Impact Poetry Time
Sat, 14 Feb
|Cellar Space, Corban Estate Arts Centre
A Series of Free Workshops with established poets and impact poetry creators and composers. Join us for workshops and creative collaboration where we invite you to join us to learn from established poets as well as share your work or develop collaborative experiences together.
Time & Location
14 Feb 2026, 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Cellar Space, Corban Estate Arts Centre, 2 Mount Lebanon Lane, Henderson, Auckland 0612, New Zealand
Guests
About the event
Workshop Hosts & Schedule
11:00 am – 12:00 pm — John Goudge: Impact Spoken Word Workshop
John Goudge is an Auckland‑based theatre director, actor, musician and performance practitioner with decades of experience leading creative workshops, theatre productions, and performance labs. He blends voice, music and dramatic craft to help participants explore how delivery, presence and storytelling shape impact.
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm — Matt Reece + John Goudge: Music & Poetry Workshop + Jamming Session
Matt Reece is a seasoned multi‑instrumental world‑music practitioner and composer, known for his fluency on a wide range of instruments — overtone flutes, kalimba, ngoni, taonga pūoro, didgeridoo and percussion — and his collaborative work with poets and performers in immersive sound contexts.
In this session Matt and John guide participants through a playful mash‑up of sound and spoken word — exploring rhythm, tone, texture and vocal interplay, then opening up into a group jam to spark creative interpla…