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SPN’s 10th Birthday Party
November 11, 2016 @ 7:00 am - 10:00 pm AEDT
SPN is a representative body for small and independent publishers in Australia. It was formed to promote the independent publishing sector and support the principle of diversity within the publishing industry. Join us at this event as we look back on ten years of SPN! The theme of the night is ‘Multifarious: The Last Decade.’
Hosted at The Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas on Friday the 11th of November, the Birthday Party will be following the ‘Most Underrated Book Award’ Presentation (6pm-7pm).
Doors open at 7pm, and readings will begin at 8pm, followed by music and dancing. There w…ill be a cash bar, and nibbles provided.
Omar Sakr, Jax Jacki Brown, Eleanor Jaxson, and Neil Morris will be performing on the night. Hosted by Andi Snelling. See below for more information.
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Featured Writers / Performers:
Neil Morris is a Yorta Yorta man, descended from the lands of Bialmi (Yorta Yorta creator spirit), biyala (redgum), and Kaiela banmirra (father water river). He is an extension of yedabila (totems) and mulana (spirit) of that magical land he holds dear, manifest in human form, manifest through the dreaming. He also descends from a line of indigenous activists who have walked in the world of the streets of this very city from a long time back. As he walks, he continues to share the reverberations of his culture, and by default, activism. He speaks/sings words of ancient incantation, he speaks/sings songlines connecting up spirits, and at times speaks/sings in words of rhyme form in the tongue of the colonial empire who stepped upon these lands in 1788, the English. He does this all in the name of upholding his connection to the ancient lore of forbears, and sharing those emanations with the here and now as a descendant of the dreaming.
Eleanor Jackson: is a Filipino Australian poet, performer, arts producer and community radio broadcaster. She is currently the Editor in Chief for the online magazine, Peril magazine, which considers and promotes Asian Australia creative culture, and a Board Member for the Queensland Poetry Festival.
Omar J. Sakr is an Arab Australian poet. His poetry has appeared most recently or is forthcoming in Contemporary Australian Poetry, Strange Horizons, Going Down Swinging, Overland, and Meanjin, among others. He was awarded the runner-up prize in this year’s Judith Wright Poetry Prize, and his debut collection, these wild houses, is forthcoming from Cordite Books (2017).
Jax Jacki Brown-Disability and Queer Rights Activist is a disability and LGBTI consultant and sexuality educator, as well as a writer, performer, public speaker and workshop designer and facilitator. She holds a BA in Cultural Studies, focusing on disability and LGBTI/queer studies, and is passionate about disability and social justice issues. Jax has been published extensively, online and in print. She tweets at @Jax Jacki Brown
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