Poetry Live! Presents
Guest Poet: Serie Barford
Guest Musician: Karen Hunter
Wednesday 21 February 2024
7 pm at Bamboo Tiger, Auckland
Serie Barford: the recipient of a 2018 Pasifika Residency at the Michael King Writers’ Centre.
She performed from her collections at the 2019 Arsenal Book Festival in Kyiv, where the Ukrainian translation of Tapa Talk was launched. Her latest collection, Sleeping With Stones, was published by Anahera Press and shortlisted for the 2022 Ockham NZ Book Awards. In 2021 Serie collaborated with film-maker Anna Marbrook for the 'Different Out Loud Poetry Project. In 2022 she collaborated with Dutch artist Dorine Van Meel, whose video and performance piece, 'Silent Echoes', was exhibited in various European cities to address colonial practices and climate crisis through poetic contributions.
Kāren Hunter: (Pākeha) New Zealander of Cornish, Irish and Scottish descent.
Kāren’s offerings of Music, Astrology and Ceremony are intended to contribute to the present awakening of humanity. Kāren is also a Zenergy Global trained facilitator and can hold dynamic space with sensitivity.Kāren’s primary healing modality is music and this includes workshops, lessons, festival performances, shamanic sound journeys and ceremony. Karen is also a consulting astrologer and tarot reader. She combines these two passions into weekly videos she calls ‘Astro Musical Interventions’ and these are posted on her Facebook and Instagram pages.
Photo Credit: @kira.________creative.portals
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