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Tarntanya Palti Trukkuku OzAsia Palti Kaurna Yartangka pintyathi. Ngadlurlu Kaurna miyurna tampinthi. Pukiunangku parna yaitya mathanya Wama Tarntanyaku. Ngadlurlu parnaku tapa purruna parnaku Yarta-itya tampinthi. Ngadlurlu namurli tuwilarra nguyanguya muri-itya wapinthi.
Adelaide Festival Centre’s OzAsia Festival is produced on Kaurna land. We respect the Kaurna people as the traditional custodians of the Adelaide Plains. We honour their cultural and spiritual relationship with Country and we do so in the spirit of reconciliation.
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WELCOME
In your hands is a passport to so many worlds: real, imagined, a combination of the two.
Perhaps you’ll visit Geetanjali Shree, winner of the 2022 International Booker Prize for her novel, Tomb of Sand… or maybe you’ll join Thuận live from Paris, winner of the most prestigious award for Vietnamese literature, the Prize of the Writers’ Union?
That’s just two of the 30-something free sessions discussing everything from memoir to politics to pop culture to next-gen climate warriors.
I wish you many moments of discovery, delight, and reflection.
JENNIFER WONG
Program Curator, In Other Words
With special thanks to
The Honourable ANDREA MICHAELS MP Minister for Arts South Australia
I am delighted that In Other Words returns to provide a wonderful platform for a conversation about our future, our place in the world, culture, community and belonging.
I extend a warm welcome to some of our region's most respected authors, poets, journalists, academics, and critical thinkers.
Chair, Adelaide Festival Centre Trust
DOUGLAS GAUTIER AM
CEO & Artistic Director, Adelaide Festival Centre
We are delighted that Annette Shun Wah once again brings us the critically acclaimed literature program, In Other Words. And it has grown. This year, we extend a warm welcome to new In Other Words curator, Jennifer Wong.
We look forward to you joining over 60 speakers in meaningful intercultural conversations and the sharing of big ideas.
ANNETTE SHUN WAH
Artistic Director OzAsia Festival
Welcome writers, readers, thinkers, and listeners!
In Other Words is a unique place where a diverse range of ideas and perspectives are placed front and centre, offering rich and rare insights. Come curious and leave inspired.
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GUEST CURATORS
In Other Words
OzAsia Festival and In Other Words are a fabulous and much needed celebration of Asian Australia’s talent and artistic contributions to this country. We are bright, vibrant, hilarious, and creative — and it’s our time to shine! Add oil everyone, let’s do this!
In Other Words
Australia has so many threads throughout Asia – through our history, our families, and our everyday lives. It’s so rare to have a space where we can celebrate, interrogate, and explore those stories that permeate so much of what makes Australia interesting. I can’t wait to see you all.
BEVERLEY WANG
MARC FENNELL
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OPENING NIGHT GALA
WORDS THAT SHOWED ME THE WAY
Every day, words show us the way, be that as directions or instructions. But words also show us the way in a different sense: as words of encouragement, words of advice, words that precede a ‘Eureka!’ moment. Join us for a celebration of these moments, big and small, as told by seven writers and thinkers who capture the creative, daring, and reflective spirit of In Other Words.
Host: Jennifer Wong
Fri 4 Nov, 6pm Banquet Room
Free, register your interest
Benjamin Law
Dinesh Palipana
Jackie Clarissa Goenawan
Sami Shah
Katherine Tamiko Arguile
Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa
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CLOSING NIGHT DEBATE
ALL AUSTRALIAN CHILDREN SHOULD LEARN MANDARIN
The 2021 defending champions, Marc Fennell, Anchuli Felicia King, and Benjamin Law face off against the new team in town, Jason Chong, Sami Shah, and Beverley Wang. Don’t miss this fierce competition, where only the most persuasive team will take home the most coveted prize of all: victory by popular applause at whatever cost.
Host: Jennifer Wong
Sun 6 Nov, 6pm
Banquet Room
Free, register your interest
Anchuli Felicia King
Jason Chong
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LUNCH ON THE RIVERBANK
With Katherine Tamiko Arguile
Join us for a celebration of Meshi, Katherine Tamiko Arguile’s memoir and personal history of Japanese food. For Katherine, the Japanese food her mother cooked was a portal to a part of her that sometimes felt lost in the past. Join Katherine and Jane Hutcheon as they explore home-cooked foods and examine the meaning, memory, and ritual woven in every meal.
Moderator: Jane Hutcheon
Thu 3 Nov, 12.30pm Adelaide Riverbank Precinct Tickets: $99
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BUSINESS BREAKFAST
With Karen Loon and Ming Long
Begin the day with provocative questions and personal stories inspired by Karen Loon’s new book, Fostering Culturally Diverse Leadership in Organisations. Business leader and diversity practitioner Karen Loon will be joined by Ming Long, Chair of the Diversity Council of Australia and the first woman with Asian heritage to lead a top 200 ASX-listed entity in Australia, to discuss how organisations and individuals can improve when it comes to diverse leadership.
Host: Jennifer Wong
Fri 4 Nov, 7am Banquet Room Tickets: $55
Karen Loon
Ming Long
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BOOK STALL
Join us at the book stall in between sessions all weekend. Purchase books by our remarkable speakers, get them signed and kick off your summer reading!
Adelaide Festival Centre
Fri 4 – Sun 6 November
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NOVEMBER
Session 1
10am, 11.30am, 1pm Online workshops, 45min
CREATING GRAPHIC NOVELS WITH REMY LAI, SCHOOL SESSIONS
Session 2
4.30pm – 5.30pm Banquet Room
HAUNT: LIMINAL X WRITERS SA
In these fun online workshops for school groups, Remy Lai, writer and illustrator of Pawcasso, Pie in the Sky, and Fly on the Wall, demonstrates her process when creating an illustrated book or graphic novel. Remy will cover every stage from coming up with ideas, to research, writing, revising, and drawing pictures, so that you can tell your own stories too!
Registrations now closed.
In a collaboration between Liminal and Writers SA, 16 Asian Australian writers responded to the theme of ‘Haunt’, producing a collection of fiction and nonfiction works that will be published in a digital chapbook edited by emerging South Australian editors. In this event we will hear some of these stories read by the people who crafted them, followed by a panel discussion looking at the deeper ideas that informed this project.
Moderators: Smriti Daniel and Lyn Dickens
FRIDAY4
Remy Lai
“My journey has been first and foremost that just of a human being... I've learned that labels don't matter... All can be lost in seconds, and I know this too well.”
Stronger Dinesh Palipana
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SATURDAY
NOVEMBER
Session 3 Session 4
10am – 11am Banquet Room
ABC RN’S STOP EVERYTHING! LIVE
10am – 11am
The Star Kitchen and Bar
POLITICS: THE CHANGING FACE OF LEADERSHIP IN AUSTRALIA
Your favourite pop cultureloving duo, Benjamin Law and Beverley Wang celebrate In Other Words with a live show of their popular ABC RN program, Stop Everything! Join Ben and Bev as they talk to interstate and international writers and personalities who are here for OzAsia Festival and catch up on the biggest pop culture news of the week. Culture moves fast – so Stop Everything! and join in.
Our current Federal Parliament is the most diverse in Australia’s history. What does this mean for Australia and its future? Here to discuss this question and more are two newly-elected politicians who are very much part of the changing face of leadership in Australia: Member for Fowler Dai Le MP, and Senator for Western Australia Fatima Payman.
Moderator: Sheila Ngoc Pham
Blackbirds Don't Mate
With Starlings Janaka Malwatta
Dai Le Fatima Payman
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Beverley Wang Benjamin Law
“this is for those who came before who endured far more than we endure and the young generation next in line this story will become your story in time”
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Session 5
11.30am – 12.30pm Banquet Room
WHEN IS REPRESENTATION NOT ENOUGH?
Session 6
11.30am – 12.30pm The Star Kitchen and Bar
REPORTING ON CHINA, REPORTING ON CHINESE AUSTRALIANS
Session 7
11.30am – 12.30pm Plaza Marquee
MIND-ALTERING POSSIBILITIES: SCIENCE FICTION
While #RepresentationMatters, what else should we be fighting for? Inclusion? Equality? Justice? Examine how far we’ve come and how far we have to go with Mridula Amin, photojournalist and reporter; and Rebecca Lim, author, lawyer, and coeditor of Meet Me at the Intersection
Moderator: Sheila Ngoc Pham
How do Australian journalists tell stories about China when they’re not allowed in the country? What are the challenges when it comes to telling the stories about Chinese Australians? To discuss this and more, join writer Jinghua Qian (Sixth Tone, ABC TV’s China Tonight); and ABC journalist Bang Xiao.
Moderator: Benjamin Law
Grace Chan (Every Version of You) and Hoa Pham (Empathy) discuss the power of sci-fi to examine the nuances of what makes us human, the ethics of technology, and the losses and gains to our communities in an increasingly online world. Grace and Hoa’s novels are subtle and incisive looks at our collective direction, and the future it might deliver.
Moderator: Eleanor Jackson
Grace Chan Hoa Pham
Jinghua QianMridula Amin Bang Xiao
Rebecca Lim
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SATURDAY
NOVEMBER
Session 8 Session 9 Session 10
1.15pm – 2.15pm Banquet Room
TOMB OF SAND: 2022 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE
1.15pm – 2.15pm Plaza Marquee
THE ART OF MEMOIR: MAKING MEANING OF LIFE
1.15pm – 2.15pm
The Star Kitchen and Bar
YA FICTION: ASIAN AUSTRALIAN-STYLE
Geetanjali Shree’s Tomb of Sand, translated from Hindi to English by Daisy Rockwell, won the International Booker Prize in 2022. With a light touch and exuberant wordplay, it tells the story of an eightyyear-old woman who slips into a deep depression after her husband dies, and then resurfaces to gain a new lease on life.
Moderator: Mridula Nath Chakraborty
*This session is no longer running
What are we here for, if not to make meaning of life? Three people who’ve done just that are ABC journalist Jason Om (All Mixed Up); quadriplegic doctor, lawyer, and disability advocate Dr Dinesh Palipana OAM (Stronger), and arts journalist and author Katherine Tamiko Arguile (Meshi). Expect to be moved by the memorable stories in these examined lives.
Moderator: Elizabeth Flux
While Rawah and Rebecca are both at different life stages, they each write evocatively about being young adults and the challenges of surviving those high school years. In this session, they discuss their experiences of writing stories with Asian Australian characters, and the unique experience of writing works that are so different to anything that would have been available for them to read growing up.
Moderator: Lyn Dickens
Rebecca LimRawah Arja
Katherine Tamiko Arguile
Jason Om
Dinesh Palipana
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Geetanjali Shree
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2.45pm – 3.45pm Banquet Room
ASIAN & ASIAN AUSTRALIAN POP CULTURE ON SCREEN
From Shang-Chi to Squid Game to Everything Everywhere All at Once, audiences worldwide simply can’t get enough of Asian screen culture. And neither can our panel of cultural studies experts, film buffs, and filmmakers! Join them to discuss the social impact of pop culture and media representation, and nerd out on all things Asian and Asian Australian on screen.
Moderator: Beverley Wang
2.45pm – 3.45pm
The Star Kitchen and Bar 2.45pm – 3.45pm
Plaza Marquee
WRITING AT THE INTERSECTION AUTOFICTION: WRITING FROM LIFE
Jinghua Qian is a Shanghainese writer, ‘a shapeshifter in a binarygendered world, an immigrant in a settlercolonial state’. Sarah Malik is a Walkley Award-winning journalist and writer, whose debut memoir, Desi Girl, is about feminism, race, faith, and belonging. E Flynn is a Chinese (Teochew) Malaysian, Aboriginal (Larrakia and Tiwi) and Muslim writer and researcher. Together, they discuss how they see the world as people with several identities.
Moderator: Jason Om
Autofiction, a friend to both memoir and fiction, is the form that Jackie Bailey (The Eulogy), Neela Janakiramanan (The Registrar), and Zaheda Ghani (Pomegranate and Fig) all choose to write in, based on their perspectives respectively as a funeral director, surgeon, and refugee. This session explores their decisions to write fiction from life, and how it both constrains and liberates their storytelling.
Moderator: Sami Shah
Virat Nehru Jane Park
Session 11 Session 12 Session 13 15
SATURDAY
NOVEMBER
4.15pm – 5.15pm Banquet Room
LANKAN FOOD: SERENDIPITY & SPICE
4.15pm – 5.15pm
The Star Kitchen and Bar
THUẬN ON CHINATOWN: LIVE FROM PARIS
4.15pm – 5.45pm Plaza Marquee
SOUL LOUNGE
In this much-anticipated conversation between two restaurateurs who both believe deeply in cultural understanding, expect stories about family, spices, and the central place of food in family and culture.
O Tama Carey is a chef and owner of Sydney’s Lankan Filling Station, and she’s joined by Durkhanai Ayubi, author of the Afghan cookbook, Parwana.
Moderator: Durkhanai Ayubi
Thuận is the 2008 winner of the most prestigious award for Vietnamese literature, the Prize of the Writers’ Union. Thuận joins us live from Paris to discuss Chinatown, an unfinished love story of diasporic lives in France and Vietnam, which is full of longing and humour. Chinatown is the long-awaited first of Thuận’s ten novels to be translated into English.
This session will be held in Vietnamese with English interpretation.
Moderator: Sheila Ngoc Pham
This In Other Words version of Soul Lounge brings an Asian Australian twist to the popular Adelaide open mic poetry event. Local poets are joined by poets/performers
Eleanor Jackson, Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa and Janaka Malwatta, who will bring lyricism, humour, and intimate storytelling that’s sure to get your fingers clicking.
Hosts: Christian Best and Eleanor Jackson
Eleanor Jackson Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa Janaka Malwatta
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Thuận
O Tama Carey
Session 14 Session 15 Session 16 16
SUNDAY
NOVEMBER
Session 17 Session 18 Session 19
10am – 11am Banquet Room
WHODUNNIT, EDDIE WOO?
10am – 11am The Star Kitchen and Bar
THE FIGHT TO SAVE THE NEWS
10am – 11am Plaza Marquee
OUTRUNNING THE PAST
Eddie Woo
Eddie Woo, Australia’s favourite maths teacher, popular host of ABC ME’s Teenage Boss, and bestselling author is back with a new series for young readers! This time, he’s asking Whodunnit, Eddie Woo? in a super sleuth series filled with intrigue, puzzling clues, and daring escapades. Join Eddie Woo and discover the treasure hunts and cryptic messages in Time Out! and Team Trouble!
FREE: REGISTER YOUR INTEREST
Supported by AFC Families and centED
How can we become more media literate in an age of disinformation, which affects everything from responses to public health crises to the rise of dictatorships and social unrest? Hear firsthand from four awardwinning journalists on current challenges in their professions, and why independent news reporting is important now more than ever.
Moderator: Marc Fennell
Can you ever outrun your past? This question is at the heart of Watersong, the third novel by Clarissa Goenawan, an Indonesian author based in Singapore. Sprawling, haunting, vivid: this is original fiction at its very best.
Moderator: Mridula Nath Chakraborty
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Clarissa Goenawan
Tito Ambyo Mridula Amin
Sarah Malik Bang Xiao
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11.30am – 12.30pm Banquet Room
AFGHAN WOMEN LEADERS IN EXILE
11.30am – 12.30pm
The Star Kitchen and Bar
11.30am – 12.30pm Plaza Marquee
HONG KONG: THE IMPOSSIBLE CITY THE FUTURE ACCORDING TO SCIENCE
It has been just over a year since the Taliban claimed Afghanistan, triggering chaos, and disrupting the lives of so many – none more so than women and girls. This panel with three Afghan women leaders recently evacuated from the country, in conversation with Afghan writer Durkhanai Ayubi, explores the human impact of the fall of Afghanistan, and efforts for the future, through the necessary voice of Afghan women. This session will be held in Dari with English interpretation.
Moderator: Durkhanai Ayubi
Born just before the handover to China in 1997, Karen Cheung grew up questioning what version of Hong Kong she belonged to. The Impossible City is an exhilarating blend of memoir and reportage, drawn from Karen’s participation in the 2019 protests and her reporting on Hong Kong politics and culture, as well as interviews with musicians, protesters, and writers who have watched their home transform.
Host: Benjamin Law
Artificial intelligence. Climate change. Life “post” COVID-19. What does the future hold, and which discoveries and developments today give a sense of optimism despite the challenges ahead? Find out in this wide-ranging conversation between epidemiologist Meru Sheel, and Ivy Shih, former virus researcher, science writer, and producer of ABC RN’s Cosmic Vertigo
Moderator: Marc Fennell
Ivy ShihMeru Sheel
Karen Cheung
SUNDAY6 NOVEMBER Session 20 Session 21 Session 22 18
1.15pm – 2.15pm Banquet Room
INDIA RISING
How does Australia’s relationship with India affect Indian Australians, the second largest migrant group in the country? And what role do Indian Australians play in the relationship between the two countries? Expect lively conversation from the panellists who between them have worked in academia, public diplomacy, and journalism, and been closely involved in the Australia India Youth Dialogue.
Moderator: Marc Fennell
1.15pm – 2.15pm
The Star Kitchen and Bar 1.15pm – 2.15pm Plaza Marquee
DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS AND HOW TO HAVE THEM
THE WHITEWASH AND THE BEIGE INDEX
We’ve all struggled before to find the right words. In this session, Benjamin Law strikes up a conversation with three people who are experts in this field: funeral director Jackie Bailey (The Eulogy), journalist Jane Hutcheon (Rebel Talk), and two-time world champion debater Bo Seo (Good Arguments). We argue that you’ll never be left speechless again!
Moderator: Benjamin Law
Siang Lu’s The Whitewash, winner of the 2022 Glendower Award for an Emerging Queensland Writer, imagines what might happen if an Asian male lead was cast as the star of a Hollywood spy thriller, for the first time in history. Siang is also the co-author of The Beige Index, the Bechdel Test for race, which explores ethnic representation in the top 250 films on IMDb.
Host: Beverley Wang
Karan Anand Aarti Betigeri
Mridula Nath Chakraborty Virat Nehru
Siang Lu
Session 23 Session 24 Session 25 19
NOVEMBER
2.45pm – 3.45pm Banquet Room
FREEING MY FAMILY
2.45pm – 3.45pm The Star Kitchen and Bar 2.45pm – 3.45pm Plaza Marquee
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE K-WAVE
REIMAGINING HISTORY THROUGH
Sadam came to Australia from Xinjiang as a political refugee, settled into the community, and became a citizen. Then he returned to Xinjiang for a visit and met Nadila. Shortly afterwards, China’s government began its massive crackdown on the Uyghurs. Nadila was trapped in Xinjiang with their newborn son Lutfi. This is the story of Sadam’s quest to bring them to Australia.
Host: Sophie McNeill
Winner of the Hankyoreh Literature Award, Seo Sujin’s debut novel follows four Korean language lecturers at Seoul’s prestigious H University over the course of an academic year. In exploring the challenges and joys of sharing a new language and culture with students from abroad, the novel also looks at the struggles of life in everyday Korea.
Host: Jane Park
She Who Became the Sun is a reimagining of the Ming Dynasty’s First Emperor, brought to life by Shelley Parker-Chan. Meanwhile, Annah The Javanese, a novella in Mirandi Riwoe’s collection of stories, The Burnished Sun, reimagines the world of one of Paul Gaugin’s models in nineteenthcentury Paris. Both stories transport the reader evocatively to another time, and ask the question: what could have been?
Moderator: Mridula Nath Chakraborty
SUNDAY6
Sadam Abdusalam
Seo Sujin
Shelley Parker-Chan
Mirandi Riwoe
Session 26 Session 27 Session 28 20
4.15pm – 5.15pm Banquet Room
RAISED BY WOLVES
Jess Ho grew up in a dysfunctional Cantonese family who only made peace over food, then emerged from childhood with a psychological complex and a kick-arse palate – all the better to fit right into Melbourne’s dysfunctional food scene, where she never held back about sexual harassment, exploitation, and the fetishisation of Asian food culture. Expect a wry-humoured chat with fellow Melbournian Beverley Wang.
Moderator: Beverley Wang
4.15pm – 5.15pm
The Star Kitchen and Bar 4.15pm – 5.15pm Plaza Marquee
SONGS FROM A WALLED VILLAGE
NEXT-GEN CLIMATE WARRIORS
When Rainbow Chan returned to her mother’s village in Hong Kong, she met some charismatic grannies who sang surprisingly subversive protest songs, known as bridal laments. Sung in Weitou, an endangered indigenous language, they speak of a life of submission and the importance of female camaraderie. In this lecture with song, Rainbow explores music, memory and matrilineal knowledge on the brink of disappearance.
This panel explores how younger Asian Australians mobilise non-white communities for climate justice. It draws on the life narratives and activism of current and former School Strikers who are from South Asian backgrounds, and environmental care practices inherited from migrant parents. Discover how capacity-building work is taking place to train people of colour as climate activists in areas like Western Sydney.
Moderator: Sukhmani Khorana
Jess Ho
Rainbow Chan
Neha Madhok Kathy Nguyen Ruchira Talukdar
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SUNDAY6 NOVEMBER
SPEAKERS
SADAM ABDUSALAM
MUSIC
5.30pm – 6pm
The Galleries, Festival Theatre foyer
HYOSHI IN COUNTERPOINT
Six musicians from different traditions and practices come together in counterpoint to create a unique and powerful musical collaboration in response to the theme ‘Women at Work’. In Japanese, the word hyoshi has multiple meanings: it can refer to time and tempo, and also to a moment, a chance. It’s when something clicks and just feels right.
briefly in a July 2019 Four Corners episode on the plight of the Uyghurs, but hasn’t been told in full until his book, Freeing My Family, was published this year.
Session 26
KATHERINE TAMIKO ARGUILE
Kaurna Country (Adelaide), Australia
Japanese and British descent. Her debut novel, The Things She Owned, was shortlisted for the 2021 MUD Literary Prize. Meshi, released in March 2022, is her first work of nonfiction.
Lunch on the Riverbank, Opening Night Gala and Session 9
Noriko Tadano
Jennifer TrijoOhnishi
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RAWAH ARJA
Darug and Eora/ Dharawal Country (West. Sydney), Australia
TITO AMBYO
Wurundjeri Country (Melbourne), Australia
MRIDULA AMIN
KARAN ANAND
Gadigal Country (Sydney), Australia
numerous literary awards, including the Ethel Turner Prize for Young People’s Literature and the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards for Young Adult Literature.
Rawah is joining online, live from Sydney.
Session 10
the board of the Melbourne Press Club and a PhD candidate at the Digital Ethnographic Research Centre.
Session 18
photojournalist and reporter. Her work focuses on themes of inequality, migration, and identity in the AsiaPacific region. In 2021 she won three young Walkley awards including Young Journalist of the Year for her work with ABC News and National Geographic.
Session 5, 18
of Hnry Australia, a digital accountancy for sole traders.
Previously he was Chair of the Australia India Youth Dialogue and co-founder and Chair of the Young Sikh Professionals Network.
Session 23
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SPEAKERS
JACKIE BAILEY
Thirroul Country (Austinmer), Australia
NAZIFA YUSUFI BEK Greece
AARTI BETIGERI CHRISTIAN BEST
and a recognised international expert on cultural diversity in the arts. She is an ordained interfaith minister, trained deathwalker, and practising funeral director. Her debut novel is The Eulogy Opening Night Gala and Session 13, 24
political leader and parliamentarian of Afghanistan, from the province of Takhar, until the Taliban takeover of the country in August 2021 forced her evacuation to Athens, Greece. She is now President of the Afghan Women’s Parliamentarians and Leaders Network. Nazifa is joining online, live from Greece.
Session 20
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GRACE RAINBOW CHAN
Wurundjeri Country (Melbourne), Australia
Gadigal Country (Sydney), Australia
KAREN CHEUNG
Hong Kong
writer and doctor. She has been shortlisted for the Aurealis Awards, the Norma K Hemming Award, and Viva la Novella. Her debut novel, Every Version of was published by Affirm Press in August 2022.
Session 7
Rainbow Chan is a Sydney-based interdisciplinary artist living on Gadigal land. Her practice explores the politics of representation through mistranslations, counterfeiting, and matrilineal histories. Working across music, painting and installation, Chan contemplates diasporic experiences and deeply personal tales of love and loss.
Session 30
and in The New York Times, New York Magazine, Foreign Policy, and other publications.
Karen is joining In Other Words live from Hong Kong.
Session 21
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SPEAKERS
SMRITI DANIEL
Kaurna Country (Adelaide), Australia
NAFISA HAMED FARYABI
Ngunnawal Country (Canberra), Australia
OSMAN FARUQI
Wurundjeri Country (Melbourne), Australia
ELIZABETH FLUX
Wurundjeri Country (Melbourne), Australia
An award-winning journalist and communication consultant, Smriti Daniel’s work explores the intersections of culture, politics, development, and history.
Session 2
Dr Nafisa Hamed Faryabi is a senior physician and women’s rights activist who was evacuated from Afghanistan in August of 2021 during the Taliban takeover of the country. For 23 years, she held leadership roles across health, management, and social sectors in Afghanistan.
Session 20
culture news editor at The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. He’s previously worked as an editor and journalist at ABC. Osman is no longer able to attend
Hong Kong and moved to Australia as a child. Her short stories have won or been shortlisted for numerous prizes and have been published in multiple anthologies including New Australian Fiction, Collisions and Best Australian Stories, while her nonfiction work has also been widely published in newspapers, journals, and books across Australia.
Session 2, 9
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E FLYNN
Wurundjeri Country (Melbourne), Australia
ZAHEDA GHANI
Gadigal Country (Sydney), Australia
CLARISSA GOENAWAN JESS HO
Wurundjeri Country (Melbourne), Australia
researcher. Her work explores narratives of truth, grief, and devastation, interwoven with explorations of race and gender.
E Flynn is joining online, live from Honolulu.
Session 12
debut novel, Pomegranate & Fig, was shortlisted for the Richell Prize for Emerging Writers. She is now an Ambassador for Australia for UNHCR and has an active interest in UNHCR’s humanitarian work.
Session 13
Clarissa Goenawan is an Indonesianborn Singaporean writer and translator.
her debut novel, has been published in eleven different languages. Her second novel, Perfect World of Miwako Sumida came out in 2020. Watersong third novel.
Opening Night Gala and Session 19
Another Australia, Osman Faruqi
“We experience racism but we also perpetuate it.”
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SPEAKERS
JANE HUTCHEON
Gadigal Country (Sydney), Australia
ELEANOR JACKSON
Wurundjeri Country (Melbourne), Australia
in Adelaide, Lost in Shanghai, as part of this year’s OzAsia Festival.
Lunch on the Riverbank and Session 24
Eleanor Jackson is a Filipino Australian poet, performer, arts producer, and community radio broadcaster. She is the author of Gravidity and Parity and A Leaving, both by Vagabond Press.
Session 16
and has also written for The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, and The Saturday Paper, and often appears on ABC’s The Drum.
Session 13
SUKHJIT KAUR KHALSA
Whadjuk Nyoongar Country (Perth), Australia
is a poet, performer, playwright, filmmaker, and creative producer. She has performed with notable artists such as Missy Higgins and L-FRESH the Lion, and her poetry has led her to tour globally.
Opening Night Gala and Session 16
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ANCHULI FELICIA KING
REMY LAI SUKHMANI KHORANA
DAI LE
Turrbal CountryDharug Country
commentator on issues on media, migration, and representation. She lives on unceded Dharug land and has been privileged to learn about the environmental care practices of migrants.
Session 31
Wurundjeri Country (Melbourne), Australia
Australian descent. The Royal Court Theatre’s mainstage production of Felicia’s play White Pearl marked her professional debut in May 2019. White Pearl was subsequently produced by Sydney Theatre Company/ National Theatre of Parramatta in Sydney and the Studio Theatre in Washington, DC in the United States.
Closing Night Debate
Pie in the Sky, Fly on the Wall and Pawcasso. Her latest books are the junior graphic novel series Surviving the Wild
Session 1
Gadigal Country (Sydney), Australia
her family escaped war-torn Vietnam in the 1970s, and she grew up in the area. She was a journalist for almost 20 years before her stint in politics.
Dai is joining In Other Words live from Sydney.
Session 4
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SPEAKERS
REBECCA LIM
Wurundjeri Country (Melbourne), Australia
MING LONG
Gadigal Country (Sydney), Australia
KAREN LOON
Gadigal Country (Sydney), Australia
SIANG LU
Turrbal Country (Brisbane), Australia
twenty books, which have been shortlisted for multiple awards. Her latest novel, Tiger Daughter, was published in 2021 and won the People’s Choice Award at the 2022 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards.
Session 5, 10
is the first woman with an Asian heritage to lead an ASX-200 listed entity in Australia.
Business Breakfast
4 partner. She has worked with the world’s leading banks and led diversity initiatives. Karen is the author of the book, Fostering Culturally Diverse Leadership in Organisations, released in August 2022.
Business Breakfast
award-winning writer of The Whitewash (UQP, 2022) and the creator of The Beige Index. He is the recipient of the Queensland Literary Awards’ 2021 Glendower Award for an Emerging Writer.
Session 25
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NEHA MADHOK SARAH MALIK
Kaurna Country (Adelaide), Australia Gadigal Country (Sydney), Australia
JANAKA MALWATTA
Neha Madhok has over a decade of experience in Australian political campaigning and is driven by the power of grassroots organising to win tangible outcomes for social justice. She is the Director at racial justice organisation, Democracy in Colour.
Session 31
Girl: On feminism, race, faith and belonging (UQP) was published in August 2022.
Session 12, 18
was born in Kandy, the hill capital of Sri Lanka, grew up in London, and moved to Brisbane in 2010. He writes poems about his experiences as an immigrant in two continents. He also writes narrative poetry, often exploring Sri Lankan stories.
Session 16
writer and poet from Sydney. A finalist at the 2018 NSW Premier’s Multicultural Communication Awards, his work has appeared in Screenhub and SBS Movies. He’s the Founding Committee Member of the Sydney Science Fiction Film Festival.
Session 11, 23
Janaka Malwatta
“I will never forget, not even when I am old, what you have done for me.”
Tiger Daughter, Rebecca Lim
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SPEAKERS
KHANH (KATHY) NGUYEN
Gadigal Country
JASON OM
Gadigal Country (Sydney), Australia
advocate for sustainability in Western Sydney. She is a founding member of Western Sydney University’s Environment Collective, advocating for action and demonstrating solutions for more environmental sustainability in the local community.
Session 31
reporter with 7.30, and the author of the memoir, All Mixed Up. Previously, he’s been a presenter on the ABC News Channel and a reporter for ABC News Breakfast, ABC Life, Lateline and ABC Radio.
Session 9, 12
Australian of the Year. He was awarded an Order of Australia Medal in 2019.
Opening Night Gala and Session 9
Gadigal Country (Sydney), Australia
Park is an academic, cultural consultant and the author Yellow Future: Oriental Style in Hollywood Cinema. Her work focuses Asian-diasporic popular media.
Session 11, 27
Dr Jane Chi Hyun
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Whadjuk Nyoongar
HOA PHAM
JINGHUA QIAN
was shortlisted for the Hugo, Astounding, Lambda, Locus, Aurelias, British Fantasy, and British Book Awards.
Session 28
Fatima Payman is a Senator for Western Australia. She is an Australian Muslim with cultural roots
As the Australian Parliament’s first hijab-wearing representative, she is passionate about breaking down barriers for women and young people and encouraging them to voice their opinions.
Session 4
makes people feel what other people feel. She is also the founder of Peril, an online AsianAustralian arts and culture magazine.
Session 7
The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, and on ABC TV’s China Tonight.
Session 6, 12
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SPEAKERS
MIRANDI RIWOE
Turrbal Country (Brisbane), Australia
OMAR SAKR
Darug and Eora/
BO SEO
Boston, USA
SEO SUJIN
Gadigal Country (Sydney), Australia
Sky Gold Mountain, which won the 2020 Queensland Literary Award – Fiction Book Award and the ARA Historical Novel Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2021 Stella Prize and longlisted for the 2021 Miles Franklin Literary Award. Her work has appeared in Best Australian Stories, Meanjin, Griffith Review and others.
Session 28
which won the 2020 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards for Poetry. Son of Sin is his debut novel.
Omar is no longer able to attend
Bo Seo is a two-time world champion debater and a former coach of the Australian national debating team and the Harvard College Debating Union. Bo has written for The New York Times, The Atlantic and CNN. Bo is a graduate of Harvard University and has a master’s degree in public policy from Tsinghua University. Bo is the author of Good Arguments.
Bo is joining In Other Words live from Boston.
Session 24
Korean writer, Seo Sujin’s debut novel Korean Teachers won the 25th Hankyoreh Literature Prize in 2020. In 2021, Sujin published the novella Gold Rush and it won the 13th Munhakdongne Young Writer’s Award in 2022.
Session 27
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MERU SHEEL
Gadigal Country (Sydney), Australia
Associate Professor Meru Sheel is an Indian-Australian epidemiologist and global health researcher at the University of Sydney, working in infectious disease, outbreaks, and vaccination.
Meru was the 2019 40 Under 40 Most Influential Asian-Australian for Science and Medicine.
Session 22
Geetanjali is no longer able to attendin Melbourne.
Session 20
Tomb of Sand, Geetanjali Shree
“Once you've got a woman and a border, a story can write itself”
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SPEAKERS
RUCHIRA TALUKDAR
is a researcher and writer on climate politics and activism. She is a co-founder at Sapna Climate Solidarity, an Australia-based network that gives platform to South Asian climate justice stories.
Session 31
many others. She is an editor at Liminal and the reviews editor at Meanjin
Session 2
moved to Paris and has been writing ever since. Chinatown, her debut novel in English, won a PEN Translates Award.
Thuận is joining In Other Words live from Paris.
Session 15
and last year coproduced the first Asian Australian rom-com Rhapsody of Love. Recently, Ana was the series producer on the ABC show iNDIA NOW!.
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EDDIE WOO MARIA TRAN
Gadigal Country (Sydney), Australia
BANG XIAO
Wurundjeri Country (Melbourne), Australia
VICKY XU
Gadigal Country (Sydney), Australia
artist, activist and cultural practitioner working across film, performance, and action choreography.
Session 11
Technology High School, Sydney for more than ten years. In 2012, Eddie started recording his lessons and uploading them to YouTube – creating ‘Wootube’. Since then, he has amassed 1.43 million subscribers. In 2018, Eddie was named Australia’s Local Hero of the Year and shortlisted as one of the top ten teachers in the world.
Session 17
Bang Xiao is a bilingual reporter and a supervising producer for ABC's Chinese service. He writes on topics from Chinese censorship, rising nationalism, and tutorials in Hong Kong and Xinjiang, to Beijing's relations with Canberra, through the lens of Australia's migrant communities.
Session 6, 18
Strategic Policy Institute. Now she’s writing a memoir for Allen & Unwin about growing up in one of China’s poorest provinces, obtaining an education in the West, and working in journalism at a time when China turns increasingly authoritarian.
Vicky is no longer able to attend
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MODERATORS
DURKHANAI AYUBI
Kaurna Country (Adelaide), Australia
MRIDULA NATH CHAKRABORTY
Boonwurrung/Bunurong Country (Caulfield South), Australia
RADHIAH CHOWDHURY
Gadigal Country (Sydney), Australia
Durkhanai Ayubi is an Afghan-born refugeemigrant to Australia. She is a scientist by training, a writer, restaurateur, public speaker, and an advocate of Afghan voices in arenas spanning socio-cultural and political realms. She is author of Parwana: Recipes and Stories from an Afghan Kitchen.
Session 14, 20
Dr Mridula Nath Chakraborty teaches and researches at Monash University, on Asian literature in English and in translation, South Asian diasporas from Africa, Asia, Australia, Canada, and the USA. She has curated exchange programs between Indigenous Australian and tribal/Dalit writers from India.
Session 8, 19, 23, 28
Radhiah Chowdhury is an author, producer, and editor. Over a decade, she has worked with Scholastic Australia, Giramondo, Allen & Unwin and Penguin Random House. Her latest picture book, The Katha Chest is a 2022 CBCA Notable for Picture Book of the Year.
Radhiah is no longer able to attend
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LYN DICKENS
Kaurna Country (Adelaide), Australia
MARC FENNELL
Gadigal Country (Sydney), Australia
BENJAMIN LAW
Gadigal Country (Sydney), Australia
Lyn Dickens is an awardwinning writer and editor. She is the Co-Founder and Managing Editor of The Saltbush Review, and the winner of a 2022 Editorial Mentorship with Liminal x Writers SA. Lyn’s novel-in-progress was awarded a 2021 Write It Fellowship, with Penguin Random House.
Session 2
Marc Fennell is a Walkleywinning journalist, author, and documentary maker. He’s the host of Mastermind Australia (SBS), Stuff The British Stole (CBC/ABC) India Now (ABC) and Download this Show (ABC Radio).
Marc was behind hit documentaries Framed (SBS), It Burns (Audible), and Nut Jobs (Audible).
Session 18, 22, 23, and Closing Night Debate
Benjamin Law is a writer, author of books including (2010), which he adapted into three seasons of a TV show for SBS. He is also the co-creator and co-writer of the forthcoming Netflix comedy-drama Wellmania.
Opening Night Gala, Session 3, 6, 21, 24, and Closing Night Debate
“Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.”
Fortune cookie in Time Out! Eddie Woo and Jess Black
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MODERATORS
SHEILA NGOC PHAM
Gadigal Country (Sydney), Australia
SAMI SHAH
Wurundjeri Country (Melbourne), Australia
BEVERLEY WANG
Wurundjeri Country (Melbourne), Australia
JENNIFER WONG
Gadigal Country (Sydney), Australia
Western Sydney is dead, long live Western Sydney, was published in Sydney Review of Books.
Session 4, 5, 15
Earshot on race, free speech, and religion. Sami’s autobiography, I, Migrant, was nominated for various national literary awards.
Opening Night Gala, Session 13, and Closing Night Debate
journalist, audio producer, and broadcaster. On Radio National, she co-hosts Stop Everything! focusing on pop culture, and presents Life Matters on Fridays, focusing on relationships, money, and social dilemmas.
Session 3, 11, 25, 29, and Closing Night Debate
Jennifer Wong is a Chinese-Australian writer, comedian, and MC based in Sydney. She is the presenter of ABC’s Chopsticks or Fork?, a columnist for The Guardian and SBS Food, and the curator of OzAsia Festival’s In Other Words.
Business Breakfast, Opening Night Gala, and Closing Night Debate
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PLANNER AND MAP
THU 3 NOVEMBER
12.30PM
Lunch on the Riverbank
Katherine Tamiko Arguile Jane Hutcheon (Moderator)
FRIDAY 4 NOVEMBER
7AM –9AM
BANQUET ROOM
BUSINESS BREAKFAST
Karen Loon Ming Long Jennifer Wong (Host)
ONLINE
KARRAWIRRA PARRI/ RIVER TORRENS
RIVERBANK FOOTBRIDGE
MALTSHOVEL TAPHOUSE
10AM –1.45PM
6PM –7PM
BANQUET ROOM
1. CREATING GRAPHIC NOVELS WITH REMY LAI Session times: 10am – 10.45am 11.30am – 12.15pm 1.00pm – 1.45pm 4.30PM –5.30PM
2. HAUNT: LIMINAL x WRITERS’ SA Elizabeth Flux Cher Tan Smriti Daniel (Moderator) Lyn Dickens (Moderator)
RIVERDECK
MONTEFIORE ROAD ENTRANCE
DROP OFF AREA
LIFT
FESTIVAL DRIVE to Montefiore Rd
LIFT
DUNSTAN PLAYHOUSE SPACE THEATRE CHILDREN’S ARTSPACE
RAILWAY STATION ENTRANCE
BANQUET ROOM
OPENING NIGHT GALA
Katherine Tamiko Arguile Jackie Bailey Clarissa Goenawan Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa Benjamin Law Dinesh Palipana
Sami Shah Jennifer Wong (Host)
RIVERBANK CARPARK
CONVENTION CENTRE
INTERCONTINENTAL HOTEL
Access drop off. Only theatre performances (Festival Drive)
SKYCITY CASINO
EOS HOTEL RAILWAY STATION
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ELDER PARK
LUCKY DUMPLING MARKET
PLAZA MARQUEE
Upper plaza level
WALK OF FAME
THE STAR KITCHEN AND BAR
BANQUET ROOM
AREA
FESTIVAL THEATRE
THE GALLERIES
OFFICE
FESTIVAL DRIVE
NORTH TERRACE (Pedestrian access)
FESTIVAL PLAZA CARPARK
FESTIVAL PLAZA
PARLIAMENT HOUSE
NORTH TERRACE
KING WILLIAM ROAD
BOX
ENTRANCE DROP OFF
LIFT
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PLANNER
5 NOVEMBER
SESSION TIME BANQUET ROOM THE STAR KITCHEN AND BAR PLAZA MARQUEE
10AM –11AM
3. ABC RN'S STOP EVERYTHING! LIVE Benjamin Law Beverley Wang
4. POLITICS: THE CHANGING FACE OF LEADERSHIP IN AUSTRALIA
Dai Le Fatima Payman Sheila Ngoc Pham (Moderator)
11.30AM –12.30PM
5. WHEN IS REPRESENTATION NOT ENOUGH? Mridula Amin Rebecca Lim Sheila Ngoc Pham (Moderator)
6. REPORTING ON CHINA, REPORTING ON CHINESE AUSTRALIANS Jinghua Qian Bang Xiao Benjamin Law (Moderator)
7. MIND-ALTERING POSSIBILITIES:
SCIENCE FICTION Grace Chan Hoa Pham Eleanor Jackson (Moderator)
1.15PM –2.15PM
17. WHODUNNIT, EDDIE WOO?
Eddie Woo
2.45PM –3.45PM
11. ASIAN & ASIAN AUSTRALIAN POP CULTURE ON SCREEN Virat Nehru Jane Park Ana Tiwary Maria Tran Beverley Wang (Moderator)
14. LANKAN FOOD: SERENDIPITY & SPICE
10. YA FICTION: ASIAN AUSTRALIAN-STYLE
Rawah Arja Rebecca Lim Lyn Dickens (Moderator)
12. WRITING AT THE INTERSECTION
E. Flynn
Sarah Malik Jinghua Qian Jason Om (Moderator)
15. THUẬN ON CHINATOWN: LIVE FROM PARIS
9. THE ART OF MEMOIR: MAKING MEANING OF LIFE Katherine Tamiko Arguile Jason Om
Dinesh Palipana Elizabeth Flux (Moderator)
13. AUTOFICTION: WRITING FROM LIFE
Jackie Bailey
Zaheda Ghani
Neela Janakiramanan Sami Shah (Moderator)
16. SOUL LOUNGE
Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa
4.15PM –5.15PM
4.15PM –5.45PM
O Tama Carey Durkhanai Ayubi (Moderator)
Thuận Sheila Ngoc Pham (Moderator)
Janaka Malwatta
Christian Best (Host) Eleanor Jackson (Host)
Every effort has been made to ensure that dates, times, and all other information are correct at the time of publication. Refer to OzAsiaFestival.com.au for the most current information.
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SESSION TIME BANQUET ROOM THE STAR KITCHEN AND BAR PLAZA MARQUEE
17. WHODUNNIT, EDDIE WOO? Eddie Woo
18. THE FIGHT TO SAVE THE NEWS
19. OUTRUNNING THE PAST
Clarissa Goenawan
10AM –11AM
20. AFGHAN WOMEN LEADERS IN EXILE
Tito Ambyo Mridula Amin
Sarah Malik Bang Xiao Marc Fennell (Moderator)
Mridula Nath Chakraborty (Moderator)
11.30AM –12.30PM
1.15PM –2.15PM
Nazifa Yusufi Bek
Nafisa Hamed Faryabi Shakila Abawi Shigarf
Durkhanai Ayubi (Moderator)
23. INDIA RISING Karan Anand Aarti Betigeri Mridula Nath Chakraborty Virat Nehru Marc Fennell (Moderator)
21. HONG KONG: THE IMPOSSIBLE CITY Karen Cheung Benjamin Law (Host)
22. THE FUTURE ACCORDING TO SCIENCE
Meru Sheel Ivy Shih Marc Fennell (Moderator)
24. DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS AND HOW TO HAVE THEM
Jackie Bailey Jane Hutcheon
Bo Seo Benjamin Law (Moderator)
25. THE WHITEWASH AND THE BEIGE INDEX
Siang Lu Beverley Wang (Host)
2.45PM –3.45PM
26. FREEING MY FAMILY Sadam Abdusalam Sophie McNeill (Host)
27. THE OTHER SIDE OF THE K-WAVE
Seo Sujin Jane Park (Host)
28. REIMAGINING HISTORY THROUGH FICTION
Shelley Parker-Chan Mirandi Riwoe
Mridula Nath Chakraborty (Moderator)
4.15PM –5.15PM
29. RAISED BY WOLVES Jess Ho Beverley Wang (Moderator)
30. SONGS FROM A WALLED VILLAGE Rainbow Chan
31. NEXT-GEN CLIMATE WARRIORS
Neha Madhok
Khanh (Kathy) Nguyen Ruchira Talukdar
Sukhmani Khorana (Moderator)
5.30PM –6PM
6PM –7PM
THE GALLERIES, FESTIVAL THEATRE FOYER Hyoshi in Counterpoint (Musical performance)
Zhao Liang, Monica Myung, Karen De Nardi, Satomi Ohnishi, Noriko Tadano, Jennifer Trijo
CLOSING NIGHT DEBATE
Marc Fennell
Anchuli Felicia King Benjamin Law Jason Chong Sami Shah Beverley Wang Jennifer Wong (Host)
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COVID-19 INFORMATION
Measures are in place to keep patrons, artists, and staff safe. Please visit our FAQ page for the latest advice and conditions of entry: adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au/covid19
HOW TO GET HERE
Pedestrian and vehicle access is open around Adelaide Festival Centre. Drop off locations are located on King William Road (Festival Theatre) and Festival Drive from Montefiore Road (Dunstan Playhouse and Space Theatre). For more information, visit: adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au/ getting-here
Register your details online or with your ticket purchase to receive an email with up-to-date access details before your visit.
PARKING
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ACCESS SERVICES
At Adelaide Festival Centre venues, access facilities include a wheelchair loan service, assistive hearing systems, accessible toilets, accessible seat allocations, and access friendly drop off and pick up locations. For more information, visit: adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au/access
When booking tickets, please inform the operator if you have specific access requirements. For all other disability access enquiries, please contact Patron Services: contact@adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au (08) 8216 8600
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Concessions
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Transaction Fees
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Australia’s first capital city arts centre was established in 1973 and is a leading Asia Pacific cultural centre today. The splendid riverbank venue with its three theatres, galleries and function spaces, complements the magnificent Her Majesty’s Theatre, located on Grote Street. As well as presenting theatre, dance, music, and exhibitions, Adelaide Festival Centre creates diverse festivals to inspire, challenge, educate, and entertain.
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