Come for YAWP! 2007 (:
"I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable,
I sound my barbaric YAWP over the roofs of the world"
-- Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
Come for YAWP! 2007
That's YOUNG ADULT WRITER'S PERFORM. A performance poetry event brought to you by Hwa Chong ELDDFS' Litwing.
YAWP! is not your average poetry reading.
Forget highbrow - we're here to bring you poetry at its most barbaric and untamed!
And we want you to be part of this revolutionary event!
YAWP! celebrates the aural, visual and performance aspects of poetry, demonstrating the capacity of literature to come alive in performance. YAWP! is not only the finals of an exciting nation-wide search for the best young performance poets. It is also a showcase of some of the biggest names in the poetry scene in Singapore. We've also thrown in other acts into the mix, ranging from comedy-music groups to performance-poet-musicians. This is practically a Poetry Variety Show! The Judges for the event are Alfian Sa’at, Michael Corbidge and Ng Yi Sheng. As guest performers and readers, we have The Friendly People, Marc Nair, Bani Haykal and Singapore Literary Prize Winner, Yong Shu Hoong.
YAWP! promises to be a lively and dynamic evening, with the 8 finalists of the competition presenting performances that will take poetry off the page and onto the stage, adding rhythm, visuals and movement that will bring poetry to life. We hope that YAWP! will bring poetry alive in voice and movement, and remind us all that the voice of poetry is our own voice - that it lives, and sounds, beyond the page, in our hearts, and over the roofs of the world.
YAWP! 2007 promises to be a night of great poetic experiences, and we look forward to having you with us!
YAWP! - Young Adult Writers Perform! 2007
2nd March 2007, Friday, 7.30pm
Hwa Chong Institution, LT3
Tickets: $4
All proceeds go to the Bone Marrow Donation Programme
COME! COME! COME! WE PROMISE IT WILL BE AWESOME. The finalists have some seriously amazing pieces.
Plus! the judges are awesome. and Ng Yisheng will very likely be performing the crowd-favourite "A Loud Poem to be Performed to a Very Obliging Audience" (and he's extremely dynamic! think cartwheels and other acrobatics!)
Marc Nair and Bani Haykal are up-and-coming young performance poets in the Slam Scene. Bani will be doing a music item. His guitar playing is THE SEX, and he's been described by Cyril Wong as "A cross between Thom Yorke and Chris Martin!". He's also in B-Quartet, a band which performed at Baybeats!
ARE YOU CONVINCED YET?
Tickets will be available at the door. Or you can contact me at 91127522 or email elddfs0607@gmail.com to place your orders.
It's a great way to spend your Friday night! We promise you won't regret coming!
I sound my barbaric YAWP over the roofs of the world"
-- Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
Come for YAWP! 2007
That's YOUNG ADULT WRITER'S PERFORM. A performance poetry event brought to you by Hwa Chong ELDDFS' Litwing.
YAWP! is not your average poetry reading.
Forget highbrow - we're here to bring you poetry at its most barbaric and untamed!
And we want you to be part of this revolutionary event!
YAWP! celebrates the aural, visual and performance aspects of poetry, demonstrating the capacity of literature to come alive in performance. YAWP! is not only the finals of an exciting nation-wide search for the best young performance poets. It is also a showcase of some of the biggest names in the poetry scene in Singapore. We've also thrown in other acts into the mix, ranging from comedy-music groups to performance-poet-musicians. This is practically a Poetry Variety Show! The Judges for the event are Alfian Sa’at, Michael Corbidge and Ng Yi Sheng. As guest performers and readers, we have The Friendly People, Marc Nair, Bani Haykal and Singapore Literary Prize Winner, Yong Shu Hoong.
YAWP! promises to be a lively and dynamic evening, with the 8 finalists of the competition presenting performances that will take poetry off the page and onto the stage, adding rhythm, visuals and movement that will bring poetry to life. We hope that YAWP! will bring poetry alive in voice and movement, and remind us all that the voice of poetry is our own voice - that it lives, and sounds, beyond the page, in our hearts, and over the roofs of the world.
YAWP! 2007 promises to be a night of great poetic experiences, and we look forward to having you with us!
YAWP! - Young Adult Writers Perform! 2007
2nd March 2007, Friday, 7.30pm
Hwa Chong Institution, LT3
Tickets: $4
All proceeds go to the Bone Marrow Donation Programme
COME! COME! COME! WE PROMISE IT WILL BE AWESOME. The finalists have some seriously amazing pieces.
Plus! the judges are awesome. and Ng Yisheng will very likely be performing the crowd-favourite "A Loud Poem to be Performed to a Very Obliging Audience" (and he's extremely dynamic! think cartwheels and other acrobatics!)
Marc Nair and Bani Haykal are up-and-coming young performance poets in the Slam Scene. Bani will be doing a music item. His guitar playing is THE SEX, and he's been described by Cyril Wong as "A cross between Thom Yorke and Chris Martin!". He's also in B-Quartet, a band which performed at Baybeats!
ARE YOU CONVINCED YET?
Tickets will be available at the door. Or you can contact me at 91127522 or email elddfs0607@gmail.com to place your orders.
It's a great way to spend your Friday night! We promise you won't regret coming!