North America Embraces Australian Spoken Word Tour
On 4 February 2009, four acclaimed Australian poets and spoken word artists will land in
Alicia Sometimes, Emilie Zoey Baker, Justin Ashworth and Sean M Whelan, (all hailing from UNESCO's recently announced City of Literature, Melbourne, Australia), have been invited to perform in Montrˆ©al at the 2009 Festival Voix d'Ameriques, and will deliver Australian showcase performances in Vancouver, Ottawa, New York and Chicago.
These are nationally renowned solo performers in
The group of four have contributed much to the development of Melbourne's famously thriving spoken word culture, through organizing regular and special events, publishing, producing a literary radio show, and teaching in schools and the community.
As part of their travels, they will also be recording an audio documentary of American poets and performers for
Tour Dates 2009:
4 February ’Äì Vancouver, Spillious Speak and Sing
Featuring; Emilie, Alicia & Sean
6 February ’Äì
Featuring; Justin, Emilie, Alicia & Sean
9’Äì14 February ’Äì Montrˆ©al, Festival Voix d'Amˆ©riques
Featuring; Justin, Emilie, Alicia, & Sean
11 February ’Äì Montrˆ©al,
Featuring; Justin & more TBA
15 February ’Äì
Featuring; Emilie, Justin & Sean with special local guests Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz & Shappy
22 February ’Äì
Featuring; Sean & Emilie
The PR Contact regarding this Tour is Angela Gullace of Its Undefined in Melbourne, Australia
Justin, Alicia, Emily Zoey & Sean are all available for Interviews and Promo Appearances/Bookings
Promo CD's and
For any such related queries or for more information she is contactable via;
Ph: +61.3.9568.5102 | Mob: +61.400.171.196 | Email: itsundefined@gmail.com
(Note: If calling internationally please note that the Its Undefined office has a 24 hour manned phone line)
About The Artists:
Justin Ashworth has released two independent CDs and a book of poetry, composed music for several short films, dance works and visual art installations. His spoken word performance is a mix of dark ambient music, with haikus as a mantra, and a surrealist tendency. In 2005 Justin published his first book of poetry and CD of spoken word called Fleeting Poetry. It was a collection of short poems about love and death coffee and the laundromat. It came with a CD of spoken word set to dreamy ambient music.
Justin's work also appeared in local independent poetry magazine Mod_Piece, and on a compilation CD/DVD put out by
As a guest musician and/or poet, Justin has been Involved in acclaimed Melbourne Fringe Festival shows "Seamstress" (2008), "Kunst Ist Scheisse" (2006), "Extreme Spoken Word" (2005) and Conan the Bubbleman's "Ephemera" (2003).
http://www.myspace.com/fleetingpoetry
http://www.fleetingpoetry.blogspot.com
Alicia Sometimes is a poet, writer, broadcaster and musician. She has been published in Australia and overseas in such publications as Best Australian Poems 2006, Cordite, Verandah, Westerly, Heat, Poetrix, Short Fuse, Hecate, papertiger, Blue Dog, Overland, Meanjin, etc. She has performed spoken word over 400 times as a feature or guest at many venues, festivals and events in Australia, Berlin, London and New Zealand, including the Melbourne International Arts Festival, Melbourne Writers' Festival, Queensland Poetry Festival, Adelaide Fringe Festival, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Mildura Arts Festival, Tasmanian Poetry Festival, Sydney Writers' Festival, The Big Day Out and the Newcastle Writers' Festival.
Her first collection of poetry, kissing the curve was released in 2003 through Five Islands Press. Alicia conducted many workshops in cities and regional areas working with communities to showcase poetry performances. She has also been awarded residencies at Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers' Centre, Varuna and the Melbourne Aquarium.
She has had work commissioned for State Library of Victoria, Victoria Museum,
http://www.myspace.com/aliciasometimes
http://www.aliciasometimes.com
Emilie Zoey Baker has been a professional artist, writer and performer for over fifteen years. She recently received a scholarship to PoetryLab at the
She has featured at many venues and festivals including the 2007 Melbourne International Arts Festival ('Voiceprints' at La Mama), the Sydney Opera House as part of the NightWords Festival and a recent tour of
"This is great material ’Äì find me one person who writes like Emilie and I will run naked through downtown San Diego ’Äì this is exactly what I am looking for ’Äì her work is fun to read and at the same time the content is very, very serious and makes for deep material to reflect upon. I have never seen such a perfect combination of these two elements in my life!" August Highland, Editor M.A.G (
'Hilarious'-Australian Book Review
http://www.myspace.com/emiliezoeybaker
http://www.atomicladybomb.blogspot.com
Sean M Whelan has been a writer and performer of spoken word, poetry and short stories for almost ten years. His written work has been widely published both locally and overseas. His spoken word performances have been broadcast on radio RRR and JJJ,
Since 2005 Sean has worked extensively with
Sean also co-ordinates one of
http://www.myspace.com/seanmwhelan
http://www.loveisthenewhate.blogspot.com
Alicia Sometimes, Emilie Zoey Baker and Sean M Whelan received support for the North American tour from the state body Arts Victoria and from the national Copyright Agency Limited.
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