'This City Speaks To Me'
Spoken word by Si
Directed by Darius Devas of Being Films
SI
SI
About:
Si
Si is a poet, performer and events organiser based in Melbourne. He regularly performs in various cabarets and festivals around Australia. He has received the Victorian Poetry Slam Championship for his poem This City Speaks to Me.
Si's first book of verse, Mercury, published by Undergrowth in 2009, toured to the This Is Not Art festival in Newcastle, the Emerging Writers Festival Melbourne, and was launched at the Thornbury Theatre where it promptly sold it’s initial print run before the end of the night.
Si is also the director of The Bohemian Masquerade Ball since April 2007. Held twice annually, it has become the vanguard of the Melbourne underground music scene. Renowned for its outrageous carnivalesque overtones, the Boho Ball oscillates between the debonair and the debauched and boasts near one thousand persons in attendance.
In 2010, Si is working on his second book, an anthology called SMUT and is currently the writer for ‘This City Speaks to Me’, an anthropological photographic book which focuses on Melbourne’s warehouse communities and the independent arts scenes.
http://www.thisciyspeakstome.com
Performance highlights:
2010- Golden Plains Festival- with Clairy Baby Browne & the Banging Rackettes
2010- Adelaide Fringe Festival- The Jade Monkey- Sober & Single beat poetry/theatre tour with Aindreas De Staic
2010-Big Day Out Tour with Clairy Baby Browne & the Banging Rackettes.
2009-The Forum Theatre- Closing of the Melbourne International Arts Festival- sold out
2009-The Thornbury Theatre- The 5th Bohemian Masquerade Ball- sold out
2009-Victorian State Library- ‘Word Juggling’ as part of Thw Independent Type exhibition.
2009- The Thornbury Theatre- The 4th Bohemian Masquerade Ball-sold out
2009-NYE Woodford Folk Festival-Big Top Stage with Kafka
2008-Sydney Opera House- Australian Poetry Slam Finals
2008-Speigeltent Brisbane with Kafka
2008-Globe theatre- Brisbane release of Kafka album
2008-The Thornbury Theatre-‘Mercury’ book launch- sold out
2007-East Brunswick Launch- Dub the Magic Dragon CD launch- sold out
