‘Social Sanctuary’ EWF Takeover with Sahul Sakti, Romæo, Hand Clap, L&L: Lucy Wilks & Leone Gabrielle + Antonio Montaine
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15 September 2025 starting 9:00 am
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FREE ENTRY | $20 CHICKEN & EGGPLANT PARMAS | $10 PINTS OF MOUNTAIN GOAT
Cure your Monday blues at this special Emerging Writers’ Festival edition of Social Sanctuary, a weekly night of free gigs at NSC. This edition features a bunch of your fave local artists and a colourful array of up-and-coming spoken-word poets, songwriters and sound artists for you to discover.
This week Sahul Sakti, Romæo, Hand Clap, L&L: Lucy Wilks & Leone Gabrielle and Antonio Montaine are stopping by for a show.
Like all great art-pop auteurs, ROMÆO links her brand of pop with a larger concept – with every off kilter hook comes a deeper meaning. Idiosyncratic lyrics and experimental production have launched ROMÆO to the forefront of the Australian art-pop scene. ROMÆO’s performances blur the line between gig and performance art, incorporating elements of drag, dance, and theatrics. She has supported artists such as June Jones and Huck Hastings and worked behind the scenes with a diverse roster of collaborators, including Sandy Hsu, Adam Noviello, Dirty Versachi, and Will Edgar.
Hand Clap, is the moniker of Maya Borjesson, an Architect and visual/sound Artist.
Using synthesizers, spoken word, and field recordings, their compositions explore themes of connection, memory, nostalgia and grief. This year Hand Clap embarked on a tour of Japan, supported Penelope Trappes in Sydney, and presented a body of visual and sound work at No Vacancy Gallery. ‘A Thread Beneath Our Skin’ traced the layered and intimate terrain of connection—between individuals, identities, and past and present selves- it was a practice of listening outward, as well as, to the quiet within.
L&L:LUCY WILKS AND LEONE GABRIELLE
Lucy Wilks is a Melbourne based writer who enjoys playing with metrical constraints and traditional forms. Leone Gabrielle writes in company of crickets and thirsty plants, from Seymour, a snaking town on Taungurung country. Etymologically, ‘collaboration’ stems from the Latin assimilated form of com (‘with’) plus laborare (‘to work’). In contemporary Spanish, Portuguese, and French, it means ‘to plough.’ We have endeavoured to take pains, exert ourselves by labouring together, a pleasure distinct from that of solo authorship, rewarding in a way that brings a different dimension to each of our contributions, to the yield of the fields we plough.
Antonio Montaine is a rhythm poet, stylistically influenced by jazz and hip hop culture his writing focuses on social and political issues. Antonio an Australian born child of immigrant parents and was raised in the western suburbs of Melbourne, Naarm. Antonio draws from these experiences for inspiration in his writing.
Social Sanctuary is proud to be sponsored by Mountain Goat.
Our show is being held on the lands of the Wurundjeri People and we wish to acknowledge them as the Traditional Owners of this land we are gathered on. We also pay our respects to their Elders, past and present, and Aboriginal Elders of other communities that may join us for our show.
Special Guests:
FREE ENTRY | $20 PARMAS | $10 PINTS
Cure your Monday blues at this special Emerging Writers’ Festival edition of Social Sanctuary, a weekly night of free gigs at NSC. This edition features a bunch of your fave local artists and a colourful array of up-and-coming spoken-word poets, songwriters and sound artists for you to discover.
This week Sahul Sakti, Romæo, Hand Clap, L&L: Lucy Wilks & Leone Gabrielle and Antonio Montaine are stopping by for a show.
Like all great art-pop auteurs, ROMÆO links her brand of pop with a larger concept – with every off kilter hook comes a deeper meaning. Idiosyncratic lyrics and experimental production have launched ROMÆO to the forefront of the Australian art-pop scene. ROMÆO’s performances blur the line between gig and performance art, incorporating elements of drag, dance, and theatrics. She has supported artists such as June Jones and Huck Hastings and worked behind the scenes with a diverse roster of collaborators, including Sandy Hsu, Adam Noviello, Dirty Versachi, and Will Edgar.
Hand Clap, is the moniker of Maya Borjesson, an Architect and visual/sound Artist.
Using synthesizers, spoken word, and field recordings, their compositions explore themes of connection, memory, nostalgia and grief. This year Hand Clap embarked on a tour of Japan, supported Penelope Trappes in Sydney, and presented a body of visual and sound work at No Vacancy Gallery. ‘A Thread Beneath Our Skin’ traced the layered and intimate terrain of connection—between individuals, identities, and past and present selves- it was a practice of listening outward, as well as, to the quiet within.
L&L:LUCY WILKS AND LEONE GABRIELLE
Lucy Wilks is a Melbourne based writer who enjoys playing with metrical constraints and traditional forms. Leone Gabrielle writes in company of crickets and thirsty plants, from Seymour, a snaking town on Taungurung country. Etymologically, ‘collaboration’ stems from the Latin assimilated form of com (‘with’) plus laborare (‘to work’). In contemporary Spanish, Portuguese, and French, it means ‘to plough.’ We have endeavoured to take pains, exert ourselves by labouring together, a pleasure distinct from that of solo authorship, rewarding in a way that brings a different dimension to each of our contributions, to the yield of the fields we plough.
Antonio Montaine is a rhythm poet, stylistically influenced by jazz and hip hop culture his writing focuses on social and political issues. Antonio an Australian born child of immigrant parents and was raised in the western suburbs of Melbourne, Naarm. Antonio draws from these experiences for inspiration in his writing.
Social Sanctuary is proud to be sponsored by Mountain Goat.
Our show is being held on the lands of the Wurundjeri People and we wish to acknowledge them as the Traditional Owners of this land we are gathered on. We also pay our respects to their Elders, past and present, and Aboriginal Elders of other communities that may join us for our show.
Special Guests:
FREE ENTRY | $20 PARMAS | $10 PINTS
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