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Mad Poets & Creatives Collective: Divergence Edition
Fri, 28 Aug
|Location is TBD
Join us for the Divergence Festival 2026 edition, with this year's festival theme being 'Be.Here.Now'! The Mad Poets and Creatives Collective is a space to be heard and have a go, to hear and celebrate each other's creativity and journeys through the ups and downs of life.
Time & Location
28 Aug 2026, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Location is TBD
About The Event
Join us for the Divergence Festival 2026 edition, with this year's festival theme being 'Be.Here.Now'!
The Mad Poets and Creatives Collective is a space to be heard and have a go, to hear and celebrate each other's creativity and journeys through the ups and downs of life.
The only explicitly mad-positive and mental health friendly poetry space in Ōtautahi - all people are welcome, all poems are welcome, as well as rap, music, art, interpretive dance, ukulele tunes, and other forms of creative expression.
Our special Divergence Festival 2026 : Be.Here.Now event is an open mic night where everyone is welcome, where we're all celebrating the value of being fully present, appreciative and engaged, right here and right now, wherever we are and whoever we’re sharing the moment with.
You can come along to listen to others, and there'll be opportunities to sign up on the night to read or…