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Season Two 2019 SUBSCRIBE NOW to our podcasts and e-news at wheelercentre.com TOXIC FEMININITY KRACK!N THE INDUSTRY White Tears/Brown Scars Inclusion on Screen In 2018, Sydney journalist Ruby Hamad wrote an article for the Finally, Australian comedy is seeing a broader range of Guardian that touched a nerve with readers around the world. voices represented in writers’ rooms, on screen and behind The article, ‘How white women use strategic tears to silence the scenes. For season two of Get Krack!n co-creators women of colour,’ was about the special and dangerous claims Kate McLennan and Kate McCartney made inclusion and white women make to victimhood and how these adversely accessibility a production and creative focus. affect and are wielded against women of colour. In this discussion, hosted by Alistair Baldwin we’ll feature She has since adapted the article into a new book, White artists who worked on that hilarious and game-changing Tears/Brown Scars. Hosted by Hella Ibrahim, Hamad will be series. They’ll address how the screen sector can, more broadly, MON 30 SEPT joined by Arrernte activist and social commentator Celeste go about making space for people who have not traditionally at the Wheeler Centre Liddle for a discussion about what happens when racism and WED 25 SEPT been represented across, and behind, our screens. Time: 6.15pm – 7.15pm, FREE sexism collide. at the Wheeler Centre 3 This event will be Auslan Time: 6.15pm – 7.15pm, FREE Presented in partnership with The Other Film Festival. interpreted. DOUBLE BOOKED CLUB WRITING IN EXILE BLAK & BRIGHT Sarah Bailey and Mark Brandi Hawzhin Azeez Read a Blak Book Lately? Meet two talented Australian crime writers for a fascinating When there is no home to return to/no safety known/and not We open this year’s Blak & Bright festival with a Welcome to hour-long conversation, hosted by crime-fiction buff Christian an inch of this world/that you can call your own Country, ceremonial song and speeches. Then, hosts Daniel White. Then flee the scene. Browning and Evelyn Araluen discuss and review some of the The haunting refrain from Hawzhin Azeez’s poem, No Home latest – and some of the greatest – Blak books. Hear excerpts Sarah Bailey is the author of three riveting crime novels, all To Return To, encapsulates the sense of absence and loss and, if you’re lucky, glimpse an author or two. starring the young detective sergeant Gemma Woodstock. that drives much of the poet’s writing, research and activism. The third novel in the series, Where the Dead Go, sees Gemma Born in South Kurdistan (north Iraq) during the first Gulf War, Visit blakandbright.com.au for the full festival programme. investigating a murder in a small coastal town. Azeez’s family fled Saddam Hussein’s regime and lived for This event is presented in partnership with Blak & Bright First Nations eight years in Iran. Mark Brandi’s new novel, The Rip, is about a young Literary Festival and Melbourne Writers Festival. woman sleeping rough, it’s set in inner-Melbourne and With Sami Shah, this exceptional young writer, poet and it draws on Brandi’s own experience from working in the creative powerhouse will discuss what it takes to reconstruct criminal justice system. cities – and stories. FRI 13 SEPT at the Wheeler Centre THUR 12 SEPT Time: 12.30pm – 1.30pm, FREE at the Wheeler Centre FRI 6 SEPT Lunch available for purchase from the Moat when booking. Time: 6.15pm – 7.15pm, FREE at the Wheeler Centre This event will be live-streamed. 3 This event will be Auslan interpreted. Time: 6.00pm – 7.30pm, FREE BOOK NOW at wheelercentre.com NEWS September 2019 READINGS MONTHLY 3 by Alice Robinson. This year’s guest judge sale includes recordings from Australia’s of four recipients for the Booksellers in is author (and 2018 Readings Prize winner) own ABC Classics label as well as DG, Residence program, an initiative run by September Jennifer Down. She will join our staff judging Decca, Signum Classics, Sony Classical, the Melbourne City of Literature. Ellen will panel to select a winner from the shortlist. Brilliant Classics and DVDs from Australian spend a week, early next year, at Third The winning book will be featured in the Opera. 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