Lara Chamas is a Lebanese artist, based in Naarm (Melbourne), fleeing from civil war, her parents migrated to Australia, where she was born. Her practice investigates topics of postcolonial and migrant narratives within the context of her cultural identity. Using narrative and experience documentation, storytelling, transgenerational trauma and memory and tacit knowledge; her research intends to explore links and meeting points between narrative theory, cultural practice, current political and societal tensions, and the body as a political vessel.
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Lara Chamas
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Sunday 15 September, 7PM
Closing Night: BANQUET
Gather beneath stained glass for the final event of EWF24: an etheral spring banquet.
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Monday 9 September, 10AM
Masterclass: Arts Writing
Arts journalism is many writers’ first foray into publication. However, in 2024, there are increasingly fewer avenues to access exciting, thorough, and diverse writing about music, film, theatre, food, and more.
Friday 6 September, 6:30PM
elegy
What does it mean to write in honour of the dead? Who is elegy for, and what are the ethical considerations and implications of such writing?
Saturday 7 September, 2PM
Texting Images: BLINDSIDE & EWF Ekphrastic Readings
BLINDSIDE & EWF present the Ekphrastic Writing Program. This initiative invites four emerging writers to produce an ekphrastic response to an exhibition from Blindside ARI’s 20-year exhibition archive, culminating in a night of celebratory readings, where writers will share the works created, in front of the very artworks they have responded to.
Wednesday 11 September, 6:30PM
Coming of Age in the Wild West
What does it mean to write the place you have lived? How do you harness the streets you have walked, and reflect back the people around you with care and consideration? In this special discussion event, these western suburbs writers come together to talk about the place, and the responsibility of writing it.
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