Vessels of Love is an annual poetry program presented by Poetry Sydney that seeks to explore ideas and forms of love over Valentine’s Day week.  The first edition was part of the City of Sydney’s series of activations to attract people back to the Central Business District following the pandemic in 2021. This year The Salons: Love in transmission is the fourth project that allows us an entry point into poetry of impermanence and fragility of taut lines and tensile forces. The Salons directors, Angie, Joan and Penny provide insight and we present the participating poets for Love in transmission on the airwaves in two parts: Albert Lin, Ali Whitelock, Gillian Swain, Luke Patterson, Magdalena Ball, Paris Rosemont and Richard James Allen.

Produced and presented by Angela Stretch, from GADIGAL country, we acknowledge First Nations peoples as the sovereign custodians of Country, and pay respect to Elders of past, present and to future generations. We acknowledge and value the distinct culture, customs and practices present in the many and diverse tribal nations across NSW. 

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FEATURE STORY: Love in transmission on the airwaves by CURATORS: The Salons – Angie, Joan and Penny | https://www.thesalons.org/ 

Poetry Sydney presents Vessels of Love 2024 (VOL) partnered with The Salons: Love in transmission | https://love-in-transmission.poetrysydney.org/

Just as you are by Church Chords (International Release)
Release: Otherly Love EP

Love in transmission POETS: by Albert Lin | Ali Whitelock | Gillian Swain | Luke Patterson | Magdalena Ball | Paris Rosemont | Richard James Allen 

To find out more on the poets and to listen/read/view the full collection please visit: love-in-transmission.poetrysydney.org

Poetry performance event: Tuesday, March 19th 2024 by Love in transmission poets + the Poem Phone: pie in the sky poets – Since I Left You

Activation: tides of love by You’re invited! People from across the global poetry community are invited to write your poetry on love into the tide line of your local beach. https://www.thesalons.org/tides-of-love

TECTONIC is an imposing black slab installation work that spans 30 square metres at Passage Gallery to awaken the Moon for Lunar New Year, in the heart of China Town.  The artist Kien Situ is a multidisciplinary Asian-Australian who works across architecture, sculpture, film and installation. Passage is a non-commercial gallery dedicated to installation art presenting exhibitions that can be viewed 24/7 and without opening hours. We hear from Ashleigh Jones, who is one of the three curators of Passage. Fooled Enough With Numbers offers a glimpse into how artists integrate the digital in their process, navigating the transformative and material potential afforded by emerging technologies. Curated by Michelle Chanique, the three exhibiting artists Kenneth Lambert, Thomas Marcusson and Justin Harvey provide insight from the Stanley Street Gallery.

Produced and presented by Angela Stretch, from GADIGAL country, we acknowledge First Nations peoples as the sovereign custodians of Country, and pay respect to Elders of past, present and to future generations. We acknowledge and value the distinct culture, customs and practices present in the many and diverse tribal nations across NSW. 

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Jazz Money launched her film WINHANGANHA at AGNSW in November last year. It’s a film born from a desire to make sense of the archival inheritances that shape our present realities. WINHANGANHA in Wiradjuri language translates as ‘Remember, know, think’.  The film is a lyrical journey of archival footage and sound, poetry and original composition commissioned by the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA).   It is an examination of how archives and the legacies of collection affect First Nations people and wider Australia, as told by Jazz Money as she explains. The Sydney Poetry Picnic is a celebration of poetry. Now in its eighth year, is an acknowledgement of the efforts undertaken throughout the year by the conveners of poetry in forging poetry communities and developing support of the art form in Sydney and New South Wales. We hear from a few of the representatives on their events, Albert Lin, Defne, Peter Roads and Gillian Swain. Opera Australia opens this summer with Mozart’s  The Magic Flute. Tenor, Michael Smallwood is in Sydney for his Australian debut with Opera Australia the first time he has sung in the Sydney Opera House.

Produced and presented by Angela Stretch, from GADIGAL country, we acknowledge First Nations peoples as the sovereign custodians of Country, and pay respect to Elders of past, present and to future generations. We acknowledge and value the distinct culture, customs and practices present in the many and diverse tribal nations across NSW. 

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NEW WORLD
nat birchall NEW WORLDInternational

Poeira
Sam Gendel and Fabiano do Nascimento The RoomInternational

INTERVVIEW: Jazz MoneyFILM: WINHANGANHAhttps://www.nfsa.gov.au/latest/winhanganha-new-work-award-winning-poet-and-artist-jazz-money
How you make a basket, UQP 2021https://www.jazz.money/

Sweet Magnet
Church Chordselvis, he was Schlager (LP)

Forever & EverThree Heart Tones
Forever & EverInternational

Lil Birdie
DJ HARRISON EP

INTERVIEW: Michael Smallwood, Tenor
PRODUCTION: The Magic Flute 1 February – 16 March
Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney Opera House

Best For You and Me
Helado Negro PHASOR

Escape
E. Lundquist Art Between Minds

What Did You Run For?
Feat. Omar Cotonete, DaniloEPInternational

EVENT: Sydney Poetry Picnic
3-6pm Saturday 27 January 2024 Harmony Park, Surry Hills | FREE
POETS / POETRY CONNVENORS
Dfne – West Side Poetry Slam
Albert Lin – Asphalt Words and Ocean Dreams
Peter Roads – Loose Leaf Literature, Chippo Hotel, Chippendale
Gilian Swain –

NEW WORLD
nat birchall NEW WORLDInternational

Poeira
Sam Gendel and Fabiano do Nascimento The RoomInternational

INTERVIEW: Jazz MoneyFILM: WINHANGANHAhttps://www.nfsa.gov.au/latest/winhanganha-new-work-award-winning-poet-and-artist-jazz-money

How you make a basket, UQP 2021https://www.jazz.money/

Sweet Magnet
Church Chordselvis, he was Schlager (LP)

Forever & EverThree Heart Tones
Forever & EverInternational

Lil Birdie
DJ HARRISON EP

INTERVIEW: Michael Smallwood, Tenor
PRODUCTION: The Magic Flute 1 February – 16 March
Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney Opera House

Best For You and Me
Helado Negro PHASOR

Escape
E. Lundquist Art Between Minds

What Did You Run For?
Feat. Omar Cotonete, DaniloEPInternational

EVENT: Sydney Poetry Picnic
3-6pm Saturday 27 January 2024 Harmony Park, Surry Hills | FREE
POETS / POETRY CONNVENORS
Dfne – West Side Poetry Slam
Albert Lin – Asphalt Words and Ocean Dreams
Peter Roads – Loose Leaf Literature, Chippo Hotel, Chippendale
Gilian Swain – CULTURE CLUB: Poets Society, The Family Hotel Maitland + Poetry at the Pub, Newcastle