Perc.U.lations - 14th Feb. 2025 - featuring Liz Skitch

Our Poetry and Spoken Word events are held on the second Saturday of the month at 3 pm to 5 pm, with a Poetry Writing Workshop running from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the Walker Street Gallery.

Please note the location: Vespertine Gardens at 6 Cadle St, Dandenong, 3175. This location is weather-dependent, and we will move to the very nearby Walker Street Gallery Theatre Space if we need to

We are incredibly excited to start the year off with a bang!

Our feature this December is Liz Skitch.

One of Melbourne’s most dynamic new poets, Liz Skitch is an award-winning performer, director and theatre-maker with a background in clown, comedy and physical theatre. She is best known as the founder of legendary alternative comedy cabaret, the Moulin Beige and her theatre shows have toured nationally and internationally. Blending spoken word, comedy, and theatre, Skitch’s new performance poetry show, “Down the Back of the Couch”, premiered at the 2025 Melbourne Fringe Festival.

Skitch is looking forward to sharing poems from “Down the Back of the Couch” as well as some new pieces from the heart <3 with the Dandenong community.

Further information on our venue:

Introducing Vespertine Gardens

Located in Dandenong’s inner west, Vespertine Gardens is a new community garden, designed as a space for creativity, connection and care for nature. Vespertine Gardens invites locals to come together to share in gardening and the celebration of the natural world within city life.

This project was brought to life by West Alchemy Collective, who are a passionate group of Dandenong West residents, traders, and creatives. As a collective, the potential was recognised to reclaim vacant land and were inspired to transform it into a green urban sanctuary, as a place to belong.

Additional information:

This event is ticketed using ‘Pay as you Feel’ via Stickytickets, as the Gardens (or other venue) will continue to be open to the general public. Therefore, open-mic and feature presenters are asked to keep their works in the 'PG' range for this event.

Perc.U.lations is affiliated with Radio Laria and is committed to highlighting the voices of local women and gender-diverse poets and other marginalised voices.

Perc.U.lations, is taking place on the stolen lands of the Wurundjeri and Bunurong peoples of the Kulin Nation. Sovereignty was never ceded, and we extend our respect to Indigenous elders past, present, and emerging.