It’s the job of the writer to ensnare their audience and embed their reader within the worlds they create. How do writers locate their reader in places, environments and contexts, and how does this affect a reader’s commitment to the work?
This event draws together artists working across diverse genres and themes, and plays with the form of the traditional reading by inviting the audience to curate their own pathway through a series of concurrent literary performances. Real and imagined, contemporary and historic, near and far – choose your own adventure, and explore how you can be transported by the writing and performances of different artists. With: Adolfo Aranjuez, Mark Brandi, Lian Low, Magan Magan, Jennifer Porter, Vidya Rajan, Angela Serrano, Mia Wotherspoon. Hosted by Soreti Kadir. Thursday 22 June, 2017, 6pm - Free! See EWF's Literary Live Art , at VU Metrowest for more details Thursday 22 June, 2017, 6pmThursday 22 June, 2017, 6pm
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A sneak peek of my piece at EWF's Literary Live Art , VU Metrowest on Thus 22nd June When I craved love, I would look to the heavens, hoping to catch a glimpse of paradise in the sky Stars twinkling like fireflies Melbourne’s overripe moon glowing an outer space gold I looked, onwards and upwards For that invisible road to Heaven’s Doors Hoping the Doors would burst open to show my destiny Little did I know that Paradise lay at Footscray’s riverbank. Grounded along the banks of the Maribyrnong, Oblivious to industry, machinery and heavy traffic Glimpsed by thousands as they sped across train tracks The sixteen metre Heavenly Queen’s gaze is serene as she looks past black swans, cormorants, swamp hens, red-rumped parrots, marbled geckos and Pobblebonk frogs. Her gaze drifts towards Footscray Road, floating past the Yarra, until her wide- open eyes contemplates the Bass Strait. Patron of seafarers, demon destroyer, rainmaker and healer. In her fingers, a small ball of light, Beacon to shore. (My guide to the animals in the Maribyrnong River Estuary via Melbourne's Living Museum of the West - http://www.livingmuseum.org.au/home/ ) |