Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Thursday 24 March
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
How do we keep track of the stories that make up our lives? The repeated anecdotes among friends, the forgotten memories brought back by chance association, the family histories we’ve never heard before but that make so much sense when we do.
In another instalment of Mapping Culture, writer Alice Pung and Denise Chapman talk to Bec Kavanagh to discuss the way stories are told and passed on. In this interactive panel, writers and makers will share the stories they’ve collected and inherited, as well as the ones they’re currently shaping. Students are encouraged to bring along writing materials to work on their own stories during the experience.
This event will be followed by an introduction and visit to the Immigration Museum’s Becoming You exhibition, where participants will have the opportunity to reflect on the stories and moments that make up their own lives.
Presented in partnership with the Immigration Museum
These workshops are recommended for students in years 8-10
Featuring
Alice Pung
Alice Pung OAM is an award-winning author from Naarm. Her Father's Daughter won the Western Australia Premiers' Award, and her novel Laurinda won the Ethel Turner Prize at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. ...
Denise Chapman
Dr Denise Chapman is a counternarrative storyteller, spoken word poet, and critical autoethnographer who lectures in children’s literature, early literacy, and inclusive children’s media at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia ...
Bec Kavanagh
Bec Kavanagh is a Melbourne-based writer and academic whose work examines the representation of women’s bodies in literature. She has appeared at the Melbourne and Sydney Writers Festivals and ...