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.

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Free, Online & Performance

Home as Archive

Between heart and home, there is a story. For many, the home is built on a foundation of family, memory and history. Artists working between so-called Australia and Essex, England, share artefacts from the archives of their personal histories, and weave stories and intimacies once untold.

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Presented in collaboration with Essex Book Festival & Metal Culture, Southend

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How to attend this event

Home as Archive is an online performance event, hosted via YouTube.

You’ll be able to watch the performance right here on the night, or afterward via EWF’s YouTube channel.


Friday 18 June, 7.00-8.00pm AEST

Free

Online, via YouTube

Featuring...

Blown Fuse Theatre

Blown Fuse Theatre makes innovative projects for inquisitive minds. Working with the local community in initial stages of the creative process, authenticity of experience and inclusivity for all are at the heart of what we do.

M G Boulter

M G Boulter is a lyricist and musician living in Southend-on-Sea, Essex.

Katerina Bryant

Katerina Bryant is a writer and PhD student based on Kaurna land (Adelaide). Her first book, Hysteria: A Memoir of Illness, Strength and Women’s Stories Throughout History (NewSouth), was published in 2020.

Steven Lawes

Steve Lawes is a visual artist and writer from Southend, Essex. He has performed spoken word poetry across the South of England, written community-inspired works for various local arts projects, and had sociological and historical research published on several websites.

Delaine Le Bas

Delaine Le Bas is a cross practice artist working with mixed and multi media. Delaine is beginning to work on the Le Bas Archive & Collection with material belonging to herself and her late husband.

Jazz Money

Jazz Money is an award-winning poet of Wiradjuri heritage, currently based on beautiful sovereign Gadigal land. Her practice is centred around the written word while producing works that encompass installation, digital, film and print.

Anne Odeke

Anne is an Essex based actor and playwright, who most recently worked for The RSC. In 2020, Anne was commissioned by The Queens Theatre Hornchurch to both write and perform a monologue as part of ‘Misfits’.

Tasnim Sammak

Tasnim Mahmoud Sammak is a PhD candidate at Monash University’s Faculty of Education, a single mum of two boys and a local Palestinian Muslim organiser.

Adam Thompson

Adam Thompson is a pakana writer from Launceston, Tasmania. He has been published by the Australian Dictionary of Biography, Griffith Review and Kill Your Darlings.