Event #46
Bearing Witness
Justine E Hausheer + Durkhanai Ayubi + Eva Phillips + Edwina Shaw
Fairfax Studio
Regular Program / Free Event
#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
Bearing Witness
Justine E Hausheer (The Vanishing Wild), Durkhanai Ayubi (She Who Tastes, Knows), Eva Phillips (Borrow or Rob), Edwina Shaw (Dear Madman).
Chair: Simon Cleary
3:30–4:30pm, Friday 9 October, Fairfax Studio
A crime that’s haunted a family for generations. A fight against the extinction crisis. A homeland that’s long been misunderstood and misrepresented. An intervention into the history of Australian art. These potent and probing narratives – which span fiction, poetry, science writing and memoir – capture the costs of emotional, physical and cultural incursions, revealing the weight of silence and the value of witnessing.
#Artists
Justine E Hausheer
Justine is an award-winning science writer and author. Her favourite stories take her into the field, where she’s followed logging elephants through Myanmar and tagged leatherback sea turtles. Her first book, The Vanishing Wild, explores the harsh reality of Australia’s threatened species crisis.
Durkhanai Ayubi
Durkhanai Ayubi is an Afghan-born writer. Her first book, Parwana: Recipes and Stories from an Afghan Kitchen received global acclaim. Her new book She Who Tastes, Knows is a sweeping repositioning of shared identity and possibility, through a lens of her inherited food ways.
Eva Phillips
Eva Phillips was born and raised in Magandjin, and now lives and teaches on unceded Wangal land. She was the recipient of the 2024 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Award, and has been published in Cordite, Rabbit, and Sick Leave.
Edwina Shaw
Edwina Shaw is a Queensland author and editor of fiction, memoir and screenplays. She is the author of Dear Madman, A Guide Through Grief, Thrill Seekers, In the Dark of Night and editor of Bjelke Blues and Queersland. Dear Madman is the story she was born to write.
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