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.

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Artist

Brandon Fairley

Brandon Fairley is an actor, writer, singer, producer, spokesperson, and proud Indigenous Australian with an invisible disability. He’s spent more than eight years in community theatre, film, and screen. His theatre credits include Bonnie and Clyde: The Musical, Cannibal! The Musical. His screen work includes roles as a Stand-In for Josh Gad for Spaceballs 2 and Prefer not to Say screening at the ACMI on May 30th in which he starred, wrote and produced. Brandon was a panelist at the First Nations & Disability Driving Change Employment Summit and proudly serves as the Bus Stop Films Program Ambassador for Wollongong.

Wednesday 16 September, 7.30pm-8.30pm AEST

Written Out: How Australian Media Is Failing Disability Representation

This panel brings together artists working in various pockets of the creative industries to share their stories, perspectives and lived experience. Together they’ll celebrate how far we’ve come, reckon with how far we haven’t, and dream up the future that disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent people deserve.