UBUD WRITERS & READERS FESTIVAL 2018 contents

Welcome Support us partners special eventS 4 5 12 26

workshops cultural children & youth festival club workshops program @ bar luna 30 32 36 38

film art book the program exhibitions launches kitchen 40 46 48 50

fringe daily kamus kecil festival hub events schedule map 54 72 80 81

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People Getting Main Live Music you’ll started Program & Art meet

2 #UWRF18 #UWRF18 3 WELCOME OM SWASTYASTU WELCOME OM SWASTYASTU

From humble beginnings fifteen Selamat datang kepada para Congratulations to the Ubud Writers Atas asung kertha nugraha Ida years ago, the Ubud Writers & penulis, sponsor, media dan & Readers Festival on its fifteenth Sanghyang Widi Wase, saya Readers Festival has grown into pencinta sastra dari seluruh penjuru year. menyambut dengan gembira the most prominent platform for dunia di perayaan 15 tahun Ubud terselenggaranya Ubud Writers sharing Indonesia’s emerging and Writers & Readers Festival. With speakers and audiences from & Readers Festival yang ke-15. established authors, artists and across the Indonesian archipelago Kami menyampaikan selamat activists. I am proud that it has Tahun 2018 ini kami mengangkat and the world, the Festival is a datang kepada para peserta dan evolved into one of the world’s tema ‘Jagadhita’. Jagat yaitu bumi culturally diverse meeting place for selamat kepada Yayasan Mudra leading literary and cultural events. dan hita adalah keinginan akan lovers of language and creativity in Swari Saraswati, semoga semuanya kesejahteraan. Jagadhita adalah a magical place. berjalan lancar dan sukses selalu. Our Festival has fulfilled its purpose of placing Ubud on the literary pencapaian kesejahteraan hidup yang diinginkan atas karma map – nationally and internationally – and sparking interest in dari seseorang, keluarga, masyarakat atau bangsa di bumi ini. From the stimulating conversations to the spirited music, enjoy Tema adalah sebuah langkah awal dari inspirasi untuk tercapainya Indonesian literature. Most international visitors in the early days Sejahteranya hidup manusia di bumi, sesuai dengan ajaran Dharma every minute of celebrating the Festival’s fifteenth year as tujuan dari sebuah kegiatan yang akan dilaksanakan, dalam hal ini said they knew little about Indonesian writers, but this has slowly maka kehidupan di akhirat akan sempurna pula sebagai tujuan Southeast Asia’s leading festival of words and ideas. UWRF mengangkat tema ‘Jagadhita’. changed over the years. utama hidup manusia yaitu; mencapai mokshartham jagadhita ya ca iti dharma. Nick Cave Saya menghatur selamat kepada para seniman, sastrawan, This year’s theme is drawn from Balinese Hindu philosophy. Festival Patron serta penghargaan kepada para inisiator, sponsor, panitia ‘Jagadhita’ is the individual pursuit of universal harmony and Dalam Bhagavadgita, Sri Krishna bersabda, “Banyak jalan bagi penyelenggara, dan masyarakat ubud yang selalu, dan akan terus prosperity as one of life’s primary goals, interpreted as ‘The World manusia untuk bisa mencapai kesejahteraan Ilahi atau Ananda, mendukung serta mensukseskan UWRF. We Create’. yaitu sebuah kesejahteraan lahir dan batin baik di bumi maupun di akhirat, yang didasari oleh Catur Purusha Arta yaitu; kekayaan, Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanti Om In Bali, the pursuit of collective harmony and prosperity can be keinginan, kebenaran, dan kebebasan sebagai modal utama.” seen almost everywhere. At a time when global events can make Tjokorda Raka Kerthyasa. S.Sos, M.Si us feel fractured and dissonant, this year’s Festival compels us to Jika ajaran Dharma diterapkan sebagai dasar perilaku manusia Festival Patron pause and reflect on how we can strive for harmony, prosperity and dalam segala aspek kehidupan sosial, seperti; ketatanegaraan, happiness in our lives. sistem kemasyarakatan, politik, ekonomi, pendidikan, sosial budaya dan aspek sosial lainnya melalui kebebasan berekspresi, Across our five-day program of in-conversations and debates, yakinlah bentuk kehidupan Jagadhita akan tercapai. special events, hands-on workshops, and powerful live music and arts performances, we’ll be celebrating the authors, artists and Terimakasih saya ucapkan atas nama pendiri Yayasan Mudra Swari activists from across Indonesia and beyond who have made a Saraswati pada semua pihak atas kerjasamanya, sehingga Ubud contribution to our harmony and prosperity. Writers & Readers Festival dari tahun ke tahun bisa terlaksana. Terutama kepada Pemerintah RI, Kepolisian RI, TNI, Puri Agung As ever, the Festival would not be possible without the Ubud, masyarakat luas, pecalang, volunteers, sponsor, dan semua overwhelming generosity of our Festival family – a strong network staf UWRF yang sudah bekerja keras.Demikian pula untuk para of partners, donors, supporters and volunteers who help bring the pencinta sastra, penulis, dan pembaca. Selamat menikmati Ubud SUPPORT event to life each year. As a not-for-profit, we rely on the goodwill Writers & Readers Festival 2018. of the community, and I want to extend a heartfelt thank you to everyone who has supported us. Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanti Om US In 2018, we’re not only celebrating our fifteenth year as Southeast Asia’s leading festival of words and ideas. We’re also celebrating the Drs. Ketut Suardana, M. Phil fact that Indonesia is home to excellent literature, art, film and food Founder of Yayasan Mudra Swari Saraswati Ubud Writers & Readers Festival is the major annual initiative of the Through the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival, and our sister event – and finally the world is taking notice. Yayasan Mudra Swari Saraswati, a not-for-profit foundation with the Ubud Food Festival, our Foundation promotes Ubud as an the mission of enriching the lives of young Indonesians through artistic and cultural hub, showcases Indonesia’s artists, writers, community-building arts and cultural programs. thinkers and performers and helps young Indonesians to reach Janet DeNeefe their creative aspirations through the Emerging Writers Program. 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6 #UWRF18 #UWRF18 7 With 180+ speakers appearing in 240 events across 30 venues, the UWRF transforms OUR the artistic village of Ubud into a thriving creative hub for five days each year. Spanning a range of free and ticketed events, the Festival program comprises 13 categories. For more information about what, where and when, flip to the OUR VENUES TICKETING PROGRAM corresponding pages in the program book. Main Venues Online Tickets to events outside the Main Program must be purchased separately. The Main Program is held across three Tickets can be purchased via the Buy venues: Festival Hub @ Taman Baca, Indus Tickets or individual event pages on our Questions? MAIN PROGRAM CHILDREN & YOUTH THE KITCHEN Restaurant, and Neka Museum. They are all website. You will be redirected to our E. [email protected] PROGRAM within walking distance of each other. online booking system to complete your P. +62 361 977 408 purchase in Australian dollars. Booking SPECIAL EVENTS FESTIVAL CLUB BOOK LAUNCHES Festival Hub @ Taman Baca fees apply. CONNECT WITH WORKSHOPS FILM PROGRAM ART EXHIBITIONS The Festival Hub @ Taman Baca is home In Person to the Box Office, Information Center, bookshop, and food and beverage stalls. Tickets can be purchased from the US CULTURAL WORKSHOPS LIVE MUSIC & ARTS SATELLITE EVENTS It is also home to The Kitchen, and a wide Festival Box Office at Taman Baca, Jl. Connect with the Festival on social media range of free film screenings, live music Raya Sanggingan, from 24–28 October, and help us bring Indonesia to the world. and performances after dark. 8:00–17:00. The Box Office accepts cash Use the hashtag #UWRF18 so we can find (Indonesian rupiah), Visa and MasterCard. and share your content. Around Ubud Main Program passes can also be Out of respect to our speakers and your purchased from our Ticket Vendors. Please Special Events, Workshops, Children & fellow audience members, please keep check our website for more details. Youth Program, Film Program, Cultural your phone on silent and do not use flash Workshops, Art Exhibitions, Book Launches photography. GETTING STARTED and the Festival Club @ Bar Luna take place at various venues across Ubud. 4-DAY MAIN PROGRAM PASS 1-DAY MAIN PROGRAM PASS From 24–28 October, Bali’s cultural capital See the map at the back of the program Ticket type Price Ticket type Price will welcome thousands of creative minds book for all event locations. to celebrate the UWRF’s 15th year as International (for International (for Southeast Asia’s leading festival of words 2018 THEME all international IDR 4,000,000 all international IDR 1,200,000 and ideas. visitors) visitors) Like many of the Festival’s previous years GETTING AROUND the theme is drawn from a Balinese Hindu International International From humble beginnings in 2002, the Student (proof Student (proof philosophy. ‘Jagadhita’ is the individual pursuit Shuttle Bus IDR 1,250,000 IDR 350,000 UWRF has evolved into one of the world’s of student ID of student ID of universal harmony and prosperity as one of most celebrated literary and artistic required) required) events, and Indonesia’s leading platform life’s primary goals, interpreted as ‘The World A free shuttle service operates between for sharing its literature and culture with We Create’. the Festival’s three main venues and Puri Indonesian (for Indonesian (for the world. Lukisan Museum on Jl. Raya Ubud, in all Indonesian IDR 600,000 all Indonesian IDR 180,000 The Festival’s five-day program will explore central Ubud. nationals) nationals) Bringing together a diverse range of countless ways to create a world that we want Indonesian Indonesian The shuttle runs from 8:00-18:00 daily, authors, activists, thinkers, performers and to live in; how we strive as individuals and Student (proof Student (proof every 30 minutes. IDR 150,000 IDR 50,000 audiences, the Festival creates meaningful as communities to manifest of student ID of student ID exchanges and cross-cultural dialogue. positive change; and how required) required) A place where speakers and audiences to nurture this goal through alike discuss shared passions, ideas and Parking Resident (proof of Resident (proof of respect and action that concerns, the Festival dissolves cultural KITAS, Business, KITAS, Business, sustains compassion for each Sosial Budaya, Sosial Budaya, and geographical borders to create a truly Please note that parking at the Festival IDR 2,200,000 IDR 700,000 global community. other and ourselves. Hub @ Taman Baca and main venues is DINAS or DINAS or limited. Retirement Visa Retirement Visa required) required) ASEAN ASEAN (proof of ASEAN IDR 2,200,000 (proof of ASEAN IDR 700,000 passport required) passport required)

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Janet DeNeefe – Festival Founder & Director Barbara Millstein Kadek Sri Purnami – General Manager GOVERNMENT Chriswan Sungkono Wayan Juniarta – Indonesian Program Manager Mabes Polri Daniel Prasatyo Saraswati Ratnanggana – Partnership Manager Gubernur Bali Dewi Suardana Widiatmini – Account Officer Kapolda Bali Dhia Andrina Dwi Ermayanthi – Program Coordinator Dinas Kebudayaan Provinsi Bali Eddie & Judi Jagger Sarrah Monessa – Program Coordinator Brimob Polda Bali Edward Speirs Gustra Adnyana – Community Program Coordinator Bupati Gianyar Endriani Dwi Siswanti Ari Putrayasa – Partnership Coordinator Kapolres Gianyar Frandi Abdi Putra Wening Larasati – Partnership Coordinator Dandim Gianyar Gus De Gunawan Ade Ardhana – Partnership Assistant Dinas Kebudayaan Kab. Gianyar Helen Morgan Abut Suka Merta – Production Coordinator Camat Ubud Henry Abramson Ayundari Gunansyach – Comms Coordinator Kapolsek Ubud Holly Reid & Andrew Fleming Tiara Mahardika - Media Relations Coordinator Danramil Ubud I Dewa Ayu Widiastuti Gungde Dwi – Graphic Designer Lurah Ubud I Gde Pitana Kuncir Sathya Viku – Graphic Designer LPM Ubud Imam Raharja Eka Septiarti – Administrative Assistant Desa Pekraman Ubud Irma Lumban Gaol Nagoya Pande – Office Assistant Desa Pekraman Penestanan John DeNeefe Yola Chandra – Volunteer Coordinator Pecalang Desa Pekraman Ubud Justitia Stanislaus Eko – Volunteer Coordinator Pecalang Desa Pekraman Penestanan Jin Fujimoto Primadita Rahma – International Program Assistant Dinas Pariwisata Kabupaten Gianyar Kate Hutcheson Ketut Yuliarsa FESTIVAL consultants UBUD PATRONS Mary K Neufield Michael Kelleher Puri Agung Ubud Michel Richard Donica Bettanin – International Program Consultant Tjokorda Raka Kerthyasa Michelle Anindya Julia Winterflood – International Media Consultant Tjokorda Gde Putra Sukawati Mora Siregar Jayden MacKenzie – Ubud Food Festival Consultant Tjokorda Oka Artha Ardana Sukawati Nancy Anello Claire Norton – Kitchen Program Consultant Tjokorda Gde Raka Sukawati Ngah Muli Ong Tjokorda Ngurah Suyadnya Nuri Arunbiarti Penny Johnson EMERGING WRITERS WRITERS PATRONS Philida Thea curatorial committee Philip K. Price Anna Hassett Phillipa Milne Leila S. Chudori Anthony Cottan Puput Dyah Lestari Warih Wisatsana Colin Singer Putu Adi Eka Putra Putu Fajar Arcana Dr. Robert Karoly Randy Katon Bagaskara Future Leaders Richard Llewellyn John DeNeefe Robert Chong Main program TRANSLATION team Karen Dwarte Rully Rumantra Kellie-Jane Pritchard & Paul Harris Ruth Ayuda Novitarani Peter Johnson Sally Breen 25 26 27 28 October • 4-Day Main Program Pass Debra Yatim Vidhi Law Office Sanaz Fotouhi • 1-Day Main Program Pass Julia Winterflood Stephanie Pearson 70 SESSIONS Pamela Allen THANK YOU Sue Twedell & Tony Parkinson Suzan Piper Susan Symansky From intimate in-conversations with leading authors, Toni Pollard All our private donors Susi Suzanti Sitorus Tannia Margaret artists and activists, to fiery debates on some of the • Neka Museum All our volunteers world’s most pressing issues, the Festival’s Main Program Andika Rahmawati Titan Kusuma Venues • Festival Hub @ Taman Baca Tony Wheeler & Maureen Wheeler takes place from 25–28 October. Andini Judianto • Indus Restaurant Andre Dananjaya Trifitri Muhammaditta Arnoldus Pradityo Utomo Valentine Willie Aryo Bimo Notohadikoesomo Vetta Tovanneu Azalea Phinata Will Dawson & Izzy Roberts-Orr Wiwik Pertiwi 16 #UWRF18 #UWRF18 17 Thursday, 25 oct Thursday, 25 oct

Festival Welcome What Indonesia Taught Me Mark Lynas: Seeds of Science The Big Read: Poetry Edition

09:00–09:45 13:00–14:15 13:00–14:15 13:00–14:15 Neka Museum Neka Museum Indus Restaurant Taman Baca With: Tariq Khalil, Ferenc Barnas, With: Mark Lynas, Christine Bader* With: Please see our website or the Nguyen Phan Que Mai, Cat Wheeler, UWRF18 App for lineup Join us as the Ubud Writers & Readers Jewel Topsfield* Festival begins with a traditional Balinese In Seeds of Science, eco-activist Mark Lynas It’s one of life’s pleasures: having someone welcome dance, a warm welcome from Making one’s way in a new country can lifts the lid on the controversial story and read to you. We’ve assembled a lineup of our Founder and Director Janet DeNeefe, be a rollercoaster ride from despair to misunderstood science of GMOs. In the our most masterful poets in a little corner and two keynote speeches. In 2018 we delight – daily. Does the reality ever match mid-‘90s, as the global media frothed with of the Festival devoted to the loveliness of celebrate 15 years as Southeast Asia’s our imaginings? These writers found a the risks of genetically modified crops, Lynas listening. Grab a bite from our food stalls, leading festival of words and ideas. new home and life lessons in this magical destroyed crop fields and spoke out in the put your feet up, and let our scribes take archipelago; they pause to reflect on what press…until he realized he was wrong. He care of the rest. Indonesia has taught them. joins us to explain why.

Susi Pudjiastuti: Sink It Crossing Cultures The Rights Stuff Barbara Demick: Nothing to Jane Caro: Plain Speaking Small Towns, Big Imagination Envy MAIN 10:15–11:30 10:15–11:30 10:15–11:30 14:30–15:30 14:30–15:30 14:30–15:30 Neka Museum Indus Restaurant Taman Baca Neka Museum Indus Restaurant Taman Baca

With: Susi Pudjiastuti, Rebecca Henschke* With: Kamin Mohammadi, Carlo Pizatti, With: Joshua Pomare, Jessie Cole, With: Christine Bader, Saras Dewi, Gillian With: Barbara Demick, Michael Vatikiotis* With: Jane Caro, Rosemary Sayer* Program Program

Sofija Stefanovic* Triggs, Todung Mulya Lubis, Kirsti Melville* Darmawati Majid, José Luís Peixoto, Rosemarie Milsom* “Sink it” became a national catchphrase after Born in Iran and exiled to the UK in 1979, Advocates in an age of compassion fatigue, North Korean children are taught to sing “At some point, I gave up trying to play Indonesia’s maverick Minister of Maritime Kamin Mohammadi found a new lease Christine Bader, Gillian Triggs, Saras Dewi “We have nothing to envy in the world”. it safe. I stopped trying to control the Is there something universal about small MAIN Affairs and Fisheries fulfilled her threat to on life in bella Italia. Meanwhile, Carlo and Todung Mulya Lubis have placed human Barbara Demick’s poignant and revealing uncontrollable.” Novelist, commentator and towns and rural life? A lack of anonymity, a sink any foreign boats found illegally fishing Pizatti was making his way as an Italian rights at the heart of their work. Active at the interviews with defectors from Chongjin Walkley Award winner Jane Caro brings a close community? Does it allow writers to in Indonesian waters. In 2017 she ordered son-in-law in India. They come together intersections of politics, conservation and reveal a reality far more complex, giving breath of fresh air to conversations about go places that cities don’t? We’ve gathered the sinking of around 87 illegal boats. Ibu to compare notes on the links, lessons business, they’ll compare their experiences us a glimpse into daily life under the most education, religion, feminism and aging, to writers from Indonesia, New Zealand, Susi will reflect on her fight to protect the and laughs that manifest when moving and what keeps them going when the going secretive of governments – and what it name a few. She takes the UWRF stage to Australia and Portugal to discuss the insights country’s millions of fishers and vast between cultures. gets tough. takes to leave it behind. chart her passions and perspectives. and inspiration that come from writing marine resources. beyond city limits.

Kim Scott: Taboo Janet Steele: Mediating Islam Higher Self The Pursuit of Peace Family Footsteps A Cry for Help

11:45–12:45 11:45–12:45 11:45–12:45 15:45–17:00 15:45–17:00 15:45–17:00 Neka Museum Indus Restaurant Taman Baca Neka Museum Indus Restaurant Taman Baca With: Kim Scott, Geoffrey Williams* With: Janet Steele, Michael Vatikiotis* With: Sapardi Djoko Damono, Warih With: Noor Huda Ismail, Gurmehar Kaur, With: Garin Nugroho, Kamila Andini, Leila With: Emmanuela Shinta, Butet Manurung, Wisatsana, Andre Septiawan, Gratiagusti Sidney Jones, Rio Helmi* S. Chudori, Rain Chudori, Hera Diani* Modesta Wisa, Tom Owen Edmunds* Chanaya Rompas, Debra Yatim* Stunning. Formidable. Truth-telling. Two- Janet Steele has been moving between the In an age increasingly defined by difference Picasso’s father was an artist. Gandhi’s a As deforestation goes unchecked, corporate time Miles Franklin winner Kim Scott is at media landscapes of the west and Southeast “Writing poetry is like having a conversation and hate, these panelists are working to politician. The apple doesn’t fall far from plantations encroach on local lives, and the forefront of storytelling in Australia, Asia for decades. In a richly-layered survey of with our higher self,” says American poet analyze the deep divisions in society and the tree, they say. Two award-winning mining disrupts the social and ecological tackling difficult questions of its colonial Indonesian and Malaysian media, she invites Jericho Brown. They hail from different empower others in efforts to promote peace. filmmakers and two accomplished authors equilibrium, Indigenous communities and past in a way that expands the reader’s us to consider the intersection of faith and generations but the lives of these four Take a break from the headlines to go deep discuss the dynamic of children following in their natural resources are deeply impacted. heart and mind. Delve into the book the the fourth estate – an essential session for writers are shaped and permeated by poetry. on questions of what divides us, and what their parents’ footsteps. How is work ethic We hear from social justice campaigners Guardian hailed “a complex, thoughtful, and those seeking a deeper understanding of the Listen closely as they share the intimate might bring us back together. and creativity affected when parents and who have devoted their lives to defending exceptionally generous offering by a master cultures around us. conversations they have with their children share a passion and profession? and empowering these communities across storyteller”. higher self. the archipelago.

*Moderator *Moderator 18 #UWRF18 #UWRF18 19 Friday, 26 oct Friday, 26 oct

Twenty Years Later Gail Jones: The Death of Yeb Saño: Climate Campaigner #metoo Off Limits The Big Read: Journeys Noah Glass 09:00–10:00 09:00–10:00 09:00–10:00 13:00–14:15 13:00–14:15 13:00–14:15 Neka Museum Indus Restaurant Taman Baca Neka Museum Indus Restaurant Taman Baca With: Putu Fajar Arcana, Saras Dewi, With: Gail Jones, Darryl Whetter* With: Yeb Saño, Tom Owen Edmunds* With: Tishani Doshi, Clementine Ford, With: Djenar Maesa Ayu, Nuril Basri, Feby With: Please see our website or the Haidar Bagir, I Wayan Juniarta* Saras Dewi, Eliza Vitri Handayani, Indirani, Norman Erikson Pasaribu, UWRF18 App for lineup Hera Diani* Febriana Firdaus* Parents and children. Love and art. Grief Executive Director of Greenpeace It’s one of life’s pleasures: having someone Indonesia, 1998. With the fall of Suharto’s and happiness. Memory and the mystery of Southeast Asia Yeb Saño has spent #metoo. It’s the hashtag that has become Many topics are still taboo in Indonesia, read to you. Let your imagination wander 32-year autocratic regime following time. In her mesmerizing seventh novel, The decades combating climate change. In a lightning rod for movements around and the consequences of tackling them with some of UWRF’s finest storytellers as years of political turmoil and violence, Death of Noah Glass, Gail Jones cements her this timely conversation he takes the the world, taking on different meanings in are very real. Meet some of the country’s they share tales of adventure, stories of the ‘Reformation Era’ was ushered in. reputation as one of Australia’s most loved temperature of environmental activism different places. We convene a round table most courageous young writers as they discovery and journeys of the heart. Grab a Heaped upon it were promises of freedom, writers. She discusses her latest work and in 2018, and proposes a hopeful idea: the conversation with writers from Indonesia, narrate the prejudices they’ve overcome to tasty bite from our food stalls, put your feet prosperity, and a corruption-free society. looks back over a celebrated life in letters. solution to the world’s ecological crisis India and Australia to narrate its impact in tell the stories normally left unspoken, and up, and let our scribes take care of the rest. Three thinkers weigh in on what has – is not in the corridors of power, but in their respective countries and see what’s share their experiences of words making and hasn’t – changed since. catalyzing a global movement of people. shaking in the sisterhood. a difference.

Public Opinions Islands of Inspiration Fantastical Realms The Foreign Correspondents’ Cosmopolitan Creativity Rewriting the Script Club MAIN 10:15–11:30 10:15–11:30 10:15–11:30 14:30–15:30 14:30–15:30 14:30–15:30 Neka Museum Indus Restaurant Taman Baca Neka Museum Indus Restaurant Taman Baca

With: Reni Eddo-Lodge, Clementine Ford, With: Norman Erikson Pasaribu, Kris Da With: Gail Jones, Ghayath Almadhoun, With: Djenar Maesa Ayu, Kamila Andini, With: Anuradha Roy, Avara Yaron, Will With: Barbara Demick, Jewel Topsfield, Program Program

Gurmehar Kaur, Mark Lynas, Michael Buckingham, Carl Hoffman, Annee Somerpes, Avianti Armand, Aan Mansyur, Endy Bayuni, Rebecca Henschke* Cath Drake, Giuseppe Catozzella, Richard Oh, Garin Nugroho* Vatikiotis* Lawrence* Kadek Sonia Piscayanti* Tiffany Tsao* Whether reporting from exotic locales or In Indonesia, no female-directed film Life in the public eye can be particularly Indonesia comprises more than 17,000 From a man begging forgiveness from the world’s trouble spots, telling stories How does leaving home influence the has entered the annual top five highest- MAIN perilous in the internet age, as access and islands and has been attracting artists and a tree, to a woman engaging in intense of tragedy or triumph, the work of a writer’s mind? Whether a short sojourn grossing domestic films list since 2011, and anonymity conspire to bring out the worst writers from abroad for centuries. Hailing conversation with a snake in Eden, every foreign correspondent is never dull. We’ve or a new life in a new location, expanded female roles still tend to be confined to in many. For these writers though, retreat is from India, the USA and the UK, these writers poem is a realm of its own. Poetry’s precise managed to pin down three of the finest horizons tend to find their way on to the feminine stereotypes. Meet the independent not an option. Navigating a public presence found infinite inspiration here among the form can contrast thrillingly with the wildest to share some of the highs and lows that page. From lonely to life-affirming, our filmmakers strengthening Indonesian both on and offline, they reveal what keeps islands. They reveal what drew them here, imaginings – listen in as these poets reveal have defined their careers in the panel shares how time away from home has cinema with female characters who are them going, and how they stay true to what and the special role that Indonesia plays in the creation stories of the realms inside foreign bureau. shaped their work. unafraid to write their own script. really matters. their recent works. their minds.

Hanif Kureishi: The Nothing Kamila Andini: The Seen and Worth a Thousand Words In Praise of Slow Biographical Boundaries Evolving Islam Unseen 11:45–12:45 11:45–12:45 11:45–12:45 15:45–17:00 15:45–17:00 15:45–17:00 Neka Museum Indus Restaurant Taman Baca Neka Museum Indus Restaurant Taman Baca With: Hanif Kureishi, Kate Evans* With: Kamila Andini, Uphie Abdurrahman* With: Emte, Sukutangan, Innosanto Nagara, With: Tishani Doshi, Christine Bader, With: Gabriela Ybarra, Shrabani Basu, With: Haidar Bagir, Dina Zaman, Kim Toft, Ketut Yuliarsa* Kamin Mohammadi, Jill Stark, Kirsti Sergius Sutanto, Geoffrey Williams* Sidney Jones, Janet Steele* Melville* Hanif Kureishi has been a major and vital Award-winning Indonesian director Kamila This year a graphic novel was longlisted The best biographers have an eye for real life No religion has received as many headlines presence on page, stage and screen since Andini’s debut feature, The Mirror Never for the Man Booker Prize for the first time. Faster! Better! More! Productivity and stories with something timeless to tell. From or as much misunderstanding in recent 1990’s The Buddha of Suburbia. In The Lies, follows the lives of Bajo ‘sea gypsies’ From ethereal children’s books to striking personal achievement are dominant cultural research to revelation, our panel unpacks the years as Islam. Our panelists study the faith Nothing, readers will recognize his distinctive in South Sulawesi. Her second feature, covers of new and classic novels, images values in 2018, but do we have to buy in? art of writing real lives: when do you know in its many manifestations, from everyday take on sex, love and longing salted with Sekala Niskala (The Seen and Unseen), is a can conjure captivating visual narratives. Our panel asks you to put down your phone, this is your story to tell? How do you choose lives in Indonesia and Malaysia to the dark humor. A rare chance to hear from one surreal meditation on this fundamental Join these graphic gurus as they discuss put away your planner, and stop to consider what to leave out? And, most intriguing, extreme edge of terrorism. Come beyond of the most fearless writers in a generation. Balinese philosophy. Kamila reflects on the joys and challenges of transforming the sweetness of going slow. where do imagination and creativity fit in? the front page for a thoughtful take on this the importance of bringing traditional words into poignant pictures. prismatic theology. Indonesian cultures to the big screen.

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Gillian Triggs: Speaking Up Giuseppe Catozzella: Don’t Tell The Pledge Reni Eddo-Lodge: Changing Serious About Young Minds The Big Read: Telling Tales Me You’re Afraid the Culture 09:00–10:00 09:00–10:00 09:00–10:00 13:00–14:15 13:00–14:15 13:00–14:15 Neka Museum Indus Restaurant Taman Baca Neka Museum Indus Restaurant Taman Baca With: Gillian Triggs, Rosemary Sayer* With: Giuseppe Catozzella, Kate Evans* With: Ivan Lanin, Theodora Sarah Abigail, With: Reni Eddo-Lodge, Feby Indriani* With: Innosanto Nagara, Julia Lawrinson, With: Please see our website or the Rain Chudori, Jean Couteau, I Wayan Daisuke Takeya, Jay Griffiths, Norman UWRF18 App for lineup Juniarta* Ince* Gillian Triggs became a household Giuseppe Catozzella’s Don’t Tell Me You’re Award-winning author and journalist Reni It’s one of life’s pleasures: having someone Ranging from a profound examination name as President of Australia’s Human Afraid sold more than half a million copies Long before it was known as Indonesia, Eddo-Lodge’s Why I’m No Longer Talking read to you. A treat for lovers of a good of childhood to contemporary works Rights Commission, advocating for the in 40 countries and won Italy’s prestigious youth across the archipelago converged on to White People About Race sparked a new story, UWRF’s prose pros will share their engaging the intellect of children and disempowered, the disenfranchised, Premio Strega Giovani Prize. One of the present-day Jakarta and pledged to unite and frank conversation about systemic work in a little corner of the Festival teenagers, these writers and artists take the marginalized. Reflecting on her life most popular writers working in Italy today as one nation with one language. 90 years racism. From eradicated black history to devoted to the loveliness of listening. Grab young minds very seriously. Connect and career, she shares the values and shares the inspiration behind a deeply on, four language lovers will unravel their the inextricable link between class and a bite from our food stalls, put your feet with your inner child for a romp through experiences that shaped her and the causes personal book giving universal insight into relationship with the evolving, diverse and race, she takes the UWRF stage to consider up, and let our scribes take care of the rest. wildness, wonder, compassion, and that galvanized her. Let her inspire you, too, the plight of modern refugees. underestimated language that is the current moment in anti-racist activism. creativity. to speak up. Bahasa Indonesia.

Yenny Wahid: Against All Odds Intimate Instincts Local Wisdom Fatima Bhutto: The Runaways It Takes Two Being Presidential MAIN 10:15–11:30 10:15–11:30 10:15–11:30 14:30–15:30 14:30–15:30 14:30–15:30 Neka Museum Indus Restaurant Taman Baca Neka Museum Indus Restaurant Taman Baca

With: Jessie Cole, Gabriela Ybarra, Julia With: Kim Scott, Apirana Taylor, With: Fatima Bhutto, Kate Evans* With: Yenny Wahid, Leila S. Chudori* With: Isobelle Carmody, Anne Spudvilas, With: Yenny Wahid, Endy Bayuni, Program Program

Prendergast, Rosemarie Milsom* Rukmini Toheke, Sanne Van Oort, Rani Pramesti, Cindy Saja, Lisa Siregar* Ross Tapsell, I Wayan Juniarta* Emmanuela Shinta* Yenny Wahid has watched Indonesia from How far would you run to escape your Sometimes two heads really are better “We politicians now have to compete Sometimes the smallest details tell us the different vantage points: as a journalist Colonial legacies and commercial forces life? In The Runaways, bestselling author than one, but there’s an art to bringing against Netflix to get your attention,” MAIN most. In their moving and memorable covering Aceh and Timor-Leste, and as threaten Indigenous cultures across the Asia- Fatima Bhutto delves into difficult questions together the written word and visual President Jokowi told the 2018 ASEAN books, these writers draw on intimate confidante of a president besieged by Pacific. Four champions of culture will tell of modern Muslim identity in a world art to create something special. From summit. After the watershed 2014 interactions of ordinary families in political intrigue. Now, as Director of religious us about their work preserving traditional consumed by violence. Be among the first shared inspiration to the nuts and bolts election, Indonesia returns to the polls extraordinary circumstances. They share the freedom watchdog The Wahid Institute, she’s languages, stories and knowledge in to hear her discuss one of the year’s most of drafting (and deleting!), our panelists next year. This panel looks past the reality craft of writing that is based in truth, the attempting to salvage her father’s legacy Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand – and hotly-anticipated releases, from the author sharpen their pencils for a masterclass in TV drama to examine what’s at stake, and necessity of going to dark places, and the of tolerance and multiculturalism amidst how deeper engagement with Indigenous of Songs of Blood and Sword and The Shadow the art of collaboration. what Indonesians expect from the role magic of the cracks where the light gets in. religious fundamentalism. wisdom can benefit all societies. of the Crescent Moon. of President.

Indonesia, Outside In Still the Morning of the World? Clemantine Wamariya: The Girl Africa is Not a Country Hidden Bali Ladies to the Front Who Smiled Beads 11:45–12:45 11:45–12:45 11:45–12:45 15:45–17:00 15:45–17:00 15:45–17:00 Neka Museum Indus Restaurant Taman Baca Neka Museum Indus Restaurant Taman Baca With: Sidney Jones, Ross Tapsell, Vasuki With: I Gde Pitana, Alistair Speirs, Jango With: Clemantine Wamariya, Kirsti Melville* With: Clemantine Wamariya, Ndaba With: Ngurah Paramartha, I Made With: Jane Caro, Cat Wheeler, Shrabani Shastry, Janet Steele, Step Vaessen* Pramartha, Carma Citrawati, Marlowe Mandela, Uzodinma Iweala, Michael Bandem, Carma Citrawati, Marlowe Basu, Balli Kaur Jaswal, Poonam Sagar* Bandem* Kelleher* Bandem* By the end of 2018 Indonesia will have What does it take to create a life on your From a queen’s chambers to a modern day played host to the Asian Games, the “Even in the 1930s people were aware own terms, to tell the story of war and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie famously Despite being one of the world’s top tourist writing group with an erotic twist, from International Monetary Fund and Our that tourist clichés had arisen about the what comes after? From war-torn Kigali warned of ‘the danger of a single story’: destinations and the most documented finding one’s voice to exuberant elderhood, Ocean Conference. How is Indonesia’s place island, but in the 1950s the image of Bali to the Oprah stage, Clemantine Wamariya if we choose to hear only a single story island in the archipelago, Bali still holds for these writers women’s stories are in the world changing? What are the key as paradise became fixed,” writes Adrian asks us to look beyond the label of about a country – or continent – we risk many surprising mysteries for curious essential. They talk inspiration, indignation relationships and issues that define this Vickers. A Balinese literary star, a scholar, victim and recognize the power of the crucial misunderstanding. We hear from a minds. Join these cultural detectives as they and inquiry – find out why, and how, they are Indonesian moment? Our experts take a look a publisher and a cartoonist ask, after a imagination to transcend even the most group of writers about their powerful work divulge their fascinating findings on the committed to bringing the ladies to the front. from the outside in. century of tourism, is Bali still “the morning profound injuries and aftershocks. creating new narratives of some of the island’s oldest dynasty, a rarely-heard genius of the world”? world’s oldest cultures. composer, and mesmerizing verses written on lontar manuscripts.

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Ndaba Mandela: Going to the Shrabani Basu: Victoria & Abdul Fighting for the Forests Darkness Descends UWRF18 Indonesian Emerging The Big Read: Food For Mountain Writers Thought 09:00–10:00 09:00–10:00 09:00–10:00 13:00–14:15 13:00–14:15 13:00–14:15 Neka Museum Indus Restaurant Taman Baca Neka Museum Indus Restaurant Taman Baca With: Ndaba Mandela, Rebecca Henschke* With: Shrabani Basu, Poonam Sagar* With: Bustar Maitar, Tom Owen Edmunds, With: Noorhuda Ismail, Febriana Firdaus, With: Rosyid H Dimas, Darmawati Majid, With: Please see our website or the Yeb Saño, Step Vaessen* Aprila Wayar, Clemantine Wamariya, Reni Nuryanti, Pratiwi Juliani, Avianti UWRF18 App for lineup Rio Helmi* Armand* In Going to the Mountain, Ndaba Mandela Shrabani Basu was on holiday when she In the last half-century, more than 74 million Fancy some food for thought over lunch? shares his coming-of-age alongside South noticed several captivating portraits of an hectares of Indonesian rainforest have been Violence takes many forms and is Our 2018 Indonesian Emerging Writers We’ve assembled a lineup of the Festival’s Africa’s rebirth. From violent Soweto Indian servant to Queen Victoria. She would logged, burned, or degraded, with explained with numerous pretexts, but Program received 850 submissions from most provocative thinkers with bold ideas ghettos to his grandfather’s presidential go on to uncover the story of Abdul Karim, devastating effects for humans, animals and the outcome is inevitably suffering. These across the archipelago. Five were selected and unique solutions for you to chew on. home, join him for a deeply personal 24-year-old former Indian Muslim clerk who the land itself. Driven and determined, these brave speakers will recount their personal for our annual Bilingual Anthology. From Grab a tasty bite from our food stalls, put account of the journey that taught him ended up becoming the Queen’s closest panelists are working to understand and encounters with violence and the process Aceh, Yogyakarta, South Kalimantan and your feet up, and let our scribes take care of the power of resistance, the spirit of confidant until she died. Meet the writer with protect a precious ecosystem, now and for of moving forward while bearing scars on South Sulawesi, hear from four determined the rest. endurance, the triumph of forgiveness, an instinct for intrigue. future generations. body, heart and mind. young writers about what drove them to and the beauty of reconciliation. pick up the pen.

Dealing with Disaster Art for Impact It Takes a Village The Price of Freedom Marty Natalegawa: Does At Home, Everywhere ASEAN Matter? MAIN 10:15–11:30 10:15–11:30 10:15–11:30 14:30–15:30 14:30–15:30 14:30–15:30 Neka Museum Indus Restaurant Taman Baca Neka Museum Indus Restaurant Taman Baca

With: Wanggi Hoed, Budi Agung Kuswara, With: Clarissa Goenawan, Dervla With: Marty Natalegawa, Michael With: Sofija Stefanovic, Rain Chudori, With: Daisuke Takeya, Rio Helmi, With: Nyoman Nuarta, Rudi Fofid, Program Program

Devy Kamil Syahbana, Ade Andreawan, Kadek Sonia Piscayanti, Rani Pramesti, McTiernan, Annee Lawrence, Lisa Siregar* Garin Nugroho, Yenny Wahid, Leila S. Vatikiotis* Agustinus Wibowo, Omar Musa , Lisa Jewel Topsfield* Cindy Saja, Uphie Abdurrahman* Chudori* Siregar* The solitary author in her eyrie is a romantic image, but support is key to many writers 2018 is Indonesia’s 73rd year of Former ambassador and foreign minister At home everywhere, or nowhere? By choice

MAIN When countries sit astride complex tectonics, A pantomime artist slash social activist, natural disasters become part of both a theatre director assisting mothers to making it across the finish line, whether independence. A sculptor who designed Marty Natalegawa offers an insider’s or by necessity, ‘third culture kids’ grow up in environment and consciousness. With stage their own play, a visual artist helping with their first book or their fiftieth. Who do the nation’s tallest monument, a Moluccan perspective on the role and relevance of a culture different from that of their parents, ongoing rumbling in the Ring of Fire, and people with schizophrenia, and an actor you trust to read those early drafts? What poet who inspired peace in his conflict- ASEAN. How can the regional alliance ensure often moving between worlds with linguistic Lombok’s recent deadly quake, what disaster remembering the May 1998 riots with the opportunities are out there that you torn homeland, a legendary filmmaker, that efforts to ensure prosperity and security and diplomatic fluency. These writers pause risk reduction is urgently required, and for message: “We cannot heal what we will not haven’t heard about? Our panel shares and a moderate Islamic activist ask what are felt in the lives of its citizens? A timely to reflect on how coming of age with a those affected, how can these events be face.” Calling all socially-conscious creators: hard-won insights. it will take to preserve the Republic in this conversation with one of Indonesia’s most dynamic sense of home has shaped their processed and memorialized? this is art for impact’s sake. period of political animosity. highly regarded diplomats. lives and work.

What a Map Cuts Up Serial Storytellers Geoff Dyer: Scene by Scene Uzodinma Iweala: Speak No Fifteen Years of UWRF Jagadhita Evil 11:45–12:45 11:45–12:45 11:45–12:45 15:45–17:00 15:45–17:00 15:45–17:00 Neka Museum Indus Restaurant Taman Baca Neka Museum Indus Restaurant Taman Baca With: Tania Canas, Anuradha Roy, Balli Kaur With: Isobelle Carmody, Dee Lestari, With: Geoff Dyer, Michael Williams* With: Uzodinma Iweala, Doni Marmer* With: Janet DeNeefe and Festival friends With: Richard Oh, Avianti Armand, Jaswal, Darryl Whetter* Tiffany Tsao, Norman Ince* Dee Lestari, Jill Stark, Rio Helmi* “What the map cuts up the story cuts Surely the only thing better than a good Brilliantly observed and exquisitely written, Uzodinma Iweala’s debut novel Beasts of As the sun sets on the fifteenth Ubud Like many Festivals past, this year’s theme across.” – Michel de Certeau. This year, book is an entire series of good books. Meet Geoff Dyer’s work is a unique beast: singular No Nation announced an important new Writers & Readers Festival, join Founder is drawn from a Balinese Hindu philosophy. UWRF brings together writers from 30 three authors who have created wondrous in style and wide-ranging in its obsessions. writer. He returns with Speak No Evil, the and Director Janet DeNeefe and some old ‘Jagadhita’ is the individual pursuit of countries, celebrating the power of worlds that keep readers coming back for From yoga for people who can’t be story of Niru, a Nigerian-American coming Festival friends as they recall the humble universal harmony and prosperity as one story to inspire empathy, understanding more. From story arcs to the unique fan bothered to do it to deep dives on music, of age and coming out in Washington beginnings, surprises and highlights of the of life’s primary goals. Yet harmony in our and action. Listen in as these writers trace culture that a series inspires, they’ll compare film, art and photography, he takes the DC. Join an in-depth dissection of race, annual event we’ve all come to love. We personal lives still eludes many. Join these the maps that have shaped them, and notes on being in it for the literary long haul. UWRF stage for a chat celebrating culture, identity and self-actualization with one of hope you’ll join us to celebrate. diverse creatives as they unfold the eternal the stories that have taken them criticism and curiosity. fiction’s rising stars. quest for happiness. beyond borders.

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From intimate literary lunches to long table dinners with the Festival’s most charismatic speakers, our Special Events take place at Ubud’s top-rated restaurants and resorts.

With limited seats available, we strongly advise that Special Events are booked well in advance. Please show your booking confirmation at the event as proof of purchase, either printed or on your device.

Gala Opening & Writers Dinner A Storyteller’s Lunch Cocktail Hour with Hanif Kureishi 24 October 18:00–23:00 25 October 12:00–14:30 25 October 17:30–19:00 IDR 1,250,000 Ubud Royal Palace IDR 950,000 Alila Ubud IDR 750,000 Plataran Ubud Events Join our Gala Opening at the Ubud Royal With: Tom Owen-Edmunds, Geoff Dyer, With: Hanif Kureishi, Michael Kelleher Jay Griffiths, Carl Hoffman Palace, featuring key Festival speakers Hanif Kureishi’s work is beloved for its and a performance of Siwa Nataraja. Indulge your inner wanderer over lunch at examination of relationships, race, regret Then, head to Casa Luna where you’ll rub breathtaking Alila Ubud. Geoff Dyer, Jay and longing. As the sun sets over Plataran shoulders with the Festival’s stars at our SPECIAL Griffiths and Carl Hoffman go beyond the Ubud, he’ll take us behind the scenes of private Writers Dinner. Make new friends everyday to bring readers to wild places, a career on page, screen and stage for an over a sumptuous Balinese dinner as you unique cultures and profound passions. intimate cocktail hour not to be missed. get ready for the Festival to unfold. Join them for a lunch less ordinary. Includes two cocktails, one mocktail and Includes three-course dinner and wine. Includes three-course lunch and glass of canapés. wine.

Literary Lunch with Ndaba Long Table Dinner: Edible This Alien Nation Mandela Indonesia 26 October 11:30–14:00 26 October 18:30–21:00 26 October 19:00–21:00 IDR 1,000,000 Maya Ubud IDR 650,000 Desa Visesa Ubud IDR 350,000 Indus With: Ndaba Mandela, Michael Williams Indonesia inspires many of UWRF’s writers, In a multicultural world, being a newcomer At 11-years-old, Ndaba Mandela was and its cuisine is celebrated by the chefs can be uncomfortable, hilarious, and unexpectedly invited to live with his at Desa Visesa’s Lumbung Restaurant. weird. But it makes for some great stories. grandfather, Nelson Mandela. They built We’re bringing them together for a long For this special UWRF edition of the a relationship that would affect both of table dinner where you’ll discover dishes beloved New York storytelling show, Sofija them profoundly. Over a memorable Maya imbued with time-honored traditions, and Stefanovic and a lineup of Festival scribes lunch, he’ll share the lessons that have writers who’ll share their experiences from share tales of language barriers, cultural inspired him to carry on one of the world’s across these islands of imagination. missteps, rumbles, romance, and more. most powerful legacies. Includes welcome drink, three-course dinner. Includes welcome drink, three-course lunch Optional wine pairing IDR 800,000. and glass of wine.

26 #UWRF18 #UWRF18 27 Cocktail Wednesdays, 4pm onwards DIVINE Fridays, 4-8pm Wine tasting Masterclass, every Friday at 5:30pm DIVINE HOUR, every day from 4-6:30pm, except Fridays

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SPECIAL EVENTS The perfect place to...WINE AND DINE IN UBUD

Look Who’s Coming to Lunch at Feast and Fiction Club Continental at Casa Luna Nusantara by Locavore 27 October 12:00–14:30 27 October 18:30–21:30 27 October 21:00–24:00

Events IDR 595,000 Nusantara by Locavore IDR 1,200,000 bridges Free Casa Luna

With: Fatima Bhutto, Gail Jones, Get ready to groove as Ubud’s beloved Nusantara is the Indonesian archipelago. Anuradha Roy, Rosemary Sayer Casa Luna hots up for a dynamic Saturday From Sumatra to Sulawesi, take a culinary UWRF unites lovers of great storytelling, night. French spoken word artist KWAL journey across 17,000 islands in the finest (Supported by Institut Francais Indonesia)

SPECIAL and we’ve gathered three of the Festival’s literary company. Alongside some of the most beloved novelists for a one-night- will dazzle you with his unique musical Festival’s most fascinating speakers, you’ll only celebration of fiction at its finest. storytelling, then dust off those dancing indulge in exceptional Indonesian cuisine Join Fatima Bhutto, Anuradha Roy and shoes because Spanish singer and from the team behind Indonesia’s top- Gail Jones at bridges, one of Ubud’s most flamenco dancer Angela Lopez Lara with rated restaurant – arrive hungry in body in-demand dining rooms, for dinner, wine flamenco guitarist, Adien Fazmali, will and mind! and a treasure trove of tales. have you energized ‘til late! Enjoy Casa Luna tapas and refreshments. Includes long table lunch of 12+ dishes. Includes three-course dinner with wine pairing.

UWRF’s 15th Birthday Brunch! Stories by the Sea

28 October 11:30–14:00 28 October 18:30–21:00 IDR 400,000 Casa Luna IDR 500,000 Tandjung Sari Hotel

Go back to where it all began with UWRF’s The Ubud Writers & Readers Festival comes Founder and Director Janet DeNeefe and to Sanur for one night only. As the sun her Festival family, who’ll share behind- sets over one of Bali’s iconic views, join the-scenes stories over a festive Balinese fellow book lovers over Tandjung Sari’s birthday brunch. famed Indonesian fare, accompanied by a conversation ranging across books, Includes two-course long table brunch and writing, and the passions that unite writers birthday cake. and readers.

Includes welcome drink and three-course dinner.

28 #UWRF18 #UWRF18 29 Making a Scene Hidden Histories Clear and Compelling

26 October 10:00–13:00 26 October 10:00–13:00 26 October 14:00–16:00 Kori Ubud Resort Spa & Restaurant The Mansion Bali Taksu Spa & Restaurant With: Shelley Kenigsberg With: Shrabani Basu With: Mark Lynas

All good stories are built from scenes. In Hunting for original sources, combining Whether you’re writing articles, essays or WORKSHOPS this workshop, you’ll learn what a scene is, journalism with archival research and a deep-diving book, crafting nonfiction what it does and how to make your scenes building an irresistible narrative have that’s both informative and compelling is a 24 25 26 27 28 October useful and powerful – from the opening been the foundations of Shrabani Basu’s particular skill. Mark Lynas shares a wealth act to the closing curtain. Discover how to bestselling books. This workshop will of experience to help you unlock the art identify the essential elements of scenes equip you with some tips for uncovering of taking research and real stories to a (and diagnose clutter to be eliminated) so stories that might have been lost to time – popular audience. Elevate your literary abilities with our hands-on Workshop series, conducted by some of the that you can turn dull into delightful on and bringing them back to life. every page. Festival’s most dynamic authors, artists, thinkers and performers in various venues across Ubud.

With limited seats available, we strongly advise that Workshops are booked well in advance. Please show your booking confirmation at the event as proof of purchase, either printed or La Bella Figura Story Fundamentals Creating Worlds and Characters on your device. 27 October 10:00–13:00 27 October 10:00–13:00 27 October 14:00–17:00 WORKSHOPS Outpost Kori Ubud Resort Spa & Restaurant Hubud PRICE With: Kamin Mohammadi With: Darryl Whetter With: Ninda Daianti Find your inner Sophia Loren in this What are the fundamental ingredients of Creating a story means developing International: IDR 650,000 workshop with journalist, writer and a story? Desire is the core of all narratives its own world. Uniting setting with Resident: IDR 450,000 broadcaster Kamin Mohammadi. She fled – from jokes to novels to plays to films to characters, learn how to nurture the story’s National: IDR 250,000 London for Florence in desperate need of a video games. Clarify and explore the basis complexity, and give readers a structure change, and found herself transformed by of all stories in all genres while learning for imagination. Begin by digging not only the power of la bella figura. Learn how to to distinguish how different genres the ground, but planting the seeds for the live, love, eat like an Italian – and how that deepen, and enable these storytelling emotional state of your main character. can inspire your writing. fundamentals. Supported by The Jakarta Post Writing Center.

Writing Feminism Silk Painting Inspiration The Journey Get Out of Your Own Way Writing Truth with Tail Writing and Ethics

24 October 14:00–17:00 25 October 14:00–17:00 25 October 14:00–17:00 27 October 14:00–17:00 28 October 10:00–12:00 28 October 14:00–17:00 Kori Ubud Resort Spa & Restaurant The Payogan Villa Resort & Spa The Samaya Ubud Taksu Spa & Restaurant Best Western Premier Agung Resort The Purist Villas With: Olin Monteiro, Kadek Sonia With: Kim Toft With: Isobelle Carmody With: Meena Adnani Kumari With: Endy Bayuni With: Will Buckingham, Hannah Stevens Piscayanti Women of words, sharpen your statements Access another side of your creativity with There and back again. The journey is Feeling stuck? There are obstacles to With Senior Editor Endy Bayuni, learn how Whether you are a poet, a novelist, or and celebrate the links between literature marine artist, author and illustrator Kim the classic story structure at the heart of writing that you can’t control, but this to find an unseen angle, and seek the a nonfiction writer, questions of ethics and feminism. Tackle issues of gender Toft. Her children’s books, featuring vibrant some of our most treasured tales. From workshop is about tackling the things you ‘tail’ to create the message your readers are inescapable. This workshop is about equality and diversity with writing that’s silk painting illustrations, have captured quotidian to questing, award-winning can. Whether it’s making time, pushing can stay with. Use narrative arc, concrete what words can do, the trouble they can both creative and convincing, from giving the hearts of children and won numerous novelist Isobelle Carmody will show you through writer’s block or simply feeling details, and creative nuances to pen your cause, and the risks and responsibilities yourself permission to write to practical awards. In this hands-on workshop she’ll how this story arc can be the scaffolding that you have permission to put pen to piece. Some of us may have similar stories, of wielding them: a fun, interactive exercises to keep you inspired. Bring along share her technique and inspiration, and for something special – pack your ideas for paper, motivational speaker and writer but never the same outlook. exploration of how to make and unmake your own writing samples for a session you’ll take home your own silk painting. a masterclass in craft. Meena Kumari Adnani shares her secrets trouble with words. designed with skills and solidarity in mind. to feeling empowered and energized Supported by The Jakarta Post Writing about your work. Center.

30 #UWRF18 #UWRF18 31 CULTURAL WORKSHOPS 25 26 27 28 October

The Festival isn’t just about words and ideas; it’s also an opportunity to delve deeper into Balinese society. Led by Ubud’s most revered guides, our Cultural Workshops are rich in Balinese cultural heritage.

With limited spaces available, we strongly advise that Cultural Workshops are booked well in advance. Please show your booking confirmation at the event as proof of purchase, either printed or on your device.

Market Tour and Cooking Class Bahasa Breakfast Basa Bali Breakfast

25 October 08:00–13:00 25 October 08:00–08:45 26 October 08:00–08:45 IDR 450,000 Meet at Casa IDR 150,000 Joglo @Taman IDR 150,000 Joglo @ Taman Luna Baca Baca

For traveling foodies and curious cooks, Kick-start your Festival day with traditional Kick-start your Festival day with Balinese discovering local produce at traditional Balinese treats and coffee, while learning treats and coffee, while learning the basics markets is an essential holiday ingredient. the basics of Bahasa Indonesia with the of Basa Bali with the team from Cinta With the Casa Luna Cooking School team, bubbly team from Cinta Bahasa. Learn key Bahasa. Learn key greetings, the dos and learn about Balinese cuisine’s colorful greetings, the dos and don’ts, as well as don’ts, as well as useful Balinese phrases array of herbs and spices at Ubud Central useful Indonesian phrases that will help that will help you make the most of your Market, then return to the Cooking you make the most of your time in Ubud. time in Ubud. School to prepare a lavish Balinese feast, accompanied by a glass or two of local rice Includes Balinese treats and coffee, and a Includes Balinese treats and coffee, and a wine or iced hibiscus tea. language booklet to help you keep learning language booklet to help you keep learning throughout your stay. throughout your stay.

32 #UWRF18 #UWRF18 33 CULTURAL WORKSHOPS

Batik Painting Herb Walk Gaya Gayo

26 October 10:00–14:00 27 October 08:00–11:00 27 October 11:00–12:00 IDR 550,000 Nirvana Pension IDR 350,000 Meet at Casa Luna IDR 300,000 Campuhan College Workshops

Iconic for both its artistry and long history, Bali is abundant with edible leaves, many Discover body percussion in this Indonesia’s batik is designated by UNESCO of them with health-giving properties. interactive workshop introducing the as a Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible This workshop will introduce you to the traditional Saman dance of the Gayo Heritage of Humanity. Whether printing wealth of natural remedies growing wild people of Aceh. Dancers clap their hands,

CULTURAL with a cap or designing freehand with around Ubud. Guides Lilir and Westi have slap their chests, thighs and the ground, the canting, this intimate workshop is a studied Usada Bali, a traditional Balinese click their fingers, and sway and twist their chance to explore the processes, tools and book of healing, and have spent much bodies and heads in time with the shifting techniques for you to produce a beautiful time researching Balinese plants and using rhythm – bring your best moves for a truly batik painting. them in their daily lives. unique experience!

Includes fresh coconut drink or herbal drink.

Blue is the Universe Culinary Jalan-Jalan The Language of Offerings

27 October 12:30–13:30 28 October 06:00–09:00 28 October 11:00–13:00 IDR 450,000 Joglo @ Taman Baca IDR 400,000 Meet at Casa Luna IDR 350,000 Nirvana Pension

Join Balinese contemporary artist and Join our intrepid food guides on a walking You’ve no doubt admired the Balinese creator of the UWRF18 artwork Budi tour to the home of Ubud’s iconic suckling Hindu offerings, called canang, adorning Agung Kuswara (Kabul) on a journey into pig, Ibu Oka’s. After a caffeine hit, meet homes, streets and temples. Now you can the blue universe of cyanotype printing. Pak Rimpin, the master of bebek betutu discover the reasons behind the rituals. Using plants and objects distinct to the (spiced duck), and Pak Sanur, the don of This is a rare opportunity to learn about Balinese way of life, you’ll create your own ayam betutu (braised chicken). Polish off the Balinese Hindu belief system and A4 cyanotype photogram print. the tasty tour with a Balinese breakfast of the rich variety of ancient offerings and champions at Casa Luna. ceremonies held across the island. Includes A4 cyanotype photogram paper print.

34 #UWRF18 #UWRF18 35 Spin Your Own Story Publish in a Flash Let’s Write!

26 October 10:00–12:00 26 October 10:00–12:00 27 October 10:00–12:00 Villa Kitty Joglo @ Taman Baca Joglo @ Taman Baca With: Debby Lukito With: Anita Hairunnisa With: Julia Lawrinson

Debby is an award-winning author, and This workshop is a publishing program for Julia Lawrinson is an Australian writer who she will help develop your ideas into young people from Bitread Kids. To publish has written more than a dozen award- fantastic stories. Spin the wheel and see your own short story or comic, first learn winning books for children and young which words you get – who knows where about writing techniques, then layout. adults. This is your chance to join her to they will take you to next! Finally your work is ready to be published! learn more about creating characters for your own stories. There will also be a Suitable for ages 8-11. Bilingual. Suitable for ages 9-12. Bilingual. reading at the end of the workshop!

CHILDREN & YOUTH Supported by SCBWI Indonesia & Villa Kitty. Supported by Bitread. Suitable for ages 10+. English.

25 26 27 28 October Letter of Love The Patient Stone In Memory of My Feelings CHILDREN &

27 October 14:00–16:00 27 October 14:00–16:00 28 October 10:00–12:00 The Festival isn’t just for established voices; it’s a place to encourage emergings Joglo @ Taman Baca Yellow Coco Creative Nest Campuhan College to grow. Designed for aspiring Affandis and Eka Kurniawans, our Children & With: Theodora Sarah Abigail With: Susan Allen, Susiawan With: Rain Chudori, Pratiwi Juliani Youth workshops span writing, drawing, poetry and performance.

Coming straight from the heart, words can The Patient Stone is a Sufi tale about a Inspired by Frank O’Hara’s poem, In Our Children & Youth Program is free but registration is required, which you can be an everlasting gift for someone special young woman on a journey that takes Memory of My Feelings, this workshop Youth do from the event page on our website or at the Box Office. Please show your in your life. In this workshop, we will plan her away from her family and into a uses an emotion as the basis for writing. registration confirmation at the event, either printed or on your device. your own heartfelt letter, write it together, strange but enchanting garden. What she Through poetry, prose, a short story or then decorate the envelope to create a discovers changes her life forever. Join us nonfiction, we will explore our inner perfect piece of mail art for anyone that’s for storytelling set to live music, and go on lives, recognize our rawest emotions, and on your mind. an arts journey of your own at the end. communicate them through words.

Suitable for ages 8-12. Bilingual. Suitable for ages 7+. Bilingual. Suitable for ages 15+. Bilingual.

Creative Writing for Young Release Your Inner Voice My Night in the Planetarium Make Your Own Charcoal The Power of Words Small Acts of Kindness Authors 25 October 10:00–12:00 25 October 10:00–12:00 25 October 14:00–16:00 28 October 10:00–12:00 28 October 14:00–16:00 28 October 14:00–15:30 Joglo @ Taman Baca Campuhan College Campuhan College IDR 330,000 Joglo @ Taman Baca Joglo @ Taman Baca Campuhan College With: Francoise Keyser With: Shoba Dewey Chugani, Emiliana With: Innosanto Nagara With: Anne Spudvilas, LagiLagi With: Apirana Taylor With: Yuichiro Hara Nazir Do you like writing poems and stories? Let your imagination flow freely with This is a true story. Do you want to hear Make Your Own Charcoal fuels Join poet, short story writer, storyteller, One kind of harmony in the world we Join Francois to learn about different ways vibrant images and musical rhythmic it? My Night in the Planetarium is the environmental awareness and creativity. playwright, novelist, actor, musician and create can be achieved by acts of kindness. to help you start writing, how to develop prompts. Emilia and Shoba, both children’s story of one magical night in the Jakarta Learn how to make drawing charcoal, painter Apirana Taylor for a fun-filled From a short story, recollect an act of characters, describe things, develop book authors and educators, will guide Planetarium. It’s also about how through then with award-winning picture book workshop focusing on the power of words. kindness and its impact on the character’s emotions, and keep a journal. Then let you through an exciting process of crafting art and solidarity freedom can be won. The illustrator, Anne Spudvilas, you will create Learn how to access and harness your world. Focus on plot and setting, and how your creative juices flow for better stories! your own unique story, inspired by author of beloved national bestseller A is an amazing charcoal drawing. poetry prowess! to stay true to one’s own story. magical pictures and sounds. for Activist, Innosanto Nagara, will guide Suitable for ages 7+. English. you through a night sky full of stars. Suitable for ages 7+. Bilingual. Proceeds Suitable for ages 10+. English. Suitable for ages 12-18. English. from ticket sales go towards future Supported by SCBWI Indonesia. Suitable for ages 9-15. English. Suitable for ages 6+. English. workshops for Balinese children. Supported by Bank BRI Cabang Ubud. Supported by Jakarta Intercultural School.

36 #UWRF18 #UWRF18 37 Omar Musa: Since Ali Died The Epic Retronesia

25 October 20:45–22:00 26 October 17:00–18:00 26 October 18:15–19:15 Bar Luna Bar Luna Bar Luna With: Omar Musa With: Bruce Carpenter, Alex Vermuelen With: Tariq Khalil

Bar Luna welcomes back rapper, poet Inspired by the Ramayana and If these walls could talk! ‘50s futurism, and lyrical powerhouse Omar Musa for a Shakespeare’s Othello, The Epic unites tropical art deco, Indo-European Indische: triumphant evening of deeply personal images, animation, music and voice to Indonesia is home to a little-known trove stories and riotously political songs. In his tell the story of a beautiful, other-worldly of architectural treasures. Join unlikely acclaimed one-man show Musa mashes foundling and an ingenious outsider: a explorer and retro enthusiast Tariq Khalil poems, live music and stories to confront tale of love, hate, envy, ignorance and for an illustrated odyssey across the heartbreak, human connection and the the inevitability of fate. Art expert Bruce archipelago with mid-century style as dark realities of Australian culture. Carpenter will guide you through a feast of your guide. FESTIVAL CLUB @ BAR LUNA visual storytelling. FESTIVAL CLUB 25 26 27 28 October The Last Wild Men of Borneo Buku Kuku-Ku The Ruin

26 October 19:30–20:30 26 October 20:45–21:45 27 October 16:00–17:00 As the sun sets head on down, order a cocktail and immerse yourself in the Bar Luna Bar Luna Bar Luna Festival Club @ Bar Luna’s free nightly program. With: Carl Hoffman With: Cipta Croft-Cusworth With: Dervla McTiernan, David Sly

There’s no need to book, just bring yourself, your curiosity and a sense of humor

In The Last Wild Men of Borneo, Carl Groundbreaking toy designer, writer and Publisher’s Weekly called her a writer to @ Bar Luna as some of the Festival’s hottest performers take to the Bar Luna stage. Hoffman traces the fortunes of two illustrator Cipta Croft-Cusworth brings watch. Marian Keyes described the book Western explorers who traveled deep into his unique multimedia shadow puppet as “Spectacularly good”. For crime lovers, Bar Luna is downstairs at Casa Luna Restaurant, on Jl. Raya Ubud. the wild heart of Borneo. Their paths were performance with live storytelling to Bar The Ruin is one of the most exciting debuts different but would echo each other – Luna. Telling the tale of the creation of of recent years. Spend an hour in Ireland’s opposites but also equals. Join an intimate the universe of Dasuatika and the price of underbelly and discover a novel that’s telling of one of the last great adventure using dark magic to keep death at bay, this made Dervla McTiernan the name on stories. puppet show is not just for kids! many a bedside table.

Retired, Rewired Stealing with the Eyes Sayang Kalimantan Happy Never After Chinese Whispers The Poet’s Club

25 October 17:00–18:00 25 October 18:15–19:15 25 October 19:30–20:30 27 October 17:15–18:15 27 October 18:30–19:30 27 October 19:45–21:00 Bar Luna Bar Luna Bar Luna Bar Luna Bar Luna Bar Luna With: Cat Wheeler, Geoffrey Williams With: Will Buckingham With: Emmanuela Shinta With: Jill Stark, Rosemarie Milsom With: Rani Pramesti, Cindy Saja With: Kamau Abayomi, Festival poets

Long-time Bali resident Cat Wheeler In 1994, Will Buckingham travelled to In 2015, forest fires in Indonesia put more Jill Stark was living the dream: a coveted Beginning life as an art installation then Beat, rhyme, lyric and verse. Poetry has describes herself and her friends as ‘the the Tanimbar Islands in Indonesia’s carbon into the atmosphere than Europe’s job, dating a sports star, and her first evolving into a digital graphic novel, a way of going straight to the heart. Join ones who got away’, exchanging briefcases eastern Maluku province as a trainee annual carbon footprint. In the two years book a bestseller. She’d found her Chinese Whispers traces the search some of the Festival’s favorite wordsmiths and cityscapes for gamelan sounds and anthropologist. He recounts life-changing that followed, Wally Tham and his team fairytale ending. Then it all fell apart. In for identity in history through gentle as they whip up a night of fantastic flights, rice field vistas. She shares her journey to encounters with three craftsmen and worked with local young people to design Happy Never After, Jill examines why the excavation of real life stories. Jakarta-born deep contemplation and rousing roof- ‘exuberant elderhood’ in Retired, Rewired: their histories, myths and philosophies and build Indonesia’s first functioning happiness fairytale is driving us mad – and ethnic Chinese creator Rani Pramesti and raising to reconnect you with the magic of Living Without Adult Supervision in Bali – in a tale of art, sickness, witchcraft, and haze shelter. This inspiring documentary reveals how she flipped the script. illustrator Cindy Saja join UWRF to launch being in the moment. come along for the ride. unpaid debts. For lovers of travel…and captures a victory for grassroots activism. the English language edition with this transformation. premiere screening.

38 #UWRF18 #UWRF18 39 FILM PROGRAM Pull up a seat and settle in for our free Film Program. A mini Indonesian film festival in its own right, this is your chance to experience the nation’s most celebrated recent feature films and documentaries. Chaplin in Bali (2017) Nowhere to Go (2018) NOKAS (2016) Marlina The Murderer in Four Acts (2017) Many sessions are followed by a Q&A with the directors, 24 October 14:00–16:00 25 October 14:00–14:30 25 October 15:00–17:00 25 October 19:00–21:00 actors, and scriptwriters, so please check our website and Betelnut Betelnut Betelnut Taman Baca the UWRF18 App for details. No registration required. In 1932, experiencing a midlife crisis, With: SPARC Stories It’s not simple to marry in East Nusa Mouly Surya’s fourth feature is one of Charlie Chaplin ‘escapes’ to Bali, finding Refugees residing in the transitory country Tenggara. A large dowry must be offered Indonesia’s most acclaimed recent films. rejuvenation and inspiration. Directed by of Indonesia brace for an uncertain future. to the bride’s family, often reducing the Hailed as the first ‘Satay Western’, it’s a Raphaël Millet, this documentary contains Directed by SPARC Stories in collaboration meaning of marriage to a transaction. revenge fantasy rooted in the nation’s FILM rare footage filmed by Chaplin. with the Refugee Learning Center in Manuel Alberto Maia’s film follows Nokas’ gender conditions, complex regional Cisarua, West Java, Nowhere to Go follows struggle. culture, and Sumba’s stark beauty.

Supported by Balinale - Bali International three Hazara refugee children. Program

Program Film Festival. Supported by Balinale - Bali International

Film Festival. FILM

Love is a Bird (2018) Laut Bercerita (The Sea Speaks BLUE Sekala Niskala (The Seen and Etgar Keret: Based on True His Name) (2017) Terbang: Menembus Langit Unseen) (2017) Story (2017) (Fly) (2017) 26 October 16:00–18:00 26 October 19:00–21:00 27 October 12:00–15:00 27 October 19:00–21:00 28 October 15:00–17:00 Betelnut Taman Baca Betelnut 27 October 16:00–18:00 Taman Baca Betelnut Betelnut With: Richard Oh With: Leila S. Chudori, Pritagita BLUE takes us on a provocative journey With: Kamila Andini People from all over the world have come Arianegara With: Rully Habibie Richard Oh’s fifth feature Love is a Bird into the ocean realm. Featuring passionate Kamila Andini’s award-winning second to love Israeli writer Etgar Keret’s surreal follows Darma who, leaving Jakarta with a Laut Bercerita is an adaptation of Leila advocates for ocean preservation, BLUE Fajar Nugros’ tenth feature follows Onggy, feature was selected for the Cinéfondation short stories which play with fantasy and camera, finds himself in Yogyakarta. Darma S. Chudori’s second novel, directed by brings us into their world where the story who doesn’t let being born into a poor Residence program at Cannes. A young girl reality. Stephane Kaas and Rutger Lemm discovers that the shadow of his past is Pritagita Arianegara. From the bottom of of our changing ocean is unfolding. family stop him from pursuing his dreams. retreats into a dreamscape to deal with the investigate why storytelling is an essential catching up with him fast. the sea a man speaks of his death, and When he sets foot in Surabaya, he learns impending loss of her twin brother, taking aspect of Keret’s life. shares stories of the events leading up Supported by Greenpeace. freedom is not easily found, but must be viewers on a hypnotic journey. to it. achieved.

40 #UWRF18 #UWRF18 41 LIVE MUSIC From Bali to West Africa 25 October 21:00–23:00 & ARTS Taman Baca Thursday night is rich in cultural and artistic diversity at As the sun sets the Festival comes alive with our dynamic Live Music & Arts Program. Taman Baca. Get ready for powerful poetry performances by Festival poets Kadek Sonia Piscayanti, Nguyen Phan For nightly schedules and performer bios, refer to our website and the UWRF18 App. Que Mai, Saras Dewi and Andre Septiawan. Then, join musician, improviser and composer Rodrigo Parejo for Spanish jazz, before Miriam Libermann transports you to West Africa with her unique style of kora playing.

Women of Words Featuring: Poetry Slam Poetry Slam 24 October 20:00–22:30 LIVE MUSIC Betelnut 26 October 20:00–23:00 Betelnut

& Arts For our annual Women of Words Poetry

Slam we’re looking for the finest poems Get prepared to get loud: live literature hits the stage for the celebrating diversity and feminism. UWRF’s celebrated Poetry Slam, one of the most sizzling events Bahasa Indonesia, English, free verse Rodrigo Parejo Miriam Liebermann of the Festival. From global poets to local sensations, who will

or rhyme – raise your voices and win the crowd, and who will go out in a blaze of spoken word & Arts rejoice in the power of women as glory? Register to participate on the door, one hour before. they shine in the spotlight. Register

LIVE MUSIC to participate on the door, one Supported by The Barrett Reid Foundation, honoring the late hour before. Hujan di Bulan Juni Shelton Lea. Supported by Arts for Women/PWAG Piknik Puisi dan Indonesia. Ekspresi: Dear You 26 October 21:00–22:00 Taman Baca

26 October 17:00–18:30 Settle in for an evening of music and performances inspired by Taman Puisi the poetry of Sapardi Djoko Damono, the recipient of this year’s UWRF Lifetime Achievement Award. Hujan di Bulan Juni (Rain in The Jakarta Post Writing Center’s Debra Yatim and Ninda June) is one of his most beloved poems, and tonight it will come Daianti lead a relaxed and reflective writing exercise with to life through immersive sounds and theatre. the chance to take the mic and share your work. Featuring: Resonansi Ruang Pecha Kucha (Supported by Raditomo)

25 October 19:30–21:00 Piknik Puisi dan IDR 100,000 Betelnut Ekspresi Global performance phenomenon Pecha Kucha – now in more than 900 Sams cities – sees Festival artists present 20 images for 20 seconds each. With 25, 27 October 17:00–18:30 (Supported by Raditomo) dozens of daring ideas set to bubble over it’s always a raucous and racy Taman Puisi capacity crowd, so be sure to secure your spot early. Piknik Puisi dan Ekspresi is for all word weavers wishing Jovan Yudistira Tickets available at the door. to share their works with kindred spirits and Teater Kalangan (Supported by Raditomo) appreciative audiences. No registration required.

42 #UWRF18 #UWRF18 43 The World We Create

27 October 21:00–23:00 Taman Baca

Drawn from a Balinese Hindu philosophy, ‘Jagadhita’ is the individual pursuit of universal harmony and prosperity, interpreted as ‘The World We Create’. Come on a musical exploration of our Festival’s theme. Featuring: Aroma Karsa

27 October 19:00–22:00 i al Betelnut b ud, b Award-winning poet, novelist and dancer Tishani , u n m Doshi will bring her poems to life. Then, one of o .c Pagi Tadi li i Indonesia’s favorite authors, Dee Lestari, will read Gabriel Mayo a al (Supported by Raditomo) b b gginga o o from her latest work, Aroma Karsa. Accompanied n b b m Zio u by Reza Gunawan on piano, this is musical a sa d & Arts y . dum a w storytelling at its finest. Bali Bird Park - NOW! BALI (Final artwork) 18 x 13.ai 1 9/17/18 3:08 PM r w jl w Supported by Bentang Pustaka.

LIVE MUSIC Closing Night Party

28 October 19:00–23:00 Blanco Renaissance Museum

You can’t miss this – the last night of the Festival is a joyous evening of music, dance, and appreciation. From Aceh to Borneo to Ireland, these performances are testament to the Festival’s diversity – come and help us celebrate the final moments of our fifteenth year as Southeast Asia’s leading festival of words and ideas.

44 #UWRF18 #UWRF18 45 ART EXHIBITIONS All times indicate launch start time GANESHA Masa Subur PAUSE; URBAN DECAY BOOKSHOPS 20 October 16:00–17:00 25 October 15:00-16:30 Karja Art Space DUMBO BALI These works by female Indonesian This photography exhibition observes artists challenge the common tendency urban, everyday spaces often viewed of female-created visual aesthetics to as unimportant. How important is a Specialising in books on Indonesia, be viewed as too personal, and non- bedroom for you? PAUSE; URBAN DECAY New, Used, Rare and Antiquarian. representative of society, through a variety of approaches, ideas explores the potential of everyday spaces and environments to be and statements. transformed into art. And the Books for Bali Project fostering literacy and reading for Exhibition runs from 20 October-9 November. Exhibition runs from 24 October-28 October. pleasure in the Balinese community by donating books to local schools DenPasar2018 The Epic and libraries.

5 October 19:00–22:00 27 October 18:00–20:00 CushCush Gallery Tony Raka Gallery

DenPasar2018 is part of CushCush The Epic is a kind of ‘non-movie’ of 32 Cnr of Jalan Raya and Jalam Jembawan, Ubud. Gallery’s program series providing a film stills, presented as an interactive And Jalan Danau Tamblingan 42, Sanur. platform for young local artists and web book accessible at soh29-the- Tel: 62 361 970320 | www.ganeshabooksbali.com creative communities to connect and epic.com. It is loosely based on the collaborate. DenPasar2018 represents the aspirations of the current Ramayana and Shakespeare’s Othello. creative generation.

Exhibitions Exhibition runs from 9 October-4 November. The performance is on Exhibition runs from 5 October-4 November. 27 October at 6:00pm. ART GloBALIzation Anonymous Ancestors UBUD YOGA CENTRE CENTRE YOGA UBUD

25 October 09:00–19:00 25 October 18:00–20:00 Taman baca Casa Luna

The continuous battle between the Budi Agung Kuswara is the creator of the traditional values of agrarian culture UWRF18 artwork. He has incorporated and the modern values of the tourism photos taken in Bali from 1925-1930 into industry is GloBALIzation’s primary these works, as an attempt to explore inspiration. The artist, Bali’s most beloved cartoonist, hopes it will our collective memory of the island, and as appreciation for the incite both smiles and reflection. nameless faces.

Exhibition runs from 25-28 October. Exhibition runs from 25 October-25 November.

Comfort Zone - A Solo Exhibition Borobudur Under the Full by Kuncir Sathya Viku Moon 30 September 16:00–20:00 26 October 17:00–19:00 Littletalks Oracle Gallery

Balinese artist Kuncir Sathya Viku’s Sponsored by UNESCO, this exhibition creations often grow from Balinese features Caroline and Hughes Dubois’ mythology. His message for this extraordinary photos of Borobudur exhibition is: “There is a place without taken under a full moon over four years. stress, where we feel safe. It’s a comfort zone, full of happiness. Will Join the photographers and author of the accompanying art book, you step out of your comfort zone? Please do, and step into mine.” Bruce Carpenter, for the launch.

Exhibition runs from 30 September-30 October. Exhibition runs from 26 October-10 November.

46 #UWRF18 #UWRF18 47

UBUD YOGA CENTRE CENTRE YOGA UBUD BOOK LAUNCHES BOOK LAUNCHES

Dancing in Silver: The PAUSE; URBAN DECAY Asia Reborn UWRF18 Bilingual Anthology Jewellery of Runi Palar 24 October 16:30–18:00 25 October 15:00–16:30 27 October 15:30–17:00 27 October 16:00–17:30 Nomad DUMBO The Elephant Joglo @ Taman Baca With: Bruce Carpenter With: Sandi Jaya Saputra With: Prasenjit Basu With: UWRF18 Anthology Writers

Dancing in Silver is a retrospective of This photobook observes urban, In the first single chronicle of the Each year we put a call out to emerging the remarkable designs of Runi Palar, everyday spaces often viewed as modern economic and political history writers across Indonesia: send us your Indonesia’s first modern jeweler. A Central Javanese princess and unimportant. How important is a bedroom for you? Humans won’t of Asia told from an Asian perspective, Asia Reborn is a compelling stories. The most outstanding are published in our Bilingual court dancer, she became an international cultural icon in a male- survive without a space to rest. PAUSE; URBAN DECAY explores the account of how Asia’s nations overcame the legacy of European Anthology – a rich insight into Indonesian language and culture. dominated field, against a backdrop of revolution, political chaos, potential of everyday spaces to be transformed into art. domination to begin the long climb to economic dynamism. prejudice and economic hardship. Supported by Bitread.

Nayla Gugug! The Sacred Trails of Gong dan Palegongan: Jejak Historis dan Estetis Mpu Ageng I Gusti Putu Singhawangsa Made Geria 25 October 15:30–17:00 25 October 16:00-17:00 27 October 16:00–17:30 27 October 16:30–18:00 Blanco Renaissance Museum PiciPici Warung Sri Ratih Cottages Blanco Renaissance Museum With: Djenar Maesa Ayu With: Emte With: Ngurah Paramartha With: Prof. I Made Bandem

First published in Indonesian in 2005 by Graphic novel Gugug! invites us to The Sacred Trails of Singhawangsa IGP Made Geria has a deep BOOK Gramedia Pustaka Utama, the English realize humans aren’t too distant from transports us to the age when ancient understanding of the Balinese art of translation is by Sebastian Partogi, and edited by Kan Lumé. Nayla animals. When we do, we can learn that animals and humans are Bali’s civilization was in the north, the homeland of lords and palegongan. His journey as a practitioner, teacher and researcher

is physically and mentally abused by her mother. Hers is a journey twin brothers who have not yet finished their adventures. great leaders. It was the center of the maritime kingdom Singha has created a legacy of new compositions, skilled students, and Launches

Launches of struggling against repression, and for love and freedom. Mandawa, with a heritage of great statecraft and governance. books. This book explores his journey and contribution.

Supported by Gramedia Pustaka Utama.

BOOK Girl Submerged Banjarmelati Buddha is a Punk Skater Prayers on Canvas: Paintings, Spirituality and Humanity 25 October 16:30–18:00 26 October 15:30–17:00 28 October 14:00–15:30 28 October 14:30–16:00 Herb Library Littletalks DUMBO Blanco Renaissance Museum With: Avara Yaron With: Ahmad Zaenudin With: Wayne Furlong With: Nasir Tamara

Sirena shares vivid dreams, watery A career woman returns from Jakarta In a teaching career spanning decades, Prayers on Canvas or Wirid on Canvas is emotions, and visions – what most to her traditional Javanese village and Wayne Furlong might’ve seen it all. His the first book celebrating the work of people keep to themselves. Her story traverses the uncovering reveals the story of her life, urging her two siblings to reveal their book captures the life lessons learned along the way, in a look Nasirun, one of Indonesia’s greatest living painters. During a period of buried sexual trauma, healing, and spiritual awakening. Her own. From Banjarmelati to Jakarta, Shimla to Alice Springs, this is a at the funny side of people and the serious issue of education. of energy and inspiration the artist created one painting per day journey covers difficult terrain, but is juicy along the way. beautifully woven fabric of stories and secrets from each of them. Amusing, absorbing, and philosophical – a bit like teaching, really. during Ramadan. The resulting 29 paintings invite examination of the relationships between writing, art, spirituality and humanity.

Komodo - In Pursuit of the Myth, Magic and Mystery in Angkot dan Bus Minangkabau. Touring Reality Without a Living Legends Bali Budaya Pop dan Nilai-nilai Populer Guide 26 October 16:00–17:30 27 October 14:00–15:30 28 October 15:00–16:30 28 October 15:30–17:00 The Elephant Sri Ratih Cottages Littletalks Il Giardino With: Volker Kess With: Jean Couteau With: David Reeve With: Tamarra Kaida

Volker Kess captures Komodo dragons in From knowledgeable to subjective, Creative, funny, dynamic, nyentrik – Short, short stories that resonate in an impressive compilation: eye-catching serious to humorous, Jean Couteau’s the vibrant pop art on the buses and the mind for a long, long time. This is a photos and exciting anecdotes, with background information and articles share philosophical and social considerations no travel passenger vans (angkot) of West Sumatra is a sight to behold. This unique flash fiction collection for grownups who envy their kid’s reflections. His interactions with Indonesia’s natural world have journalist would know, nor would an academic anthropologist dare bilingual book explores the color and complexity of that art in books, giving readers a hand in glove experience in which pictures changed his life and shaped a colorful and varied career. to express. Jean takes us deep into the heart, mind and soul of Bali. entertaining fashion, with over 250 color photos. and words collaborate to tell stories that are brief, yet haunting.

Supported by Phoenix Communications.

48 #UWRF18 #UWRF18 49 THE KITCHEN 26 27 28 October

Step into the sizzling Festival Kitchen for a series of cooking demonstrations from some of Bali’s best chefs.

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Fine-tune the Fundamentals Indonesian Raw with Arif East Meets West Springs 26 October 09:30–10:30 26 October 11:00–12:00 26 October 12:30–13:30 IDR 100,000 The Kitchen at IDR 100,000 The Kitchen at IDR 100,000 The Kitchen at Taman Baca Taman Baca Taman Baca With: Ubud Food Festival Team With: Arif Springs With: Reynaldo De Luna II

KITCHEN From dicing an onion to filleting fish, Indonesian food bursts with rich flavors, Bumbu is the blend of spices and other de-boning a chicken to searing steak, and many dishes contain a generous ingredients forming the foundation of The cooking is a lot easier – and much more amount of oil. But not all Indonesian countless Indonesian dishes. From ginger, enjoyable – when you really know what fare should be off-putting for the health turmeric and galangal to coriander seeds you’re doing. If you’d like to sharpen your conscious. Arif Springs hails from West and kaffir lime leaves, variations are kitchen skills, start your day with the Ubud Java, home of Sundanese cuisine – endless. Could bumbu be incorporated Food Festival team as they show you how perhaps the archipelago’s healthiest. into Western cuisine? Chef Reynaldo will to fine-tune the fundamentals of cooking. He’ll prove raw renditions of Indonesian demonstrate how to blend spices into favorites can be tremendously tasty too. Western dishes.

What’s Hiding in Your Food? Charcuterie at Home with Matt Tempe with a Twist McCool 26 October 14:00–15:00 26 October 15:30–16:30 27 October 09:30–10:30 IDR 100,000 The Kitchen at IDR 100,000 The Kitchen at IDR 100,000 The Kitchen at Taman Baca Taman Baca Taman Baca With: Lola Taylor With: Matt McCool With: Benny Santoso

Do you know what’s really in your food? Up in the jungles north of Ubud, Chef Do you think you know all there is to know Join naturopath Lola Taylor in this Matt McCool toils away in the kitchens of about Indonesia’s soybean superfood? engaging, informative and practical Capella whipping up almost everything Join Ubud’s Tempe Champion Benny workshop in which she’ll reveal the effects from scratch – including their tempting Santoso to delve deeper into ‘Indonesia’s processed foods and additives can have charcuterie selection and artisanal gift to the world’, and the many varieties on your health. Learn how to spot them, sausages. Chef Matt will share his passion possible. Mung bean tempe? Peanut and then how to cut them out without for salting, brining and sausage making so tempe? How about black pea tempe? This sacrificing flavor. you can dabble in charcuterie at home. is tempe with a twist.

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Arielle’s Cake Creations Modernizing Indonesian Ayam Betutu with Cuisine Janet DeNeefe 27 October 11:00–12:00 27 October 12:30–13:30 27 October 14:00–15:00 IDR 100,000 The Kitchen at IDR 100,000 The Kitchen at IDR 100,000 The Kitchen at Taman Baca Taman Baca Taman Baca With: Arielle Chenarra With: Maxie Millian, Kieran Morland With: Janet DeNeefe KITCHEN Young entrepreneur Arielle Chenarra At Merah Putih and Sangsaka, Chefs Kieran Babi guling may be the king of Bali’s The launched Thyme & Caramel, a gluten- and Maxie are always on the hunt for ways traditional dishes, but ayam betutu is free, organic and vegan cakery selling to modernize Indonesian cuisine, whether swiftly becoming a rival. Utilizing local special occasion cakes, when she was it’s interpreting a classic dish or innovating spices, gingers, nuts and seeds, join our just 13-years-old. Join Arielle as she with lesser known ingredients to create Founder and Director Janet DeNeefe and shares her most treasured tips and tricks something exciting. Join them as they the team from her Casa Luna Cooking for mastering the art of baking and share their passion and creative drive for School as they demonstrate how to decorating decadent, divine cakes without Indonesian flavors and food. prepare tender, delicate, delicious traditional ingredients. ayam betutu.

Coffee Conversation

28 October 10:00–12:00 IDR 200,000 Seniman Coffee Studio With: Rodney Glick and I Kadek Edi

Indonesian single-origin beans are now among the world’s most coveted coffee, and a new publication is here to celebrate. Singalong explores Indonesia’s coffee scene: from people to politics, finances to sciences, crop to cup. Join the coffee conversation with the team from Seniman Industries, one of Indonesia’s leading specialty coffee brands.

52 #UWRF18 #UWRF18 53 PEOPLE YOU’ LL MEET Aan Mansyur • Indonesia Ade Andreawan • Indonesia

M Aan Mansyur works as a community librarian at Ade Andreawan is Director of IDEP Foundation, Katakerja, a social and creative space in Makassar, a local NGO established in 1999 which builds and is the Makassar International Writers Festival community resilience using permaculture principles. program curator. He is the author of several volumes As Community-Based Disaster Management Master of poetry and prose. His poetry collection, Tidak Ada Trainer, Ade has lots of experience helping rural New York Hari Ini (There Is No New York Today), was a Indonesian communities bounce back from natural national bestseller. disaster. He is currently developing a handbook for building community resilience. FRINGE EVENTS Supported by the Indonesian Writers Patron Program.

The Festival doesn’t just bring the artistic village of Ubud to life – it also heads to Sanur, home to Agustinus Wibowo • Indonesia Alistair Speirs • Scotland the island’s most progressive multi-arts space; brings you a book club in paradise; and shines a Agustinus Wibowo is an Indonesian travel writer and Insurance broker turned publisher turned PR turned spotlight on the archipelago’s Indigenous music traditions. travel photographer. His books include Selimut Debu advertising agent, Alistair Speirs is a Scot who has (A Blanket of Dust, 2010), Garis Batas (Borderlines: lived for 40 years in the East. A former rugby player A Journey through Central Asia, 2011), and TitikNol now seen on the golf course, his passions are food, (Zero: When the Journey Takes You Home, 2013). Zero wine and culture, and his current obsession is is being adapted into a film. Currently Agustinus is sustainability. He was awarded the OBE in 2014 by working on a nonfiction book on nationalism in the HM Queen Elizabeth II. Malay Archipelago.

Songs of Sumba Street The Ubud Book Club Peringatan Bulan Bahasa 2018 PEOPLE Performance Supported by The British Council. 25 October 17:30–18:30 29 October 16:00–17:30 25 October 17:00–20:00 Andre Septiawan • Indonesia Anne Spudvilas • Australia Threads of Life Gayatri Ubud Bentara Budaya Bali Anne Spudvilas is an award-winning illustrator

Born on the coast of West Sumatra, Andre Septiawan You’ll Meet With: Aan Mansyur, Agustinus Wibowo majors in English Literature at the University of of picture books who also works as a painter and Threads of Life are delighted to present Ubud Book Club is the only local monthly Andalas in Padang. He began to explore the world printmaker. Swan Lake is her first solo project after Kahi Ata Ratu, the Queen of Sumbanese get-together for bibliophiles, and for Memperingati Hari Sumpah Pemuda di of literature in high school and since then regularly illustrating 14 books written by top Australian folk music, from East Sumba. As motifs its October session the featured book tanggal 28 Oktober, LPM Suara Satwa writes poetry and short stories. Supported by his authors. Anne is also an award-winning portrait appear to weavers, songs appear to is Festival headliner Hanif Kureishi’s Fakultas Kedokteran Hewan Universitas family environment and education, he is striving to painter and has worked for Melbourne media as a become a full-time writer. courtroom artist. Ata Ratu in her dreams. Her music is The Nothing. Relish its wicked humor, Udayana, menyelenggarakan kegiatan spontaneous and will speak of her journey attend Hanif’s in-conversation on Day 2 seperti talkshow, perlombaan film dan Supported by the Indonesian Writers Patron Program. to Bali, and of traditional textiles, culture of the Festival, then join fellow readers cipta puisi bagi mahasiswa. Acara ini untuk and the land. in the majestic grounds of Gayatri for a menjawab kerinduan pemuda pemudi captivating literary conversation. Indonesia terhadap sastra. Annee Lawrence • Australia Anuradha Roy • India

Annee Lawrence has an interest in exploring cross- Anuradha Roy’s Sleeping on Jupiter won the DSC cultural connection, and the way identity shape Prize for Fiction in 2016 and was longlisted for the shifts in an unfamiliar place and culture. Her novel, Man Booker Prize in 2015. Her new novel, All the The Colour of Things Unseen, is set in Sydney and Lives We Never Lived, has been published worldwide Central Java and will be published in March 2019 by to great acclaim. All her books have been widely Aurora Metro Books. She works as a tutor in literary translated. She lives in the Indian Himalaya. SATELLITE PROGRAM and cultural studies at Western Sydney University. Supported by Asialink Arts through the Australia Indonesia Institute. As not all young Indonesian literature lovers can attend literary communities in Jakarta, Surabaya, Palangkaraya, the Festival, each year we take the Festival to them. Ambon and Ternate, in the Maluku Islands in East Apirana Taylor • New Zealand Aprila Wayar • Indonesia After the UWRF our free Satellite Program provides a Indonesia. Apirana Taylor is a nationally and internationally Jayapura-born senior journalist and Papua’s first valuable opportunity for local writers and readers to published Maori poet, short story writer, storyteller, female novelist, Aprila Waya has covered West Papua experience the magic of the UWRF, while introducing Visit our website for more information and to register playwright, novelist, actor, musician and painter. He for eight years. Her novels Mawar Hitam Tanpa Akar international writers to Indonesia’s rich cultural tapestry. your attendance. writes for children and the theatre, and is involved and Dua Perempuan describe daily Papuan life, in acting and teaching drama. Apirana’s latest novel against a backdrop of gross human rights violations is Five Strings, published in 2017 by Anahera Press. committed by the army and security apparatus. Her In previous years we’ve traveled from Medan to Makassar, Supported by Embassy of the United States, Nusa He lives with his family, and writes by the sea in latest novel Sentuh Papua (2018) details the epic Padang to Palu. In 2018, the Festival will connect with Halmahera Minerals, UNESA, Bitread. Paekakariki, New Zealand. journey of a Dutch journalist undercover in Papua. Supported by the Indonesian Writers Patron Program.

54 #UWRF18 #UWRF18 55 PEOPLE YOU’ LL MEET PEOPLE YOU’ LL MEET Avara Yaron • USA Avianti Armand • Indonesia Cat Wheeler • Canada Cath Drake • UK/Australia

Avara Yaron is an entrepreneur and an artist. A Avianti Armand is an author, poet, curator, and Cat has been living in and writing about Bali since Cath has been published in anthologies and literary periodic shapeshifter, Avara has earned a film architect. She led the Indonesian curatorial team 2000. Her books and articles chronicle with gentle magazines in the UK, Australia and the US. Sleeping degree, a spiritual counseling license, and has at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition in wit the daily life and cultural perplexities that come with Rivers won the 2013 UK Mslexia/Seren poetry explored life as a painter, filmmaker, jewelry and 2014. She received the Khatulistiwa Literary Award with living in Ubud, and highlight the causes she pamphlet prize and was the Poetry Book Society handbag designer, group facilitator, plant-based for her poetry collection Perempuan Yang Dihapus espouses – social justice, food security, alternative Summer Choice 2014. She is writer in residence at chef, and nutritional educator. Writing the Girl Namanya (Women Whose Names Were Erased) in healing, animal welfare and the environment. The Katharine Susannah Prichard Writer’s Centre Submerged novels has happily taken over her life. 2011, and recently published her latest collection in Australia in 2018. A poetry collection with Seren Museum Masa Kecil (Museum of Childhood). Books is forthcoming.

Balli Kaur Jaswal • Singapore Barbara Demick • USA Christine Bader • USA/Indonesia Cindy Saja • Indonesia

Balli Kaur Jaswal is the author of Inheritance, Barbara Demick is currently New York bureau Christine Bader is the author of The Evolution of a Cindy Saja is a freelance illustrator. She completed Sugarbread and Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows. chief of the Los Angeles Times, and the award- Corporate Idealist: When Girl Meets Oil. Previously she the BPKLN Scholarship for the Master of Design Her writing has appeared in the UK Sunday Express, winning author of Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives was Director of Social Responsibility at Amazon, and program at the Bandung Institute of Technology in Cosmopolitan, the New York Times, Harper’s Bazaar in North Korea and Logavina Street: Life and Death worked for BP, including in Indonesia, from 2000 to 2014. Cindy’s works appear in books such as Sokola and Best Australian Short Stories. Jaswal lives in in a Sarajevo Neighborhood. She was a foreign 2003. Christine’s essay, “The Year I Learned to Quit”, Rimba by Butet Manurung, Cinta Miund by Asmara Singapore, where she is working towards a PhD in correspondent for many years out of Berlin, was published in the New York Times in April. Wreksono, The Story of My Life by Andy Noya, and Creative Writing, and completing her next novel. Sarajevo, Jerusalem, Seoul and Beijing. UltimateU Scrapbook by Rene Suhardono.

Supported by Embassy of the United States. PEOPLE

Budi Agung Kuswara • Indonesia Bustar Maitar • Indonesia Clarissa Goenawan • Indonesia/Singapore Clemantine Wamariya • USA

Balinese artist Budi Agung Kuswara, aka Kabul, Bustar Maitar develops social and eco enterprises Clarissa Goenawan is an Indonesian-born Clemantine Wamariya’s bestselling memoir The Girl You’ll Meet You’ll Meet You’ll is a graduate of the Indonesian Institute of the to promote forest community products and marine Singaporean writer. Her debut novel, Rainbirds, was Who Smiled Beads describes her journey from idyllic Arts, Yogyakarta, and has exhibited extensively ecotourism in Eastern Indonesia. He operates a the winner of the Bath Novel Award for unpublished childhood in Rwanda, to seeking refuge in eight internationally. He is Co-founder of Ketemu Project, 100% Indonesian liveaboard, the Kurabesi Explorer, and self-published novelists. Her award-winning African countries, to receiving refugee status in an art collective social enterprise, and Co-founder and is active in the EcoNusa Indonesia Foundation, short stories have been published in various literary the US in 2000. A Yale University graduate, she has of Rumah Berdaya Denpasar, a rehabilitation center a non-profit supporting local organizations in magazines and anthologies in Singapore, Australia, appeared on The Oprah Show four times and was PEOPLE for people living with schizophrenia. Kabul is the Papua to generate youth leadership on social and the UK, and the US. appointed by President Obama to the board of the creator of the UWRF18 artwork. environmental issues. US Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016. Supported by Gramedia Pustaka Utama.

Butet Manurung • Indonesia Carl Hoffman • USA Clementine Ford • Australia Daisuke Takeya • Japan/Canada

Butet Manurung is an award-winning Indonesian Carl Hoffman is the author of The Last Wild Men of Clementine Ford is a freelance writer, broadcaster Daisuke Takeya is a Toronto-Tokyo based anthropologist, educator, author and activist, who Borneo, which the Washington Post called “a work of and public speaker based in Melbourne. She is interdisciplinary artist, curator, collector, art has dedicated her life to educating Indonesia’s remarkable empathy” and 2016 Pulitzer Prize winner a columnist for Fairfax’s Daily Life and a regular educator and community advocate. His practice Indigenous peoples. After leading the education William Finnegan said is “the best book about the contributor to The Age and the Sydney Morning explores nature and plausibility. He has conducted program for an NGO in the Sumatran jungles, her western hunger for eastern solace you’ll ever read.” Herald. Clementine is the bestselling author of numerous art projects, travelling exhibits, and work evolved into co-founding SOKOLA Institute, Carl’s Savage Harvest was a New York Times Editor’s the feminist manifesto Fight Like A Girl, and, most workshops designed to aid locals in the Tohoku a non-profit providing education opportunities for Choice and Bestseller. recently, Boys Will Be Boys. region following the 3.11 earthquake and has marginalized people in remote Indonesia. worked with disaster-affected communities in Aceh.

Supported by Green School and Mother Jungle. Supported by The Japan Foundation Asia Center.

Carlo Pizzati • India Carma Citrawati • Indonesia Darmawati Majid • Indonesia Darryl Whetter • Canada

Carlo Pizzati is the author of two novels, three Carma Citrawati is a lecturer in the Teaching and Born in Bone, South Sulawesi, Darmawati Majid is Darryl Whetter is the author of three books of fiction nonfiction books and a collection of short stories. Education Faculty of Dwijendra University, Denpasar. the mother of four children and an employee in the and two poetry collections. His novels are the He lives with his wife near a fishing village in India She writes short stories and poems in Balinese, and Gorontalo government office. She has had several bicycle odyssey The Push & the Pull and the multi- where he writes for national dailies La Stampa and her anthologies include SMarareka (2014), Dénpasar essays published in the anthology MASTERA (2009), generational smuggling epic Keeping Things Whole. The Hindu. He teaches communication theory at the lan Don Pasar (2013) and Bali Angripta Rum (2015). In and poetry published in the anthology Kaki Waktu A Canadian, he is the inaugural director of the new Asian College of Journalism in Chennai. 2017 she received the Rancage Literature award for (Feet of Time) (2011). Darmawati published Nasu MA Creative Writing at LASALLE in Singapore. her book Kutang Sayang Gemel Madui. Likku dan Sajian Cerita Lainnya (Nasu Likku and Other Stories) in 2017. Supported by the Indonesian Writers Patron Program. Supported by the Indonesian Writers Patron Program.

56 #UWRF18 #UWRF18 57 PEOPLE YOU’ LL MEET PEOPLE YOU’ LL MEET David Sly • Australia Debra Yatim • Indonesia Emmanuela Shinta • Indonesia Emte • Indonesia

With an appetite for the great things in life, freelance Debra Yatim is an activist, journalist, columnist Emmanuela Shinta is a Dayak leader, activist, Mohammad Taufiq, aka Emte, is an illustrator and writer David Sly pursues stories that explore the vast and documentary filmmaker and founder of three filmmaker and writer whose work is widely known in graphic designer exploring various mediums. He has domains of food, wine and tourism. In addition to NGOs in Indonesia. She has published five poetry the Asia Pacific for leading the youth movement to created many book cover illustrations and layouts publishing widely in Australian and international collections, and written a cycle of one-woman plays voice Indigenous rights. She is the Founder of Ranu for books, magazines and other print media. Emte’s publications, David is a lecturer and has written the about polygamy. Driven by compassion and a proud Welum Foundation, ALIVE Global Ministry, Youth works have been exhibited in galleries including course in Journalism for Flinders University in South sense of justice, Debra is an advocate for human Act Center and EL Creative Productions. Her titles Platform3 Bandung, Edwin’s Gallery Jakarta, and Australia. rights and the rights of minority groups. include DANUM Magazine, Enlightened (2016) and Goethe Haus Jakarta, and he participated in the Me, Modernism and My Indigenous Roots (2018). Unknown Asia Art Exchange in Osaka, Japan.

Supported by Gramedia Pustaka Utama.

Dee Lestari • Indonesia Dervla McTiernan • Australia/Ireland Endy Bayuni • Indonesia Fatima Bhutto • Pakistan Dewi Lestari, popularly known by her pen name Dervla McTiernan’s debut novel, The Ruin, is Dee Lestari, is one of the frontrunners of Indonesia’s an Australian and Irish bestseller and has been A 34-year journalism veteran, Endy Bayuni is now Fatima Bhutto was born in Kabul, Afghanistan and modern book scene. Dee initiated her career in the published in the US, the UK, Ireland and Germany. Senior Editor at The Jakarta Post. During his early grew up between Syria and Pakistan. She is the music industry as a singer and songwriter. As an Hopscotch Features has optioned the film rights. years he was Indonesian correspondent for Reuters author of five books, including her memoir Songs author, she has published nine books, including the Dervla was born in Ireland. Following the global and Agence France-Presse. A regular commentator of Blood and Sword (2010), and most recently The hugely popular Supernova series. Her latest book, financial crisis she moved with her family to Western on Indonesian politics and its foreign policy, he has Runaways. Her debut novel The Shadow of the Aroma Karsa, was released earlier this year. Australia, where she now lives with her husband and written opinion pieces for global publications. Endy Crescent Moon was longlisted for the 2014 Women’s two children. is the Founder of The Jakarta Post Writing Center. Prize and won France’s Prix de la Romanciere that same year. PEOPLE Supported by writingWA. Supported by The Jakarta Post Writing Center.

Devy Kamil Syahbana • Indonesia Dina Zaman • Malaysia Febriana Firdaus • Indonesia Feby Indirani • Indonesia

Devy Kamil Syahbana has a PhD in Volcanic Dina Zaman has been writing about religion in Febriana Firdaus is an independent investigative Feby Indirani is an author and a journalist whose You’ll Meet You’ll Meet You’ll Seismology from Université libre de Bruxelles, and public life for over a decade. She has published journalist. She covers a variety of issues, and for works mostly focus on women and minority groups. is Head of the Eastern Indonesia Volcanic Disaster three books: I Am Muslim (Silverfish Books, 2007), the past two years focused on Papua and assisting Her short story collection Bukan Perawan Maria Mitigation Subdivision at the Center for Volcanology The King of The Sea (Silverfish Books, 2012) and the curation of Suara Papua’s newsletter. Febriana (Not Virgin Mary) (2017) has been translated into and Geological Hazard Mitigation. He is the creator Holy Men, Holy Women (Gerakbudaya, 2017). She has been published in Tempo, Rappler, TIME, Vice English and praised for its humorous, critical, yet of MAGMA Indonesia, an application presenting was a columnist for most of the English language Indonesia, BBC Indonesia, Jakarta Post, New Naratif, empathetic approach to the Islamic world. It has PEOPLE geological disaster-related information and newspapers and media portals in Malaysia. Mongabay, and New Internationalist. She is New been profiled by national and international media recommendations. Naratif’s consulting editor for Jakarta and Papua. like The Australian, BBC, and Deutsch Welle.

Djenar Maesa Ayu • Indonesia Doni Marmer • Indonesia Ferenc Barnás • Hungary Gabriela Ybarra • Spain

Djenar Maesa Ayu has published seven short story As community facilitator at local NGO IDEP Ferenc Barnás was born in 1959. His novels have Gabriela Ybarra was born in Bilbao in 1983. The collections and a novel, Nayla. She is also an actor, Foundation, Doni Marmer designs community been translated into several languages, including Dinner Guest is her first novel and was published to screenwriter and filmmaker. Her fourth film hUSh, development programs. Wherever IDEP uses English, German, French and Indonesian, and he has critical acclaim in Spain, where it won the Euskadi a collaboration with Singaporean filmmaker Kan permaculture principles he witnesses rural and small received three of Hungary’s highest literary honors. Literature Prize. In 2018, the book was longlisted Lume, was nominated for Best Asian Feature Film at island communities claim back their food security. His third novel The Ninth was longlisted for the Best for the Man Booker International Prize. Gabriela the Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival 2016. Djenar Doni is also a poet and Co-founder of the quarterly Translated Book Award (USA) and the International currently lives in Madrid where she writes and works recently won Best Supporting Actress for her role in community-based poetry project Unspoken, IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. in social media analysis. Hanung Bramantyo’s Kartini. encouraging poets to speak their unspoken ideas. Supported by the Embassy of Spain in Indonesia. Supported by Gramedia Pustaka Utama.

Eliza Vitri Handayani • Indonesia Eloise Grills • Australia Gail Jones • Australia Garin Nugroho • Indonesia

Eliza Vitri Handayani is an internationally published Geelong-born Eloise Grills is an award-winning Gail Jones is the author of two short story Award-winning Indonesian director Garin Nugroho writer of fiction and nonfiction. Her latest novel is writer and comics artist, photographer and poet, collections and seven novels, most recently The made his debut with 1991’s Cinta Dalam Sepotong From Now On Everything Will Be Different (Vagabond interested in the spot in the Venn diagram where Death of Noah Glass (2018). Her fiction has won Roti (Love in a Slice of Bread). His awards include Asia Press, 2015). She is also Founder and Director of written and visual cultures and having too many several literary awards and is widely translated. Pacific Film Festival’s Best Young Director, and Berlin House of the Unsilenced, an art project that brings feelings intersect. Her debut comics chapbook, Sexy She has worked in Europe, Asia and America and is International Film Festival’s Young Filmmakers Jury together artists, writers, and sexual assault survivors Female Murderesses, will be published by Glom Press currently based at Western Sydney University. Award. His latest film, Setan Jawa, premiered at the to create new works on what it means to speak up. later this year. Asia Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts Opening Night in Melbourne last year. Supported by Emerging Writers’ Festival. Supported by Mud Literary Club.

58 #UWRF18 #UWRF18 59 PEOPLE YOU’ LL MEET PEOPLE YOU’ LL MEET Geoff Dyer • UK Geoffrey Williams • Australia I Gde Pitana • Indonesia I Wayan Juniarta • Indonesia

A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Geoffrey Williams graduated from Australia’s I Gede Pitana is the Indonesian Tourism Ministry’s I Wayan Juniarta is a journalist who finds solace in member of the American Academy of Arts and National Institute of Dramatic Arts in 1975. He was Deputy Minister for International Marketing and crafting essays after a tragically failed attempt at Sciences, Geoff Dyer is the author of four novels and Cultural Manager for the City of Sydney during the former Director of Bali Tourism Authority. Receiving poetry. His first and probably last book, Bungklang- nine works of nonfiction. He is writer in residence Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, spent four years on his PhD at the Australian National University, he Bungkling, records the hilarity and ludicrousness at the University of Southern California and lives in the board of Sydney Writers Festival, was General has served as Professor of Tourism at Udayana of Balinese men. When he’s not writing, he can be Los Angeles. His books have been translated into 24 Manager of the Australian Film Institute, and University’s postgraduate/doctoral program since found pedaling towards the island’s most serene languages. Executive Producer of Chambermade Opera. He 2001. He has also published several books. spots while composing bite-size koans, which you now lives in Ubud. can seek with the hashtag #cyclingwithbuddha. Supported by Windham-Campbell Prizes.

Ghayath Almadhoun • Palestine/Syria/Sweden Gillian Triggs • Australia Innosanto Nagara • USA/Indonesia Isobelle Carmody • Australia

Ghayath Almadhoun is a Palestinian poet who has Professor Gillian Triggs served as President of the Innosanto Nagara is a children’s author, activist, and Isobelle Carmody is a well-known Australian author lived in Stockholm since 2008. He has written four Australian Human Rights Commission from 2012 graphic designer. He is the author of the bestselling who has written for children and adults and has Arabic poetry books, the most recent of which is to 2017. She has held many significant academic alphabet book A is for Activist as well as Counting a host of award-winning novels to her credit. She Adrenaline (2017). He has two collections published positions, including Director of the British Institute on Community, My Night in the Planetarium, and The began the first of her highly acclaimed Obernewtyn in Swedish, Asylansökan (Ersatz) (2010), and a for International and Comparative Law and Dean of Wedding Portrait. Innosanto was a graphic designer Chronicles while she was still at high school and collaboration with Swedish poet Marie Silkeberg, Till the Faculty of Law at the University of Sydney. She is for a range of social change organizations before worked on it while completing a Bachelor of Arts Damaskus (2014). His work has been translated into currently a Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow at the University founding the Design Action Collective, a worker- and then a journalism cadetship. 14 languages. of Melbourne and Chair of Justice Connect. owned cooperative design studio in California. PEOPLE Supported by the Embassy of the United States.

Giuseppe Catozzella • Italy Gratiagusti Chananya Rompas • Indonesia Ivan Lanin • Indonesia Jane Caro • Australia

One of Italy’s most popular contemporary writers, Gratiagusti Chananya Rompas has written two Ivan Lanin is an Indonesian language expert who Jane Caro is a Walkley Award winning Australian You’ll Meet You’ll Meet You’ll

Giuseppe Catozzella has published across multiple collections of poetry, Kota Ini Kembang Api and received the Online Indonesian Language Reviewer columnist, novelist, broadcaster, advertising literary genres, including plays, short stories and Non-Spesifik, both published by Gramedia Pustaka Award from the Ministry of Education and Culture. A writer, documentary maker, feminist and social novels. His novel Don’t Tell Me You’re Afraid, dealing Utama. Her collection of personal essays, Familiar member of the Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (Major commentator. She has published 11 books, with the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean Sea, Messes and Other Essays, was published by Indonesian Dictionary) drafting team, he campaigns including the novels Just a Girl, Just a Queen, and sold more than half a million copies in 40 countries Kepustakaan Populer Gramedia. She received an for correct Indonesian language through digital Just Flesh and Blood, a trilogy on Elizabeth Tudor, as

PEOPLE and won the prestigious Premio Strega Giovani. Honourable Mention in the 2018 Hawker Prize for media, with the hope that the nation’s current well as her memoir, Plain Speaking Jane. Southeast Asian Poetry. generation is more active in using Indonesian. Supported by the Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute, Supported by the The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre, Unisa. Jakarta.

Gurmehar Kaur • India Haidar Bagir • Indonesia Janet DeNeefe • Australia/Indonesia Janet Steele • USA/Indonesia

Gurmehar Kaur’s Small Acts of Freedom (Penguin Haidar Bagir is an entrepreneur, philanthropist, Melbourne-born Janet DeNeefe, Founder & Director Janet Steele is an Associate Professor of Media and Random House India) is a personal family history. author, lecturer, and President Director of the of the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival and Ubud Public affairs at the George Washington University, A social activist, she is Co-founder of Citizens for Mizan Group. His latest book is Islam: The Faith of Food Festival, has lived in Bali for more than three where she teaches narrative journalism. She believes Public Leadership, a nonpartisan movement focused Love and Happiness (Kube Publishing). Mizan is one decades. Her latest book is Bali: Food of My Island academic writing doesn’t have to be dull, and her on advocating for progressive public policy in of Indonesia’s largest publishing houses, and has Home, following her memoir Fragrant Rice. She is most recent book, Mediating Islam: Cosmopolitan India, and an ambassador of Postcards for Peace, a received several awards for its film productions also the owner of Casa Luna, Indus Restaurant, and Journalisms in Muslim Southeast Asia, focuses on non-profit organization. Gurmehar studies English including Laskar Pelangi, Garuda di Dadaku, and 3 Honeymoon Guesthouse and Bakery in Ubud. journalism, Islam, and democracy. She divides her literature at Lady Shri Ram College for Women. Hati 2 Dunia 1 Cinta. time between Jakarta and Washington, DC.

Hanif Kureishi • UK Hera Diani • Indonesia Jango Pramartha • Indonesia Jay Griffiths • UK

Hanif Kureishi’s novels include The Buddha of Hera Diani is Co-founder and managing editor of Jango Pramartha graduated from Udayana Jay Griffiths is an award-winning writer influenced Suburbia, which won the Whitbread Prize for Best feminist webmagazine Magdalene.co. She has 18 University, then continued his studies at the by Indigenous cultures. She has written on the First Novel. His screenplays include My Beautiful years of journalism experience and her writing has University of Western Australia. He is the creator of politics of time (Pip Pip); the importance of wildness Laundrette, which received an Oscar nomination for appeared in The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Globe, South Bog-bog Magazine, a successful cartoon magazine (Wild); the natural world in childhood (Kith) and Best Screenplay, Sammy and Rosie Get Laid and Le China Morning Post and Foreign Policy, among exploring the most important issues in Balinese life. manic depression (Tristimania). Her novel, A Love Week-End. Hanif is a Commander of the Order of the others. Her graphic memoir 38 and Pregnant was From 2005-2010, Jango was Chair of the Indonesian Letter from a Stray Moon, is partly about Frida Kahlo. British Empire, and his work has been translated into published in July 2018. She lives in Jakarta with her Cartoonist Association. He is a lecturer at the 36 languages. 2.5-year-old son. Indonesian Institute of Arts, Denpasar.

60 #UWRF18 #UWRF18 61 PEOPLE YOU’ LL MEET PEOPLE YOU’ LL MEET Jean Couteau • Indonesia Jesse Oliver • Australia Kamau Abayomi • USA/Indonesia Kamila Andini • Indonesia

Jean Couteau publishes extensively on a variety of Jesse Oliver is a Perth-based slam poet who wields For the last 15 years Kamau Abayomi has lived Kamila Andini’s first feature film The Mirror Never genres and topics in French, English and Indonesian. his poetry like an end of times sign. He delivers a in Asia, performing and teaching as a poet, Lies screened at over 30 festivals globally, and He writes art books, books and columns on Balinese conversational style, exploring issues in fantastical choreographer, performance arts curator, and DJ. received several awards. Her second feature Sekala culture, and is best known in Indonesia for his themes like aliens, dreams and mythology. In 2017, His art and workshops focus deeply on expanding Niskala (The Seen and Unseen) premiered at Toronto regular columns in the Sunday edition of Kompas. Jesse was crowned the Word Travels Australian spiritual awareness, mystical connections, and soul International Film Festival 2017. It received Best His new book Myth, Magic and Mystery in Bali Poetry Slam Champion in the Adult category. purpose. Kamau is also a two-time winner of the Youth Feature Film at Asia Pacific Film Festival, (Phoenix Publications) was published in early 2018. UWRF Poetry Slam. Grand Jury Prize at Tokyo Filmex, Generation Kplus Grand Prix at Berlinale, and several other awards.

Jessie Cole • Australia Jewel Topsfield • Australia Kamin Mohammadi • Iran/UK Kate Evans • Australia

Jessie Cole is the author of two novels, Darkness Jewel Topsfield was the Indonesia correspondent for Kamin Mohammadi was born in Iran in 1969 and Kate Evans presents and produces The Bookshelf on the Edge of Town and Deeper Water. Her new the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age from 2015 exiled to the UK in 1979. An experienced journalist, on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s memoir, Staying, is about the importance of home, to 2018. She has won multiple awards, including a travel writer and broadcaster, she has written for the Radio National (ABC RN), co-hosted with Cassie family and forgiveness – and finding peace in a Walkley for international journalism and the Lowy British and international press. Her books include McCullagh. The Bookshelf is a weekly radio program place of pain. Tim Winton described Staying as “a Institute Media Award, which recognizes journalists The Cypress Tree (2011) and Bella Figura (2018), and podcast, focusing on fiction. Kate has a PhD in wounded, lovely, luminous book about grief, trauma who have deepened and enriched the discussion of which has sold in 11 countries so far. Kamin presents history and too many books, neither of which she and the strange healing potential of words”. global issues in Australia. the BBC Radio 4 program Four Thought. regrets.

Supported by MUD Literary Club. PEOPLE

Jill Stark • Australia/Scotland José Luís Peixoto • Portugal Ketut Yuliarsa • Indonesia Kim Scott • Australia

Jill Stark is an award-winning journalist and author José Luís Peixoto is one of Portugal’s most acclaimed

Ketut Yuliarsa has worked as a writer, actor and Kim Scott’s Benang (1999) was the first novel by an You’ll Meet You’ll Meet You’ll

of the memoirs Happy Never After and High Sobriety, and bestselling contemporary novelists. He has a musician in Indonesia and Australia. He’s published Indigenous writer to win the Miles Franklin Award. which was shortlisted in the Kibble Literary Awards vast work in fiction and poetry and has received two poetry collections and is the advisor to the Bali That Deadman Dance (2010) also won Australia’s and longlisted in the Walkley Book of the Year several Portuguese and international literary Provincial Government Literary Program. He and premier literary prize, among many others. Proud Awards. She spent ten years as a senior writer and awards, such as the José Saramago Literary Award. his wife Anita established Ubud’s first bookshop, to be among those who call themselves Noongar, columnist at The Age in Melbourne and now works His novels are translated in 26 languages. Ganesha Bookshop, in 1986, and in 2004 the Books Kim is Founder and Chair of the Wirlomin Noongar

PEOPLE as a freelance writer, journalism lecturer and media For Bali Project, to foster literacy through the Language and Story Project. His latest novel Taboo consultant. donation of books to schools and libraries. was shortlisted for this year’s Miles Franklin. Supported by the Embassy of Portugal and Instituto Camoes Supported by writingWA.

Joshua Pomare • Australia/New Zealand Julia Lawrinson • Australia Kim Toft • Australia Kirsti Melville • Australia

Joshua Pomare is a New Zealand author and Julia Lawrinson is an Australian writer who has Kim Michelle Toft’s passion for the ocean and coastal Kirsti Melville is an award-winning documentary podcast producer based in Melbourne, Australia. written more than a dozen books for children and habitats are at the core of her award-winning producer and presenter of ABC Radio National’s Joshua hosts the writing podcast On Writing, young adults, many of them award-winning. Her children’s books. Kim is considered one of the Earshot and The History Listen. Her work focuses on interviewing authors from around the world about latest novel for young adults is Before You Forget world’s foremost silk artists and has been a full time human rights and social justice. When she’s not their process. His short fiction and reviews have (Penguin 2017). She writes about friendship, family exhibiting artist for more than 30 years. Her latest busy telling other people’s stories, you’ll find her been widely published in literary magazines and and the occasional Jack Russell. She loves the ocean, book, Coral Sea Dreaming, was shortlisted in The reading them. She’s addicted to understanding the newspapers. His debut novel, Call Me Evie, will be reading, and the word serendipity. Australian Wilderness Society Awards 2018. complexities of human relationships and adding to released in early 2019. the overflowing pile of books beside her bed. Supported by WritingWA. Supported by Emerging Writers’ Festival

Julia Prendergast • Australia Kadek Sonia Piscayanti • Indonesia Kris Da Somerpes • Indonesia Leila S. Chudori • Indonesia

The Earth Does Not Get Fat is Julia’s debut novel, Balinese writer Kadek Sonia Piscayanti has published Art and literary activist Kris Da Somerpes lives in Leila S.Chudori has written short stories since a published by UWA Publishing (2018). The story is several books, most recently a poetry collection Labuan Bajo, West Manggarai Province, on the young age. Her second novel Laut Bercerita (The Sea about silver linings, light in shade. Julia’s recent Burning Hair. A theatre director, she manages island of Flores. In 2010 Kris founded Flores Sastra, Speaks His Name) has been adapted into a short short stories are included in Australian Short Stories Mahima Community, and established independent an online medium intended as a space for learning, film by Pritagita Arianegara, produced by Dian 66, Pascoe Publishing (2018). Julia is a Lecturer in publisher Mahima Institute Indonesia to develop sharing knowledge, and building networks for Sastrowardoyo Foundation and Cineria Films. The Writing and Literature at Swinburne University, literacy among young writers. In 2018 she received writers in Flores and East Nusa Tenggara. Kris has novel and film have been discussed and screened at Melbourne. a Ford Foundation grant for her project 11 Ibu 11 also published several books and anthologies. many campuses and art centers across Indonesia. Panggung 11 Kisah (11 Mothers 11 Stages 11 Stories).

62 #UWRF18 #UWRF18 63 PEOPLE YOU’ LL MEET PEOPLE YOU’ LL MEET Lisa Siregar • Indonesia Marty Natalegawa • Indonesia Ninda Daianti • Indonesia Noor Huda Ismail • Indonesia

Before joining Jakarta Globe, Lisa Siregar worked Marty Natalegawa was Indonesia’s Foreign Minister Ninda Daianti published her first novel, My Other Founder of the Institute for International Peace as a social researcher for Kompas Litbang, LIPI and from 2009-2014, capping decades of diplomatic Life, when she was 18. She continued to pursue her Building, Noor Huda Ismail’s interest in violent Ford Foundation. She has written about film and service, including as Ambassador to the United love of writing and received her MFA in Creative extremism started when a former roommate advertising for various publications. Lisa now runs Nations and President of the Security Council. He is Writing (Fiction) from Chatham University in became one of the perpetrators of the first Bali the Jakarta Globe features desk, which covers a wide currently serving as a member of the UN Secretary Pittsburgh, USA, in 2011. At The Jakarta Post Writing bombing. He focuses on rehabilitation of former range of topics from arts, culture, and education to General’s Advisory Board on Mediation. His book Center, Ninda teaches writing workshops, including terrorist inmates through social entrepreneurship. women’s issues. She is also actively involved in film Does ASEAN Matter: A View From Within was Writing Fundamentals, Short Stories, Flash Fiction, He is completing a PhD in International Relations and traditional dance communities in Jakarta. published by ISEAS Publishing this year. and Memoir Writing. and Politics at Monash University.

Supported by The Jakarta Post Writing Center.

Mark Lynas • UK Maeena Kumari Adnani • Indonesia/Singapore/UK Norman Ince • Canada/Indonesia Norman Erikson Pasaribu • Indonesia

Mark Lynas is a writer, commentator and lecturer Meena Kumari Adnani is a corporate executive, Norman Ince has taught English for over 25 years Norman Erikson Pasaribu is an Indonesian author on environmental and popular science themes, inspirational writer and motivational speaker. Under in Indonesia, most recently at Jakarta Intercultural based in Jakarta. Tiffany Tsao’s English translation including climate change, genetic engineering and her brand name, strongandshine, she writes about School. He has cultivated a strong interest in of his first book of poems Sergius Seeks Bacchus is nuclear power. He has appeared on the BBC and motivation, perseverance, strength and happiness Indonesian literature and language. Norman has led forthcoming in the UK with Tilted Axis Press. The CNN, and writes for the Guardian, New York Times, to inspire women and young people all over the workshops for Bahasa Indonesia teachers to develop book won a PEN Translates Award in 2018. In 2017, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and numerous world to tap into their potential and achieve their creative writing activities, published a tribute to Norman received a Young Author Award from the others. His books include Six Degrees (2007), The God goals. Pramoedya Ananta Toer in The Jakarta Post, and Southeast Asia Literary Council. Species (2011) and Seeds of Science (2018). translated Fira Basuki’s Jendela-Jendela.

Supported by the Indonesian Writers Patron Program. PEOPLE Supported by Jakarta Intercultural School.

Michael Kelleher • USA Michael Vatikiotis • Singapore/UK Nuril Basri • Indonesia Nyoman Nuarta • Indonesia

Nuril Basri’s writing spans bildungsroman, drama, From Tabanan, Bali, Nyoman Nuarta is a renowned

Michael Kelleher is an American poet and the Michael Vatikiotis is a Singapore-based writer and You’ll Meet You’ll Meet You’ll

Director of the Windham-Campbell Prizes at Yale journalist. He is the Asia Regional Director of the adventure, and comedy. Some of his works have sculptor and one of the pioneers of Indonesia’s University. He is the former Artistic Director of Just Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, a Geneva-based been translated into English and Malaysian. His New Art Movement in 1976. His most famous works Buffalo Literary Center, where he founded Babel, an private foundation that facilitates dialogue to works include Halo, Aku Dalam Novel (2009), My include Surabaya’s Jalasveva Jayamahe monument, international author series for which he conducted resolve armed conflicts. He has written two novels Favorite Goodbye (2015), Enak (2016), Sunyi (2017), Jakarta’s Proklamasi Indonesia monument, and on-stage interviews with writers such as Orhan set in Indonesia and his new book Blood and Silk: and Not a Virgin (2017). Nuril was awarded a grant Bali’s Garuda Wisnu Kencana statue, the nation’s

PEOPLE Pamuk, V.S. Naipaul, and Zadie Smith. Power and Conflict in Modern Southeast Asia was by the National Book Committee of Indonesia to tallest. Nyoman is also the developer of the Mandala published in June 2017. complete a residency in the UK in 2017. Garuda Wisnu Kencana Cultural Park.

Michael Williams • Australia Modesta Wisa • Indonesia Poonam Sagar • India Pratiwi Juliani • Indonesia

Michael Williams is the Director of the Wheeler Modesta Wisa, a young Dayak from Manjalin, West Poonam Sagar is an Indonesia-based IT Pratiwi Juliani was born in South Kalimantan in Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas in Melbourne. Borneo, is the Founder of Sekolah Adat Samabue. entrepreneur, consultant, and mentor. She is Co- 1991. She has long been active in collecting and Previous host of ABC Radio National’s Blueprint After completing her Diploma in Environmental owner of Infotech, which focuses on niche broadcast distributing books to those in need, as a form of for Living, he now hosts Talkfest and is a regular Health Science, instead of pursuing a career in the media software, and Founder of information hub her love for literature and passion for instilling the guest on other ABC Radio programs and TV. He city, she chose to return to her village so she could for Indians in Indonesia, indoindians.com. She is importance of reading in children and women in has written extensively for the Guardian, The Age, work with young people, women, and traditional an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management, remote areas of Indonesia. Pratiwi also runs Jules Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian and other communities to preserve nature, culture, and the Ahmadabad, with post graduate degrees in science, Bookstore in Rantau, South Kalimantan. publications. traditions of their ancestors. business and technology. Supported by the Indonesian Writers Patron Program. Supported by Green School and Mother Jungle.

Ndaba Mandela • South Africa Ngurah Paramartha • Indonesia Prof. I Made Bandem • Indonesia Putu Fajar Arcana • Indonesia

Ndaba Mandela is the grandson of Nelson Mandela. From Singaraja in North Bali, Ngurah Paramartha I Made Bandem is one of his generation’s most Putu Fajar Arcana from Negara, West Bali, is an He is the Co-founder and Co-chairman of the Africa is the Founder of the Borobodur Writers & Cultural important Balinese cultural figures. A scholar, dancer editor for Kompas Minggu, part of Harian Kompas in Rising Foundation, an organization dedicated to Festival. His previous roles include Regional Director and author of educational guidebooks on Balinese Jakarta. He established the Kelas Cerpen Kompas promoting a positive image of Africa around the of Panorama Travel, and Vice President of Marketing dance and music, he has received the UNESCO (the Kompas Short Story Class). His writing was world, and to increase its potential for growth in the at the Borobodur, Prambananan and Ratu Boko Music Council Award, the Habibie Award and the included in the book Monolog Politik (2014). areas of education, employment and international Temples Tourism Park. His current post is Managing Koizumi Fumio Prize. Made is involved with various Putu Fajar also directed the monologue Wakil corporate alliances. Going to the Mountain is his Partner of Asian Adventure Travel. arts and cultural events, and develops educational Rakyat yang Terhormat (2015) and Perempuan first book. resources for the Widya Dharma Shanti Foundation. Dangdut (2016).

64 #UWRF18 #UWRF18 65 PEOPLE YOU’ LL MEET PEOPLE YOU’ LL MEET Que Mai Nguyen Phan • Vietnam Rain Chudori • Indonesia Ross Tapsell • Australia Rosyid H. Dimas • Yogyakarta

Author of eight books of poetry, fiction and Rain Chudori is writer, filmmaker, and Founder and Ross Tapsell is a senior lecturer and researcher at Born in Rembang, East Java, Rosyid H. Dimas is nonfiction, Nguyen Phan Que Mai received the curator of Comma Books, a publishing initiative the Australian National University’s College of Asia currently studying at the State Islamic University Hanoi Writers Association’s Poetry of the Year 2010 under Penerbit KPG. Her books Monsoon Tiger And and the Pacific, specializing in media and culture Kalijaga Yogyakarta, majoring in Arabic Language Award. Her poetry collection The Secret of Hoa Other Stories and Imaginary City were published by in Southeast Asia. He is the author of Media Power Education. A writer of short stories and poems, he Sen (BOA Editions, New York) was honored with Penerbit KPG. She has written for The Jakarta Post, in Indonesia: Oligarchs, Citizens and the Digital is a member of the literary communities Klub Buku a Lannan translation award. Her debut novel in Tempo, Komunitas Salihara, and other publications. Revolution and co-editor of Digital Indonesia: Yogyakarta and Rumpun Nektar. English, tentatively titled The Mountains Sing, is She is represented by Kin Management and Connectivity and Divergence. forthcoming with Algonquin Books in 2019. Borobudur Literary Agency. Supported by the Indonesian Writers Patron Program. Supported by the Indonesian Writers Patron Program.

Rani Pramesti • Indonesia/Australia Rebecca Henschke • Australia/Indonesia Rudi Fofid • Indonesia Rukmini Toheke • Indonesia

Rani Pramesti is a performance maker, intercultural Rebecca Henschke is the BBC’s Indonesian Editor. As well as working as a journalist since 1989, Rudi Rukmini Toheke was born in Ngata Toro, Central producer and advocate for the arts. She revels in She is an award-winning multimedia journalist who Fofid writes children’s stories, plays, and poetry. Sulawesi, when laws were determined by the the interface between social justice and the arts. has reported from Asia for more than a decade, and He founded Maluku Literary Workshop in 2009, government without involving Indigenous people Throughout 2017-2018, Rani has been leading an was previously with KBR and Tempo. She is the only and received the Maarif Award for his efforts to and women. Since 1994, Rukmini has been fighting Indonesian-Australian team to create a bilingual, foreign journalist to win an Indonesian Alliance of bring peace through literature and journalism in for women in her village to be involved in decision- digital graphic novel, Chinese Whispers. Chinese Independent Journalists media award for her work 2016. Rudi was a participant in Holland Festival 2017 making processes. In 2001, she established Ngata Whispers will be launching in English at the 2018 reporting on religious tensions, environmental in Amsterdam. Toro Indigenous Women’s Organization to revitalize Ubud Writers and Readers Festival. degradation and human rights. and strengthen women’s roles. PEOPLE Supported by Green School and Mother Jungle.

Reni Nuryanti • Indonesia Reni Eddo-Lodge • UK Sapardi Djoko Damono • Indonesia Sanne Van Oort • Netherlands

Reny Nuryanti teaches History at Samudra Reni Eddo-Lodge is a London-based, award- Sapardi Djoko Damono is one of Indonesia’s most Previously a senior lecturer at the University of You’ll Meet You’ll Meet You’ll

University in Aceh, and writes history books and winning journalist. She has written for the New prolific and beloved poets. His 50 books span Applied Sciences and a Research Fellow at the short stories about Sukarno or women in conflict York Times, the Voice, Daily Telegraph, the Guardian, poetry, fiction, nonfiction and essays. His works Amsterdam Creative Industries Centre of Expertise, areas. She was named Best Young Researcher by the Independent, Stylist, Dazed and Confused, and have been translated into 13 languages and inspired Sanne Van Oort is now Green School Bali’s Teacher the Indonesian Institute of Sciences in 2008, and the New Humanist. Her first book, Why I’m No several musical compositions and films. Sapardi has Development and Well-Being Manager. She is the received an art and literature award from Gadjah Longer Talking to White People About Race, received received awards from the University of Indonesia, Founder of Mother Jungle, empowering Indigenous

PEOPLE Mada University for her short story Kedasih di Kepala numerous awards including the 2018 Jhalak Prize Jakarta Academy, Habibie Foundation, and mothers to preserve storytelling traditions for Kang Parno in 2015. and Foyles’ Non-Fiction Book of the Year. Southeast Asian Literature Assembly. cultural and environmental conservation.

Supported by the Indonesian Writers Patron Program. Supported by Green School and Mother Jungle.

Richard Oh • Indonesia Rio Helmi • Indonesia Saras Dewi • Indonesia Sergius Sutanto • Indonesia

Richard Oh is a novelist and film director. His fifth Rio Helmi has been photographing and writing Saras Dewi is a Balinese poet, activist and academic. Sergius Sutanto is an author and filmmaker who film, Love is a Bird, is screening at UWRF18. His about Asia for various media since 1978. For the last She is a lecturer at the University of Indonesia, lives in Jakarta. His novels include Hatta: Aku Datang previous films are Koper (The Lost Suitcase) (2006), year Rio has been documenting and writing about teaching themes including Ecofeminism, Ecological Karena Sejarah, Mangun: Sebuah Novel, and Chairil: the trilogy of ‘geometric cinema’ Description Without Gunung Agung for his blog series “News from Under Philosophy, Eastern Philosophy, Philosophy Ini Kali Tak Ada Yang Mencari Cinta. Sergius was one Place (2011), Melancholy is a Movement (2015), the Volcano” on ubudnowandthen.com, as well as of Literature and Phenomenology. Her latest of the scholarship recipients of the National Book and Terpana (Transfixed) (2016). His adaptation of working as a volunteer for disaster mitigation. He publications are her environmental theory, Committee and Ministry of Education and Culture’s Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s Perburuan (The Fugitive) is also working on the TV series Swadaya about Ekofenomenologi (Ecophenomenology), and Writer Residency Program in 2018. will be released in 2019. grassroots self-reliance in Indonesia. anthology of poems, Kekasih Teluk (Bay Lover).

Supported by the Indonesian Writers Patron Program.

Rosemarie Milsom • Australia Rosemary Sayer • Australia Shelley Kenigsberg • Australia Shrabani Basu • UK

Rosemarie Milsom is the Founding Director of the Rosemary Sayer is a writer, business Shelley is a freelance writer and editor fortunate Shrabani Basu is a London-based journalist and Newcastle Writers Festival and an award-winning communications consultant and former journalist. enough to run writing and editing retreats in bestselling author. Her books include For King and journalist. She has been a section editor at The Sun Her third book More to the Story: Conversations with paradisiacal places. The retreats provide support Another Country; Victoria & Abdul: The True Story of Herald and features editor at Sunday Life magazine. Refugees was published in 2015. She has previously to begin, develop and complete manuscripts of the Queen’s Closest Confidant; Spy Princess: The Life Her work has also been published in the Weekend written two biographies. Rosemary lectures and all genres. She mentors privately, through the of Noor Inayat Khan; and Curry, The Story of Britain’s Australian, Vogue Australia and Qantas’ Spirit tutors in human rights and writing at Curtin Australian Society of Authors, Byron Writers Festival Favourite Dish. Victoria & Abdul has been made into a magazine. University where she is completing her PhD about and monthly writing salons, and teaches at the major film starring Judi Dench and Ali Fazal. refugee life stories and human rights. Academy of Literary Arts & Publishing.

66 #UWRF18 #UWRF18 67 PEOPLE YOU’ LL MEET Sidney Jones • Indonesia Sofija Stefanovic • USA/Australia

Sidney Jones is Director of the Institute for Policy Sofija Stefanovic is a Serbian-Australian writer Analysis of Conflict, a non-governmental think and storyteller in New York. Her memoir, MISS tank in Jakarta. She has worked in Indonesia from EX-YUGOSLAVIA is a funny and dark story about 1977-81 and from 2002-2018, and has previously immigration. She hosts This Alien Nation, a worked at Ford Foundation, Amnesty International, celebration of immigration. She’s a regular Human Rights Watch and International Crisis Group. storyteller with The Moth, and has written for the She is a recognized authority on violent extremism, New York Times among others. insurgencies and ethnic conflict in Southeast Asia.

Step Vaessen • Netherlands Sukutangan • Indonesia

Step Vaessen is a senior correspondent based in Sukutangan, which can be loosely translated from Jakarta for the past 20 years. Since 2006 she has Indonesian as ‘a tribe of hands’, is Genta Shimaoka been an Indonesia correspondent for Al Jazeera and Sekar Wulandari Yogaster – a couple based in English. In thousands of reports she’s covered Bali who love books so much they make a living topics including the fall of Suharto, Timor-Leste’s by designing book covers and illustrating them. independence struggle, and religious, political and Several of their works were awarded Bronze in the ethnic violence. In 2001 she published her book Pinasthika Award in 2017. Jihad with Sambal.

Susi Pudjiastuti • Indonesia Tania Canas • El Salvador/Australia

Susi Pudjiastuti is serving as Minister of Maritime Tania Canas is Arts Director of RISE, Australia’s first You’ll Meet You’ll

Affairs and Fisheries in President Joko Widodo’s refugee and asylum seeker organization run by cabinet for 2014-2019. An entrepreneur, Susi owns refugees, asylum seekers and ex-detainees. She is a fishery export company, PT ASI Pudjiastuti, and on the Editorial Board of the international Pedagogy aviation company, PT ASI Pudjiastuti Aviation. and Theatre of the Oppressed Journal, and was Guest Her persistence in eradicating Illegal, Unreported Curator of the International Community Arts Festival

PEOPLE and Unregulated Fishing (IUUF) in Indonesia has in Rotterdam. She is currently writer in residence at garnered national and international recognition. the Malthouse Theatre.

Supported by Emerging Writers’ Festival.

Tariq Khalil • UK Theodora Sarah Abigail • Indonesia

Tariq Khalil has lived and worked in Jakarta for the Theodora Sarah Abigail is a poet, essayist, and last ten years taking whatever opportunity has come young mother. As one of Indonesia’s ‘third culture’ his way to make Retronesia, the first photobook on writers, she primarily writes in English. In The Indonesia’s unique take on 1950s architecture. His Hands Of a Mischievous God, her bestselling work has been featured in Tempo, Kompas, Indonesia debut collection of English-language essays, was Observer, BBC, Vice, New Mandala, Brava Casa and published in December 2017. She is known for her Indonesia Design. personal narrative essays, several of which have been published by major feminist publications.

Tiffany Tsao • Australia/Indonesia Tishani Doshi • India/Wales

Tiffany Tsao is the author of novels Under Your Tishani Doshi is an award-winning poet, novelist Wings, The Oddfits, and The More Known World. Her and dancer. Her most recent book, Girls Are Coming translations from Indonesian to English include Out of the Woods, a Poetry Book Society summer novels by Dee Lestari and Laksmi Pamuntjak, and recommendation, is a powerful collection of poems, poetry by Norman Erikson Pasaribu. She received which deal with coastal living, gender violence, her PhD in English from UC-Berkeley and now lives memory, happiness, ageing, and what the point of in Sydney. poetry might be. She lives in Tamil Nadu.

68 #UWRF18 #UWRF18 69 PEOPLE YOU’ LL MEET Tom Owen Edmunds • UK Todung Mulya Lubis • Indonesia

Tom Owen Edmunds heads the Climate Change Born in Medan, Todung Mulya Lubis is a lawyer, Unit at the British Embassy Jakarta. His previous lecturer, anti-corruption and human rights activist, posts include Lahore and Colombo. Once described presently in Oslo as Indonesian Ambassador to by the British Journal of Photography as “one of the Norway. He contributes to several domestic and world’s leading travel photographers”, he has shot international daily newspapers. His latest book is assignments in over 100 countries, published books Catatan Harian Todung Mulya Lubis Buku 2. He is on Bhutan and Mexico, and photographed the BBC’s one of the Founders of Lubis Santosa & Maramis Great Journeys publications. Law Firm.

Uphie Abdurrahman • Indonesia Uzodinma Iweala • Nigeria/USA

A seasoned cultural programmer at the US Uzodinma Iweala is an award-winning writer, Embassy Jakarta, Uphie Abdurrahman translates filmmaker, and medical doctor. He is the CEO of The and interprets professionally, and scribbles short Africa Center in New York, which promotes a new stories. As an avid commentator of sociopolitical narrative of Africa and its diaspora through a focus trends, he enjoys the realm of competitive debating. on culture, policy, and business. He has written Uphie recently joined Unmasked, Jakarta’s poetry three books, Beasts of No Nation (2005), Our Kind of collaborative, to channel his penchant for penning People (2012), and Speak No Evil (2018). poems about minority struggles and mental health.

Vasuki Shastry • India Wanggi Hoed • Indonesia

Vasuki Shastry was a business and economics Wanggi Hoed is a pantomime artist and social You’ll Meet You’ll

journalist in India, Singapore, and Indonesia before activist from West Java who incorporates joining the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in humanitarian, environmental, and spiritual issues 1998. He was bureau chief of The Business Times in into his works. He represents Indonesia in the Jakarta between 1996 and 1998, covering the Asian World Mime Organization, and has collaborated financial crisis and the fall of Suharto. He worked with artists from around the world including

PEOPLE extensively on Indonesia during his stint at the IMF. Contemporary Circus Theater of France, and Syafiq Efendi Faliq, a Malaysian pantomime artist.

Warih Wisatsana • Indonesia Will Buckingham • UK

Warih Wisatsana is a poet, editor, and curator. He Will Buckingham is a philosopher, anthropologist has received various awards including the Taraju and writer across multiple genres. He is interested in Award, Borobodur Award, and the Bung Hatta the places where stories intersect and philosophies Award. His poetry has been translated into Dutch, cross-pollinate, those points of cultural encounter English, German, Portuguese and French. His poetry where new and surprising possibilities emerge. He collections are Ikan Terbang Tak Berkawan and May is the author of Stealing with the Eyes, a memoir of Fire & Other Poems. anthropology, art, sickness, witchcraft, and unpaid debts, set in the Tanimbar islands of Indonesia.

Supported by The British Council.

Yeb Saño • Philippines Yenny Wahid • Indonesia

Naderev ‘Yeb’ Madla Saño has been working on Yenny Wahid is a moderate Indonesian Islamic campaigns and programs to combat climate change activist, and daughter of the late President of since 1997. He is widely known for his work as the Indonesia Abdurrahman Wahid. She has worked as Philippines’ Chief Negotiator in the United Nations a journalist for Fairfax Media, the Sydney Morning Framework Convention on Climate Change. Yeb Herald and The Age. She holds a Master’s degree joined Greenpeace Southeast Asia as Executive from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Director in 2016 and leads Greenpeace’s diverse She is the Director of The Wahid Institute, a research operations across the region. center on Islam.

Supported by Greenpeace.

70 #UWRF18 #UWRF18 71 SCHEDULE DAY 1 Thursday, 25 October 2018

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Main Program What Indonesia Taught Barbara Demick: Festival Welcome Susi Pudjiastuti: Sink It Kim Scott: Taboo The Pursuit of Peace Neka Museum Me Nothing to Envy

Main Program Janet Steele: Mark Lynas: Seeds of Jane Caro: Plain Crossing Cultures Family Footsteps Indus Restaurant Mediating Islam Science Speaking

Main Program The Big Read: Poetry Small Towns, Big The Rights Stuff Higher Self A Cry for Help Taman Baca Edition Imagination

Cocktail Hour with Hanif Special Events A Storytellers’s Lunch at Alila Ubud Kureishi at Plataran Ubud

Silk Painting Inspiration at The Payogan Villa Resort & Spa Workshops The Journey at The Samaya Ubud Market Tour and Cooking Class (meet at Casa Luna) Bahasa Cultural Workshops Breakfast at Joglo @ Taman Baca Release Your Inner Voice at Campuhan My Night in the Planetarium at Campuhan College College Children & Youth Creative Writing for Young Authors at Joglo @Taman Baca Stealing with the Sayang Omar Musa: Since Ali Festival Club @ Bar luna Retired, Rewired Eyes Kalimantan Died Nowhere to Marlina The Murderer in Four Acts at Film Program NOKAS at Betelnut Go 2018 Taman Baca Piknik Puisi dan Ekspresi at From Bali to West Live Music & Arts Pecha Kucha at Betelnut Taman Puisi Africa at Taman Baca PAUSE; URBANDECAY at DUMBO Nayla at Blanco Renaissance Book Launches Museum Gugug! at PiciPici Bisma Girl Submerged at Herb Library

72 #UWRF18 #UWRF18 73 SCHEDULE DAY 2 Friday, 26 October 2018

Program Category 8 15 30 45 9 15 30 45 10 15 30 45 11 15 30 45 12 15 30 45 13 15 30 45 14 15 30 45 15 15 30 45 16 15 30 45 17 15 30 45 18 15 30 45 19 15 30 45 20 15 30 45 21 15 30 45 22 The Foreign Main Program Hanif Kureishi: Twenty Years Later Public Opinions #metoo Correspondents’ In Praise of Slow Neka Museum The Nothing Club Gail Jones: The Kamila Andini: Main Program Cosmopolitan Biographical Death of Noah Islands of Inspiration The Seen and Off Limits Indus Restaurant Creativity Boundaries Glass Unseen

Main Program Yeb Sano: Climate Worth a Thousand Rewriting the Fantastical Realms The Big Read: Journeys Evolving Islam Taman Baca Campaigner Words Script

Literary Lunch with Ndaba Mandela at Maya Long Table Dinner: Edible Indonesia at Desa Ubud Resort Visesa Ubud Special Events

This Alien Nation at Indus Restaurant

Clear and Compelling at Taksu Spa & Making a Scene at Kori Ubud Resort Spa & Restaurant Workshops Restaurant Hidden Histories at The Mansion Bali Basa Bali Breakfast Cultural Workshops Batik Painting at Nirvana Pension Joglo @ Taman Baca Spin Your Own Story at Villa Kitty Children & Youth Publish in a Flash at Joglo @ Taman Baca The Last Wild Men Festival Club @ Bar Luna The Epic Retronesia Buku Kuku-Ku of Borneo Laut Bercerita (The Sea Speaks His Film Program Love is a Bird at Betelnut Name) at Taman Baca Piknik Puisi dan Ekspresi: Poetry Slam at Betelnut Dear You at Taman Puisi Live Music & Arts Hujan di Bulan Juni at Taman Baca Banjarmelati at Littletalks Book Launches Komodo - In Pursuit of the Living Legends at The Elephant Charcuterie at Fine-tune the Indonesian Raw What’s Hiding in The Kitchen at Taman Baca East Meets West Home with Matt Fundamentalas with Arif Springs Your Food McCool

74 #UWRF18 #UWRF18 75 SCHEDULE DAY 3 Saturday, 27 October 2018

Program Category 8 15 30 45 9 15 30 45 10 15 30 45 11 15 30 45 12 15 30 45 13 15 30 45 14 15 30 45 15 15 30 45 16 15 30 45 17 15 30 45 18 15 30 45 19 15 30 45 20 15 30 45 21 15 30 45 22

Main Program Gillian Triggs: Yenny Wahid: Against Indonesia, Reni Eddo-Lodge: Fatima Bhutto: Africa is Not a Country Neka Museum Speaking Up All Odds Outside In Changing the Culture The Runaways

Giuseppe Main Program Catozzela: Don’t Still the Morning Serious About Young Intimate Instincts It Takes Two Hidden Bali Indus Restaurant Tell Me You’re of the World? Minds Afraid Clemantine Main Program Wamariya: The The Big Read: Telling The Pledge Local Wisdom Being Presidential Ladies to the Front Taman Baca Girl Who Smile Tales Beads

Look Who’s Coming to Lunch at Nusantara by Feast and Fiction at bridges Locavore Special Events Club Continental at Casa Luna

La Bella Figura at Outpost

Workshops Story Fundamentals at Kori Ubud Resort Spa & Restaurant Creating Worlds and Characters at Hubud Get Out of Your Own Way at Taksu Spa & Restaurant Gaya Gayo at Blue is the Cultural Workshops Herb Walk (meet at Casa Luna) Campuhan Universe at Joglo College @ Taman Baca

Let’s Write! at Joglo @ Taman Baca Letter of Love at Joglo @ Taman Baca Children & Youth The Patient Stone at Yellow Coco Creative Nest Festival Club @ Bar Luna The Ruin Happy Never After Chinese Whispers The Poet’s Club Terbang: Menembus Langit (Fly) at Sekala Niskala (The Seen and Unseen) Film Program BLUE at Betelnut Betelnut at Taman Baca Tishani Piknik Puisi dan Ekspresi at Doshi at Aroma Karsa at Betelnut Taman Puisi Live Music & Art Betelnut The World We Create at Taman Baca Myth, Magic and Mystery in Bali at Sri Asia Reborn at The Elephant Ratih Cottages UWRF18 Billingual Anthology aJoglo @ Taman Baca Book Launches The Sacred Trails of Singhawangsa at Sri Ratih Cottages Gong dan Palegongan: at Blanco Renaissance Museum Modernizing Tempe with a Arielle’s Cake Ayam Betutu with Janet The Kitchen at Taman Baca Indonesian Twist Creations deNeefe Cuisine

76 #UWRF18 #UWRF18 77 SCHEDULE DAY 4 Sunday, 28 October 2018

Program Category 8 15 30 45 9 15 30 45 10 15 30 45 11 15 30 45 12 15 30 45 13 15 30 45 14 15 30 45 15 15 30 45 16 15 30 45 17 15 30 45 18 15 30 45 19 15 30 45 20 15 30 45 21 15 30 45 22

Ndaba Mandela: Main Program What a Map Cuts The Price of Uzodinma Iweala: Going to the Dealing with Disaster Darkness Descends Neka Museum Up Freedom Speak No Evil Mountain Marty Main Program Shrabani Basu: UWRF18 Indonesian Natalegawa: Art for Impact Serial Storytellers Fifteen Years of UWRF Indus Restaurant Victoria & Abdul Emerging Writers Does ASEAN Matter?

Main Program Fighting for the Geoff Dyer: Scene The Big Read: Food for At Home, It Takes a Village Jagadhita Taman Baca Forests by Scene Thought Everywhere

Special Events UWRF’s 15th Birthday Brunch! at Casa Luna

Writing Truth with Tail at Best Western Workshop Writing and Ethics at The Purist Villas Premier Agung Resort Culinary Jalan- The Language of Offerings at Nirvana Cultural Workshops Jalan (meet at Casa Pension Luna) In Memory of My Feelings at Campuhan College Make Your Own Charcoal at Joglo @ The Power of Words at Joglo @ Taman Children & Youth Taman Baca Baca Small Acts of Kindness at Campuhan College Etgar Keret: Based on True Story at Film Program Betelnut Live Music & Arts Closing NIght Party at Blanco Renaissance Museum Buddha is a Punk Skater at DUMBO Prayers on Canvas: Paintings, Spirituality and Humanity at Blanco Renaissance Museum Book Launches Angkot dan Bus Minangkabau: Budaya Pop dan Nilai-Nilai Populer at Littletalks Touring Reality Without a Guide at Il Giardino

78 #UWRF18 #UWRF18 79 FESTIVAL HUB

KAMUS KECIL

Learning a bit of Indonesian, or better yet, Balinese, always makes for more meaningful travel in Bali. To help you make the most of your Festival experience, we’ve put together a Kamus Kecil, or Little Dictionary of the very basics.

If you’d like to learn more, join the bubbly team from Cinta Bahasa Indonesian Language School for Bahasa Indonesia Breakfast or Basa Bali Breakfast (see p. 32).

English Indonesian Balinese

Hello Halo Om Swastiastu

Good morning/afternoon/evening Selamat pagi/siang/malam Rahajeg semeng/tengai/wengi

My name is… Nama saya… Adan tiange

What’s your name? Siapa nama Anda? Sira pesengan ragane?

How are you? Apa kabar? Punapi gatra?

I’m fine Saya baik baik saja Tiang becik-becik

Can I please have… Boleh minta… Dados tiang nunas… Shuttle Toilet

A free shuttle service operates between the Festival’s three main There are toilets at all our locations. Thank you Terima kasih Suksma venues and Puri Lukisan Museum on Jl. Raya Ubud. The shuttle runs from 8:00-18:00 daily, every 30 minutes. Excuse me Permisi Sugera First Aid ATMs Where are you going? Mau kemana? Jagi lunga kija? For minor injuries, visit the First Aid area at the Box Offce @ ATMs near the Festival Hub are located at the Indomaret store, Taman Baca. For more serious injuries, please go straight to the opposite Indus Restaurant, and Bintang Supermarket. I’m going to the Ubud Writers & Saya mau ke Ubud Writers & Tiang pacang lunga ka Ubud Ambulance. Readers Festival Readers Festival Writers & Readers Festival Parking Information Center What is that? Apa itu? Napi nika? Please note that parking at the Festival Hub @ Taman Baca and Still have questions? Visit the Information Center at the Festival Box main venues is limited. Office @ Taman Baca, open from 22–28 October, 8:00-17:00. Where is it? Dimana itu? Ring ija nika?

80 #UWRF18 #UWRF18 81 BALI, UNCOVERED  DISCOVER REAL BALI THROUGH THIS CULTURAL BOOK SERIES SHUTTLE BUS FESTIVAL HUB Puri Lukisan Museum˜Taman Baca˜ Box Office Neka Art Museum Taman Baca Joglo – Taman Baca Runs from €.€€˜ .€€ daily Indus Restaurant Leaves every € minutes  Neka Museum  The Kitchen     

  

 

              

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. Oracle Gallery mythology, beliefs and nature, museums ceremonies, rituals 
. bridges . Outpost Ubud . Campuhan College . Picipici Warung . Casa Luna . Plataran Ubud Hotel Œ Spa . Desa Visesa Ubud €. Seniman Coffee Studio everyday life. and more. and traditions. €. DUMBO  . Sri Ratih Cottages . Festival Hub . Taksu Spa Œ Restaurant by Dr Jean Couteau by Kartika Dewi by Jill Gocher . Gayatri . The Elephant . Herb Library Restaurant . The Mansion Bali . Hubud . The Payogan Villa Resort Œ Spa . Il Giardino Ubud 
. The Purist Villas
. Indus Restaurant . The Samaya Ubud . Karja Art Space . Thread of Life . Kori Ubud Resort Spa Œ Restaurant . Tony Raka . Littletalks Ubud €. Ubud Royal Palace €. Left Bank - Volunteer Basecamp  . Villa Kitty Foundation  . Maya Ubud Resort Œ Spa . Yellow Coco Creative Nest A vision of Available in Ubud at:

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