Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Saturday 20 March
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Across March we’ll be Reading the City; shining a light on the many ways we understand and talk about Melbourne itself. From the city as an abstract concept to the physical landscape in all its permutations, we’ll be hearing from visual artists and architects, policy makers and designers, novelists and historians. The City of Literature becomes the focus, and you’ll never read it the same way again.
Poetry in Fashion
As part of Reading the City, a very special collaboration with the Melbourne Fashion Festival and the Australian Poetry Centre. Is there poetry to fashion? Is poetry fashionable? Where, if anywhere, do these two unalike worlds collide?
Hosted by Mikala Tai, Cultural Manager of the L'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival and featuring:
Emilie Zoe Baker, poet, performer and radio presenter Alicia Sometimes, poet, producer and presenter of the 3RRR show Aural Text Sean Whelan, poet and fashion trendsetter Lisa Gorton, poet for the new clothing line, A Stitch in Rhyme Cassandra Atherton, poet and fashion aficionado Amber Renae, editor of the fashion publication, X and Y Magazine Sarah Gale, Judge of TV series *Project Runway * Jenny Bannister: declared an Australian Fashion legend and honoured with a postage stamp.
A collaboration of poetry and clothes, A Stitch in Rhyme, will be launched at this very exciting event.
Featuring
Alicia Sometimes
Alicia Sometimes is an Australian poet, multi-media artist and broadcaster. She has performed her spoken word at many venues, festivals and events around the world. Her poems have been in Best Australian Science Writing ...
Lisa Gorton
Lisa Gorton’s first collection, Press Release, was shortlisted for the Mary Gilmore Award and the Melbourne Prize Best Writing Award, and won the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Poetry.
She completed a doctorate on John Donne’s poetry and prose. She has also written a novel for children, Cloudland.
Gorton lives in Melbourne.