25 September 2011 Spring Sprung S p r o n g

The Happy Tea House is delighted to present Eye Street Poets, Genevieve McClean and Doug Poole, poetry, with music from The Rocking Roller-Coasters, and Raewyn Alexander will perform with Transistor Davis Jnr - work from their upcoming CD Family of Artists.

Art and craft most reasonably priced for this event, in the exhibition room.

Please contact us for more information and if you're in Grey Lynn, Auckland, NZ that particular Sunday, we'd love to see you. Koha entry, tea, sandwiches and cakes available, cash or cheque only and a lovely garden setting with large covered area, (a lania). raewynalexander at hotmail.com

Eye Street Poets are Jack Ross, Jacqueline Crompton Ottaway, Alice Hooton, Rosetta Allan, Ila Selwyn and Raewyn Alexander. Google our names and see our fame.

Next weekend is Crafternoon Tea in Kingsland, see you there.

http://crafternoon-tea.blogspot.com/p/flyers.html

10am - 2pm in Kingsland

Trinity Methodist Church
400 Great North Road

Waywin will be there with Lyrical Brooches, Tiny Titles, Treasure Boxes and Jaq Tweedie's fabulous Cartes Shark, so good for a laugh.

Having a soiree at my place 26 June, 2pm - 4pm, please ask me if you'd like to attend, craft available and I'll be giving people a cup of tea too. Some really good china to drink it from, I can assure you.

Lovely fire going, inside warming the lounge and dining room. Essential to let me know you're coming and when, (small house, only room for ten people at a time, *laughs*) We could go on til 5pm if there's a lot of interest. email raewynalexander @ hotmail.com (without those gaps) to RSVP

Tiny Titles, Lyrical Brooches, some of the work from my IGIJDK exhibition and other craft all most reasonably priced, (cash or cheques only please) some fine conversation and poetry read aloud, just one at a time to a few people as they please. xR

"I Guess I Just don't Know" 23 May - 4 June Exhibition
Satellite Gallery Newton Auckland
cnr St Benedict Street and Newton Road

quote used as a title is from Lou Reed

On Monday 23 May at 5.30pm I opened my exhibition at Satellite Gallery. Now the work remaining is on show at my Happy Tea House, Grey Lynn, Auckland NZ, ask me for more info.

Writing workshops ran on both the Saturdays. A performance night with open mic closes the show, guests Genevieve McClean, John Goudge, Sandra Bell, Ross Brighton, Raewyn Alexander - it was stunning, thanks everyone for a great evening.

“One exciting moment occurred when I put two punk bands on Captain Cook's ship, history rewrites feel intoxicating. The Scavengers and The Suburban Reptiles on The Endeavour, quite something. I believe it happened. Who else would Cook have as sailors?”

In the gallery, people made their own poetry, after donating to Women's Refuge, from words cut from newspapers and magazines. They kept the results, destroyed them or placed them on display. Some audio poetry also played during the exhibition. I am making a book of those poems and soon publishing the 'if walls could talk' poem which people also wrote, publishing this on my facebook.

The writing workshop, Writing with Fire, is about accessing emotions safely, then how to control and order thinking, make what we want with our language. I shall offer this again to new participants at some stage, it was really successful. Thanks to those who attended.

The other workshop is now renamed Sound Sound Sound and is about performing and reading work. This could be available again later, I want to do some retraining first with John Goudge.

Alexander teaches relaxation techniques and helps people refine their voice, people may also create poetry or prose during workshops. She's taken such workshops for over 15 years with many successes. Alexander also offers advice on publishing and any difficulties you have with your own writing, at the end of each workshop.

Her poetry, Punk Settlers, (a PS from history) written especially for this exhibition will be performed in future and was performed for the exhibition, it's included in visual art and available in hand-made books made from clean, found paper including old envelopes, atlases, brown paper bags and redundant science books.

Alexander's writing history is on the NZ Book Council website -

http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/alexanderraewyn.html

Announcing a new batch of Tiny Titles Nine.  The covers are collage, sewn and most durable.

Each with its own heavy-weight paper bag, made of recycled astronomy texts and so on, so you can carry a Tiny Title all places with you.  

Each has spaces for your own verses, keepsakes, what-not and ephemera.  They also all feature poetry by well-known NZ writer, Raewyn Alexander.  Google her name and see her fame.

Lovely to see everyone at our last event, thanks for your support.

Have made a whole new batch of poetry brooches and issue nine of Tiny Titles.

Please call in and buy presents from The Happy Tea House, special rates for poets and poetry lovers.  Email me for my phone number, or ring first if you have it. Thx.

My embellished boxes now all contain poetry books, made especially for each container.

Please call to see my work at The Happy Tea House, Grey Lynn by appointment, or order from this blog.  Just contact me at raewynalexander  @  hotmail.com  (use the address without those spaces).  We also have an open day soon, 27 November if you'd like to attend just ask me, (it's a Poetic Junk Sale as well, 9am - 4pm).

Some of my one-off fashion pieces are now available from Happy Tea House, and you can see where my fashion career started in the fabulous new book from Random House, The Dress Circle.    

http://snipurl.com/1f2fy5

Have added some new photos of the boxes with their little books and hope to be at the next Kraftbomb, 28th November, Sunday 11am to 2pm Grey Lynn Community Centre, Richmond Road, Tamaki Makaurau, Auckland, Aotearoa Enzed.