TWO EVENTS, ONE PRICE!
Featuring
About the Event
Official Opening
Join the world’s most successful, block-buster, best-selling writer as they manifest their next best original idea, reinvent the genre and write existence into its future…
With Carly Sheppard, Kamarra Bell-Wykes / A Daylight Connection
In Conversation
Two icons interviewing each other. What does a writer want to know about another writer?
With Kim Scott, Tony Birch.
Presented in partnership with Blak & Bright and RMIT Culture
Accessibility
Accessible toilets available
Assistive Listening
Auslan Interpreted
Companion tickets available
Registered Assistance Animals welcome
Wheelchair accessible
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Featuring
Kamarra Bell-Wykes (Yagera/Butchulla) is a playwright, director, dramaturge, devisor, facilitator, performer, creative producer, program curator, community developer and education consultant. Kamarra served as ILBIJERRI Theatre Company’s Education Manager and Creative Director from 2014-2019 and M... Read more
Tony Birch is the author of four novels, five short fiction collections, and two poetry books. His most recent book is the novel, Women and Children (UQP). ... Read more
Kim Scott has twice won Australia’s premier literary award, the Miles Franklin (for Benang and That Deadman Dance) among many other Australian literary prizes. His most recent novel is Taboo (Picador, 2017). Proud to be one among those who call themselves Noongar – the Aboriginal people of south... Read more
Carly Sheppard is an award winning cross-disciplinary performance artist based in Naarm (Melbourne), working across dance and theatre making and performance, sculpture, drawing, writing, voice, and installation. Her practice navigates complex narratives of intersecting race, class, mythologies and i... Read more
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