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.
In this workshop with local author Christopher Raja (Into The Suburbs) learn how to write on memoir and the suburbs. Raja’s work explores topical issues of race, class and migration in an affecting portrait of one family’s search for home.
Tune in via Zoom from home, or watch the broadcast at Dandenong Library.
Writing the Suburbs is a live hybrid event, hosted via Zoom. It’ll be broadcasted live at the Dandenong Library.
Attending via Zoom
To ensure the event stays private, ticket holders will be emailed a Zoom link 30 minutes prior to the event start time. Please check your email (including that pesky junk email folder).
Ticket sales will close 1 hour before the event starts.
You can download Zoom for free here. Read more about how to set up Zoom’s automatic transcription feature here.
If you have any difficulty connecting to the event, please email us at [email protected]
Attending the broadcast at Dandenong Library
The venue is wheelchair accessible.
Relaxation Area
Relaxation area provided on the premise
Hearing Loop
The hearing loop allows patrons who are wearing a hearing aid to tune in to the frequency of the venue. If you require hearing assistance, please contact us when you book your ticket.
Thursday 23 June
7-8.30pm AEST
Free, bookings essential
Tune in via Zoom from home, or watch the broadcast at Dandenong Library.
Dandenong Library
225 Lonsdale Street, Dandenong VIC 3175
Online, via Zoom
Christopher Raja is the author of a memoir, Into the Suburbs: A Migrant’s Story (UQP, 2020), a play The First Garden (Currency Press, 2012) and a novel, The Burning Elephant, (Giramondo, 2015).
For the final morning of EWF, First Nations artists and artists of colour are invited to join in a closed space for connection and creativity.
Enter the Colour Zone : Creating a Colouring In Book is a project that Marc Sorbello began in 2020.
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