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Growing Up Torres Strait Islander in Australia
Samantha Faulkner + Lenora Thaker
kuril dhagun, slq
Regular Program / Curated / Free Event
1129
#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
Meet the visionary editor Samantha Faulkner and a group of writers and contributors to this latest publication in the incredible Growing Up series. Hear what it means to be a Torres Strait Islander in Australia’s past, present and future at this very special launch event introduced by esteemed First Nations leader Dr Jackie Huggins.
Curated by Lenora Thaker
#Artists
Samantha Faulkner
Samantha Faulkner is a Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal woman with family links to Badu and Moa Islands in the Torres Strait and Wuthathi and Yadhaigana peoples, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland. Sam is a writer, poet and editor whose publications include: Life Blong Ali Drummond: A Life in the Torres Strait, written with her grandfather; Pamle: Torres Strait Islanders in Canberra; and Growing Up Torres Strait Islander in Australia, published by Black Inc, 2024. Her short stories and poetry have been published nationally and internationally and her poetry has been translated to French, Indian and South Korean. She is currently working on her debut poetry collection.
Lenora Thaker
Lenora Thaker is a proud Meriam and Wagedagam woman born and raised on Gimuy-Walubarra Yidinji country in Far North Queensland. She is a descendant of the Torres Strait Islanders of Cairns Malaytown (a swampland shantytown that existed from the late 1800s to the early 1950s), who are the inspiration for this story. Lenora Thaker received the Boundless Mentorship for The Pearl of Tagai Town.
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