DOORS 6:30PM // $15 PRESALE Thin Red Lines is a Naarm-based poetry/reading event co-hosted by Thabani Tshuma and Georgia/George Kartas. As our last event for 2025, and because we won't be back until mid to late next year, we're throwing an extra special event combining poetry and music. This musical edition is co-curated with musician Pelaya Arapakis. Don't miss this one! NICK TSIAVOS Nick Tsiavos is a bassist and composer whose work operates at the intersections of a number of cultural boundaries: from ancient chant to contemporary minimalism - large scale compositional topographies disrupted through the instability of experimental improvisation. Since 1994, Tsiavos has been developing new music for the solo bass as well a his ensemble projects. As an immigrant to Australia, a product of the Greek diaspora of the 1950's, he is interested in and informed by non-canonical discourse, while refusing the tokenism that ethnicity often entails. The diversity of his cultural influences come together to create work articulating an intensely personal response to the problematics of contemporary Australian culture. For the past 30 years, Tsiavos has performed at festivals across Australia such as Dark Mofo, Four Winds, Canberra International, Adelaide Festival, and internationally, multiple performances for Glasperlenspiel Festival (Estonia ) Olavsdagen ( Norway ) and many concert tours to Greece. ANGELA COSTI Angela Costi is a poet and writer with a background in social justice, law and community arts. Since 1994, her writing has been widely published, with various works produced, broadcast, translated and awarded prizes. She has featured at many festivals including the Melbourne Writers Festival, Sonic Poetry Festival, Queensland Poetry Festival and the WilyLit Festival. The author of six poetry collections, including 'Honey&Salt' (Five Islands Press, shortlisted Mary Gilmore Prize 2008), 'An Embroidery of Old Maps and New' (Spinifex Press, winner of Poetry in English, Greek Australian Cultural League 2022), and 'The Heart of the Advocate' (Liquid Amber Press, 2025). Her chapbook 'Adversarial Practice' (Cordite Poetry Review) was commended in the Wesley Michel Wright Prize 2024. She won the University of Canberra's Health Poetry Prize 2024 and the Katherine Sussanah Prichard Poetry Prize 2022. In 1995, she was awarded a grant from the Australia National Languages Board to study Ancient Greek Drama in Greece. In 2021, she received the High Commendation for Contribution to Arts and Culture, Merri-bek Award 2021. She is known as Αγγελικη Κωστη among the Cypriot Greek diaspora, which is her ancestry and heritage. She lives on the land of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. EMILIE COLLYER Emilie Collyer lives on unceded Wurundjeri Country where she writes restlessly across forms. She has two poetry collections published by Vagabond Press: Do you have anything less domestic? (winner Five Islands Prize) and the very newly released As If I'm Really There. Her poetry has been recognised in Gwen Harwood, Judith Wright and Newcastle poetry prizes. Most recent theatre stuff is Super that premiered at Red Stitch in 2025, Once Were Pirates in Prague (2024) and a current commission with The Street (Canberra) with composer Jess Green. TARIRO MOVONDO Tariro's artistry spans voiceover work for brands like LEXUS, BMX, and Thomas the Tank Engine, to making music and poetry with I Hold The Lion's Paw, and championing diverse communities behind the scenes in the arts. She was nominated for an ARIA Award with the Australian Art Orchestra (Best Jazz Album, 2021), and won an APRA AMCOS Award for Closed Beginnings. Recently, she co-directed The Hate Race at Malthouse Theatre, was associate director of The Audition (Outer Urban Projects), and returned to acting in La Belle Epoque and St Kilda Tales. A powerful voice in poetry, Tariro has featured at Slamalamadingdong, Melbourne Spoken Word & Poetry Festival, Mother Tongue, African Music and Cultural Festival and more. Her work is published in Growing Up African in Australia (Black Inc.) and Going Down Swinging. PIRRITU PIRRITU's music is a gentle, honest, and melodic personal journey that entices you into the depths of sadness, love, and shimmering hope. With two album releases under his belt, The songman's work honours a cultural journey to connect back to land, language, and family with a continual thirst for deeper understanding of his people and country. Pirritu's music features folk instrumentation weaving amongst his unique vocals like the gentle wind and waters that the Ngiyampaa man sings of. YARU Arash Salavatian (aka Yaru) is an Iranian-Australian multidisciplinary artist and design specialist based in Melbourne (Naarm). Having migrated to Australia in 2012, Yaru's art and activism are intrigued by cultural diversity and challenges of diaspora. He has been an active member of Feminista Melbourne, a collective of Iranian artists actively involved with the Women, Life, Freedom movement focusing on women's rights in Iran as well human rights concerns in the Middle East. In addition to his daytime architectural practice, Yaru is also a poet and a musician, currently producing his debut solo album scheduled for launch towards the end of 2025. https://brunswickballroom.com.au/brunswickartistsbar/ TICKETING INFO Please have a digital or printed copy of your ticket ready on arrival along with a valid photo ID. Acceptable ID includes a current and valid Australian Photo Drivers Licence, State Approved ‘Proof of Age’ card or Passport. The Brunswick Ballroom strives to improve our practices when it comes to sustainability and to reduce our carbon footprint. We don’t sell or provide plastic water bottles. VENUE INFO THE BALLROOM MENU The kitchen will be serving The Ballroom Menu for this show. You can view the delicious offerings available by clicking here. ACCESSIBILITY The Brunswick Ballroom is Accessible. The Brunswick Ballroom has made significant improvements to accessibility by installing an Acorn Chairlift. (Model: New Acorn Indoor 180 Curved Stairlift.) VENUE FAQS To find out more about the venue, FAQs can be viewed by clicking here.