) thought it could be fun to roll out the paper in the courtyard and invite you to share your poems for the night in a visual way - like a visual snapshot of the poetry of the night. All you need to do is bring a poem and share some lines from it - learn, teach or just be part of embracing words off the page and the non-linear space on paper and be part of making Poetry Lives' first collective Maze Poem !
Guest Poet
Richard Von Sturmer
is a writer, performer and filmmaker who is well known for having written the lyrics to Blam Blam Blam’s “There is No Depression in New Zealand”. He is a teacher of Zen Buddhism and the co-founder of the Auckland Zen Centre. Slender Volumes is his tenth collection of writings.
Slender Volumes locates the cypress trees of Buddhist folklore in Onehunga and the teachings of the Zen tradition along its foreshore. Elaborating on kōans collected by poet-philosopher Eihei Dōgen, each poem fastens centuries and distances together to find insight in everyday things: seagulls on a handrail, insects drinking from a pan of water, sump oil glistening in a white bucket. Clear-sighted and compassionate, Slender Volumes recovers what it means to be intimate with our surroundings and to meet the particulars of our world with perfect curiosity.
formed The Humanimals in 1982 with his partner Amala Wrightson, a performing duo that combined street theatre, imaginative stories, and provocative costumes.
Their second piece, “Zebras Crossing,” told the story of a hunter who enters a modern city only to find there is nothing left for him to hunt. To the hunter’s bewilderment, he sees two zebras crossing a zebra crossing. At this point, Richard and Amala put on their zebra masks and performed on a nearby crossing. Kaitaia, Whangārei, Dargaville, Huntly, New Plymouth, Whanganui, Akaroa, Tākaka… each town gladly offered up their pedestrian crossings and appreciative crowds gathered to watch the zebras.
formed The Humanimals in 1982 with his partner Amala Wrightson, a performing duo that combined street theatre, imaginative stories, and provocative costumes.
Their second piece, “Zebras Crossing,” told the story of a hunter who enters a modern city only to find there is nothing left for him to hunt. To the hunter’s bewilderment, he sees two zebras crossing a zebra crossing. At this point, Richard and Amala put on their zebra masks and performed on a nearby crossing. Kaitaia, Whangārei, Dargaville, Huntly, New Plymouth, Whanganui, Akaroa, Tākaka… each town gladly offered up their pedestrian crossings and appreciative crowds gathered to watch the zebras.
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