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

Gideon Hutapea

Gideon Hutapea is a storyteller from Indonesia. He has worked on book design, illustration, children’s story books, comic books, and illustrations for a spectrum of clients.
His cartoon is published in the Kompas Sunday edition. While still active, making short comics, he teaches communication design at Universitas Multimedia Nusantara. Now, he lives in Australia with his wife, pursuing his Ph.D. at RMIT with research that he has always found hard to explain to his family.

In his (so much) free time, he enjoys reading comic books, Murakami’s, 3 hours of power-nap, and doomscrolling dog videos.

Wednesday 17 September, 6PM-9PM

Comics Off the Page Live: Exhibition Launch and Performances

RMIT’s non/fictionLab have teamed up with Speaking to Pictures & Pink Ember Studio to challenge 14 creators (Gutter Stars comics collective) to play with their comic practices and experiment with voice, performance and 3D forms. See and hear new work by visionary creators.