Hanging Out with Refugees, Rough Sleepers, Queers, Disabled Folk
& Blokes: ways of writing and engaging with others with Kim Huynh
THREE DECADES OF WRITING, REIMAGINED FOR TODAY
12-4pm, Saturday 20 September
Harry Hartog ANU Campus
COST Members: $60, Non-members: $80
This workshop will help you hangout with and write about folk who are different. We’ll reflect upon the challenges of appropriation, intimidation, cultural sensitivities, and conflict. Mostly, we will celebrate the creative wonders of engaging with oddballs, outcasts and just about anyone. Together, we will discuss and pick apart Kim’s efforts to amplify the voices of refugees and migrants, queer communities, people with disabilities and chronic conditions, and blokes.
This will involve listening to interviews and articles that he’s conducted for ABC Radio Canberra including excerpts from his documentary with local runner, poet, and rough sleeper Martin Steer. Guided exercises will draw upon strength-based thinking, the practices of everyday life, and joy.
Kim Huynh is an academic, writer, and broadcaster. He contributes to public life by teaching politics and philosophy in the ANU, as an ABC presenter and producer, and by facilitating a current affairs discussion group at the Early Morning Centre. Kim has also run as independent in ACT and federal elections.
He’s currently working on a book about caring for his old man and was recently commissioned to write A Statement from Australia’s Carers which sits atop the National Carers Strategy. Kim’s published books on Australia's Refugee Politics, contemporary Vietnam, and a biography of his parents entitled, Where the Sea Takes Us along with essays on politics and culture for a range of outlets.