Olympic Spirit and Experience

Sat 13 May 2023

Samantha Faulkner + Paula Dewis + Benny Mills

kuril dhagun, slq

Free event / Main Festival

BWF069

#Performances

#About the event

Duration: 60 minutes

With Brisbane set to be the Olympic host city in 2032, excitement is building. Listen to experienced voices on what it is like to participate as an Olympian, be a volunteer and proud family member. You will be inspired, moved and motivated by their Olympic spirit. Curated by Samantha Faulkner.

#Artists

Samantha Faulkner

Samantha Faulkner is a Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal woman, (Badu and Moa Islands, Torres Strait and Yadhaigana and Wuthathi peoples, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland). Her poetry and short stories have been published nationally and internationally. She is the proud author of Life Blong Ali Drummond: A Life in the Torres Strait, (2007) and editor of Pamle: Torres Strait Islanders in Canberra (2018). She also is a member of the ACT Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Network, MARION (ACT Writers) and treasurer, First Nations Australia Writers Network and Us Mob Writing Group. In 2023, she was the inaugural Torres Strait Islander curator for the Brisbane Writers Festival.