An emotional day creating #poetry performance for #OurStoryIsOne gathering in Brisbane next week for the #womenofiran #40yearsremembrance and looking at the moving contributions of people from around the world on instagram! Remembering Mona MahmoudnejadRoya EshraghiSimin SaberiShahin (Shirin) DalvandAkhtar SabetMahshid NiroumandZarrin Moghimi-AbyanehTahereh Arjomandi SiyavashiNosrat Ghufrani YaldaieEzzat-Janami Eshraghi The video is a sneak peak of elements of the poetry performance, which will includeContinue reading “#OurStoryisOne”
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Story Factory
Story Factory is running this project. This say, “This a very exciting multilingual public writing project and we want YOU to be a part of it! In a Flash invites people to write flash fiction (very short stories – less than 100 words) in response to writing by emerging and established Australian authors. Everyone whoContinue reading “Story Factory”
Diaspora
Diaspora is launched. So magical to be in the presence of so many of the contributors and supporters. Weaving stories of spaces once daydreamed in, spaces that challenge, spaces of becoming – who we are today spaces to create belonging – where we can all sit around a table and weave the future we wantContinue reading “Diaspora”
Beyond Individualism
There is so much power in the connection of artists within community. It keeps me optimistic no matter what else happens. The conversations, the friendships, and the thoughtfulness. Behind the scenes, for a few months now, I have been connecting with Sandra, Minaira and several other people to work on a special publishing project toContinue reading “Beyond Individualism”
Working on Project X
Originally posted on Ripple Poetry :
Arrival of a mentor text My next poetry work doesn’t have a title. It;s a work in progress, drawing on my life, sense of being in the world and Australia as a woman of colour, a lover of actions beyond words, and just to make sense of this thing we…
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