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Dates & Times
Thursday 05 May
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Why is it that sometimes we feel a poem’s impact before we’re even sure we understand the words? What magic spell is the poet casting to turn our forgotten memories and associations into something we feel in our bodies and bones?
In our next installment of Mapping Culture, writers and poets Laniyuk and Adolfo Aranjuez join Bec Kavanagh at the Immigration Museum to consider how poetry can tell stories and evoke recollections in dynamic, sometimes transformative, ways. In this interactive panel, we’ll focus on the various techniques of mastering rhythm in poetry, and how this beating pulse can be the thing that brings your poems (and the memories they’re describing!) to life.
Students are encouraged to bring along writing materials to work on their own poems during the experience.
This event will be followed by a tour of 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.
These workshops are recommended for students in years 8-10.
Presented in partnership with the Immigration Museum
Featuring
Adolfo Aranjuez
Adolfo Aranjuez is an editor, writer, speaker and dancer. He is currently the Melbourne International Film Festival’s publications and content manager as well as Liminal magazine’s publication editor; previously, he edited the magazines Metro and Archer. Adolfo’s essays, criticism and poetry have appeared in Meanjin, Right Now, Screen Education, The Manila Review, Cordite and elsewhere, and he has worked with numerous organisations including the Melbourne Writers Festival, Midsumma, ABC TV and Arts Access Victoria.
Laniyuk
Laniyuk is a Larrakia, Kungarakan, Gurindji and French writer and performer. She has been published nationally and internationally in poetry collections such as Solid Air (2019) and Fire Front (2020), in the 2022 speculative fiction anthologies Unlimited Futures and This All Come Back Now as well as in literary and culture magazines online and in print. She has been awarded multiple writers residencies and was shortlisted for Overland’s 2018 Nakata-Brophy poetry prize. Laniyuk runs poetry workshops, moderates panel discussions and has given guest lectures at ANU and The University of Melbourne. She is currently completing her first collection of work to be published through Magabala Books.
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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 on Radio National’s Books and Arts Daily ...