The Emerging Writers’ Festival acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land on which we live, learn and work, and pays respect to their Elders past and present, and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
EWF celebrates the history and contemporary creativity of the world’s oldest living culture.
Experimenting with form, a multi-talented, multi-disciplinary group of emerging artists gather to imagine the not-so-far-flung future of the planet in this special digital event. Reaching for the elements of the physical world and the things that make us human, these artists consider how we have ended up here and where on Earth (or elsewhere) we might go now.
Hosted by Luke Patterson
Elemental is a live storytelling event, hosted via Zoom.
To ensure the event stays private, ticket holders will be emailed a Zoom link and password 30 minutes prior to the event start time. Please check your email (including that pesky junk email folder).
Ticket bookings will cease 1 hour before the event starts.
You can download Zoom for free here.
Raynen is an artist, writer, dancer, and community worker, living and working on unceded Wangal lands. They work in film, and across live performance and digital spaces, and with a focus on the body, cultural and politicised somatics, and place.
Jessica Taruna Paraha is a multi-disciplinary artist who looks at her practice as a loving act of translation. Through her work she tries to translate her whakapapa as a Ngati Hine Māori woman living on unceded Gadigal land.
Luke Patterson is a Gamilaroi poet, folklorist and educator living on Gadigal lands. He is interested in the ways bioregional identities and consciousness are expressed through localised and vernacular forms.
Hineani Tunoa Roberts (ko Rongowhakaata iwi) works as a media artist in Naarm (Melbourne). A graduate of FACA Emerging Cultural leadership program (2019) and shortlisted for the 2020 Incinerator Art Award: Art for Social Change.
Emily Sun is a writer and poet who lives on Whadjuk Noongar Boodjar (Perth, WA). She has been published in various journals and anthologies including Cordite, Meanjin, Westerly and Text.
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