IN CONVERSATION AT MUSE
The Last Meanjin
3—4pm Sunday, 4 August 2024
Muse, East Hotel, Kingston Canberra ACT
Tickets $10 (entry only)
For one last Meanjin event at Muse, join editor Esther Anatolitis and Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal woman poet Sam Faulkner in conversation, as they look back on the last year or two at Australia’s journal of record.
For one last beautiful Meanjin afternoon at our beloved Muse, join Esther Anatolitis and Sam Faulkner in conversation, and let’s look back on the last year or two at Australia’s journal of record.
What does ‘First Nations first’ mean for Meanjin? How can design best dignify the work of our writers? What does it mean to champion our most critical voices at this time?
As an extra treat, Rohan Buettel will read his poem ‘Songbirds’, published in the latest Meanjin.
Editor of Meanjin Esther Anatolitis is one of Australia’s leading advocates for arts and culture and a respected champion of artists’ voices. Across two decades, Esther’s work in arts and media leadership has achieved transformative change, introducing new artistic frameworks to established companies that generate new thinking and new work. Esther is Hon A/Prof at RMIT School of Art, a member of the National Gallery of Australia Governing Council, and a Councillor of the Australian Republic Movement. A prolific writer and commentator, Esther is the author of Place, Practice, Politics, and her edited anthology Essays that Changed Australia: Meanjin 1940 to today will be published in November.
Samantha Faulkner is a Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal woman, from Badu and Moa Islands in the Torres Strait and the Yadhaigana and Wuthathi peoples of Cape York Peninsula, Queensland. Her poetry and short stories have been published nationally and internationally, and she is the proud author of Life Blong Ali Drummond: A Life in the Torres Strait (Aboriginal Studies Press, July 2007) and editor of Pamle: Torres Strait Islanders in Canberra (2018). She also is a member of the ACT Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Network, MARION (ACT Writers) and the treasurer of First Nations Australia Writers Network and Us Mob Writing Group. In 2023, she was the Torres Strait Islander curator for the Brisbane Writers Festival. Sam is a member of the Meanjin Cultural & Literary Advisory.
Rohan Buettel lives in Canberra on Ngunnawal land. His haiku and longer poetry have been published in various Australian and international journals. His haiku appear in the recently published Under the Same Moon, the fourth Australian haiku anthology. His poem ‘Songbirds’ is published Meanjin 83.2 Winter 2024.
Venue
Muse, East Hotel
69 Canberra Ave, Kingston ACT
T: (02) 6178 0024