Our final two offerings for the year are golden with the Queen of Soul, and dare I say, a queen of poetry and art. We are so thrilled to end the year joyously with Aretha Franklin’s album I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You at A Whole Album on Nov 24. Then, to close the year of Poetica Petit on Dec 3 at Woollahra Gallery, we will be doing something a little different… Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad will be taking us all on an art and poetry adventure. PLUS the grand old open mic! for all your poems to be shared. Of course there’ll be wine, kombucha and cheese too. And something sweet!
Join us at Poetica for Word + Image: The Painted Poem, a two-hour creative workshop combining a mini-presentation, and hands-on making. Drawing from her practice as a visual artist-poet, Oormila Prahlad will present selected art-poetry works—mixed-media pieces that combine written text and images—and discuss how these hybrid works are conceived and made. Participants will see published pieces of Oormila’s own art-poetry before being guided to create their own art and poem hybrid pieces. This interactive session invites participants to experiment with combining art and writing in a relaxed, safe, and supportive environment, with optional sharing. All art materials are provided, and no prior experience is required. Suitable for writers, artists, and anyone curious about cross-disciplinary creative practice.
Book for these final events here:
https://poeticapetit2026.eventbrite.com.au
BIO
Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad is a widely published and awarded Indian-Australian artist and poet. She has performed internationally, including at Oxford Poetry Circle and The Surrey Laureate Lounge. She won the 2025 Bankstown Poetry Slam (Sydney Writers Festival) and the 2025 Bread and Butter Slampionship at the Opera House, the 2025 and 2026 Don Bank Short Fiction Cup, and the Curator’s Award in the 2025 Grieve Anthology. A multiple Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, she is the author of Patchwork Fugue (Atomic Bohemian Press 2024) and A Second Life in Eighty-eight Keys (Hedgehog Poetry Press 2024, winner of the Little Black Book Competition). Her artworks have been published on the covers of Yale Divinity School, Pithead Chapel, Amsterdam Quarterly, and numerous other literary magazines across ten countries. She was the inaugural Writer-in-Residence at Woollahra Libraries. She lives and works on the unceded lands of the Eora Nation.
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