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I am art, I am scream!
I plant my magic in all corners of the world, I speak for those who embrace their silence. I am a seed growing in the mouths and consciences, multiplying hope.
What good is my talent for, if I don’t use it to serve a valuable cause? My hands, my voice, my art, my SCREAM, belong to all the women who lean on me to get up.
I AM the faith that does not perish, I am the future free from violence, I am the woman who raises her forehead and values herself, I am the one who walks courageously towards light and gets saved. That’s why I give voluntary my heart, that’s why I rise up my fist, my hands, my brush, my voice, my art, my word.
No matter how many times I am summoned for this cause, I serve the light of those who live in darkness and the freedom of those whose dreams have been chattered.
I am the justice of the fallen, I am the dream of the women who march. I am art in protest, I am the scream of the despised.
As long as I rise up, no woman will be left behind! No other will ever be silenced.
Jael Uribe
Woman Scream Founder.
WA Poets, Starick House and Perth Poetry Club gratefully acknowledge the City of Vincent for sponsoring the 2024 Perth Woman Scream (PWS) event.
Perth Woman Scream is fundraising for Starick Domestic Refuge, a charity supporting women and children escaping domestic violence and family violence. All profits from this event will be donated to Starick Domestic Refuge.
To participate in the online Woman Scream Raffle click here
‘One is not born but rather becomes a woman’ Simone de Beaviour
2024 Perth Woman Scream (PWS) will inject self-respect, motivation and fortitude into the women of our community. It will be a rally point to identify and enunciate women’s issues.
PWS is an inclusive platform for women’s participation. We seek and promote women and gender fluid poets of all ages, cultural backgrounds and sexual orientation. Further, PWS is on a mission to fight family violence and to make related issues known far and wide.
PWS 2024 program:
PWS Poetry Event (March 16th, 2–4pm at the Moon Café and live online via Zoom—for the Zoom link you will need to register with Perth Poetry Club)
This unique event features women speaking, rhyming, screaming to be heard in our current climate of discrimination, subtle and obvious violence towards women. This event features local woman poets (and those who identify as woman):
Through this event, the audience will have an increased understanding of the lives of women in our community and the daily issues they both grapple and overcome. Further, this event is one link in a chain of international arts-based events that mark International Women’s Day and demand an end in violence towards women.
PWS has been held annually since 2016 by WA Poets Inc in collaboration with Perth Poetry Club and is a part of Woman Scream (Grito de Mujer®).
WA Poets Inc. (WAPoets) was established in 2006 as a not-for-profit organisation. WAPI is run by volunteers and relies on membership, ticket and book sales, donations, sponsorship and grants to fund its activities. Events organised by WAPoets further its mission to encourage, support, develop and promote poets and poetry in Western Australia.
Woman Scream (Grito de Mujer) was created in 2009, by the Dominican poetess Jael Uribe and trusted to the foundation Mujeres Poetas Internacional MPI, Inc, (Women Poets International Movement). Its mission is to “honour women and create a conscious call against women violence through any kind of artistic expression and to support talented female writers and artists with their international promotion”. It is celebrated every year in over 70 countries through thousands of events during March each year.
What we’ve achieved
Leanne Barron, CEO of Starick Domestic Refuge, on the impact of the workshops:
“Domestic violence is not a single event but a pattern of behaviours … the effect of these behaviours is victim survivors are silenced … The poetry workshops support women to find their voice, to speak about violence and its impacts, such as fear and anxiety.
Eighteen women attended one or more workshops and all produced beautiful poems. The groups were diverse and inclusive. 3 women produced completed poems which they read at the Women Scream event in March 2021. These workshops are so valuable to our women.”
Leanne Barron on the funds raised by Woman Scream over the years:
“The funds are used to support women and children who have escaped domestic and family violence. Our programs build resilience and well-being. They include baby and toddler massage, children’s yoga, restorative yoga and a Lived Experience therapeutic writing program for women. Starick is very grateful to Perth Poetry Club for supporting us through their annual Women Scream event.”
The culmination of PWS will see the empowerment of female artists‑—new, emerging and established—in the sphere of interpersonal relationships and how they can manifest into healthy outcomes for all members of the community.
‘At any given moment, we have the power to say this is not how the story is going to end,’ Christine Mason Miller
WA’s Woman Scream (WS) 2024 poetry event
Date and Time: March 16th, 2024 from 2 to 4 pm at the Moon Café on the corner of Newcastle and William Streets, Northbridge.
The “Woman Scream International Poetry and Arts Festival” is an annual international event that is held to mark International Woman’s Day. The Perth Woman Scream event is part of that festival.
Featuring:
Manveen Kohli (MC) is an emerging poet, currently residing in Perth. She has performed her work at various events including, Neon Readings, Perth Poetry Festival, and Spoken Word Perth. Manveen was a finalist in the Australian Poetry Slam (APS) state finals in 2020 and 2021. Her debut poetry collection was published in 2023 by Centre for Stories and Red River Press. Manveen currently works as a Provisional Psychologist at a High School. Her love for Psychology and passion for poetry stem from a mutual goal-to empower others.
Poets
Skylar J Wynter
S C Tokelov
Judith Huang
Aditi Arun
Rosie Caveny-Shute
Woman Scream Perth Fundraiser
To participate in the online Woman Scream Raffle (all proceeds donated to Starick Domestic Refuge) click here
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Perth Woman Scream is fundraising for Starick Domestic Refuge, a charity supporting women and children escaping domestic violence and family violence. All profits from this event will be donated to Starick Domestic Refuge.
Perth Woman Scream 2024 is funded by the City of Vincent