Adaptation - Imagining Literature into Art
Anna Spiro + Anne-Marie Te Whiu + David Stavanger
Cinema B, GoMA
Panel
6103
#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
Story being the heart of all art, literature is often the springboard for other artforms. The panel will discuss the creative process of transforming literature into a visual or performance medium.
#Artists
Anna Spiro
Anne-Marie Te Whiu
Anne-Marie Te Whiu is an Australian-born Māori belonging to the Te Rarawa iwi in Aotearoa NZ. She is a poet, editor, cultural producer and weaver. She was a 2021 Next Chapter Fellowship recipient, and her writing has been published broadly. Most recently she edited Woven (Magabala Books, 2024). This year she has been awarded the Varuna Residential Fellowship Writers and a Bundanon Artist Residency.
Anne-Marie’s forthcoming debut poetry collection titled Mettle will be published by University of Queensland Press.
David Stavanger
David Stavanger is poet, performer, cultural producer, editor and former psychologist living on unceded Dharawal land. He currently works for Red Room Poetry producing Poetry Month and MAD Poetry. David is the co-editor of Solid Air: Collected Australian & New Zealand Spoken Word (UQP, 2019) and more recently Admissions: Voices Within Mental Health (Upswell, 2022.) His first full-length poetry collection, The Special (UQP, 2014), was awarded several prizes and his latest collection, Case Notes (UWAP, 2020), won the 2021 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry.