The Emerging Writers’ Festival work, learn and play largely on the land of the Kulin nation, and pay our respects to their Elders, past and present.
EWF celebrates the history and creativity of the world’s oldest living culture.
Bodies are our vessels for experience, texture, and feeling. They are our sensory conduits through which we express ourselves to the world. Join these body-curious artists for a night of performances, devoted to sensorial writing and self-discovery and expression through the body.
Want to attend all four Performance Events across EWF? Check out the ‘Extras’ option below for a special deal!
Wheelchair, accessible toilets, quiet room
Studio Take Care Accessibility Details
The ground floor is accessed via steps at the front of the building but can also be accessed via two back doors at the rear of the building where a portable ramp is available. The backdoor is accessed via a concrete laneway, through the rear courtyard. The laneway is entirely smooth except for a cobblestone driveway connecting the street to the lane. The back doorway is 84cm wide and the bi-folding backdoor way is 2 meters wide.
The ground floor has a wheelchair accessible bathroom that is 1.9m x 3.3m in size with a doorway of 86cm wide and includes a Caroma Care 800 toilet with backrest, sink height of 80cm and two grab rails. The doorways to the Big Room are 80cm wide. The doorway to a smaller Quiet Room is 79cm wide. The doorway to the Art Room is 76cm wide.
Saturday 14 September, 7PM
Studio Take Care
1 Pitt St, Brunswick VIC 3056
CAINNE @criticalsxxtheory (xe/xim/xyr) is an Afrox agender art worker, body worker and sxx worker born on Lenape Land currently residing on Wurundjeri Land. At Cubby Art Party, Cainne has given birth to “The Law of Beauty” and “De Bussy”. They are one half of disabled dance initiative, Disabled Pole Dancers, and a massage and movement therapist at Yahdy Studio. Their arts practice flows through poetry, prose, self publication, event production, music production, curation and dance. You can read their writing in @MoreThnMelanin, @TheNoncompliant.Artspublication and the first anthology publication from @swnarrativesalon and Cubby Art Parties self titled Arts Magazine.
KRIS KNEEN is the award-winning author of fiction, poetry and non-fiction including An Uncertain Grace which was shortlisted for the Stella Prize, Wintering, shortlisted for the Davitt award and three QPLA awards, and The Three Burials of Lotty Kneen which was shortlisted for two QPLA awards and the Margarey Medal. Their poetry collection Eating My Grandmother won the Thomas Shapcott Prize. Their latest book Fat Girl Dancing was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award. They have written and directed broadcast television documentaries and were the Copyright Agency Ltd Non-fiction Fellow in 2020.
Ari is a proud Kuku Yalanji and Nangu multidisciplinary artist with a strong focus in poetry and fashion design. The subject matter they focus on is the ways Love Studies coincide with Country, exploring these relationships in the experiences of Black Queer Peoples.
Stephanie Powell is a poet based in Naarm / Melbourne. Her forthcoming collection, Small Acts, will be published in late 2024 by Liquid Amber Press. Her book, Gentle Creatures, was published by Vagabond Press in 2023. Her poetry has been translated into Braille and published widely. She is the winner of the 2024 Ada Cambridge Poetry Prize.
2024 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST
Mx. Sly (they/them) is a non-binary writer, performer, arts producer, and flight attendant. Originally from Tiohtià:ke (Montreal, Canada) and now based in Naarm, they pursue contentment through incessant meal planning, doing Yoga with Adriene, making love like a beast, and making out in Melbourne’s laneways. Their first memoir, TRANSLAND: Consent, Kink & Pleasure, is a finalist for a 2024 Lambda Literary Award in the Transgender Non-Fiction category. When Sly isn’t in the sky, they run the arts collective Tender Container, which is developing Canada’s first all–trans and non-binary performance anthology for Playwrights Canada Press.
Words and sounds are the mediums we turn to, to channel these transformative events. Join us Melbourne Museum to hear stories and tributes to experiences that rooted these artists to the earth or led them to transcend it.
Join us, unplugged, at Fairfield Amphitheatre to hear readings that celebrate these motifs and more, while the foxes take flight overhead. A Spring staple, with a literary twist!
From sensual dreams, to awkward encounters, fan fiction to personal fantasies, this night will be a veritable feast of words and wonder.
To mark the opening EWF24, Guest Curator Mackenzie Lee asks: What does an Era of Liberation look like, and how is writing both a tool and an act of liberation, for the self and the collective?
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