On Wednesday 14^th August, Kindlehill students from classes 5 to 11, will have a chance to participate in a slam poetry workshop with Word Travels founder and Kindlehill parent, Miles Merrill (Emerald’s Dad). The workshop will include writing poetry and working up a piece for performance.

Slam Poetry is all about powerfully finding voice and storytelling. It is about courage and connection and performing for an audience. It is also about listening, making space to hear the voices of those around us and the diversity of perspectives they hold.

The workshop will be followed by a community Poetry Slam on Friday 16^th August 6 – 8pm. Please come along, bring a poem, a story or a song (anything you can perform without instruments and props), or join the audience and cheer on your friends!

The local Poetry Slam Heat will be held at the Cultural Centre in Katoomba on the 22^ndAugust 6:30pm. Blue Mountains – APS Heat (NSW) — Australian Poetry Slam. The winner goes on to compete in the next heat. It a great opportunity to hear local voices and to get your voice out there.

The workshop, Kindlehill Poetry Slam and the Blue Mountains Heat are all supported by Word Travels, a literacy and literary arts charity.

Kindlehill School

Kindlehill School is a K-10 Steiner School that sits on a hill above the Wentworth Falls Lake, in the Blue Mountains, NSW. We are an independant school working creatively and in a contemporary way, out of the foundation of Rudolf Steiner’s philosophy for education.