VALHALLA TAPROOM
HOLD SPACE
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
PLEASE CONTACT HELLO@PLATFORMARTS.ORG.AU FOR ANY ENQUIRIES.
HOLD SPACE is a night of poetry in response to the artwork and the themes of HOLD, showing in Gallery Two until 20 August 2021.
The night will feature poetry readings from exhibiting artists and local poets. There will be an open mic list on the night open to all. Beginners and total rookies are very welcome and so very encouraged. You are invited to come, sit, listen. Or stand up and share. There’s space for you.
HOLD SPACE will be held offsite at Valhalla Taproom at 12 - 14 Union Street Geelong on Wednesday 21 July 2021.
Arrive at 7.00PM for a 7.30PM start, running until 9.00PM.
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A hand to hold. A hand holds a knife. All that hands can do. All they can inflict. The body is a vessel. You contain multitudes. Muscle memory, knowledge & wisdom, secrets & memories, all the collected layers. Debris & detritus and dirt ground into palms, old scars and new scabs and skin stitching it together.
The cells of you are imbued with all you have passed through, and all that has passed through you. The inner of you is held by flesh and clothes and furniture and room and house and universe. We leave something of ourselves in all we touch.
Wait: don’t move yet. Hold is a taut line. There is tension here - a rope without slack. But tenderness too. Who grasps it? Who cuts it? Lean forward, reach out & embrace. Don’t let me go.
