# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Becoming Hazlito
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 11 Mar, 2026 at 09:30 am – Wed, 11 Mar, 2026 at 10:30 am
- **Event Description**: Becoming Hazlito
Russell 'Hazlito' Black
Whakatū/Nelson

How I died and my life since. Can you trust the advice of a mentally ill man on how to survive mental illness?

Hazlito will squeeze you through an emotional wringer using storytelling, comedy and (ugh) poetry to examine his mental health and identity.

Hazlito writes stories. This is his most difficult story. Because this story is true. It covers mental health, ethnicity and sexual identity. It is a story of recovery, discovery and reinvention. It could be a novel. This is the Cliff Notes version.

Join him as he overshares his personal life and discovers, through trauma, that he was never who he thought he was. And, who he thinks he is becoming. He will attempt to make you cry, laugh and maybe even rethink your own life.

Hazlito is a National Slam Poetry finalist, once (before you were born) the funniest man (arguably) in Nelson, and currently a closeted artist, poet, writer and social critic. He is involved in multiple charities for vulnerable people and animals (ie he is unemployable) and is learning to understand his neurodivergence whilst being too woke to sleep.

Keywords: spoken word, poetry, storytelling, comedy, LGBTQ+, new work

Event Details
When: 11 March at 7:30pm
Genre: Undefinable
Duration: 60 mins
Price: $18 - $28
Venue: WAA! Club
14yrs+
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/nelson/becoming-hazlito/200029675838457
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, nonprofit, charities, health-wellness, comedy, mental-health, storytelling, lgbt-pride, spoken-word
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 4

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://nelsonfringe.co.nz/events/becoming-hazlito/?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=nelson-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Nelson
- **state**: NE
- **country**: New Zealand
- **location**: WAA! Club, 183 Bridge St, Nelson
- **lat**: -41.27254
- **long**: 173.28826
- **full address**: WAA! Club, 183 Bridge St, Nelson, New Zealand

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Nelson Fringe Festival (https://allevents.in/org/nelson-fringe-festival/19557453)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Wed, 11 Mar, 2026 at 09:30 am
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** WAA! Club, 183 Bridge St, Nelson, New Zealand
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Nelson Fringe Festival
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art, nonprofit, charities, health-wellness, comedy, mental-health, storytelling, lgbt-pride, spoken-word
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Becoming Hazlito ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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