'A Sunday Reading' / Verve x Fiend [May 15th @Woven Projects]
Verve teams up with independent online & pop-up bookshop Fiend for ‘A Sunday Reading’ at Woven Projects.
Running from afternoon until late on Sunday May 15th in Brunswick East, the literary focussed event will feature readings, workshops, interviews, music & more. Occurring just a few weeks before the Emerging Writers Festival, the event will also be a space for community gathering and socialisation with a bar provided by Bodriggy Brewery and treats.
Artists and speakers TBA.
Poster by Amici Studio (@amici.studio)
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Here in ‘Australia’, Indigenous people are the most incarcerated population on Earth. Countless lives have been murdered by white police, white government policies and this country’s white history, institutionalised colonialism and ongoing racial oppression. Racial injustice continues today under the phoney, self-congratulatory politics of ‘Reconciliation’ and the notion that colonialism is something that must be denied and forgotten, an uncomfortable artefact of the past.
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Indigenous Social Justice Association - fighting to stop Indigenous deaths in custody
Firesticks Alliance - who campaign for Indigenous land management, cultural burning and looking after Country