Australia’s largest regular poetry slam is turning 10! Bankstown Poetry Slam found a home in Bankstown in 2013 and has since nurtured thousands of voices across Western Sydney and Australia through its award-winning events and programs.

Join us for an evening of spectacular spoken word poetry to celebrate the collective’s 10th anniversary in grand-slam fashion at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the location of Bankstown Poetry Slam’s first ever grand slam. Get ready for some ground-shaking clicking and stomping as Bankstown Poetry Slam’s highest-scoring poets of the events held in 2022 go head-to-head in teams for two rounds of thrilling poetry and verse.

Don’t miss this one-time-only event, featuring plenty of surprise guests and Bankstown Poetry Slam legends. Presented in collaboration with the Art Gallery Society of New South Wales. Free entry but get in early for the best seats in the house.