Join the South Coast Writers Centre at Coledale Community Hall for the SCWC 2022 Poetry Awards, where the winners of the SCWC 2022 Poetry Award will be announced by award judge SCWC Director Dr Sarah Nicholson, and will feature live readings from the winners.

The event will also launch the 2021 SCWC Anthology Legacies, which includes entries from the winners of the SCWC 2021 Poetry Award as well as selected SCWC members on the theme of legacies.

The theme of the SCWC 2022 Poetry Award is Ways to Water, in partnership with the Wollongong Art Gallery exhibition of the same name, as well as the Blue Futures project from UOW.

Refreshments will be available at the event.

Reading:

Mark Treddinick
Peter Ramm
Mif Hudson
Kathleen Bleakley
Judi Morison
Morna Seres
Lore White
Erin Shiel
Jonathan Cant
Amelia Fielden
Peter Frankis
Linda Albertson
Emily Gray
Moira Kirkwood
Linda Godfrey

Speakers:

MC Adara Enthaler
Prize Judge Sarah Nicholson
John Monteleone announcing the WAG Prize

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Ways to Water Exhibition

6 November - 6 February 2022, Mann-Tatlow Gallery
Curated by Agnieszka Golda & Jo Stirling at Wollongong Art Gallery

Ways to Water traces stories of coastal changes across the Illawarra, South Coast, and New South Wales. The exhibition brings together fifty key historical and contemporary works from Wollongong Art Gallery and University of Wollongong collections – as well as original artworks and interactive augmented reality – to highlight the complex shifts through physical and imagined encounters between Land Country and Sea Country.

Blue Futures

Blue Futures is a Global Challenges keystone project: a partnership between the University of Wollongong and Illawarra Local Aboriginal Land Council. The project includes scientists, data modellers, economists, policy makers, social geographers, writers and artists. Together, they are planning for a future that is sustainable for governments, industries, ecosystems and communities.