GERT - a woman, a place, a story

GERT: Spoken word theatre show by Jacqui Malins
Travel through time and space to the vibrant community and boom-and-bust rhythms of Tasmania's west coast, in this mesmerising theatre show. Jacqui brings together spoken word, visuals and music for a truly transporting experience.
In 1924, near Queenstown on the west coast of Lutruwita/Tasmania, a young man holds a double-barrelled gun with a black cockatoo perched on the barrel. A young woman with short curly hair stands beside him in the button grass, a dead black cockatoo dangling from each hand. Who is this woman, and what is she doing? Come and find out!
GERT tells two inseparable stories: one of a place, and the other of one woman who lived there. It speaks to anyone interested in history, women’s lives, industrial history or the environment. It is resonant with communities who are grappling with the legacies of mining, smelting and logging, and looking to a different future.
There will also be a reading by Wollongong poet Linda Godfrey.
Details:
When: 7.00pm on Friday 3 July
Where: Society City, 274 Crown St, Wollongong
Tickets: $20 (full, seated), $15 (concession, seated), $10 (standing - unless spare seats remain)
Doors: 7.00pm. Show: 7.30pm
About Jacqui Malins:
Writer and performer of GERT, Jacqui grew up in Wollongong with the Port Kembla steelworks as part of her everyday - perhaps this is the reason she was so drawn to Queenstown, with its mines and smelters?
Jacqui is now a writer, performer and artist based on Ngunawal & Ngambri country, aka Canberra. Jacqui has performed at events including the Cobargo Folk Festival, National Folk Festival, the Woodford Festival (QLD) and The Unconformity (Tas). Her previous shows include 'Words in Flight' and 'Cavorting with Time', Her poetry collections GERT (2025) and F-Words (2021) are published by Recent Work Press, and will be available for purchase.
You can find Jacqui and her work on page, stage, in galleries and online at www.jacquimalinsart.com.
About Linda Godfrey:
Linda Godfrey is a poet. writer. editor. reader, judge, and teacher. Linda has featured in journals, anthologies, audio anthologies and online, and is a reviewer for the Newtown Review of Books. She has received a Varuna Longlines Residency and an Australian Society of Authors mentorship, and won the 2011 AAWP First Chapter prize. Linda has a Masters of Professional Writing from UTS and was the Program Manager of Wollongong Writers Festival, 2015 to 2018. Linda first chapbook of poetry, 'Count the Ways' was published in 2011, and her next collection 'Tannic Skin and Sweet Flesh' is coming out in July 2026.