A RANDOM EVENT!
Whitefellas Telling Black Stories
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
PROGRAM BY EVENT TYPE
- Artist Presentation (1)
- Exhibition (1)
- Panel (23)
- Performance (3)
- Reading (4)
- Roundtable (7)
- Roving (1)
- Screening (1)
- Special Event (19)
- Workshop (18)
PROGRAM BY CATEGORY
- Art writing (5)
- Comics / Illustration / Graphic Novels (12)
- Fun! (21)
- Grants and Funding (5)
- Ideas and issues (18)
- Journalism / Media (15)
- Life writing / auto / biography (14)
- Magazines & Journals (20)
- New media (4)
- Non-fiction (16)
- Novels (14)
- Performance art (12)
- Playwriting / Theatre (9)
- Poetry (17)
- Project management, organising, festivals (6)
- Screenplays / scripts for TV (5)
- Short Fiction (10)
- Small press & Independent Publishing (17)
- Spoken word (10)
- Web publishing (6)
- Zines (6)
2009 Program Archive
You Are So Lacist
We've seen a white man play a Chinese dude who likes to dress up Aboriginal. We've said "chink" on television, and permanently changed the way we see Kazakhstan. Race was always a touchstone for comedy, but does everyone get the irony, or are you just being lacist?
| Benjamin Law Since 2005, Ben has been a senior contributor to frankie magazine, and his features, reviews, essays, stories, profiles and interviews have also been published in The Monthly, Qweekend, Sunday Life, The Big Issue and The Courier Mail. >> Also featuring in... | Bhakthi Puvanenthiran Bhakthi Puvanenthiran is editing Farrago this year. The loves of her life include, but are not limited to: talkback, gossip blogs, teapots and Paul Keating. >> Also featuring in... | Bryan Whalen Bryan Whalen is an American permanently travelling through Australia. He funds his travels by penning short stories and finagling interviews with various domestic and international musicians. >> Also featuring in... |
| Tom Cho Tom Cho is a former NYWF coordinator and the author of Look Who's Morphing, a fiction collection recently published by Giramondo. Visit him at www.tomcho.com >> Also featuring in... | Tom Doig Bio – short (29 wds) Tom Doig has just completed an MA in Creative Writing and comedy theory. Buy him a drink and he’ll tell you a joke, then deconstruct it for three hours. >> Also featuring in... |