Rewriting the past in the present
Larissa Behrendt and Anita Heiss with Meg Keneally
Date: Saturday 9 October 2021
Time: 16.00 - 17.00 AEST
Location: Zoom video conferencing app. To set up zoom download from zoom.us/download.
In Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray, Anita Heiss tells a story never before told in fact or fiction and in doing so rewrites the stories and the history of Australia. Larissa Behrendt tells the story of mother and daughter, Della and Jasmine on a literary tour of England, and in doing so rewrites the relationship of the English ‘classics’ and indigenous culture and storytelling, as well enabling her characters to revisit the story of their own lives and their relationship. They are in conversation with historical novelist Meg Keneally.
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Larissa Yasmin Behrendt AO is a legal academic, writer, filmmaker and Indigenous rights advocate. She chaired the national review of Indigenous Higher Education, was the inaugural chair of National Indigenous Television (NITV), has been the Chair of the Bangarra Dance Theatre and was a founding director of Sydney Story Factory (a literacy program in Redfern). She is the author of three novels, has written and produced several short films, is the host of 'Speaking Out' on ABC Radio, and is Distinguished Professor at the Jumbunna Institute at the University of Technology. After Story is her third novel.
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Anita Heiss is an award-winning author of non-fiction, historical fiction, commercial women’s fiction, children’s novels and poetry. She is a proud member of the Wiradjuri Nation and a Board member of the University of Queensland Press and Circa Contemporary Circus. Anita is a Professor of Communications at the University of Queensland and an Ambassador for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation and the GO Foundation. She is currently adapting her novel Tiddas (Simon & Schuster, 2015) for the stage. Her latest novel is Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray (River of Dreams). |
Meg Keneally worked as a public affairs officer, sub-editor, freelance feature writer, reporter, and talkback radio producer, before co-founding a financial service public relations company, which she then sold after having her first child. For more than ten years, Meg has worked in corporate affairs for listed financial services companies, and doubles as a part-time Scuba diving instructor. She is co-author with Tom Keneally of the Monsarrat Series of historical mysteries. Fled is her first solo novel and she published her second novel, The Wreck, in late 2020. She lives in Sydney with her husband and two children.
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