Book Launch: Rivers Flow: Reflections on the Songs of Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter

Fremantle Press invites you to celebrate the release of Rivers Flow: Reflections on the songs of Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter with contributing authors Cheryl Kickett-Tucker, Isobel Bevis, Luisa Mitchell, Cindy Solonec and Ambelin Kwaymullina.  

Hosted at Walyalup Fremantle Arts Centre, the book will be launched by collection editor, Casey Mulder, and music will accompany the event between readers. 

Rivers Flow: Reflections on the songs of Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter will be available for purchase on the night, courtesy of FOUND Bookstore. Then enjoy all that’s on offer at the Fremantle Arts Centre at the annual Christmas Bazaar. 

Tickets to the event are free, and entry into the Walyalup Fremantle Arts Centre requires a gold coin donation.

About the editor 

Casey Mulder is a Ballardong Noongar educator, writer and editor from Quairading. She works with a wide range of publishing companies, such as HarperCollins, Audible, UWA Publishing, Night Parrot Press, Allen & Unwin, Affirm Press, Simon and Schuster, Penguin Random House, Hachette, Fremantle Press and Magabala Books. She is the Director of First Nations Writing and Programs at the Centre for Stories and is currently working on a creative non-fiction manuscript. Casey takes joy in supporting mob to tell our stories in our ways.  

About the authors 

Charmaine Papertalk Green (represented by Maitland Scheers, Artistic Director of Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company) was a poet, author, storyteller, visual artist and social science researcher – a proud Wajarri, Badimaya and Wilunyu woman of the Yamaji nation, who was born at a railway siding along the Greenough River and raised in the small Midwest WA town of Mullewa. In 2023, she was inducted into the WA Women’s Hall of Fame, and at the time of her passing in mid-2025, was Chair of Geraldton’s Yamaji Art Centre.  

Professor Cheryl Kickett-Tucker is a highly respected Wadjuk Noongar Traditional Owner, research academic, community development practitioner, youth basketball coach, public speaker and author. Cheryl has worked with Australian Aboriginal people all her life in the fields of education, sport and health, and is passionate about using her knowledge and experience to make a real difference to the lives of Aboriginal children and their families.  

Isobel Bevis is a Wilman, Ballardong Noongar woman, born and raised in Collie, south-west of Western Australia and currently lives on Bindjareb boodja with her husband and three daughters. She was raised in a large Noongar family, growing up on Wilman Country, with a strong connection to Minninup River where her Ancestors are resting.  

Luisa Mitchell (Shaw) was born and raised in Rubibi-Broome. She is a Whadjuk Nyungar poet, screenwriter and arts worker living in her ancestral country, Boorloo-Perth. She is passionate about helping others to share their stories as a healing and regenerative practice.​​​   

Dr Cindy Solonec, a Nigena (Nyikina) woman from the West Kimberley, is married with two daughters and five grandchildren. She graduated with a PhD in History from UWA in 2016 and her book Debesa is a rewriting of her thesis that explored a social history in the West Kimberley based on the way her parents and extended family lived during the mid-1900s. As a university sessional staff member, Cindy lectures and tutors in addressing Aboriginal themes. She is a member of the History Council of Western Australia and she plays violin with Encore, a seniors’ all-strings orchestra.

Ambelin Kwaymullina is an Aboriginal author and illustrator who comes from the Palyku people of the Pilbara region of Western Australia.