Peril and Mascara Joint Launch

Several years ago I bought my brother, a Sydney muso, a t-shirt which read: Don’t Yoko My Band. The shirt got me thinking about the stigma and stereotypes attached to being the partner of a celebrated artist and indirectly to the poem Yoko Was Always Going to be a Problem.

The poem has just been published online in edition 9 of Peril this week. The launch of Peril #9 will take place tomorrow evening in Melbourne at 6pm as per the below details. As well as the amazing performances mentioned on the below invite, I’ll be onstage paying homage to Yoko, and possibly reading from my short story Shu Yi, which has also been published in edition 9 and can be read online here.

Asialink Winter Writing Series presents
Mascara Literary Review vs Peril Magazine
June 22, Sidney Myer Asia Centre

Peril Magazine and Mascara Literary Review join
forces for a genre-bending mashup of Asia-focused literary and pop culture, Tuesday 22 June at the Sidney Myer Asia Centre.

Join MC and standup comedian Shalini Akhil for a guided tour through Tibetan activist communities in Dharamsala, new Singaporean poetry, and an East Asian Steve Irwin as you’ve never seen him before.

Peril vs Mascara is a magazine-style night of short and sharp readings and performance, and includes winter-warming drinks for all.

The event marks the launch of the latest editions from these two
new-generation Asian-Australian magazines.

Date and time: 6pm, Tuesday June 22, 2010
Venue: Yasuko Hiraoka Myer Room, Level 1, Sidney Myer Asia Centre, The University of Melbourne
Cost: Free
Enquiries: Adam Hills, a.hills@asialink.unimelb.edu.au,
phone (+61) 3 9035 4026
Register Online: www.asialink.unimelb.edu.au/calendar