Mapping Culture: Objects of Inspiration
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When
Wednesday, 5 May 2021, 12:30pm - 02:30pm
Event Status
Past event

A dog-eared book. A worn piece of clothing. A shard of porcelain. Objects have the power to evoke whole worlds from their material forms. To shake memories loose. To unleash creativity. To become the story.
In Leanne Hall’s The Gaps, news of Yin Mitchell’s abduction sends her classmates down a frightening rabbit hole. In Rebecca Lim’s Tiger Daughter, Wen Zhou explores a life her parents never envisaged. And in the current Immigration Museum exhibition Becoming You: an Incomplete Guide – which celebrates pivotal coming-of-age moments via real life stories – journalist Santilla Chingaipe reflects on the process of entering adulthood. What are the stories that define us? And how can distinctive objects inspire us to capture them on the page?
In this event for creative teens and aspiring writers, Leanne, Rebecca and Santilla will share the objects that have influenced their writing and, with practical advice and prompts, discuss the works that have sprung from them.
This event is presented in partnership with the Immigration Museum, and will be followed by an introduction and visit to the Becoming You exhibition, where participants will have the opportunity to reflect on the objects and moments that make up their own lives.
The online bookseller for this event is The Kids’ Bookshop.
Presented in partnership with the Immigration Museum
Note: The panel discussion is from 12.30pm – 1.15pm and is directly followed by an exhibition visit from 1.30pm – 2.20pm.
Featuring
Featuring

Leanne Hall is an award-winning author of young adult and children’s fiction. Her most recent YA novel, The Gaps, won the young adult category of the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature and the Ethel Turner Prize for Young People’s Literature at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. Leann... Read more

Rebecca Lim is an Australian writer, illustrator, editor and lawyer. She is the author of over twenty books, including The Astrologer’s Daughter (a Kirkus Best Book of 2015 and CBCA Notable Book for Older Readers), Wraith and the internationally bestselling Mercy. Her work has been shortlisted... Read more

Santilla Chingaipe is a filmmaker, historian and author, whose work explores settler colonialism, slavery, and post-colonial migration in Australia. Chingaipe’s first book of non-fiction detailing the untold stories of convicts of African descent is forthcoming, and the critically acclaimed and aw... Read more
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