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.
The Đất Nước Library is a community-curated collection of stories with a focus on Vietnam and its diaspora. The library aims to encourage collective literacy, shared archives and connection.
Join us to celebrate the launch of Đất Nước Library with four different Naarm-based Vietnamese artists who will read and respond to texts from the collection.
Hosted by Đất Nước collective members
This event will be Auslan interpreted
EWF X Đất Nước Library Launch 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.
Wednesday 23 June, 7-8pm AEST
$10 / NOTAFLOF*
*No One Turned Away For Lack Of Funds
To pre-book a NOTAFLOF ticket, please email us at least 24 hours prior to the event.
Online, via Zoom
Quang Dinh has been on the Melbourne music scene for many years, more recently under pseudonym, Moonlover. His debut album Thou Shall Be Free was picked up by indie label Our Golden Friend and was released in 2018.
Kim Lam (dangerlam) is an illustrator and comics artist living with hypergraphia and π*. She is an avid reader, maker and collector of zines and small-press publications.
Thao is a sound artist and storyteller who lives and creates on the unceded lands of the Kulin Nation.
Đất Nước Library is a community-curated library collection of texts from Vietnam and the diaspora aiming to encourage collective literacy, shared archives and connection.
Chi Tran is a writer and artist based in Narrm/Melbourne.
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