Blak Out: First Nations Stories and Ideas – Story Week 2024
Event description
BLAK OUT – FIRST NATIONS STORIES AND IDEAS
Story Week: Common-Unity
A celebration of Blak excellence, Blak Out showcases established and emerging Aboriginal artists, exploring their own stories and experiences within the national arts landscape.
Challenging deficit narratives, Blak Out explores what it means to be excellent. More specifically, what Blak excellence looks like within the colony and how we as First Nations artists and performers can uphold our cultural obligations to carve out and hold space for new voices outside the norm.
Performance, panel and conversation – stay for the whole session or feel welcome to drop-in.
Spoken word performances
12pm–1pm
Artist and audience panel and discussion
1pm–2pm
HOST: Rob Waters
GUEST CURATOR: Rob Waters
Free for First Nations People.
See the full Story Week 2024 program at Word Travels.
This project is in partnership with the City of Sydney. With support from the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body; NSW Government through Create NSW; City of Sydney; Ubud Writers and Readers Festival; Singapore Writers Festival; Byron Writers Festival; and Mumbai LitFest.
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