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SWF - Words on Show: Writing for Performance

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Event

SWF - Words on Show: Writing for Performance


Time & date

6:30pm - 7:30pm, 20th May 2022


Location

Carriageworks View map

245 Wilson St, Eveleigh, NSW 2015


Tickets

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https://www.swf.org.au/festivals/festival-2022/words-on-show-writing-for-performance/

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About

Language changes when read aloud; previously unheard rhythms, timbres and tones come alive off the page. How do novelists approach writing a play, poets consider both spoken-word and print, or playwrights pivot to memoir? In an event curated by writer and performer Maeve Marsden, she sits down with Bornean-Australian rapper, poet and author Omar Musa (Killernova), iconic playwright David Williamson (Home Truths) and award-winning writer and poet Maxine Beneba Clarke (How Decent Folk Behave) to discuss how they write for performance, what it feels like to hear and see your words in motion, and the challenges of adapting between different mediums.

Book

Killernova
A collection of poetry and wood cuts that burns blindingly bright.
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