THE WHEELER CENTRE PRESENTS TWO DAYS OF AN UNAPOLOGETICALLY FEMINIST AGENDA Book Now at Melbourne broadside.wheelercentre.com Town Hall #broadside2019 broadside.wheelercentre.com Broadside and the Wheeler Centre respectfully acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land on which we live and work. We pay our respects to the people of the Kulin Nations and all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders past, present and emerging. Welcome Womin djeka mar-ran biik biik, Boon Wurrung Nairm derp bordupren uther weelam. Welcome to my Country, the land of the great bay of the Boon Wurrung people, our beautiful home. I am proud to say that my grandmother, Louisa Briggs, was one of the women whose activism helped About Broadside shape the course of Australian history, by leading a Broadside is the new feminist ideas festival from campaign to stop the government selling the the Wheeler Centre. Over the weekend of 9 and 10 Coranderrk mission in the 1870s, where she lived November at Melbourne Town Hall, Broadside will with her family. The Argus described Louisa as present two days of unabashedly feminist programming, ‘a most resolute lady’ and she was often spoken spotlighting a remarkable line-up of international about as being strong minded, hardworking, known and local speakers, and delivering a powerfully for her kindness, her love of children, her humour, feminist agenda. Smart, funny, passionate people fearlessness and courage.” sharing their expertise and their stories. According to our tradition, our land has always been We’re told that ‘if you’re not outraged, then you’re not Our deepest thanks to all of those who came before And before the public programme, on Friday 8 protected by our creator Bundjil, who travels as an paying attention.’ Today, it’s overwhelming how much us; to those doing this work every day; and to the eagle, and by Waang, who protects the waterways requires and deserves our attention. So what do we feminists to come after us, who will leave an November, young people from public high schools and youth organisations across Melbourne will gather and travels as a crow. Bundjil taught the Boon do with the outrage? unimaginable legacy of their own. We can’t wait to see Wurrung to always welcome guests, but he always you there and warmly welcome you: it’s time for a at the Wheeler Centre for Broadside Teen Day, We organise. We come together and we have hard, a tailored day of free talks and workshops designed required the Boon Wurrung to ask shout, for a cheer and for a broadside. The patriarchy all visitors to make two promises: honest conversations about what’s keeping us apart. has it coming. to inspire community and action. It’s a space for There is no single way to be a woman in the world, young people, particularly those from marginalised to obey the laws of Bundjil; and not and no single way to be a feminist. Thank God for that, communities, to come together to talk, to learn, to harm the children or the land of because this movement means nothing if we assume listen and create, to develop their individual Bundjil. This commitment was our experiences are universal, or that the wrongs that creative practice and make some collective noise. made through the exchange of a affect some of us affect us all equally. Without For more information on Teen Day, please contact small bough, dipped in the water. recognising difference, without listening to and [email protected]. Parbin-Ata Carolyn Briggs AM learning from one another, we erase our most essential and under-utilised voices, we lose out, and things stay the same. And we have work to do. Tam Zimet, Buy a Pass and Save! So let’s rage together. We hope this weekend moves Festival Director you. We hope it makes you feel angry, uncomfortable, awake, celebratory, hopeful and that it might inspire Weekend Pass Sunday Pass a different type of conversation. We hope that those Save 25% on single tickets for all events Save 15% on single tickets on all events on Sunday.* on our stage — and those around you — leave you across two days. * *Conditions apply with more complex questions than tidily packaged Includes a limited edition Broadside tote bag. answers, and with energy and excitement about how *Conditions apply. we might keep going, about what’s possible next. We hope it puts you in a mood. Saturday Pass 3 Plus Pass The inaugural Broadside draws from the long Save 15% on single tickets on Saturday. * Can’t make it to everything? Save 10% on history of Melbourne’s feminist organising and *Conditions apply. select single tickets if you purchase tickets to culture, struggle and collaboration. three or more events* *Only available on select tickets. #broadside2019 broadside.wheelercentre.com HELEN GARNER WHO GAVE YOU A WORLD OF ZADIE SMITH Saturday 9 November Saturday 9 November 11.00am — 12.30pm PERMISSION?: DIFFERENCE: 5.30pm — 6.30pm SPEAKING UP AND SPEAKING OUT DECOLONISING FEMINISM In the words of one critic, ‘to read Helen Garner is to ‘ To my mind, a true ‘Creative’ should not simply discover what might be her defining characteristic: With Ariel Levy, Curtis Sittenfeld, With Aileen Moreton-Robinson, seek to satisfy a pre-existing demand but instead awakeness and aliveness to the thingness of things’. transform our notion of what it is we want.’ Garner, a national treasure, has now spent almost Nayuka Gorrie and Raquel Willis Fatima Bhutto, Intan Paramaditha half a century showing us who we are and how it is. Saturday 9 November and Ruby Hamad Almost two decades ago, 24-year-old Zadie Smith’s She has sharpened this singular style — her humour, 1.30pm — 2.30pm debut novel, White Teeth, garnered rapturous reviews sense of the absurd and incisive observation — over Saturday 9 November and comparisons to the then stalwarts of the British 3.30pm — 4.30pm a lifetime of writing diaries. When we’re described as ‘speaking out’, what people literary establishment. To be a successful author was really mean is we’re ‘speaking out of turn’ — and that to be so in the shadows of Rushdie, Amis, McEwan. To coincide with the publication of Yellow Notebook: Nearly 20 years ago, Aileen Moreton-Robinson’s we do not have the authority to do so. Behaving well But here was an author who not only satisfied the Diaries Volume I 1978 – 1987, Garner shares with us pioneering work, Talkin’ Up to the White Woman, took means accepting things as they are, and sticking demands of the tradition into which she was writing, the pages that offer a glimpse into the honing and a sledgehammer to the idea of a unified sisterhood your neck out if you’re not a white guy requires the she transformed it. shaping of a craft. Beginning in the 1970s just after the serving the common good of all women. It was knowledge that you may be seen as difficult, publication of her first novel, Monkey Grip, this is a Australia’s first ever analysis of feminism from an In the intervening years, across novels and essays, and unlikeable. Many of us have to actively work at unique insight into how decades of a privately shaped Indigenous woman’s standpoint, so how far have we reviews and short stories, Smith has again and again claiming the right to occupy space, jobs, or make internal dialogue creates a voice, and makes a writer. come? It’s a problem faced by women everywhere: proved herself to be the standard against which new, noise that others simply take as their entitlement. against a backdrop of racism and colonial privilege, vital, electrifying voices are measured. With wit and Opposition and rebellion is necessary and unexamined whiteness and systemic oppression, verve, compassion and creativity, she has created invigorating, but bending the world until it breaks a dominant representation of feminism has prevailed. a body of work and attracted a legion of passionate can come at a great personal cost, which is divided How do we un-whitewash our feminism? readers with a new notion of what they want. unevenly amongst us. So how do we blaze a trail Her latest work is Grand Union. There is nobody like without losing our own way? Zadie Smith. In conversation with Hosted by Hosted by In conversation with Sarah Krasnostein Michelle Law Jamila Rizvi Jia Tolentino #broadside2019 broadside.wheelercentre.com THINGS MY MOTHER NECESSARY TRUTHS: TRESSIE FATIMA BHUTTO NEVER TOLD ME AND MONA ELTAHAWY MCMILLAN COTTOM With Aretha Brown, Ariel Levy, Bhenji Ra, Clare Wright, Courtney Barnett, Sunday 10 November Sunday 10 November 12.30pm — 1.30pm Curtis Sittenfeld, Fran Kelly, Maria Tumarkin, Mehreen Faruqi, Nayuka Gorrie, 10.30am — 11.30am Nicole Lee, Patricia Cornelius and Raquel Willis With Thick, Tressie McMillan Cottom delivered a Saturday 9 November There’s a million reasons why we’re told to keep treatise on beauty, media, money, misogyny and 7.30pm — 9.00pm quiet on difficult subjects: propriety and decorum, race, a searing analysis animated by the ‘radical convention and status, fear of retribution. When idea … [that] black women are rational and human’. Let’s hear it for mothers: the ones we choose, the ones In a powerful evening of readings and performances, women try to introduce nuance into certain public who chose us, those who birthed us, mothers-in-law, reflections and song, our all-star gala line-up will An award-winning sociologist, professor and author debates, it doesn’t usually go well for them. Western described as ‘transgressive, provocative, and brilliant’ step-mothers, foster mothers. There for us, before us, fill empty spaces in their own pasts with the media conglomerates are often more interested in showing the way.