Poetry at Your Place ft. Carrie Rudzinski - Event #34

It’s been a wee while since we had an open mic session at Your Place but after Rik’s concussion withstood the intensity of last week’s slam – we feel it is time for our beautiful community to, once more, gather, appreciate and chat – whilst enjoying IMMENSE poetical talents from all over the world, this Sunday 21st February!

One such person who will be providing such talents is our feature this week – the incredible: Carrie Rudzinski!

For those of you that somehow haven’t heard or don’t know: Carrie is a poet, published author, and teaching artist who has performed her work over the past 16 years in 6 different countries and across the United States. In 2019, she won the Pussy Riot award at the Auckland Fringe Festival and received a standing ovation at TedX Christchurch. Featured in Bustle, HuffPost and Teen Vogue, her poems have been published in such collections as Landfall, The Spinoff, Stasis Journal, Learn Than Burn, Catalyst and Muzzle. She ranked 4th in the world at the 2014 Women of the World Poetry Slam and is a co-founder of the JAFA Poetry Slam, Auckland’s only monthly poetry competition.

Rudzinski has authored five books, four spoken word albums, and is the co-creator of How We Survive, a feminist poetry show. She currently resides in Auckland, New Zealand.

Don’t miss out!

As always, this event at Your Place is pay-what-you-can-afford, because finances should not be a barrier to art. However, if people do not honour that trust-system then this event becomes unsustainable and cannot continue so if you can afford it, please do – the money goes towards paying our artists and keeping this whole thing up and running.

And if you cannot afford anything, still come along and enjoy the poetry with my blessing (though do please help us out by sharing the event and getting some other folks along – that’d be amazing!) – we believe in human kindness at Your Place, so hopefully someone who can afford it will pay a bit more and cover you ☺.

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