Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Tuesday 2 June
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
Location
wheelercentre.com
We often speak of the internet as the Bad Place, but it’s also vital for many people to access resources and services, entertainment and community – perhaps now more so than ever. From discussion forums and MSN crushes to TikTok choreographies and pandemic meetings and parties on Zoom, online spaces continue to offer a gathering place for when we can’t be physically together.
To celebrate the launch of the Emerging Writers’ Festival’s exciting – and fully digital – 2020 programme, four festival artists will reflect on the times they found (or failed to find!) connection, chaos and care online.
Hosted by the Emerging Writers’ Festival’s artistic director Ruby-Rose Pivet-Marsh and program coordinator Millie Baylis, featuring Festival artists Alistair Baldwin, Bridget Caldwell-Bright, Jamie Marina Lau and Panda Wong.
Stream the event live from this page.
Presented in partnership with the Emerging Writers’ Festival, which will run from 16–23 June.
Featuring
Ruby-Rose Pivet-Marsh
Ruby-Rose Pivet-Marsh is a writer and arts working living and creating on unceded Wurundjeri land. Ruby was the Artistic Director and co-ceo of Emerging Writers’ Festival from 2020-2025 and is a co-founder of Yo ...
Millie Baylis
Millie Baylis is a writer, editor and arts worker, living on Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung land. She is the current program coordinator for the Emerging Writers’ Festival. In 2019 she was a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk fellow and the managing editor of Visible Ink, and in 2020 she is a Moreland Writer in Residence. She writes essays, memoir and commentary, and her work has recently appeared in Kill Your Darlings, Overland and The Victorian Writer.
Alistair Baldwin
Alistair Baldwin is a writer and comedian based in Naarm / Melbourne. He has written for ABC's The Weekly, Get Krack!n, Hard Quiz & At Home Alone Together. Published works include pieces for un. Magazine, Archer, Metro and Black Inc.'s Growing Up Disabled In Australia anthology. He is 1/2 of the experimental (and toxic) comedy duo Nemeses with Vidya Rajan.
Bridget Caldwell-Bright
Bridget Caldwell-Bright is a freelance editor based in Melbourne, Victoria.
Jamie Marina Lau
Jamie Marina Lau is a multidisciplinary artist and the author of Pink Mountain on Locust Island. With explorations focusing on language, Jamie's work meditates on a landscape exploring dis-location of culture and space. Her second novel Gunk Baby will be published in May 2020 with Brow Books.
Panda Wong
Panda Wong is a poet and editor living on unceded Wurundjeri land. She is one-half of music/poetry project Lotus Threads, as well as its expanded project lotus web. She is the author of the ...