Blak & Bright 2024 Opening Night

Where

The Capitol

When

Friday, 15 Mar 2024, 06:30pm - 08:30pm

Event Status

Past event

Featuring

About the Event

Official Opening

Join the world’s most successful, block-buster, best-selling writer as they manifest their next best original idea, reinvent the genre and write existence into its future…

With Carly Sheppard, Kamarra Bell-Wykes / A Daylight Connection

In Conversation

Two icons interviewing each other. What does a writer want to know about another writer?

With Kim Scott, Tony Birch.

Presented in partnership with Blak & Bright and RMIT Culture

Accessibility

Accessible toilets available

Assistive Listening

Auslan Interpreted

Companion tickets available

Registered Assistance Animals welcome

Wheelchair accessible

You can find information regarding Accessibility at the Capitol here.

Please notify us of all access requirements when booking online so we can assist you with your visit. If you require further information, please contact ticketing@wheelercentre.com.

Featuring

Kamarra Bell-Wykes

Kamarra Bell-Wykes (Yagera/Butchulla) is a playwright, director, dramaturge, devisor, facilitator, performer, creative producer, program curator, community developer and education consultant. Kamarra served as ILBIJERRI Theatre Company’s Education Manager and Creative Director from 2014-2019 and M... Read more

Tony Birch

Tony Birch is the author of four novels, five short fiction collections, and two poetry books. His most recent book is the novel, Women and Children (UQP). ... Read more

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Kim Scott

Kim Scott has twice won Australia’s premier literary award, the Miles Franklin (for Benang and That Deadman Dance) among many other Australian literary prizes. His most recent novel is Taboo (Picador, 2017). Proud to be one among those who call themselves Noongar – the Aboriginal people of south... Read more

Carly Sheppard

Carly Sheppard is an award winning cross-disciplinary performance artist based in Naarm (Melbourne), working across dance and theatre making and performance, sculpture, drawing, writing, voice, and installation. Her practice navigates complex narratives of intersecting race, class, mythologies and i... Read more