How We Survive: A Feminist Poetry Show

How We Survive: A Feminist Poetry Show

Lift Women’s Voices. Burn The Patriarchy Down.

How We Survive, a feminist spoken word performance featuring internationally acclaimed poets Olivia Hall and Carrie Rudzinski, returns for a special Wellington encore this November. This two women show presents a powerful and honest narrative on what is to be a woman living and surviving in 2016.

After two sold-out shows in August, How We Survive returns to Wellington for a one-night performance at Cavern Club on November 3rd. Addressing topics ranging from rape culture to body image to Hermione as a feminist role model, this show carries a switchblade and a hallelujah. Hailing from New Zealand and America respectively, Hall and Rudzinski blend their voices into a powerful one hour performance promising to heal, nurture, and spark discussion.

Ever evolving, the show will feature new pieces as well as special edition chapbooks with poems from the performance. Come out and experience just how we survive: together.

Carrie Rudzinski ranked 4th in the world at the 2014 Women of the World Poetry Slam and has performed her work across New Zealand, Australia, Canada, India and in almost all 50 of the United States. She is the author of four collections of poetry and has had her work featured in Huffington Post, Teen Vogue, and Bustle. Carrie is the 2016 Programme Director for Rising Voices Youth Poetry Movement and a Guest Lecturer at Manukau Institute of Technology's Faculty of Creative Arts teaching Spoken Word.

Olivia Hall is the 2015 Matariki Slam Champion, the 2015 Capital Slam Champion and placed third at the 2015 New Zealand National Slam Finals in Hamilton. Performing poetry since 2013, Olivia is one of the organisers for Wellington's acclaimed poetry organisation, Poetry in Motion, and is currently completing her Honours degree in Sociology at Victoria University of Wellington.

What: How We Survive featuring Olivia Hall and Carrie Rudzinski

Where: The Cavern Club, 18 Allen St, Te Aro, Wellington

When: Thursday November 3rd

Time: Doors 6:30PM / Show 7PM

Price: $15 / $10 Student

EventFinder Link: http://www.eventfinda.co.nz/2016/how-we-survive-feminist-poetry-show-encore-edition/wellington

Facebook Event Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/315270542172350/

Praise:

“Carrie Rudzinski is simply unmatched in terms of language and craft. Her performances make me forget where I am, forget I have a body, as she transports me to a place where neither are relevant. Carrie's poetic future is bigger than any lottery you could ever hope to win. Twice.”
- Tara Hardy, Author of ‘Bringing Down The Chandeliers”

"Olivia Hall is one of the most sincere and necessary voices in New Zealand poetry right now. She draws us into her world with stories meticulously and unflinchingly crafted, and on stage she is a whirlwind, rallying on behalf of herself and her generation. Her poems speak to the parts of ourselves we're too afraid to show.”
- Mohamed Hassan, 2015 New Zealand National Slam Champion

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