#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
You’ve never seen poetry quite like this...
Bewitching wordsmith Freya Sadgrove is bringing a troupe of Aotearoa New Zealand’s dopest and most dazzling poets to Brisbane for the first time. Forget everything you know about poetry readings and get ready for a raucous evening of neon, costumes, sick beats and backup dancers.
The Show Ponies are Chris Tse, Rebecca Hawkes, essa may ranapiri, Anahera Gildea, and Tayi Tibble.
You’ll leave Show Ponies feeling equal parts bewildered and energised, and maybe even ready to write some high-octane performance poetry of your own.
Hosted by Ella Quince.
Proudly supported by Metro Arts and New Benner Theatre
Show Ponies ... was one of the most joyful, celebratory, rock’n’roll gigs I’ve ever been to. ... It was just this amazing gig, and the feeling in the room – it was indescribable
Claire Mabey, RNZ
Event Sponsors
#Artist
Ella Quince
Ella Quince is a Brisbane-based writer and illustrator best known for her portrait series Use It or Louche It: Proletariat Urban Watercolours and High-Contrast Masculinities, for which she was awarded the 2018 Skewiff Prize.
A familiar sight around the McWhirters Building and the Queen Street Mall, her ubiquitous presence has led some to characterise her as a ghost. In 2020 she will publish her memoir with Unapologetic Press, SinVisible: Performing Perversion in Public for Profit, which was described by the judges of the Dongle Award for an Unpunished Manuscript as ‘Impactful’ and ‘Finished’. She identifies as sophisticated.
For marketing and promotional purposes Ms Quince keeps a boy by the name of Myles McGuire.
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