Upcoming events

• Wednesday, May 23 6:00 pm
• Teller2 Teller
• Kerbside Bar: Constance St., Fortitude Valley (MAP)
• Eccentrics, genius and everyday madness.
  
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• Wednesday, July 4 10:00 am
• FAR OUT FOREST
• FAR OUT FOREST
  Wednesday4 July 2012
  Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Mt Coot-tha, free.
  Get up close and personal with nature the Far Out Forest. Activities include freaky fungi tours, kids' cubby house challenge, botanical orienteering, forest friends puppet games and Japanese clay creations. The event is free, with food and drink for sale.
  10am-2pm today only.
  Phone: 3403 8888
  
  
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• Saturday, July 21 10:00 am
• HomeFestival
• Raymond Park : behind The Pineapple Hotel, Kangaroo Point (MAP)
• Storytelling, poetry, workshops. This Festival has got the lot!
  
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• Friday, July 27 10:00 am
• The Poet and the Librarian: or a Library Poet in Residence
• Kenmore Library: 9 Brookfield Rd, Kenmore (MAP)
• A Presentation of works from Marilyn's residency at Kenmore Library
  
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Previous events

• Saturday, May 19 1:15 pm
• TELLING OUR STORY : Journaling for the writer and poet: getting the inside out and the outside in
• Nundah Neighbourhood Centre: 14 Station St, Nundah (MAP)
• Join us as we Use journal writing:-
  • • to explore creativity
  • • to find authentic voice
  • • as a warm up exercise
  • • rid self of unwanted emotion
  • • to build writing resilience
  • • beat writers’ block and find 'the magic' in our writing
  
  
• $25.00 members. Refreshments included (Buy tickets)

• Wednesday, May 2 7:15 pm
• Telling your story
• Nundah Neighbourhood Centre: 14 Station St, Nundah (MAP)
• Telling Your Story
  
  We all want affirmation that our lives have meaning, and there is no stronger affirmation than when we connect through stories. Each of us, in our search for meaning, has a vast amount of experience to draw upon. Our struggles and hardship, along with our achievements and blessings, teach us life’s lessons. Our experience, our strength and the hope that endures are part of our unique story — and part of the reason why we should tell our life story.
  
  This workshop will offer an opportunity to explore some of the stories that highlight the important strengths you have used during difficult times. You will be able to recognise these strengths for the gifts they are and for be healed from sharing your stories in small groups. You will get some tips on how to deliver your story authentically and develop develop a comfortable delivery style so you will feel at ease at telling your stories regardless of the setting.
  Learn how to revel in the triumphs,grow in the struggles struggles and share your stories to entertain, inspire and empower others.
  
  
• $15 ($12 Members) (Buy tickets)

• Friday, April 27 5:00 pm
• Teller2Teller
• Brisbane Square Library: 266 George St, Brisbane, Qld (MAP)
• Young Voices, Don't miss the host of young voices, screaming, laughing and howling at the moon.
  Stories of what it's like to be young today.
  

• Saturday, April 21 7:00 pm
• Gympie 10x10 Short Play Festival
• Gympie Civic Centre: Mellor St, Gympie, Qld (MAP)
• It's Exciting!!!!
  
  My play, 'The Moving Finger Writes' has been selected as one of the 10 which will be performed 10x10 Short Play Festival on the festival night in the Heritage Theatre, at the Gympie Civic Centre, on Saturday 21st April 2012.
  The Festival will commence at 7pm, followed by light refreshments and conversation.
  
  

• Monday, April 16 7:00 pm
• Kurilpa Poets - Remembering Gallipoli
• Croquet Club: 91 Cordelia St, Sth Brisbane (MAP)

• Tuesday, October 4, 2011 7:00 pm
• It's Halloween, Sister
• Brisbane Square Library: 266 George St, Brisbane, Qld (MAP)
• Celebrating Halloween with the sexy and infinitely exciting burlesque troupe Scoundrelles.
  Join us as we crack the underworld wide open in readiness for the upcoming Halloween. To pass the gatekeeper there is a penalty. This is the journey from which there is no return.
  Hear the story of Queen Inanna's descent into the underworld told from her sisters point of view in the form of a pantoum.
  Still not sure if this is your thing? Then let me remind you the "Dance of the Seven Veils" came from this old story.
  
  When: 5:30pm
  Where: Brisbane Square Library 266 George St Brisbane (opp. the casino)
  
  Hope to see you there,
  
  Wild wishes,
  
  Marilyn
  
  
  Marilyn Roberts
  
  25 Davies St.,
  
  Oxley 4075
  
  
  
  

• Monday, August 8, 2011 7:00 pm
• THE workshop for Writers
• Croquet Club Musgrave Park: 91 Cordelia St, South Brisbane, Qld (MAP)
• A two-part workshop for scribblers of all sorts, songwriters, poets, bloggers and sloggers.
  Find your voice, find your power and reignite your wondrous creativity.
  Previous participants said
  Loved it all, very positive inspiring workshop.
  All relevant, terrific workshop
  So wonderful and necessary in today's troubled times!
  Writing non stop... amazing experience
  it was jam packed and all good
  The exercises were excellent and I am surprised by the impact of colour
  
• $40

• Monday, July 18, 2011 6:30 pm – 10:00 pm
• From Page to Stage: Journaling Workshop
• Croquet Club Musgrave Park: 91 Cordelia St, South Brisbane, Qld (MAP)
• Too scared to perform? Got nothing to say?
  Your life IS important. Your story IS important.
  Work with other participants in a supportive environment to discover and express your inner voice.
  This course, run over three weeks, will help give you back some of your lost power.
  
  Bring Notebook and pen
  
• Special Introductory Price $45:00
• 18+

• Monday, July 11, 2011 6:30 pm – 10:00 pm
• From Page to Stage: Journaling Workshop
• Croquet Club Musgrave Park: 91 Cordelia St, South Brisbane, Qld (MAP)
• Too scared to perform? Got nothing to say?
  Your life IS important. Your story IS important.
  Work with other participants in a supportive environment to discover and express your inner voice.
  This course, run over three weeks, will help give you back some of your lost power.
  
  Bring Notebook and pen
  
• Special Introductory Price $45:00
• 18+