Events
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RMIT Culture/ nonfictionLab
Linking Cultures: Connecting the Literatures of Southeast Asia
5 December 2022
The Capitol, Melbourne
Mikael Johani, Alvin Pang, Lily Rose Tope
How do Southeast Asian literatures relate to each other in the 21st century?
The peoples of Southeast Asia and neighbouring countries have had story and language flow between them for millennia. In a time when colonisation and globalisation have radically shifted those dynamics, this panel of writers and literary scholars discussed how exchanges between countries can lead to reacquaintance and relationships through the sharing of words.
Photo by Michelle Aung Thin
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Singapore Writers Festival 2022
[WIP]: Work In Progress, Writers In Process
9-14 November
National Gallery, Supreme Court Foyer, Singapore
Gratiagusti Chananya Rompas, Nha Thuyen, Tim Tim Cheng, Lawrence Lacambra Ypil, Alvin Pang, Suchen Christine Lim, Lily Rose Tope, Francesca Rendle-Short, David Carlin
A ‘Public Residency: Live Writers Writing’ immersive collaborative event presented over a week at the National Gallery Singapore, Supreme Court Foyer.
Presented in association with WrICE, RMIT University and Sing Lit Station with funding from the Australian Government through the Australian Research Council.
Photo by Daryl Qilin Yam (left to right) Gratiagusti Chananya Rompas, Francesca Rendle-Short, David Carlin, Suchen Christine Lim, Lawrence Lacambra Ypil, Nha Thuyen, Alvin Pang, Lily Rose Tope, Tim Tim Cheng
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Singapore Writers Festival 2022
[WIP]: A Conversation
18 November 2022
The Arts House, Singapore
Gratiagusti Chananya Rompas, Nha Thuyen, Tim Tim Cheng, Lawrence Lacambra Ypil, Alvin Pang, Suchen Christine Lim, Lily Rose Tope, Francesca Rendle-Short, David Carlin
Writers from the [WIP]: Work In Progress, Writers In Process installation presented a night of reading and conversation. After spending a week on display at the National Gallery in Singapore these 10 writers presented work as a collective performance.
Photo by David Carlin (left to right) Lawrence Lacambra Ypil, Gratiagusti Chananya Rompas, Nha Thuyen, Francesca Rendle-Short, Tim Tim Cheng
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non/fictionLab PUBLIC Forum Series
Holding the Encounter: an Asia-Pacific Model for Writers and Writing Together
5 October 2022
Online
Francesca Rendle-Short, David Carlin, Lily Rose Tope, Melody Ellis, Clara Chow, Rama Chamalie Jirasinghe
The forum considered the space of encounter in relation to the WrICE program. The very idea of encounter and holding space offers a range of generative and provocative considerations such as intimacy, kinship, collectivity, worlding. The forum brought together WrICE alumni from the 2021 digital iteration of the program and members of the ARC research team: ‘Connecting Asia-Pacific Literary Cultures: Grounds, Encounter and Exchange’.
Photo by Francesca Rendle-Short, Yangshou, China
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Melbourne Writers Festival 2022
Ali Cobby Eckermann and Dicky Senda
September 2022
State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
Acclaimed First Nations writers, Adjunct Professor Ali Cobby Eckermann (a Yankunytjatjara poet born on Kaurna land in South Australia) and Dicky Senda (a writer and food activist from Mollo, West Timor), to Melbourne in September as part of the ARC Discovery Project Connecting Asia-Pacific Literary Cultures: Grounds for Encounter and Exchange. Ali and Dicky took part in the Melbourne Writers Festival on the 10 and 11 September and then spent 13 days travelling in Victoria and South Australia, participating in the First Nations Australian Writers Network Summit in Tandanya (Adelaide), and connecting with Country and First Nations cultural sites, elders and communities.
Photo thanks to MWF’s Instagram (left to right): Linda Mickleborough, David Carlin, Dicky Senda, Ali Cobby Eckermann
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Melbourne Writers Festival 2022
Ali Cobby Eckermann and Evelyn Araluen
11 September 2022
State Library of Vitoria, Melbourne
Prize-winning authors Ali Cobby Eckermann and Evelyn Araluen are among a wave of First Nations writers deftly using poetry to confront the complexities of colonial and personal history. A Yankunytjatjara poet, author and memoirist, Eckermann is renowned for her formally innovative body of work, including Inside My Mother and little bit long time, winning the prestigious Windham Campbell Prize in 2017. A descendant of the Bundjalung Nation, Araluen recently won the Stella Prize for her remarkable debut poetry collection Dropbear, which turns the myths of modern Australia inside out. They were conversation with Wiradjuri writer, teacher and academic Jeanine Leane.
Photo Ali Cobby Eckermann by Annette Willis
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Linking Cultures
5 December 2022
The Capitol, Melbourne
RMIT Culture and non/fictionLab
Linking Cultures: Video Editing: Pat Mooney
A panel of leading Southeast Asian writers examine past barriers and explore future connections. Featuring Mikael Johani; a poet, critic, and translator based in Jakarta, Indonesia; Singaporean writer Alvin Pang, whose work has been translated into more than twenty languages; and Lily Rose Tope from the Philippines, a scholar widely published on Southeast Asian literature in English and Asian literature in translation. This event was an outcome of the WrICE (Writers Immersion and Cultural Exchange) multi-year research program.