Vyshnavee Wijekumar is a freelance critic, arts worker and writer of Sri Lankan Tamil heritage whose skills and passions include marketing and community engagement. She grew up in Western Sydney and has lived on the lands of Kulin Nations for over a decade.
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Wednesday 21 June, 12:30pm
Lunch/Break: Multipractice Storytelling
Storytelling traverses many different artforms and often those forms are in conversation with one another. Hear from artists working across genre, form and format about how different approaches to storytelling make up their practices. Learn about the different ways, places, and times that storytelling can occur and how diversifying your practice and strengthening your skills […]
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Sunday 18 June, 6pm
Birthday Party!
Emerging Writers’ Festival and Williamstown Literary Festival are both turning 20, and you’re invited to their birthday party!
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Wednesday 21 June, 9pm
Distraction & it’s (Dis)contents
In an attention economy where textual engagement is constantly subject to the news cycle, the fragment, virality and the scroll, what is it to be distracted, and what makes it compelling?
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Thursday 15 June, 11am
Digital Ecologies
Join these writers for an invigorating discussion about their visions for a world where the technological and the natural are simultaneously embraced.
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