"Indigenous women and queer folk have a particular power within the poetic form. Across the spoken, the sung, the written, the gathered, our women care for story and continue songs that began with the first sunrise." – Jazz Money
Join us at Eulogy for the Dyke Bar for a poetry, storytelling, and open mic night, led by Wiradjuri poet and artist Jazz Money.
The evening explores poetry as a dynamic, contemporary experimental form, as well as a method through which to find yourself, community, and home. Jazz along with poets Adrian Mouhajer and Brooke Scobie will explore themes of queerness, love, desire, identity, family, cultural connection, and Country.
Jazz Money is a Wiradjuri poet and artist whose practice is centred around story and narrative, producing works that encompass installation, digital, film and print. Jazz has contributed to art exhibitions, biennales, film festivals and public artworks, and their writing has been performed and published in Australia and internationally. Their debut poetry collection ‘how to make a basket’ (UQP, 2021), was winner of the 2020 David Unaipon Award, with the collection examining the tensions of living in colonial Australia today while celebrating black and queer love.
Adrian Mouhajer was born and raised in Lakemba to conservative Muslim migrant Lebanese parents and is a twenty-seven year old non-binary lesbian Muslim Lebanese poet who explores themes of queerness, love, desire, family and cultural connection within their work. They are a member of Sweatshop Literacy Movement and won Highly Commended in the 2021 Sydney Opera House Antidote Mentorship for Diverse Emerging Writers. Their work has been published by Sydney Opera House, SBS voices, Aniko Press and Diversity Arts Australia. They also perform their poetry in local spaces and events, including the Sydney Opera House and Bankstown Arts Theatre.
Brooke Scobie is a queer Goorie woman, single mum, emerging writer, and community worker. She was born and bred on Bidjigal country in South West Sydney and now lives on Darkinjung land. In her writing, Brooke is most passionate about telling stories that centre identity, love and family using the imagery of Country.
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Presented by UNSW Galleries, the National Art School and Sydney WorldPride, Eulogy for the Dyke Bar is a sculptural environment and memorial to bygone dyke bars. The installation incorporates a café and operating bar, and functions as an active community space for performances, cruising, socialising, and contemplating the future of queer spaces.
This project reclaims the term ‘dyke’ in its most expansive sense and recognises that gender and identities are complex and fluid. Anyone who identifies with, or feels an allyship with, the dyke part of the queer spectrum is welcome and valued at the dyke bar.
Bar open: 5 – 10pm Tuesday – Friday
Installation open: 9am – 5pm Monday – Saturday
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