C ON TENTS Welcome 4 Getting Started 6 Partners 8 Thank You 12 Support Us 13 Main Program 14 Special Events 22 Satellite Program 27 Workshops 28 Cultural Workshops 32 The Kitchen 34 Live Music & Arts 38 Fringe Events 39 Art Exhibitions 40 Film Program 42 Festival Club @ Bar Luna 46 Book Launches 48 Children & Youth Program 52 People You’ll Meet 54 Daily Schedule 72 In & Around Ubud 80 Festival Hub Map 81 Ubud Map 82
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WELC OME After facing significant challenges last year, the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival is extremely proud to be returning for its 13th year this 26-30 October, reaffirming its position as Southeast Asia’s leading festival of words and ideas. Our theme for 2016 is ‘Tat Tvam Asi’, a Sanskrit phrase loosely translated in Balinese as ‘I am you, you are me’. After a year in which the politics of difference have dominated the headlines, there’s never been a more relevant time to explore that which unites us, rather than divides us. Reflecting on issues of migration, identity, people and place, this year’s program challenges us to reflect critically on not just who we are, but the 7.4 billion people we share the world with. The 13th Ubud Writers & Readers Festival will bring together more than 150 authors, artists, advocates, and performers from over 20 countries around the globe. Across the course of more than 80 open-air panel sessions, the world’s change-makers, thought-leaders, and literary stars will come together to reflect on the issues that affect us all: from the personal to political, environmental to ethical. From lavish literary lunches to latenight laughs, our special events, workshops, arts, music, and film program will take place across Ubud. This year, the Festival’s hub – Taman Baca – will come alive after dark with live performances, bustling markets, and plenty to swig and nibble. We’ll also be rolling out the Festival’s Satellite Program, flying a handful of our authors to Jakarta, Medan, Palu, Pontianak, Bandung and Surabaya to meet Indonesia’s next generation of creative minds. The UWRF would, of course, not be possible without the generous support of our festival family, our partners, and donors. As a not-for-profit, the continuity of the Festival has only been possible through the goodwill and support of the community, and we thank everyone who has pledged goods and services, large and small. To the thousands of literature-lovers who will flock to inspirational Ubud this year – welcome, and I hope you enjoy this festival as much as our stellar team has putting it together.
Janet DeNeefe
Founder & Director, Ubud Writers & Readers Festival
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O M SWA ST YA S T U “…from the soul one become many, but in the soul of many are one” – Mundaka Upanishad Praise to God the Almighty that the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival returns for its 13th year and continues to be an important platform for cross-cultural dialogue amongst authors and thinkers from across the globe. It has been an amazing 13-year journey for us – members of the committee and the foundation, our fabulous volunteers corps, as well as the local community of Ubud – hosting great minds and influential writers from different nations and cultures, while at the same time introducing them to some of the illustrious and promising authors and thinkers our nation has given birth to. Indeed, establishing a meaningful, mutually-beneficial exchange of ideas in an atmosphere characterised by mutual respect and tolerance is one of the key objectives of this Festival, and this year’s theme, Tat Tvam Asi, is a testament to our enduring effort to reach that goal. Tat Tvam Asi reminds us of the traits, conditions and struggles that we universally share as members of humankind. Despite our different races, faiths, skin colors and political leanings we have experienced similar sufferings, from famine to wars, and have to cope with similar challenges, from terrorism and global warming, the impacts of which would affect not a single nation nor a specific civilisation, they would influence the future course of all of us, and we must rise as one to answer these challenges. With that, I welcome all the participants and wish you all a meaningful and exhilarating experience during your stay here in Ubud.
Drs. Ketut Suardana, M. Phil
Founder of Yayasan Mudra Swari Saraswati
WELC OM E From humble beginnings, the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival has matured into one world’s great literary events. Long the stomping ground of the thinkers, creators, and dreamers who’ve shaped the modern artistic landscape, it’s little wonder that the Festival has earned the reputation as ‘literally magical’ from the artists and audiences who have attended it over past 13 years. Invited to speak at the UWRF in 2012, I was – like so many others – swept up in the Festival’s almost other-worldly qualities: long days spent swapping stories in the shade of palm trees and sticky nights listening to live performances under Bali’s tarry black sky. From the quality of conversations, to friendships forged – the forms of inspiration are many and the bonds are life-long. In the face of last year’s censorship, it’s now more important than ever before that the Festival continues to amplify important voices. This year’s theme, Tat Tvam Asi, reminds us that if you pierce me, so too will you bleed – a powerful reminder of interconnectedness in an increasingly fragmented world.
Nick Cave
Patron, Ubud Writers & Readers Festival
O M SWA ST YA S T U Atas asung wara nugraha Ida Sanghyang Widi Wase, Tuhan Yang Maha Esa, maka kegiatan Ubud Writers & Readers Festival yang ke-13 pada 26 Oktober–30 Oktober 2016 merupakan kelanjutan dari kegiatan-kegiatan sebelumnya dan merupakan awal dari kegiatan yang akan datang. Tema yang diusung pada festival kali ini ‘Tat Twam Asi’, adalah landasan ajaran susila dan etika dalam Agama Hindu, yang bermakna bagaimana manusia dalam melakoni kehidupan dapat mencapai kesejahteraan dalam keharmonisan. Tat berarti Itu, Twam berarti Kamu, dan Asi berarti Adalah. Konsep bahwa alam semesta adalah bhuana agung, dan manusia adalah bhuana alit merupakan cara pandang untuk mewujudkan harmoni dalam melakoni kehidupan. Konsep ini tercermin dalam berbagai filsafat Hindu Bali, seperti Tri Kaya Parisuda dan Tri Hita Karana yang mewujud pada adat-istiadat, organisasi kemasyarakatan tradisional, seperti Banjar, Desa Pekraman, dan Subak, serta sistim kekeluargaan yang bertujuan untuk mencapai kebersamaan dalam perbedaan. Saya menyampaikan penghargaan dan apresiasi kepada panitia kegiatan festival ini, serta ucapan terimakasih kepada seluruh elemen pendukung, dan selamat datang kepada para peserta, semoga acara festival ini berjalan dengan lancar, sukses, dan bermanfaat bagi kita semua. Om Santi, Santi, Santi, Om.
Tjokorda Raka Kerthyasa. S.sos. M.si. Patron, Ubud Writers & Readers Festival
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Getting Started WELCOME to the 13th Ubud Writers & Readers Festival. We’ve got a packed main program of compelling sessions, spectacular special events, inspiring workshops, delicious treats in The Kitchen, fascinating cultural excursions, book launches, films, makers market, art exhibitions and more. Plus, we’ve got a huge after dark program with live music, performances, poetry slams, and plenty to keep you busy well into the night. We can’t wait for you to join us for what is sure to be another year of illuminating discussions, connections, and experiences. Read on and enjoy the Festival!
2016 THEME Our theme for 2016 is Tat Tvam Asi or ‘I am you, you are me’. A powerful Hindu philosophy, it focuses on the essence of what it is to be human, and has driven our strong and diverse programming this year. The Festival has always been a champion of open, global dialogue between peoples, and free, artistic expression. It is a home to bold voices, extraordinary stories, and diverse, cross-cultural perspectives. We believe this vibrant exchange of words and ideas lies at the heart of the Festival, and is embodied in this year’s theme.
FESTIVAL HUB The UWRF Festival Hub is located on Jl. Raya Sanggingan, in Ubud. Our main program is hosted across four key venues: Neka Museum, Indus Restaurant, Taman Baca and Joglo @ Taman Baca. They are all located within easy walking distance of each other. Taman Baca is home to our Box Office and information centre, food stalls, coffee
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corner, bookshop and more. Please see our detailed map at the back of this program book for all the details.
Get access to all 80+ sessions with a 4-Day Pass, or choose the day that suits you best with a 1-Day Pass. See pages 14-21.
Partner Venues
Special Events
Please see our detailed map at the back of this program book for all the details.
Tickets must be purchased to these events. See pages 22-27.
Special events, workshops, film screenings, book launches, and more, are held at more than 50 venues around Ubud.
FINDING YOUR WAY AROUND UBUD We’ve created a map to help you get around, which you can find online and at the back of this program book.
Special events include literary lunches, dinners, and cocktail soirees with your favourite authors.
Workshops
Whether you want to improve your prose or skill-up in the elements of story, our workshops are for you. Tickets must be purchased to these events. See pages 28-30.
If searching online, each venue has a Google Map location.
Cultural Workshops
For frequently asked questions about Ubud and the Festival, information about getting around and more please turn to the In & Around Ubud section at the back of this book, and visit our website: www.ubudwritersfestival.com
Tickets must be purchased to these events. See pages 32.
PROGRAM CATEGORIES The Ubud Writers & Readers Festival is broken into 12 categories.
Main Program
The main program is held 27–30 October 2016. This is the heart of the Festival: four days of programming including panel discussions, talks, and in-conversation sessions at our four main venues: Neka Museum, Indus Restaurant, Taman Baca, and Joglo @ Taman Baca. The sessions run 9:00am–5:00pm each day, with 15 minute breaks between each.
Offering an immersive experience of Balinese culture, the cultural workshops span walking tours, art classes, and more.
The Kitchen
Step into The Kitchen to witness fiery cooking demonstrations and foodie tales, led by our local and international chefs and authors. Tickets must be purchased to these events. See pages 34-36.
Live Music & Art
Each evening the Festival will offer a range of dynamic live arts, music, theatre and poetry performances that light up the night. Check events for price. Many are free. See pages 38-39.
Festival Club @ Bar Luna
The Festival Club kicks off after dark, with a range of intimate events showcasing some of the Festival’s favourites. Events are free. See pages 46-47.
Children & Youth Program
There’s something for everyone – from the littlest wannabe author, to teens wanting to try their hand at skills from illustration to film-making. Check events for price. Many are free. See pages 52-53.
Film Program
Settle in for some great films by Festival artists, and meet the people who created them. Events are free. See pages 42-44.
Book Launches
Get along to our book launch series to hear the authors read from their new releases, and find the next thing to add to your reading pile! Events are free. See pages 48-50.
Fringe & Art Exhibitions
The Festival comes alive across Ubud and Bali – check out what else is in the neighbourhood with our fringe and art exhibition programs. Check events for price. Many are free. See pages 39-40.
HOW TO BUY YOUR TICKET Online
Tickets can be purchased online via the Buy Tickets page or the individual event page. You will be redirected to our online booking system complete your purchase. This ticketing system uses Australian dollars. Booking fees will apply.
In Person
Tickets can be purchased from the Festival Box Office from October 24–30, 8.00 am–4.00 pm Find the Box Office at Taman Baca, Jl. Raya Sanggingan. The Box Office accepts cash (Indonesian rupiah), Visa and Mastercard. For all booking enquiries please contact us: E. ticketing@ubudwritersfestival.com P. +62 361 977 408
TICKET PRICES 4 DAY PASS Ticket type
Price
International (For all International visitors).
IDR 4,000,000
International Student (Proof of student ID required).
IDR 1,250,000
Indonesian (For all Indonesian nationals).
IDR 600,000
Indonesian Student (Proof of student ID required).
IDR 150,000
Resident (Proof of KITAS, business, social budaya, DINAs or retirement visa will be required).
IDR 2,200,000
ASEAN (ASEAN passport required).
IDR 2,200,000
IDR 600,000
Indonesian Student (Proof of student ID required).
IDR 150,000
Resident (Proof of KITAS, business, social budaya, DINAs or retirement visa will be required).
IDR 2,200,000
ASEAN (ASEAN passport required).
IDR 2,200,000
GET INVOLVED Follow us on social media and get snapping, tweeting, writing and ‘gramming. Use the hashtag #UWRF16 so we can find you. Out of respect to our speakers, we only ask that you switch your phone to silent during sessions and turn your camera flash off. @ubudwritersfest
MERCHANDISE
1 DAY PASS Ticket type
Indonesian (For all Indonesian nationals).
Price
International (For all International visitors).
IDR 1,200,000
International Student (Proof of student ID required).
IDR 350,000
We know you’ll leave Ubud with some wonderful memories, but can you resist leaving without a memento or two? This year we’re honoured to have a custom artwork designed for the Festival by Indonesian-Australian artist Evi O. Festival Merchandise can be purchased at the Box Office, and at selected participating venues. Keep you eyes peeled for the hot deals available on merchandise during the Festival. T-shirts – IDR 200,000 Totes – IDR 120,000 Notebook – IDR 50,000 Anthology – IDR 75,000
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FESTIVAL team Festival Director: Janet DeNeefe General Manager: Kadek Sri Purnami Indonesian Program Manager: Wayan Juniartha Program Coordinator: Gustra Adnyana Partnership Manager: Triny Tresnawulan & Saraswati Ratnanggana Partnership Coordinator: Ari Putrayasa National Communications Coordinator: Ayundari Gunansyach Account Officer: Widiatmini Administrative Coordinator: Dwi Ermayanthi Production Coordinator: Abut Sukamerta Graphic Designer: Wening Insani & Yerikho Naektua Volunteer Coordinator: Ochie & Ratih Widiastuti Ticketing Officer: Eka Septiarti Children Program Coordinator: Imroatun Nafiah Office Assistant: Goya FESTIVAL CONSULTANTS International Program: Donica Bettanin Communications & Media: Petra Kamula International Media: Holly Reid Food Program: Claire Norton & Jayden Mackenzie INDONESIAN CURATOR COMMITTEE Seno Gumira Ajidarma Iswadi Pratama Kadek Sonia Piscayanti Ketut Yuliarsa
Thank You GOVERNMENT Mabes Polri Gubernur Bali Kapolda Bali Dinas Kebudayaan Provinsi Bali Brimob Polda Bali Bupati Gianyar Kapolres Gianyar Dinas Kebudayaan Kabupaten Gianyar Camat Ubud Kapolsek Ubud Danramil Ubud Lurah Ubud LPM Ubud Desa Pekraman Ubud Desa Pekraman Penestanan Pecalang Desa Pekraman Ubud Pecalang Desa Pekraman Penestanan
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THANK YOU YAYASAN MUDRA SWARI SARASWATI (for visitors and for freight) Taman Baca Jl. Raya Sanggingan (next to Indus Restaurant) Ubud, Bali Indonesia 80571 (for mail) Yayasan Mudra Swari Saraswati PO BOX 181 Ubud, Bali Indonesia 80571 Phone/Fax:+62 361 977 408 Fax:+62 361 977 408 Email: info@ubudwritersfestival.com @ubudwritersfest www.ubudwritersfestival.com #UWRF16
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Adam Breasley Alistair Speirs All our Interpreters All our private donors All our volunteers Andika Dana Pratama Andika Rahmawati Andini Judianto Andrew Fleming Angela Bennetts Chaille Bos Chriswan Sungkono Edward Speirs Hank Ambranson Hosea Aryo Bimo Jay Thorpe Jayapatra Ditya Jemma Birrell Julia Winterflood Kintan Ayunda Wisnu
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The Ubud Writers & Readers Festival, Ubud Food Festival, and Bali Emerging Voices Festival are all major initiatives of the Yayasan Mudra Swari Saraswati foundation. As not-for-profit festivals, all three have the goal of enriching the lives of Indonesians through community-building and cultural programs.
Founded in 2004, the Yayasan Mudra Swari Saraswati is an independent, not-for-profit foundation committed to enriching the lives and livelihoods of Indonesians through the development of a range of community-building arts and cultural programs. The primary goal of the foundation is to give full expression to the creative needs of Indonesia, its individuals and communities, while simultaneously showcasing the diversity and rich cultural tradition of the archipelago to the world. Through these festivals and associated activities, the foundation promotes Ubud as an arts and culture centre, showcases the artists, writers and producers of Indonesia on an international stage and helps Indonesians to reach their potential through educational and capacity-building programs.
The festivals rely on the support of patrons, donors, partners and – you – our audiences. If you are interested in finding out how you can provide much-needed assistance and sponsorship, please visit www.yayasansaraswati.org, or donate via www. ubudwritersfestival.com. Even the smallest amount helps us to deliver these exceptional, world-class festivals every year.
Launched in 2003, Ubud Writers & Readers Festival has become Southeast Asia’s largest and most renowned literary and ideas event. The mission of UWRF is to create a world-class festival that celebrates extraordinary stories, amplifies brave voices and tackles global issues through a strong cross-cultural lens. The Festival is proud of its continuing success in bringing Indonesian and international writers together on a world stage.
The Ubud Food Festival is a three-day culinary adventure with Indonesian food as the star. Spanning cooking demos, foodie discussions, special events,
masterclasses, markets, music, food tours, and more, its mission is to celebrate and champion Indonesian culinary culture and history, to create meaningful discussions around health and sustainability, and to support local producers and community groups. Following a highly-successful second year in 2016, the UFF will be back from May 12–14, 2017.
After five creative years, the Bali Emerging Writers Festival will take a break in 2016, and relaunch in 2017 as the Bali Emerging Voices Festival. The Bali Emerging Voices Festival will nurture the vibrant voices of the next generation of Indonesia’s writers, artists, musicians, designers, digital media gurus, photographers, cinematographers, fashion designers, and much more. It is held in Bahasa Indonesia.
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Main Program
DAY 1
Thursday, 27 October Welcome Dance
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Festival Welcome 09:15–09:30 Neka Museum
The Ubud Writers & Readers Festival 2016 begins with a traditional Balinese welcome dance.
Join us as Festival Founder & Director Janet DeNeefe opens the 2016 Ubud Writers & Readers Festival, celebrating 13 years of bringing Indonesia and the world’s most fascinating writers and thinkers together in Ubud.
Eka Kurniawan: Beyond Beauty is a Wound
Suki Kim: Undercover in North Korea
Keynote with Seno Gumira Ajidarma
Keynote with Anastasia Lin
Seno Gumira Ajidarma’s works reflect the undying rebel in his heart, bravely tackling political oppression. This award-winning novelist is also one of the curators of the UWRF’s annual anthology. Start the Festival with his thoughts on the ways literature has shaped our experience of being human.
Barred from China for outspoken views on her home country’s human rights violations, actress and beauty pageant titleholder Anastasia Lin continues to advocate for recognition and justice. As the Festival commences, she considers the role of art in making change.
In Order To Live
First Languages
09:30–09:45 Neka Museum
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10:15–11:15 Neka Museum Featuring: Eka Kurniawan, Desi Anwar
10:15–11:15 Indus Restaurant Featuring: Suki Kim, Michael Vatikitiotis
10:15–11:15 Taman Baca Featuring: Steven Gale, Anita Heiss, Susanne Gregor, Amit Chaudhuri, Iswadi Pratama
Eka Kurniawan has earned international acclaim for his works. Here, he shares his latest writing, discusses the challenges of being a big name, and gives his thoughts on the next literary surprises Indonesia has in store for global audiences.
In 2011, investigative journalist Suki Kim went undercover in North Korea. Posing as a missionary and a teacher, she taught English to the 19-year-old sons of North Korea’s ruling class. Hear her remarkable story.
Joan Didion famously wrote, “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” Four writers unpack the way stories help us navigate the world and understand each other, and what the role of storyteller means to them.
What is the impact of one language upon another? Australian and Indonesia have a wealth of indigenous languages, yet a single language dominates public life and, of course, publishing. These writers share the role of indigenous language in their lives and their art.
The View From Here
Tat Tvam Asi
Tethered Travel
Side By Side
11:30–12:45 Neka Museum Featuring: Janet Steele, Voranai Vanijaka, Desi Anwar, Amanda Lee Koe Will we remember 2016 as the year everything changed? What effect will global events such as Brexit, the US election, and increased acts of terrorism have on Southeast Asia? Is there a divide, or are we all in it together? We pause to consider the view from here.
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11:30–12:45 Indus Restaurant Featuring: Rucina Ballinger, Hotlin Ompusunggu, Dinny Jusuf, Mehjabeen Abidi-Habib, Tanya Evanson From the terrestrial to the celestial, Tat Tvam Asi – or ‘I am you, you are me’ – is our 2016 theme. In a year of political upheavals, rising violence, and the mass movement of peoples, Tat Tvam Asi urges us to look into one another and recognise ourselves.
10:15–11:15 Joglo @ Taman Baca Featuring: Gill Westaway,Bruce Pascoe, Made Sugianto, Triyanto Triwikromo, Ellen Van Neerven
11:30–12:45 Taman Baca Featuring: Samantha Brown, Heather Ellis, Mayank Austen Soofi, Richard Loseby, Tony Wheeler
11:30–12:45 Joglo @ Taman Baca Featuring: Diana Greentree, Bonni Rambatan, Panida Tancharoen
From Airbnb to Google Maps: has the internet robbed travel of its romance and adventure? Has the great unknown been replaced by TripAdvisor and daily Facebook updates? Pack your bag for a trip along the open road, then and now.
When natural disasters strike, we’re all in it together. Hear from two artists whose work with the HANDs! project is uniting young people from across Asia and equipping the next generation in disaster preparedness.
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DAY 1
Thursday, 27 October Magda Szubanski: Reckoning
13:00–14:00 Neka Museum Featuring: Magda Szubanski, Michael Veitch “If you had met my father you would never, not for an instant, have thought he was an assassin.” One of Australia’s best-loved performers takes the UWRF stage to reflect on her blockbuster memoir, Reckoning.
14:15–15:30 Neka Museum Featuring: Janet DeNeefe, Jenny Niven, Hélder Beja, Michael Williams What brought you here today? Are you a seasoned festival fiend or an intrepid first-timer? A group of global festival-makers, including the UWRF’s Founder and Director Janet DeNeefe, take a look behind the scenes at the who, what, why and how of creating meaningful, memorable, and mesmerising gatherings.
At The Extreme
15:45–17:00 Neka Museum Featuring: Michael Vatikitiotis, Helon Habila, Gillian Slovo, Andrew Fowler, Wojciech Jagielski With extreme acts hitting the headlines with frightening regularity, our panel asks what drives individuals, communities and movements to extreme action? How can we encounter it, and counter it?
13:00–14:00 Indus Restaurant Featuring: Damon Young, Jeni Caffin In an age of pop-ups, listicles and clickbait, have we forgotten how to read? Does the act demand courage, patience and curiosity? From Asterix to Aristotle, prizewinning philosopher Damon Young challenges us to rediscover the art of reading.
All The Single Ladies
14:15–15:30 Indus Restaurant Featuring: Samantha Brown, Anita Heiss, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, Dahlia Rasyad Single-by-choice, salaryindependent and devoted to solo living, the single woman occupies a more powerful social, political, and economic position than ever before. What does the landscape look like across different cultures? How is it evolving?
Found In Translation
Fact Or Fiction
13:00–14:00 Taman Baca Featuring: David Dyer, Seno Gumira Ajidarma, Louise Doughty Sometimes history can be more astounding than fiction. These writers discuss the struggle to sift fact from myth, and balance the tension between story and truth, without losing the plot!
Paradise Revisited
14:15–15:30 Taman Baca Featuring: I Wayan Juniarta, Made Suar-Timuhun, Ni Made Purnama Sari, Rio Helmi, Russell Darnley
Being The Change
13:00–14:00 Joglo @ Taman Baca Featuring: Kirsti Melville, Jesse Paris Smith,Shandra Woworuntu, Yassmin AbdelMagied, Emmanuela Shinta From brave dreams to bold action and big results, these four activists working in diverse fields – youth advocacy, human trafficking, climate change, deforestation – come together to chart the challenges and triumphs of making change in the world.
Reading The Archipelago
14:15–15:30 Joglo @ Taman Baca Featuring: Pam Allen, Triyanto Triwikromo, Royyan Julian, Michael Cathcart, Toni Pollard
From busloads of tourists and bustling beaches, to Balinese Hinduism and a global voice, Bali is a place that knows how to adapt. Join this highspirited session for a look at Bali life, and what it means to be a modern Balinese citizen.
Last year, we explored the 17,000 islands of imagination. Set sail again beyond Jakarta and Bali with these translators and curators to hear how the Festival’s Emerging Writers Program has revealed a treasure trove of Indonesian literature.
Origin Stories
La Lengua De Cervantes
15:45–17:00 Indus Restaurant Featuring: Jenny Niven, Susana Moriera Marques, Jennifer Lindsay, Pam Allen
15:45–17:00 Taman Baca Featuring: Kirsti Melville, Sami Shah, Eka Kurniawan, Damon Young, Sidik Nugroho
Works in translation are hotter than ever, with readers hungry to discover new voices. Get the lowdown on how a book makes its way into other languages, the effect it can have on authors’ careers, and discover where to find the next breakthrough writer!
Biff ! Pow! Sock! Thump! Comic books, pulp fiction, superhero yarns and ghost stories: the much-loved fictions of our youth are often masterclasses in storytelling. Listen in as these authors tell us how their childhood obsessions became lifelong influences.
15:45–17:00 Joglo @ Taman Baca Featuring: Juan Pablo Villalobos, Ananda Sukarlan Widely recognised as the greatest writer in the Spanish language, Miguel de Cervantes’ influence is felt across many art forms to this day. Indonesian pianist Ananda Sukarlan and Mexican novelist Juan Pablo Villalobos consider Cervantes’ immense legacy.
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DAY 2
Friday, 28 October
Thinking Without Borders
09:00–10:15 Neka Museum Featuring: Drew Ambrose, Voranai Vanijaka, Çiler İlhan, Agustinus Wibowo
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Shorelines, state lines, party lines and cultural chasms – the forces that divide us can sometimes feel stronger than those that unite us. In a time of mass migration and mass communication, how can and should we think about borders?
Anastasia Lin: Beauty With Purpose
Camera Obscura
09:00–10:15 Joglo @ Taman Baca Featuring: Ketut Yuliarsa, Prabhu Darmayasa, Sugi Lanus, Donny Harimurti
Youth culture. Politics. Feminism. These ambitious directors and auteurs use their medium to explore controversial themes and tackle taboo topics. Explore the vital world of Indonesian cinema.
From skeletons in the closet, to a desire to tell one’s own version of events, family history is a deep well of story. Hear our panellists on revelation, preservation, and discovery.
For nearly 1,000 years, Balinese Hinduism – a unique blend of animism, ancestral worship, and Indian philosophies – has given the island splendid rituals and inter-faith harmony. What makes Balinese Hinduism so unique?
Ariel Leve: An Abbreviated Life
How We Write
The Child Inside
10:30–11:30 Indus Restaurant Featuring: Michael Cathcart, Ariel Leve
Chinese-born Miss World Canada, Anastasia Lin, made headlines after being barred from China for her outspoken views on the country’s human rights violations. Hear her speak on beauty as a platform for purpose.
“A poet, an artist and a selfappointed troublemaker”, Ariel Leve’s mother created a home with few rules, and fewer boundaries. Leve’s powerful memoir reflects having to be parent to both herself and her mother, and what it has taken to live an unabbreviated life.
Surviving Slavery
Writing Real Lives
In 2001, Shandra Wowuruntu fell victim to the sex trafficking industry. Today, her organisation – Mentari – which helps survivors reintegrate into the community and find meaningful work, has been recognised by the White House. Hear her remarkable story.
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Mystical Bali
09:00–10:15 Taman Baca Featuring: Kirsti Melville, Ariel Leve, Michael Veitch, Magda Szubanski
10:30–11:30 Neka Museum Featuring: Anastasia Lin, Michael Vatikitiotis
11:45–13:00 Neka Museum Featuring: Shandra Woworuntu, Janet Steele
Scratching The Itch
09:00–10:15 Indus Restaurant Featuring: Slamet Rahardjo, Djenar Maesa Ayu, Wregas Bhanuteja, Joko Anwar
11:45–13:00 Indus Restaurant Featuring: Tim Baker, Michael Veitch, Murizal Hamzah, Susana Moriera Marques, Michael Williams Writing about real events and people requires walking a tightrope of truth and imagination. From a spark of inspiration to an in-depth biography, get the skinny on the rewards, responsibilities and risks of writing real lives.
10:30–11:30 Taman Baca Featuring: Ashwini Devare, David S. Abraham, Mayank Austen Soofi, Michaela McGuire, Susanne Gregor What does the writing life look like in 2016? From bedroom to boardroom, coworking to collaborative space, day job to portfolio career, these writers explore what works, what doesn’t, and what’s coming next.
USA In Asia
10:30–11:30 Joglo @ Taman Baca Featuring: Annabel Smith, Ken Spillman, Anita Heiss, Maria Ines Almeida, Bonni Rambatan “It’s no problem for me to write for children. We have a lot in common.” – EB White. From a writer’s most adoring audience to their toughest critics, four festival favourites give us the inside scoop on the art of writing for kids.
Make Art Not War
11:45–13:00 Taman Baca Featuring: Dene Mullen, Endy Bayuni, David S. Abraham, Voranai Vanijaka, Teng Biao
11:45–13:00 Joglo @ Taman Baca Featuring: Diana Greentree, Jesse Paris Smith, The Brothahood, Bri Lee, Kalawai Rap Crew
From military muscle in the South China Sea to protectionist policies, relations between hard-hitting global superpowers US and China have a significant impact on Southeast Asia. Our commentators take stock, and consider what might come next.
Activism isn’t all protest marches, chants and online petitions. Musicians, writers, and artists come together to share how they’re using art to change hearts and minds.
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DAY 2
Friday, 28 October Imagining India
13:15–14:15 Neka Museum Featuring: Ashwini Devare, Melizarani T. Selva, Githa Hariharan, Chris Raja, Amit Chaudhuri In life and on the page, these writers find themselves returning to kaleidoscopic India. Join them for an exploration of ‘Indianness’ at home and abroad, and how India continues to make its way into their work.
14:30–15:45 Neka Museum Featuring: Janet Steele, Endy Bayuni, Andrew Fowler, Stan Grant The UN has called on the media to rethink the barrage of bad news and take a more ‘solutions-focussed’ approach. In a world of 24/7 news, global connectivity, and a war for views, does journalism have a responsibility to offer answers?
Seno Gumira Ajidarma: My Indonesia
16:00–17:00 Neka Museum Featuring: Seno Gumira Ajidarma, Rio Helmi
An award-winning author, Seno’s work spans many genres, drawing from Indonesia’s ancient myths as well as its modern political turmoils. Hear his insights on the world’s third-largest democracy, and its future course.
13:15–14:15 Indus Restaurant Featuring: Mitchell S. Jackson, Steven Gale
Reporting From the Edge
13:15–14:15 Taman Baca Featuring: Wojciech Jagielski
Mitchell S. Jackson’s remarkable journey from drug dealer to author inspired in his vivid debut, The Residue Years. This coming-of-age tale rockets the reader into the intersection of race and poverty in Portland, Oregon, and shines a light on inequality in America.
Journalist Wojciech Jagielski has won acclaim for his reporting from some of the world’s most dangerous and divided regions. Reflecting on time spent in the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Africa, he shares his thoughts on the farreaching impacts of war and terror, and our responsibilities to each other in times of trouble.
Beyond Exile
UWRF Book Club
14:30–15:45 Indus Restaurant Featuring: Diana Greentree, Çiler İlhan, Tenzin Cheogyal, Anastasia Lin Exile, statelessness, displacement… these experiences have created stories of immense loss, but also of great resilience and insight into human grace and dignity. Join writers from Turkey, Tibet and China to consider the nature and impact of exile.
Daughters of a Diaspora
16:00–17:00 Indus Restaurant Featuring: Step Vaessen, Emi Mahmoud, Yassmin Abdel-Magied From Sudan to the world – these inspirational writers left the country of their birth, and became activists and human rights advocates on opposite sides of the globe. Hear them share their extraordinary journeys.
14:30–15:45 Taman Baca Featuring: Annabel Smith, Charlotte Wood, Mayank Austen Soofi, Jill Dawson, Kadek Sonia Piscayanti Listen in as our Festival guests debate their latest literary loves, lusts, and loathes, and the books they can’t wait to get their hands on. Join us for this celebration of reading, and get the top tips for a title or two to add to your reading pile.
Mother Nature
13:15–14:15 Joglo @ Taman Baca Featuring: Tom Owen Edmunds, Panut Hadisiswoyo, Bayu Wirayudha, Emmanuela Shinta Should we extend our compassion to all beings? Join these extraodinary activists and authors for a conversation on compassion for the natural world, the next moves in sustainability, and how to bring conservation to common man and common ground.
Susana Moreira Marques: At The End
14:30–15:45 Joglo @ Taman Baca Featuring: Susana Moriera Marques, Michael Vatikitiotis Accompanying a palliative care team, Susana Moreira Marques travelled to a forgotten corner of northern Portugal, a rural area abandoned by the young. Insightful and philosophical, her work invites us to consider our own mortality and inspires us to think about what is important, now and at the end.
Evolving English
16:00–17:00 Taman Baca Featuring: Gill Westaway, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, Ratih Kumala, Leila S. Chudori, Mitchell S. Jackson English has always been an adaptive lingua franca. As our communications grow ever more global, the English language continues its dynamic evolution. Writers from Indonesia, Singapore, and the USA, take us inside their English.
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Should Journalism Be Constructive?
Mitchell S. Jackson: The Residue Years
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Saturday, 29 October
Beyond the Front Page
09:00–10:15 Neka Museum Featuring: Drew Ambrose, Desi Anwar, Pallavi Aiyar, Leila S. Chudori, Andrew Fowler
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Go beyond the headlines and get stuck into the day’s debates as the Festival’s journalists and commentators take an indepth look at what’s making the local, national and global news.
Lionel Shriver: The Mandibles
The Self and I
09:00–10:15 Indus Restaurant Featuring: Adam Breasley, Kamila Shamsie, Amanda Lee Koe, Arung Wardhana Ellhafifie, Çiler İlhan Is there any bigger question than the question of self ? What shapes our identity? Writers from Indonesia, Singapore, Pakistan and Turkey debate how ‘self ’ comes into being – from nature vs nurture, to education, geography and imagination.
Juan Pablo Villalobos: Down The Rabbit Hole
10:30–11:30 Neka Museum Featuring: Steven Gale, Lionel Shriver
10:30–11:30 Indus Restaurant Featuring: Michael Cathcart, Juan Pablo Villalobos
Known for her insightful fiction-meets-social commentary, Lionel Shriver joins us to discuss her 12th novel, The Mandibles. Imagining a dystopian US following economic collapse, Shriver lays bare the brutality and fragility of human nature.
Serving up generous helpings of dark humour with stories of class, history, politics, and violence, Juan Pablo Villalobos takes us inside a prismatic Mexico, rich with tales of shadow and unexpected moments of light.
Making America Great Again?
China, Outspoken
11:45–13:00 Neka Museum Featuring: Janet Steele, Mitchell S. Jackson, Baz Dreisinger, Suki Kim, David S. Abraham A rapid-fire war of words, ideas, and party lines: the US election sends voters to the polls a week after the Festival ends. Our writers debate the controversies, calamities, and cock-ups of the campaign, and what things might look like when the dust settles. 18
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11:45–13:00 Indus Restaurant Featuring: Adam Breasley, Teng Biao, Anastasia Lin Between speech and silence: activist Anastasia Lin, and human rights lawyer Teng Biao, consider the current state of free expression in China. Where is it heading, what is lost, and what does the future hold?
Prison and the Pen
09:00–10:15 Taman Baca Featuring: Diana Greentree, Baz Dreisinger, Mitchell S. Jackson, Arnold Zable Connection, compassion, and creativity. For those on the inside, writing can offer the chance to tell their own story, and to imagine a world beyond the bars.
The Good Samaritan
10:30–11:30 Taman Baca Featuring: Rucina Ballinger, Robert Epstone From walking the world, to helping rural villages get better sanitation, examine the meaning of Tat Tvam Asi, or ‘I am you, you are me’, through the lens of the humanitarian efforts of these groundbreaking activists working in Bali today.
Eternal Indonesia
11:45–13:00 Taman Baca Featuring: Stanley Harsha, Madelaine Dickie, Ian Burnet, Jennifer Lindsay Wild jungles. Ancient cultures. Diverse beliefs. Indonesia casts a powerful spell on the visitor. Listen in as these writers reveal how the archipelago has captured their imagination, influenced their lives and works, and what keeps them coming back.
Inside the Echo Chamber
09:00–10:15 Joglo @ Taman Baca Featuring: Annabel Smith, Deasy Tirayoh, Bri Lee, Mayank Austen Soofi, In a digital age of immediate and intimate connectivity, is our world view really expanding? Is our capacity for empathy and understanding on the rise? Or are we simply stuck inside self-created echo chambers, full of people just like us?
The Ground Beneath Our Feet
10:30–11:30 Joglo @ Taman Baca Featuring: Step Vaessen, Warih Wisatsana, Tenzin Cheogyal, Mehjabeen Abidi-Habib, Bruce Pascoe Home is common ground. We’re born to it, walk upon it, and to be displaced can equal homelessness or statelessness. Join a powerful discussion of body, geography, and connection.
The Spell of Poetry
11:45–13:00 Joglo @ Taman Baca Featuring: Kadek Sonia Piscayanti, Jeet Thayil, Joko Sucipto, Nersalya Renata, Ellen Van Neerven Poetry makes language strange, and – in doing so – remakes the world so we may encounter it anew. Hear these poets on the art of language, and explore why we return to poetry in all its myriad forms.
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Saturday, 29 October
Cinematic Indonesia
13:15–14:15 Neka Museum Featuring: Joko Anwar, Slamet Rahardjo, Wregas Bhanuteja, Richard Oh
Stan Grant: Talking to My Country
13:15–14:15 Indus Restaurant Featuring: Stan Grant, Michael Williams
Indonesian cinema has taken the pulse of a nation, a visual tribute to its struggles and triumphs. These influential filmmakers discuss how indonesian film has shaped and narrated the evolution of Indonesian identity.
Race, identity and the soul of a nation: join Wiradjuri man and esteemed journalist Stan Grant for a discussion on childhood, career and country. A powerful and timely interrogation of Australia, its indigenous heritage, and its future.
It Chooses You
Screen Addicts
“Talent is only 10%. The rest is obsession,” says poet Selima Hill. For these writers, obsession – be it historical, cultural, or physical – has played a defining role. What happens when you become immersed in a subject you can’t let go – or won’t let you go?
Charlotte Wood: The Natural Way of Things
14:30–15:45 Indus Restaurant Featuring: Dewi Lestari, Triyanto Triwikromo, Elizabeth Pisani Facebook, Twitter and Pokemon Go! – Indonesia is addicted to the screen. Listen in as these best-selling authors talk the trials and tribulations of bringing literature to public attention in the screenobsessed world.
Baz Dreisinger: Incarceration Nations
16:00–17:00 Neka Museum Featuring: Charlotte Wood, Steven Gale
16:00–17:00 Indus Restaurant Featuring: Baz Dreisinger, Drew Ambrose
“You can’t shake off this novel, it gets under your skin, fills your lungs, breaks your heart.” – Christos Tsiolkas. Winner of the 2016 Stella Prize, Charlotte Wood, discusses her career and her extraordinary latest novel, The Natural Way of Things.
Go behind-the-bars with Baz Dreisinger’s unflinching portrait of the prisons and prisoners of nine different countries – from Africa to Europe. Driesinger challenges us to interrogate the nature of justice, punishment and forgiveness.
13:15–14:15 Taman Baca Featuring: Tom Owen Edmunds, Mehjabeen Abidi-Habib, Panut Hadisiswoyo, Tim Baker, Paul Hardisty It makes up 60% of the human body and covers nearly 70% of the earth’s surface. With rising sea levels, increasing temperatures and changing weather patterns, water shapes our world and our politics. How will it shape our future?
Dalam Bahasa Indonesia
13:15–14:15 Joglo @ Taman Baca Featuring: Ketut Yuliarsa, Elizabeth Pisani, Gemi Mohawk, Jennifer Lindsay
Get to know the language of Indonesia in all its richness and complexity. What are the things it is only possible to say in Indonesian? A group of writers and translators get intimate with Bahasa Indonesia and tell us why (and when!) no other language will do.
The Past is Present
14:30–15:45 Taman Baca Featuring: Juan Pablo Villalobos, E. Rokajat Asura, Arnold Zable, Jill Dawson, Jeni Caffin
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14:30–15:45 Neka Museum Featuring: Djenar Maesa Ayu, Hannah Kent, Nino Ricci, David Dyer, Mark O’Toole
The Tipping Point
Forget blackboards and musty textbooks, strap in for a super-charged history lesson where we consider how (and why) literature can keep us from repeating the mistakes of history.
Cooking the Books
16:00–17:00 Taman Baca Featuring: Valli Little, Evi O., Jeni Caffin High-gloss, seductivelystyled, and jam-packed with drool-inducing recipes you’re possibly never going to attempt: cookbooks are more covetable than ever. Author Valli Little and designer Evi O. join forces to take us behind-the-scenes of the culinary kingdoms.
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DAY 4
Sunday, 30 October I, Migrant
09:00–10:15 Neka Museum Featuring: Step Vaessen, Sami Shah, Chris Raja, Githa Hariharan, Gillian Slovo Migration can transform lives and define nations in both anticipated and unexpected ways. How has a migrant identity shaped these writers’ lives both on and off the page? How has writing about their experience helped them to make sense of it?
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In Their Skin
09:00–10:15 Taman Baca Featuring: I Wayan Juniarta, Prabhu Darmayasa, Elizabeth Inandiak, Tenzin Cheogyal, Sugi Lanus
One of the thrills of reading is slipping inside a new character’s skin. What’s it like for the author, especially if that character’s life is vastly different to their own? From research to role play discover how these writers tackle gender, race, sexuality and more.
From Hindu epics to the palm leaf texts, these writers encourage us to dive deep and discover the mystic, sensual, and revelatory qualities of our ancient works, and show just how relevant they are to the modern world.
Helon Habila: The Chibok Girls
The Look of the Book
10:30–11:30 Neka Museum Featuring: Kirsti Melville, Hanya Yanagihara
10:30–11:30 Indus Restaurant Featuring: Michael Cathcart, Helon Habila
Searing, insightful, unflinching: Hanya Yanagihara’s novel A Little Life has made an indelible impression on readers the world over. She joins Kirsti Melville for a conversation on friendship, art, and legacies both terrible and sublime.
On 15 April, 2014, 267 girls from the Chibok Secondary School in northern Nigeria were kidnapped by Boko Haram. Acclaimed Nigerian novelist Helon Habila shares the personal stories of some the girls who survived, and reveals the turmoil present in the country.
Home
Forgiveness is a Practice
11:45–13:00 Neka Museum Featuring: Michael Vatikiotis, Githa Hariharan, Reggie Baay, Dimas Indiana Senja, Stan Grant
11:45–13:00 Indus Restaurant Featuring: Baz Dreisinger, Shandra Woworuntu, Ariel Leve, Rio Helmi
What does home mean? Is it a place? Is it where the heart is? How does home change when we choose to leave a place, versus being forced to leave? And, once you’ve left, can ever you go home again?
It’s easy to say, but harder to do. In 2015, Mpho Tutu told us: “forgiveness is a practice”. Join three authors for an intimate and personal exploration of the legacy of trauma, and the transformative role of forgiveness in society and for the self.
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Ancient Texts
09:00–10:15 Indus Restaurant Featuring: Annabel Smith, Louise Doughty, Azri Zakkiyah, Amanda Lee Koe, Arnold Zable
10:30–11:30 Taman Baca Featuring: Jenny Niven, Evi O., Nino Ricci, Monez Gusmang Lustworthy, lurid, eye-catching or cryptic: a book’s design can make or break its reception. An author, a book designer and a publisher reveal just what goes on to create the look of the book.
Island Lore
11:45–13:00 Taman Baca Featuring: Ketut Yuliarsa, Soetan Radjo Pamoentjak, Boni Chandra, Joseph Rio Jovian Haminoto, Royyan Julian Rich with local lore, legendary beasts and mythical monsters, listen in as writers from the far corners of the Indonesian archipelago explore the culture of their regions and its impact on their storytelling.
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DAY 4
Sunday, 30 October
Desi Anwar: Talking Points
13:15–14:15 Neka Museum Featuring: Desi Anwar, Rio Helmi
Known as one of the country’s brightest anchorwomen, Desi Anwar has played a pivotal role in making TV the news medium of choice for most Indonesians. Join the conversation as Desi, who has never shied away from posing the difficult questions herself, gives us her thoughts on how TV – and technology in general – has reshaped the role of women in Indonesia, particularly in relation to its predominantly-Muslim identity.
Darkness and Light
Hannah Kent: The Good People
13:15–14:15 Indus Restaurant Featuring: Michael Cathcart, Hannah Kent Hannah Kent’s bestselling debut novel, Burial Rites, was translated into over 20 languages and lauded around the globe. Be among the first to hear from this impressive talent on the publication of her much-anticipated new book, The Good People.
The State of The Union
Poetry Gets Loud
13:15–14:15 Taman Baca Featuring: Jenny Niven, Kadek Sonia Piscayanti, Philip Wilcox, Tanya Evanson, Michael Pedersen Where literature collides with rap and rock’n’roll, discover the delights of performance poetry: loud, proud and often provocative. Featuring some of the Festival’s most exciting poets.
The Power of Story
14:30–15:45 Indus Restaurant Featuring: Dene Mullen, Pallavi Aiyar, and others
14:30–15:45 Taman Baca Featuring: Reggie Baay, Jeet Thayil, Nino Ricci, Ellen Van Neerven
What draws writers to write about the darker aspects of human experience – violence, manipulation, torture? What keeps us reading? These writers reveal how they go there, and why it’s essential to do so.
Earlier this year, Brexit rocked the UK, the EU, and the world, shaking foundations already destabilised by economic inequality, racial tensions, the mass migration of refugees, and the rise of right-wing political movements. What’s next for the EU?
“Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.” – Anne Lamott. Join these writers to discuss why stories matter.
Open Road, Open Book
Shining a Light
Mother Tongue
16:00–17:00 Neka Museum Featuring: Tom Owen Edmunds, Richard Loseby, Heather Ellis, Agustinus Wibowo, Jamie James The promise of the open road and the far horizon… global nomad or armchair adventurer, we all know the call of distant lands. Hop on board as these travel writers take you behind the scenes of their journeys through Africa, Asia and beyond.
16:00–17:00 Indus Restaurant Featuring: Kamila Shamsie, Paul Hardisty, Annabel Smith, Helon Habila, Jeni Caffin
16:00–17:00 Taman Baca Featuring: I Wayan Juniarta, Made Sugianto, Rucina Ballinger, Ni Putu Rastiti
Terrorism. War. Political turbulence. Climate change. Environmental devastation. When the news is too much to bear, fiction can help us to grapple with the big issues.
Overwhelmed by English and dominated by Bahasa, many say the Balinese language has reached the brink of extinction. Listen in as these speakers argue the case for Balinese, and why the language is very much still alive.
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14:30–15:45 Neka Museum Featuring: Steven Gale, Hanya Yanagihara, Charlotte Wood, Eka Kurniawan
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Bahasa Breakfast
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27 October IDR 150,000*
08:00–08:45 Joglo @ Taman Baca
Kick-start your Festival day with Balinese treats and coffee, while learning the basics of Bahasa Indonesia. Learn key greetings, the dos and don’ts, as well as useful Indonesian phrases that will ensure you’re set for the UWRF adventure ahead – from how to order a glass of wine, to telling your new fave writer how much you loved their panel session. *Includes Balinese sweets + coffee
A New York Night with Hanya Yanagihara
27 October 19:00–22:00 IDR 1,000,000 Room4Dessert Featuring: Hanya Yanagihara
Head to Ubud’s own slice of NYC for an intimate chat with Hanya Yanagihara. Hosting this one-of-a-kind author for one night only, Room4Dessert’s chefs will prepare a special family-style menu inspired by the locations and characters of A Little Life. Intimate, delicious, unmissable.
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Foreign Correspondents’ Lunch
27 October 12:00–15:00 IDR 800,000* Plataran Featuring: Stan Grant, Andrew Fowler, Pallavi Aiyar, Wojciech Jagielski, Step Vaessen Whether reporting from exotic locales or the world’s trouble spots, the life of a foreign correspondent is never dull. Over lunch with a backdrop of a lush, Ubudian jungle hear from these globetrotting journalists about life on the road and the lessons they’ve learned along the way. *Includes three-course lunch, choice of beer, wine or juice
Basa Bali Breakfast 28 October IDR 150,000*
08:00–08:45 Joglo @ Taman Baca
Kick-start your Festival day with Balinese treats and coffee, while learning the basics of Basa Bali. Learn key greetings, the dos and don’ts, as well as useful phrases that will ensure you’re set for the UWRF adventure ahead – from how to order a glass of wine, to telling your new fave writer how much you loved their panel session. *Includes Balinese sweets + coffee
Women of Letters
27 October 19:00–21:00 IDR 350,000 Indus Restaurant Featuring: Gillian Slovo, Elizabeth Pisani, Louise Doughty, Desi Anwar, Susana Moriera Marques, Jenny Niven A literary fixture in Australia and the USA, this unique evening celebrates the lost art of letter writing with a handpicked selection of Festival guests asked to write, and read, a letter to the audience. Candid, intimate, funny, moving – these are letters shared for your ears only.
Lunch with Magda Szubanski
28 October 11:30–14:00 IDR 1,000,000* Maya Ubud Resort & Spa Featuring: Magda Szubanski Heartbreaking, joyous, intimate, and revelatory, Reckoning is the book where Magda Szubanski, one of Australia’s most beloved performers, tells her story. Now a multi-award winning memoirist, Magda will take us inside the pages of her life over a delicious Maya lunch. *Includes three-course lunch, welcome drink + glass of wine
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Talking Fiction with Lionel Shriver
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28 October 17:00–18:30 IDR 750,000* Mozaic Featuring: Lionel Shriver Lauded by readers and critics alike, Lionel Shriver has given us some of the most acclaimed and compelling works of fiction of recent years. Raise a glass and join an intimate cocktail hour of books, writing, and wisdom with a true master. *Includes welcome martini + canapes
People of Letters
28 October 19:00–21:00 IDR 350,000 Indus Restaurant Featuring: Jeet Thayil, Arnold Zable, Anita Heiss, Joseph Rio Jovian Haminoto, David Dyer, Janet Steele A literary fixture in Australia and the USA, this unique evening celebrates the lost art of letter writing. A handpicked selection of Festival guests will share ‘A Letter To The Thing I Wish I’d Written’. Candid, intimate, funny, moving – and absolutely for your ears only.
Long Table Dinner
28 October 19:00–22:00 IDR 750,000* Desa Visesa Ubud Featuring: Chris Raja, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, Çiler İlhan, Leila S. Chudori, Mayank Austen Soofi, Ratih Kumala, Russell Darnley, Susanne Gregor Eat, drink, and enjoy the finest literary company while savouring sumptuous Indonesian dishes. Join fellow book-lovers and extraordinary writers from around the world for an evening of unforgettable cuisine and conversation. *Includes welcome drink, three-course dinner + glass of wine, beer or soft drink
Morning Meditation
29 October 07:30–08:30 Free, with registration Taman Baca
Ready your mind and (bookish!) spirit for the day ahead with a special morning meditation at tranquil Taman Baca. Led by Balinese spiritual teacher Prabhu Darmayasa, whose widely-published works include the recent translation of the Bhagavad-gita into Indonesian, this is your chance to start the day with the sacred.
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Bahasa Breakfast 29 October IDR 150,000*
08:00–08:45 Joglo @ Taman Baca
Kick-start your Festival day with Balinese treats and coffee, while learning the basics of Bahasa Indonesia. Learn key greetings, the dos and don’ts, as well as useful Indonesian phrases that will ensure you’re set for the UWRF adventure ahead – from how to order a glass of wine, to telling your new fave writer how much you loved their panel session. *Includes balinese sweets + coffee
The Traveller’s Lunch
29 October 12:00–15:00 IDR 950,000* Alila Featuring: Samantha Brown, Richard Loseby, Heather Ellis, Jamie James Indulge your inner nomad with tales from near and far over a sumptuous lunch in the breathtaking surrounds of Alila. Join Jamie James, author of The Glamour of Strangeness, Richard Loseby, chronicler of Afghanistan and China, and Heather Ellis, who travelled across Africa by motorcycle. Now boarding! *Includes three-course lunch + glass of wine
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Around the World in 80 Bites
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29 October 18:30–21:30 IDR 1,200,000* bridges Featuring: Juan Pablo Villalobos, Helon Habila, Nino Ricci, Amanda Lee Koe, Kamila Shamsie, Dewi Lestari The best stories take us places. Enjoy an evening of exquisite bridges’ fare, and let your imagination take flight as Festival authors from Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Canada, and Singapore guide you on a journey around the globe.
Late Night Laughs
29 October 22:00–24:00 Free Casa Luna Restaurant Featuring: Sami Shah It’s time to let loose with some late night laughs at Casa Luna. Described as ‘a swaggering dynamo’ by the New York Times, and ‘stylish, cynical, brutally newsy, bitingly funny’ by the Sunday Telegraph, Sami Shah brings his trademark insight and humour to the Festival stage.
*Includes three-course dinner with wine pairing
A Delicious Journey
30 October 09:30–12:00 IDR 350,000* Casa Luna Featuring: Valli Little Arriving in Australia 40 years ago – fresh from her Cordon Bleu training in London – Valli Little was confronted by a lack of fresh produce, and an early meal of mince on toast! Since then, she’s been at the centre of a food revolution as a writer and editor at delicious. magazine and author of 12 cherished cookbooks. She shares her food journey over a mouth-watering brunch at Casa Luna. *Includes brunch + free-flow Bali coffee
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Literary Jalan-Jalan
30 October 08:00–11:00 IDR 500,000 Meet at Taman Baca Featuring: Damon Young, Lionel Shriver, Mehjabeen Abidi-Habib, Charlotte Wood, Paul Hardisty, Susana Moriera Marques A morning walk to remember, join some of the Festival’s finest storytellers for a literary jalan-jalan – Indonesian for ‘wander’ – along Penestanan’s hidden paths and through lush rice fields to Moksa’s restaurant and permaculture garden. Over a delicious brunch, listen in to tales from near and far.
Look Who’s Coming to Lunch
30 October 10:00–12:00 Free Event Desa Visesa Ubud Featuring: Djenar Maesa Ayu, Triyanto Triwikromo, Putu Fajar Arcana
30 October 12:00–15:00 IDR 2,000,000* Locavore Featuring: Suki Kim, Louise Doughty, David Dyer, Agustinus Wibowo, Elizabeth Pisani
Buka jendela sastra Indonesia dan kupas perjalanannya bersama Djenar Maesa Ayu, penulis yang selalu menerima banyak pujian, dan Triyanto Triwikromo, sastrawan Indonesia pemenang penghargaan. Dipandu oleh Putu Fajar Arcana, editor Kompas yang sejak lama menjadi saksi kancah sastra Indonesia.
Nab your reservation to Ubud’s highlylauded, hot-ticket restaurant, Locavore. An intimate lunch, with an unforgettable degustation, this is an imagination-meetsfine-dining mash-up, where foodie dreams collide with the fine minds of our Festival favourites.
Sesi dalam Bahasa Indonesia. Didukung oleh Kompas
*Includes five-course lunch + three amuses + drink
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Remembering Made Wijaya 30 Oct 17:15–18:45 Indus Restaurant
Free Event
Renowned architect and author Made Wijaya was beloved in Bali by the expatriate community and Balinese alike, and his death in September shocked many who had known him as a ‘larger than life’ community member. His passion for the place, its architecture, and rituals informed his writing and his distinctive garden designs. Friends and contemporaries gather to remember his life and celebrate his legacy.
Photo by Rio Helmi
Satellite Program
The Satellite Program is a core initiative of the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival and the Yayasan Mudra Swari Saraswati. Each year, the Festival takes a select group of international writers to visit cities and towns across the vast Indonesian archipelago, to take part in an array of readings, workshops, and events with local audiences, authors, and artists.
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Held in the days immediately following the Festival, the program aims to introduce the international writers to the rich artistic and cultural diversity of Indonesia, as well as providing a valuable opportunity for local writers to establish a network of co-operation with their colleagues abroad. The Festival is passionate about promoting and supporting Indonesia’s literary and artistic communities. The UWRF Satellite Program creates highly valuable cross-cultural exchange and dialogue, and truly embodies the broader purpose of the Yayasan Mudra Swari Saraswati. This year the Satellite Program will take place in Palu, Medan, Pontianak, Bandung, Surabaya, and Jakarta from 30 October–2 November. The writers involved include Mitchell S. Jackson (USA), Suki Kim (USA), Emi Mahmoud (USA), Bri Lee (Australia), Hannah Kent (Australia), and Neu! Reekie! (Scotland).
Supported by Embassy of the United States, Australia Council for the Arts, Creative Scotland and the British Council
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Workshops
WORKSHOPS
Editorial Workshop
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Come to Your Senses
International IDR 650,000 Resident IDR 450,000 Indonesian IDR 250,000
Poetry & Performance
27 October 13:00–16:00 Kori Ubud Featuring: Endy Bayuni
27 October 13:00–16:00 Taksu Spa & Restaurant Featuring: Shelley Kengisberg
28 October 09:00–12:00 Taksu Spa & Restaurant Featuring: Tanya Evanson
The Jakarta Post’s senior editor and a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 2003-4, Endy Bayuni will share the elements necessary to pen a sharp, robust, and poignant commentary before leading you in the basics of penning and publishing an opinion piece or column.
Appealing to your readers’ five senses is a powerful way to let them experience the world you’re creating and describing. In this workshop, learn how to tune into your observations and insights to create a rich, sense-filled piece of writing, be it short or long form, fiction or non-fiction.
This workshop traverses silence and sound in the creation of spoken word. Meditation, investigation, magical editing and unique vocal exercises turn quiet literature into loud oratory that is unleashed in a non-competitive spoken word cabaret. Requirements: passion, patience, paper, pencil, mind, body, and voice.
Writing Every Day
Action!
The Writing Ritual – Find Your Creative Process
28 October 14:00–17:00 The Samaya Ubud Featuring: Susanne Gregor
28 October 14:00–17:00 Kori Ubud Featuring: Alicia Walsh
How do you integrate writing into every day life? How can you balance having a job, kids, and writing? Join this workshop to discover time management techniques for creatives, along with writing tools and techniques that work under the pressure of everyday life.
All stories start from an idea, an observation, a feeling, but not all stories stay on a page. This workshop takes participants through a series of creative exercises as we develop from scratch a short screen idea on the page using various sources, experimenting with words to create story and emotion through action and pictures.
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29 October 09:00–12:00 Taksu Spa & Restaurant Featuring: Petra Kamula
Get started, get unstuck, and learn how to develop your creative process and writing rituals. In this workshop, experiment with different techniques, investigate the ways other writers create and work, workshop your project, and discover how to nurture and tailor your own writing style and habits.
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Surf & Travel Writing
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Research for Novelists
International IDR 650,000 Resident IDR 450,000 Indonesian IDR 250,000
Writing Funny
29 October 09:00–12:00 Hubud Featuring: Tim Baker
29 October 09:00–12:00 Kori Ubud Featuring: Jill Dawson
29 October 14:00–17:00 Plataran Ubud Hotel & Spa Featuring: Sami Shah
Surf and travel are ripe subjects for storytelling. Learn the craft with biographer, author, and editor Tim Baker as he introduces exercises to get you writing – and explains why writing and editing should always be separate processes – whether for publication or simply your own pleasure.
What kind of research do you need for historical fiction or to write novels about places, eras or professions you know little about? Find out from Jill Dawson whose own nine novels travel from peasant revolts in 1816 to autism in 19th century France through court cases in 1920s Britain, up to murder in 1960s England. A fun and inclusive workshop suitable for anyone interested in writing a novel, whatever stage they’re at.
Perfect your punchlines with awardwinning comedian, author of I, Migrant, and regular ABC Radio National broadcaster, Sami Shah. Sami will teach you to see the humour in almost any situation, and how to use this in your work to tickle those funny bones.
True Stories
The Elements of Story
Visual Storytelling
29 October 14:00–17:00 The Samaya Ubud Featuring: Michael Veitch
29 October 14:00–17:00 Desa Visesa Ubud Featuring: Chris Raja
30 October 08:30–11:30 Taksu Spa & Restaurant Featuring: Agustinus Wibowo
Discover the art of drawing out untold stories from living participants, capturing oral history, and telling true tales. Michael Veitch will share his techniques for approaching people and encouraging them to tell their story, often for the first time, and the storyteller’s skill of inviting the reader to share the moment of discovery.
Join author Christopher Raja as he guides you through the key elements of story. Bring along a piece of writing, project, or story idea to develop in a supportive and positive environment while exploring setting, character development, plot, and publication, and how these essential elements work together in your storytelling.
Learn how to tell your story through the lens. Join acclaimed photographer and travel writer Agustinus Wibowo as he guides you through this workshop on creating a photographic essay, including how to frame, compose, and discover the narratives through your camera.
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Cultural Workshops
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2. Village Cycling Tour
Awaken your senses with a guided tour through iconic the Ubud market and learn about the herbs and spices used in ceremonial and everyday Balinese dishes. Return to the cooking school to help prepare a lavish Balinese feast, with a glass or two of local rice wine or chilled hibiscus tea.
Venture outside of Ubud and discover the surrounding villages, and stunning mountain views. Covering both flat and downhill terrain, explore traditional homes, temple compounds, and farms to get a taste of local life.
27 Oct 08:00–13:00 Casa Luna
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27 Oct 09:30–13:00 Desa Visesa Ubud
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28 Oct 10:00–14:00 Nirvana Studio
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3. Balinese Permaculture Tour 28 Oct 10:00–13:00 Desa Visesa Ubud
IDR 600,000
On this farm tour, find out how the Balinese have merged local knowledge with contemporary permaculture practices to improve produce and farming. Discover how farmers use Bali’s unique calendar system, observing auspicious days for rice planting, composting, and ‘mejukutan’. Finish with a cooking demonstration and lunch at Warung Tani.
5. Culinary Jalan-Jalan Walking Tour 29 Oct 06:00–09:00 Casa Luna
IDR 350,000
Try your hand at one of the iconic Indonesian art forms with Nyoman Suradnya, a renowned batik artist. He’ll reveal the story of batik and demonstrate techniques and processes for painting with canting and brush, hand colouring and dip-dyeing, dyeing sequence, and wax removal, so you can produce a beautiful batik painting. Price includes materials and lunch.
Join our intrepid food guides on a tastesensation walking tour. Visit Ibu Oka, the doyenne of suckling pig, Pak Rimpin, Ubud’s master of bebek betutu (smoked duck), and Pak Sanur, famous for his betutu ayam (braised chicken). Finish by tucking into Balinese breakfast at Casa Luna.
6. The Language of Offerings
7. Herb Walk
Discover the meaning behind the simple offerings made each day in Bali as a tangible means of communicating with the gods. A rare opportunity to learn about the Balinese Hindu beliefs and the rich variety of offerings and ceremonies held on the island.
This workshop will introduce you to the wealth of natural remedies made from herbs and plants that grow wild around Ubud. Guides Lilir and Westi have studied Usada Bali, a traditional Balinese book of healing, and have spent much time researching Balinese plants, as well as using them in their daily lives.
29 Oct 11:00–13:00 Nirvana Studio
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30 Oct 08:00–11:00 Casa Luna
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The Kitchen
the KITCHEN
Tempe with a Twist
P RICE IDR 100,000
Food as Medicine
Wok to Table in a Flash
28 October 09:00–10:30 Toko Toko Featuring: Wida Winarno
28 October 11:00–12:00 Toko Toko Featuring: Janet DeNeefe, Lola Taylor
28 October 12:30–13:30 Toko Toko Featuring: Rima Sjoekri
Kicking off The Kitchen, join Wida Winarno for a tempting take on a classic Indonesian ingredient. Wida – a leading authority on tempe and heritage foods – will show you how to create and cook with green tempe (a more ecologically-friendly tempe technique). Be prepared to sharpen your culinary skills!
Roll up your sleeves for a cooking class with a difference from UWRF Founder & Director Janet DeNeefe and naturopath Lola Taylor. Discover the secrets of ancient Balinese plants and spices, revealing their extraordinary properties – both delicious and health-giving.
Fiery, feisty and delicious: the team from Rasama showcase how to re-invent and simplify Indonesian dishes. Get the inside know-how to wow your guests, without having to spend hours in the kitchen.
Where Style Meets Taste
Raw Food Revolution
28 October 14:00–15:00 Toko Toko Featuring: Valli Little
28 October 15:30–16:30 Toko Toko Featuring: Arif Springs
Senior contributing editor at delicious. magazine and well-known cookbook editor, Valli Little, will show you how to whip up some undeniably delish and stylish dishes – including an escabeche of local fish, pork skewers with foraged salad, and a coconut pannacotta with miso caramel. Drool-inducing.
Sweet-tooth alert! Reimagine your idea of dessert with raw food guru chef Arif Springs. Watch on as the creative force behind Fresh Restaurant at Taksu creates a palate-pleasing chia seed pudding, where everyone gets a taste.
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The Kitchen
the KITCHEN
Coffee in the Making
P RICE IDR 100,000
Sarong Dreaming
Jack in the Hummus
29 October 09:00–10:30 Seniman Coffee Studio IDR 250,000 Featuring: Rodney Glick
29 October 11:00–12:00 Toko Toko Featuring: Tim Bartholomew
29 October 12:30–13:30 Toko Toko Featuring: Reynaldo De Luna
Join Rodney Glick and the team from Seniman Coffee Studio for a coffee workshop like no other. From green bean to rich espresso, you’ll discover how to create the perfect brew. Discover the details of Seniman’s classic slow-drip cold brew, in-house coffee roasting, and more. Get ready to wake up and smell the coffee!
Join us for a trip down culinary memory lane with Tim Bartholomew from trailblazing Ubud restaurant Hujan Locale. Discover a taste-bud-tingling dish of Batak-style snapper ceviche from the archives of chef Will Meyrick’s Sarong Inspirations cookbook.
Southeast Asia meets Middle East cuisine in this cross-cultural cook-up with chef Reynaldo de Luna. Get up close as de Luna unleashes his culinary ingenuity to create the world’s favourite dip, hummus, using jackfruit seeds.
Plant to Plate
Cocktail Hour, Locavore-Style
A Spice Journey: Masterclass and Lunch
29 October 14:00–15:00 Toko Toko Featuring: Made Janur, Made Runatha
29 October 15:30–16:30 Toko Toko Featuring: Raka Ambarawan
Where taste meets philosophy, join Made Janur and chef Made Runantha, the minds behind Moksa, Ubud’s latest plant-based restaurant. From farm, to village, to table, and back again, they’ll highlight signature Balinese ingredients good for the soul and the tastebuds.
It’ll be something to crow about when Raka Ambarawan of much-lauded Locavore, and newly-opened cocktail lounge The Night Rooster, shakes, stirs, and squeezes his way onto the UWRF stage. Don’t miss out on a locally-inspired, world-class tipple from this master mixologist.
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30 October 09:30–11:00 Masterclass only: IDR 180,000 Masterclass and lunch: IDR 400, 000 Alaya Jembawan Resort Featuring: Diana Von Cranach Explore the history of spices, and find out how their trade and taste changed the world. You’ll learn how to choose the perfect spice combo, and apply it to create delicious Indonesian and Asian dishes. Choose to join Diana after wards for a ‘living foods’ three-course lunch.
live MUSIC & ARTS
Live Music & Arts
Pecha Kucha 26 October IDR 50,000
20:30–22:00 Betelnut
Ignite your ideas with a fast and furious Pecha Kucha night at Betelnut. Brave Festival artists step out on stage to share what they’re passionate about in the 20×20 format: 20 images, 20 seconds each. Tickets available at the door.
Women of Words Poetry Slam 27 October 18:00–20:30 Free Event Betelnut Featuring: Illya Sumanto Calling all women of words – take the mic to celebrate strength and sisterhood. Rejoicing in women’s courage and spirituality, bodies and minds, this slam will have you raising your hands and your voice! Supported by Arts for Women/ PWAG Indonesia
Emerging Writers – National Oration
28 October 19:30–20:00 Free Event Taman Baca Featuring: Bri Lee, Gemi Mohawk Join two of our #UWRF16 emerging writers, Gemi Mohawk and Bri Lee, as they celebrate the spirit of Indonesia’s youth, with the annual national youth pledge.
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Makers Market 29 October Free Event
18:00–21:00 Taman Baca
Don’t miss our new UWRF makers market! Discover local artists, indie designers, craftspeople, musicians, and more. With plenty of treasures, handmade goods, and DIY designs, join the after dark crowd at Taman Baca, grab something to munch on, and get browsing!
Poetronica
27 October 21:00–23:00 Free Event Taman Baca Featuring: Dromme, Kalawai Rap Crew, Ni Made Purnama Sari, Jeet Thayil, Warih Wisatsana, Tanya Evanson Don’t miss this UWRF exclusive – a lyrical, multilayered performance where writers and musicians will interact to create a one-of-akind poetry-meets-electronica experience. See these Festival poet’s work transformed by local bands Dromme and Kalawai, live on stage at Taman Baca.
Sunset Sounds
29 October 17:30–19:00 Free Event Taman Baca Featuring: Tenzin Cheogyal, Jesse Paris Smith, Astakosala Volk As night descends over the picturesque Campuhan Ridge, soak up the global sounds of musicians and collaborators Tenzin Cheogyal and Jesse Paris Smith. Evocative, elemental, and transcendent: let yourself be transported.
The Music of Cervantes
28 October 18:00–19:30 Free Event Taman Baca Featuring: Ananda Sukarlan, Mariska Setiawan Celebrating the 400-year legacy of Spanish master author Miguel Cervantes, join Indonesian pianist Ananda Sukarlan and soprano Mariska Setiawan for a journey through his words, as they bring to life his sonnets through music.
Art Alive – Live Drawing with Monez 29 October 19:00–20:00 Free Event Taman Baca Featuring: Monez Gusmang
Join young Balinese illustrator Monez for a stunning, interactive live art show. Using digital art techniques, Monez will guide you through a story about the people-monsters who live in the jungle. Perfect after dark fun at Taman Baca.
Live Music & Arts
Poetry Slam 29 October Free Event
20:00–23:00 Taman Baca
Get prepared to get loud: live literature hits the stage for the 2016 UWRF Poetry Slam. From global poets to local sensations, who’ll win the crowd and who’ll flame out in a blaze of spoken word glory? Closing set by The Brothahood.
UWRF Closing Night Party 30 October Free Event
19:00–22:00 Blanco Renaissance Museum Featuring: Marching Band Universitas Udayana, Svara Samsara, Neu! Reekie!, The Brothahood
Wave Writers: Surf and Stories
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Fringe Events Writing Retreat with Gillian Slovo
24 Oct 10:00–13:00 See description Honeymoon Guesthouse. Jl. Bisma Featuring: Gillian Slovo Join award-winning author Gillian Slovo and publishing expert Angela Robertson for an intimate writing retreat at Honeymoon Guesthouse, the perfect venue to get the creative juices flowing. This course is designed to benefit writers at any stage, whether you are an absolute beginner or working on a novel.
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29 Oct 09:00–11:00 Free Event 3 SMA Terpilih di Bali. Featuring: Norman Erikson Pasaribu, Ni Made Purnama Sari, Cyntha Hariadi Tiga penulis pemenang Sayembara Manuskrip Buku Puisi Dewan Kesenian Jakarta 2015 akan hadir di sekolah terpilih pilihan Kompas Gramedia dan UWRF untuk menginspirasi kalian semua. Mereka akan berbagi pengalaman, tips dan trik dalam menulis puisi. Sekolah yang terpilih akan diumumkan melalui website UWRF. Didukung oleh Kompas Gramedia
27 Oct 18:00–19:00 Free Event Dojo Bali. Jalan Batu Mejan No.88, Canggu Featuring: Madelaine Dickie, Tim Baker Tim Baker and Madelaine Dickie are two authors equally at home in the surf and on the page, with works spanning journalism, biography, travel, and fiction. Join them for a chat exploring the people, places, and stories that have inspired them to write the waves.
28 Oct 18:00–19:30 Free Event Bentara Budaya Bali. Jl. Profesor Ida Bagus Mantra No. 88A, Ketewel, Sukawati Featuring: Dewi Lestari, Ni Made Purnama Sari Temukan Kstaria, Puteri, dan Bintang Jatuh lalu lewati Akar, melawan Petir bersama Partikel menembus Gelombang alam yang dikuasai Intelegensi Embun Pagi. Ini adalah petualangan Dee dalam 15 tahun berkarya.
Kelas Dasar – Dasar Teater & Akting
31 Oct 10:00–15:00 Free Event Fakultas Bahasa dan Seni Undiksha. Jl. Ahmad Yani, Kec. Buleleng Featuring: Iswadi Pratama Dari Teater Satu Lampung yang tersohor, direktur artistik dan aktor, Iswadi Pratama, akan memberikan kelas dasar-dasar teater dan akting. Lokakarya ini adalah acara tidak berbayar bagi mereka yang ingin memulai menjadi seorang aktor dan sutradara. Didukung oleh Kompas Gramedia #UW #UWRF16 RF16
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live MUSIC & ARTS & fringe EVENT
Supported by The Barrett Reid Foundation honouring the late Shelton Lea.
You can’t miss this – the final night of the Festival is an evening of music, dance, and celebration with Festival friends – old and new. Make memories to last a lifetime, or at least until UWRF 2017!
Art Exhibitions
art EXHIBITIONS
Wajah Merah
FREE EVENTS
Linda Kaun – The Power Of You
Bali Underground: Pita Maha And Rudolf Bonnet
22–29 Oct 09:00–22:00 Sika Gallery Opening: 22 October at 20:00
25–30 Oct 08:00–23:00 Casa Luna Opening: 25 October at 19:30
The real work of the artist is a surprise to himself. The term ‘wajah merah’ refers to the spirit of creativity present in the artist. Displaying the works of eight young Balinese artists from the Pion art collective, the exhibition will show that – despite spending their lives in Yogyakarta – the artists still have the spirit of Wajah Merah.
Your true power comes from loving and embracing all the parts of yourself. Join Linda Kaun and her Wise Council – a group of seven figures she met during her inner dialogue process, where she transformed her inner critics into her support team. Read the journey through the accompanying visual journals.
This exhibition will showcase the work of 20 young Indonesian artists, revealing their interpretation of the ‘Pita Maha’ (Great Spirit, Guiding Inspiration), their vision for Bali’s future, and their vision of Tat Tvam Asi. The works draw on diverse Balinese painting styles, including the Batuan, Ubud, Pengosekan, Keliki, Sanur and Kamasan styles.
Toraja Melo
Tat Tvam Asi: Art Exhibition
Lontar: The Palm-Leaf Texts
26–30 Oct 09:00–17:00 Rudolf Bonnet´s House
26–30 Oct 09:00–22:00 Casa Luna Emporium Featuring: Dinny Jusuf
27–30 Oct 09:00–22:00 Taman Baca Opening: 27 October at 18:00–19:00
27–30 Oct 09:00–22:00 Taman Baca Featuring: Sugi Lanus
From the remote mountains of Sulawesi, the weavers of Toraja have rejuvenated the art of the Indonesian back-strap loom and preserved a cultural way of life. Toraja Melo means ‘beautiful Toraja’, and the exhibition will display the lovingly-created fabric, fashion and gifts created by the weavers, and the urban poor communities of Jakarta.
Art collective Militant Arts respond to the 2016 theme, Tat Tvam Asi, through creating paintings and three-dimensional works of sculpture and installation art at the Festival Hub. Keep your eyes peeled for a live mural created over the course of the UWRF itself.
View a unique exhibition of Balinese and Lombok lontar (palm-leaf manuscripts) from the Hanacaraka Society, a local NFP dedicated to the preservation and dissemination of Balinese alphabets, language, and texts. For centuries, lontar served the role of principal record for Balinese spiritual teachings, historical events, local wisdom, and literary works.
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Film Program
FREE EVENTS
1. My Sky, My Home
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Two boys from different backgrounds develop a special friendship by coming to understand their differences. Andri, aged 12, lives a sheltered life, while Gempol lives with his family in a shanty town on the edge of the city and works collecting old paper. One day Gempol sneaks into the school playground and eavesdrops on a lesson. He dreams of being able to go to school, but his tatty appearance leads him to be arrested as a thief.
Melancholy Is A Movement revolves around the ideals of a filmmaker, whose life is interrupted by an incident. Dynamics of friendship, and the need to pay rent, sees the main character accept an offer to make a religious film, a genre the filmmaker has previously avoided. Soon, he finds himself in a trap: can he keep his ideals or will he be dragged into a situation beyond his control?
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28 Oct 14:00–16:00 94 min Indonesia (English subtitles) Betelnut Q&A: Slamet Rahardjo 3
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27 Oct 14:00–16:00 103 min Indonesia (English subtitles) Betelnut Q&A: Slamet Rahardjo
Hasan and Nurlela are a newly-married couple living at the home of Nurlela’s father as they do not have enough money to find their own place. Nurlela’s father constantly compares Hasan to his rich son-in-law, causing friction between the young couple. They eventually find a way to move out. Behind the Mosquito Net draws heavily on Indonesian family values, illustrates the economic and social hardships experienced by families in the 1980s.
28 Oct 20:00–22:00 80 min Indonesia (English subtitles) Taman Baca Q&A: Djenar Maesa Ayu & Seno Gumira Ajidarma A successful actress, Nay’s world is thrown into chaos when she discovers she’s 11 weeks pregnant. She tells her boyfriend, Ben, a spoiled young man who chooses to put his mother before the baby, leaving Nay to face the difficult decision of what to do on her own. Further complicating matters is the news she’s been selected to star in an international film. Supported by Teh Kotak
5. Torajamelo, Weaving Compassion In Toraja
6. Indonesia Calling
An inspiring journey, this documentary follows the Sa’dan Toraja weavers and sisters, Dinny and Nina Jusuf, in collaboration with Biru Terong Initiative, director Vivian Idris, to revive, preserve, and elevate the Sa’dan Toraja hand-woven cloth. Their work has not only improved the livelihoods of local weavers but has helped preserve the traditional practice of weaving in Sa’dan Toraja.
A landmark film charting IndonesianAustralian relations during Indonesia’s struggle for independence. In late 1945, Dutch filmmaker Joris Ivens created the film as part of the trade union-led campaign against Dutch shipping – called the Black Armada – that eventually led to Australian government support for Indonesian independence.
29 Oct 14:00–15:30 60 min Indonesia (English subtitles) Betelnut Q&A: Dinny Jusuf & Vivian Idris
30 Oct 16:00–17:00 20 min English Betelnut Q&A: Agung Rai, Anthony and Helen Liem and other guests from the Australian National Maritime Museum
Specialising in books on Indonesia, New, Used, Rare and Antiquarian. And “Books for Bali Project” donating books to local schools and libraries. Ganesha Bookshops Bali Ubud: Cnr of Jalan Raya and Jalan Jembawan Sanur:Jalan Danau Tamblingan 42 Tel: +62 361 970320 | www.ganeshabooksbali.com
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Film Program
FREE EVENTS
Indonesian Short Film Showcase
Join us for a short film showcase at local indie cinema Betelnut, showcasing the work of young, much-awarded Indonesian filmmaker, Wregas Bhanuteja, followed by a Q&A with Wregas himself. All films are in Indonesian, with English subtitles.
1. Senyawa 30 October
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Retno wants to make a recording of the song Ave Maria for her mother, but her neighbourhood is always too noisy.
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14:22–14:43
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2. Lembusura 30 October
14:12–14:22
A rain of ash falls on Java. Kelud, a volcano located to this east of the island, is active. Learning of the legend of a mythical mountain demon, young men set off to confront the demon and the past. In Competition – 65th Berlin Film Festival, Berlinale Shorts Competition 2015
4. The Floating Chopin 30 October
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Once upon a time there was a couple who took a great vacation to a beautiful, unspoiled beach. The man tells his girlfriend of his trip to Paris with Frederic Chopin, a composer and a virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era. In Competition – 40th Hong Kong International Film Festival 2016
5. Prenjak (In the Year of the Monkey) 30 October
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Festival Club at Bar Luna
festival CLUB AT BAR LUNA
Jl. Raya Ubud (downstairs in Casa Luna, opposite the Puri Lukisan) • Open 3pm-11pm daily P. +62 619 71831 • E. barluna@casalunabali.com • W. www.casalunabali.com
Stories, Cloth, and Toraja 27 October 16:00–16:45 Featuring: Dinny Jusuf
Discover the story behind the work of the Sa’dan Toraja weavers, and two sisters – Dinny and Nina Jusuf – who have dedicated themselves to reviving, preserving and celebrating this unique Indonesian textile and hand-weaving technique. Hear how their work has kept the traditional practice going, and the positive impact it has had on the local community and livelihoods of the weavers.
Titanic – Midnight Watch 27 October 19:30–20:30 Featuring: David Dyer
Deep in the dark night of 15 April 1912, as the Titanic sailed through the still waters of iceberg alley, there was a ship just miles away – a ship that did nothing to help. A treat for lovers of a good story, David Dyer talks about his book, The Midnight Watch, taking us on board the SS Californian to find out just what happened that fateful night.
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Archipelago: A Journey Across Indonesia
27 October 17:00–18:00 Featuring: Ian Burnet All aboard for an island-hopping adventure through Indonesia with voyager and historian, Ian Burnet. From Java to Timor, he’ll share stories and pictures of this diverse land – from the smoking volcanoes that form the archipelago’s spine, to its emerald waters and verdant jungles.
Poet’s Club
27 October 21:00–23:00 Featuring: Ellen Van Neerven, Emi Mahmoud, Kadek Sonia Piscayanti, Melizarani T. Selva, Philip Wilcox Fresh material and literary miscellany, the Festival’s favourite wordsmiths whip up a wild night of spoken word, live tunes, and indie vibes. Soak up all the literary action late into the Ubud night.
FREE EVENTS
Writers Respond to Tat Tvam Asi 27 October
18:15–19:15
Taking inspiration from the Festival’s theme, a group of emerging writers share their work and reflections on the prismatic nature of Tat Tvam Asi – ‘I am you, you are me’, or ‘we are one’. How can this powerful philosophy play out in the writing life?
Hidden Legacy
28 October 17:15–18:15 Featuring: Reggie Baay Colonial rule leaves behind a legacy of secrets waiting to be uncovered, along with questions of identity, migration and dislocation. Through a personal exploration of Dutch rule in Indonesia, one of the Netherlands’ most influential historians, Reggie Bay, dives deep into Indonesia’s colonial past.
Neu! Reekie!
Heather Ellis invites you on a lifechanging odyssey across Africa by motorcycle. She’ll share her journey through one of the world’s most fascinating regions, and her search into the traditional Bantu belief ‘ubuntu’, or ‘I am because we are’ – meaning the universal bond that connects all of humanity as one.
Scotland’s favourite avant-garde noisemakers come to the UWRF stage! Don’t miss this chance to catch Neu! Reekie!’s unique performance – expect a mash-up of music, poetry and spoken word, animation and more.
Fire on the Front Line
The Glamour of Strangeness
Spirit of Punk
When haze from forest fires swamped the region in 2015, activist and filmmaker Emmanuela Shinta was in Central Borneo, on the front line of the crisis. Catch this screening of Shinta’s powerful documentary work, and hear the latest on the battle to end the forest fires and toxic haze.
Have you felt that indescribable pull? Is something in the world calling out to you? Jamie James believes there are tourists, travellers and “a third species, those who roam the world in search of the home they never had in the place that made them”. Explore the glamour of strangeness, as well as the art it can create.
28 October 18:30–19:30 Featuring: Pallavi Aiyar Witty, irreverent and honest, Pallavi Aiyar shares her experiences as a working journalist raising two young boys in three very different cities: Beijing, Brussels, and Jakarta. Grab a drink and settle in to tackle questions of balance, equality… and toddler taming.
29 October 17:15–18:15 Featuring: Emmanuela Shinta
28 October 19:45–20:45 Featuring: Heather Ellis
29 October 18:30–19:30 Featuring: Jamie James
28 October 21:00–23:00 Featuring: Kevin Williamson, Michael Pedersen, Hollie McNish, Jenny Lindsay
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It’s open mic for writers! Spirit of Punk is a wordslam and reading event that evokes the ethos of punk rock: to have a go and have your voice heard. Come prepared or improvise – any genre, any style – the only rule is no longer than one-page of the length of a Ramones song.
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Ubuntu and The Art Of Motorcycle Riding
Babies and Bylines
Book Launches Dancing Rain
27 October 15:30–17:00 Warwick Ibah Luxury Villas & Spa Featuring: Jane Ardaneshwari Jane Ardaneshwari wrote her first poem in fourth grade. After almost four decades of hibernation, she returned to poems, and Dancing Rain – her first poetry anthology – includes 101 of them. Her work reflects daily life in a subtle voice.
Zero: When Journey Takes You Home
book LAUNCHES
27 October 16:30–18:00 Rondji Restaurant Featuring: Agustinus Wibowo
After 10 years, the traveller returns home and comes face-to-face with one reality he has always feared: his mother is on the brink death. He recounts his journey to his mother who has barely ever left their little village in Java. He talks about the illusory homeland of China, the holy Tibet, the spiritual Nepal, the dramatic India, the struggling Pakistan, the surviving Afghanistan. A heart-wrenching tale of love and survival.
Looking for Bali
FREE EVENTS
Ganga to Mekong: A Cultural Voyage Through Textiles
27 October 16:00–17:30 The Elephant Featuring: Hema Devare
Textiles have been the binding factor in the cultural history of India and Southeast Asia from times immemorial. This book traces the journey of these textiles, and how they enticed Southeast Asian royalty and masses alike.
Bhagavad Gita (Nyayian Tuhan)
27 October 17:30–19:00 Il Giardino Featuring: Prabhu Darmayasa
Bhagavad-gita is the ‘Ambassador of Divine Love’, which breaks through differences of ethnicity, race, colour, and religion. Containing deeply universal messages of love and humanity, this Indonesian translation allows for access to the spiritual teachings and wisdom of the ancient text.
31 Guys 31 Lessons & Candle Hope
27 October 18:00–19:30 Rio Helmi Gallery & Café Featuring: Michael Dean Morgan, Rio Helmi
28 October 15:30–17:00 Sri Ratih Cottages Featuring: Maeya Zee
From village healers making house calls to fishermen coming home from sea, Looking for Bali is a new collection of lush, full-colour images from photographer Michael Dean Morgan documenting the realities of life on the island of Bali. Hear about the book, and view an exhibition of Michael’s photographs.
Join Maeya for the launch of her two books and a bonus writing workshop. Hear her tell stories from 31 Guys 31 Lessons, about young women in love and life, and speak on Candle Hope, a novel about a young girl, abused in her home, with a powerful social message.
The BE Book
Far From Boring
28 October 16:00–17:30 The Elephant Featuring: Mynoo Maryel
28 October 16:30–18:00 Il Giardino Featuring: Tony Gwilliam
Part-autobiography and part hands-on guidebook, The BE Book is a refreshing blast of fresh air. It’s a wake-up call to the parts of us that have long been asleep, an invitation to the grand adventure of life, and a treasure map to our own authentic joy.
Tony Gwilliam belongs to an extraordinary generation of artists, activists, and architects who insisted on approaching the challenges of designing shelter with radically open minds. Far From Boring recounts his journey from Britain, and his collaborations with Buckminster Fuller to the Bloo Lagoon Eco Village here in Bali.
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Book Launches Senirasa: A Cooking Companion for Indonesian Recipes
28 October 17:00–18:30 Rondji Restaurant Featuring: Rima Sjoekri
Indonesian home cooking can be complicated, so how to capture all of its nuances in a recipe? Senirasa dives deep into the spice world, examining the different spices from thousands of recipes, giving you the tools you need to help your home cooking shine.
Balinese Textiles for Gods and People & Balinese Painting and Sculpture
These two books unveil extraordinary Balinese art from the extensive collections of Krzysztof Musial, including sumptuous late-19th century double ikat geringsings, dozens of paintings commissioned by Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson in the late 1930s, and examples of today’s traditional painting from Batuan.
Women in Bali
Erstwhile: A Communion of Time
29 October 15:30–17:30 The Elephant Featuring: Joseph Rio Jovian Haminoto Rafa is an Indonesian who runs his family’s business, and has a deep passion for artefacts. In the pursuit of his passion, he ends up taking a journey through time, to “another time zone where we all will finally realise that true love is indeed everlasting and has no ending”.
Tales of Two Cities
29 October 16:30–18:00 Watercress Featuring: Singapore Writers’ Group Hong Kong and Singapore: two cities that encapsulate the buzz and culture of Asia. These 23 stories by the Hong Kong Writers Circle and the Singapore Writers’ Group present four faces of the home cities: the changing city, the historic city, the mystical city, and the capricious city.
Stolen
29 October 17:00–18:30 Fivelements Featuring: Bruna Rotunno
29 October 17:00–18:30 Rondji Restaurant Featuring: Galuh Wandita
Bali is a living island, and Bruna Rotunno’s photographs reflect a harmony that is continually reinvented. These portraits are an homage to creative energy, to the island, and to all the women who live there.
Stolen is a photo book that documents the story of Timor-Leste’s children, taken to Indonesia during 1975–99 conflict. It captures the pain and joy of the now adults as they’re reunited with their families, having been separated for more than three decades. A moving work.
UWRF Anthology Launch 2016: Tat Tvam Asi
Ground Zero (CD Launch)
29 October 17:30–19:00 Joglo @ Taman Baca Featuring: 16 UWRF Emerging Writers Meet the emerging voices of Indonesia, selected to be part of the UWRF’s groundbreaking annual anthology. Hear these 16 exceptional authors read from their compelling, diverse works of prose and poetry.
30 October 11:00–12:30 Rondji Restaurant Featuring: Patrick Burgess
Human rights lawyer and singersongwriter Patrick (Pat) Burgess will talk and perform songs about writing and recording his new album, recently released internationally. Subjects include Cambodia, Iraq, East Timor, New York, taxi driving, drinking coffee, and surfing.
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book LAUNCHES
29 October 16:00–17:30 Sri Ratih Cottages Featuring: Adrian Vickers, Maria Wronska-Friend, Christophe Musial
FREE EVENTS
Book Launches
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Tigress
30 October 15:30–17:00 Hotel Tjampuhan & Spa Featuring: Ayu Meutia Azevy Tigress is a soul-searching journey of 52 different spoken-word poems that respond to raw emotions and the process of growing up. Containing stories about the longing for home, self-acceptance, and bittersweet love, Ayu’s book takes inspiration from her native Sumatra, the land of the tiger and tigress, and she believes the book’s title speaks for the spirit animal inside of her.
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Jakarta Arts Council: Poetry Launch
30 October 16:00–17:30 The Elephant Featuring: Norman Erikson Pasaribu, Ni Made Purnama Sari, Cyntha Hariadi Join publisher Gramedia Pustaka Utama and Dewan Kesenian Jakarta ( Jakarta Arts Council) for the launch of three poetry collections, showcasing the work of the winners of the Jakarta Arts Council’s 2015 Manuscript Poetry Book Contest, Sergius Mencari Bacchus by Norman Erikson Pasaribu (first prize), Kawitan by Ni Made Purnama Sari (second prize), and Ibu Mendulang Anak Berlari by Cyntha Hariadi (third prize).
Truth Without Fear
30 October 17:30–19:00 Hotel Tjampuhan & Spa Featuring: Sastri Bakry This book of poetry is concerned with the deep female inner voice expressing itself on topics ranging from true love, the rejection of hypocrisy, and Indonesian nationalism. Dig deep with the messages of these powerful poems.
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children & youth PROGRAM
Children & Youth Program
Behind The Screen
27 Oct 10:00–12:00 16–17 y.o. IDR 50,000 Rumah Kayu @ Taman Baca Featuring: Alicia Walsh Join in as screen writer and script editor Alicia Walsh shares her experience on writing for film and TV. Discover her top tips for sharp screen writing, and how to create characters that really sing.
Your Pop-Up Adventure
27 Oct 10:00–12:00 5–10 y.o. Free Event Campuhan College Featuring: Mohamad Rizal Kapandi Get ready to pop! Create a simple pop-up book with leading Malaysian paper engineer and teacher, Cikgu Rizal. He’ll share his stories and collection of pop-up books with you. *Bilingual Event
Ayo! Let’s Go!
28 Oct 10:00–11:30 5–13 y.o. Free Event Campuhan College Featuring: Reena Balding Sing, move, and yoga at the launch of Ayo! Let’s Go! – songs for children in Indonesian and English. Hang out like a possum or a monkey (find out the difference), and discover how many things you can make with bamboo. *Bilingual Event
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Out Loud: Performance Poetry
28 Oct 10:00–12:00 10–15 y.o. Free Event Rumah Kayu @ Taman Baca Featuring: Philip Wilcox Come alive with the spoken word and delve into your story with multi-award-winning poet – and current Australian Poetry Slam Champion – Philip Wilcox. Get loud and learn how to take the stage!
Meet My Character
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Press Club Mind Map
27 Oct 14:00–16:00 12–16 y.o. Free Event Campuhan College Featuring: Monez Gusmang
27 Oct 14:00–16:00 13–17 y.o. Free Event Rumah Kayu @ Taman Baca Featuring: Murizal Hamzah
Don’t be afraid to be different! Professional cartoonist, illustrator, and graphic designer Monez will teach you how to draw outside the lines, and create a character of your very own.
Grab your notebook, and prepare to make your school press club even better than before! Journalist and author Murizal Hamzah will show you how to create a mind map, and hunt out the cutting-edge stories making news at your school.
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*Event conducted in Bahasa Indonesia
Whiskers, Paws and Stories Galore!
28 Oct 10:00–12:00 10–12 y.o. Free Event Villa Kitty Featuring: Mohamad Rizal Kapandi Kids of Ubud: create the book you want to read! Join Cikgu Rizal for a day of storytelling, as you design your own popup book. Be inspired by cats and kittens, and be prepared for a meow-vellous day. *Bilingual Event
Are You A Superhero?
28 Oct 14:00–16:00 8–12 y.o. IDR 50,000 Campuhan College Featuring: Damon Young From secret powers to dashing disguises, we all have a superhero inside. Discover yours with Damon Young, author of My Sister Is A Superhero.
Children & Youth Program Poetry Workshop: Truth Or Dare?
28 Oct 14:00–16:00 11–16 y.o. Free Event Rumah Kayu @ Taman Baca Featuring: Gemi Mohawk It’s game time, poetry-style! Get prepared to say it, shake it, and rhyme it with this Truth or Dare workshop. The words will fly and poetry legends will be created. Unlock your creativity.
*Event conducted in Bahasa Indonesia
The Story Of Indigo
28 Oct 14:00–16:00 16+ y.o. Free Event Yellow Coco Creative Nest Featuring: Susan Allen & Susiawan
Hip-Hop Can Change The World!
29 Oct 10:00–12:00 15–17 y.o. Free Event Campuhan College Featuring: The Brothahood Make change through rhythm and words. Aussie hip-hop group The Brothahood use music to break stereotypes and challenge social conventions. Find your voice.
Toy Story
Make A Short Film: Tips & Tricks
Unlock Your Imagination
29 Oct 10:00–12:00 15–17 y.o. IDR 50,000 Rumah Kayu @ Taman Baca. Featuring: Ken Spillman Unlock your imagination with author Ken Spillman, author of over 40 books for children and young adults. Ken will delve into the art of fiction, exploring how to create characters and stories.
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The Tree Of Confidence
29 Oct 14:00–15:30 7–12 y.o. Free Event Campuhan College Featuring: Ni Putu Rastiti
29 Oct 14:00–16:00 8–15 y.o. Free Event Rumah Kayu @ Taman Baca Featuring: Panida Tancharoen
Grow your confidence with author and mind expert Ni Putu Rastiti. Discover how to tell your story, build selfesteem, and work towards achieving your goals and dreams.
Always wanted to make your own toy? Join Panida, a master of toy-making! In this fun workshop, she’ll show you how to create your own toy, and construct a story for your new friend.
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30 Oct 10:00–12:00 16–17 y.o. Free Event Campuhan College Featuring: Wregas Bhanuteja Lights, camera, action! Climb into the director’s chair and discover how to make your first short film. Young Indonesian filmmaker Wregas Bhatunedja, fresh from his success at the Cannes Film Festival, will give you the inside scoop on film-making.
The Urban Journalist
30 Oct 10:00–12:00 14–17 y.o. IDR 50,000 Rumah Kayu @ Taman Baca Featuring: Drew Ambrose Pen and notebook at the ready! Get the inside tips on how to become a journalist, and sharpen up your story skills with foreign correspondent and producer Drew Ambrose.
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Digital Comics and Disasters
30 Oct 14:00–16:00 12–17 y.o. Free Event Campuhan College Featuring: Bonni Rambatan How can a digital comic help people recover and deal with natural disasters? Listen in and learn from comic book author and artist Bonni Rambatan on how to create from difficult times. *Bilingual Event
Timpal Tiang (My Friends!)
30 Oct 14:00–16:00 5–12 y.o. Free Event Yellow Coco Creative Nest Featuring: Susan Allen & Susiawan Yellow Coco has started Bali’s first tri-lingual magazine by and for children. In this session take part in creating a poem, short story, comic, or illustration for the magazine in Indonesian, English or Balinese.
Wild Worlds & Fairy Tales
30 Oct 14:00–16:00 12–17 y.o. Free Event Rumah Kayu @ Taman Baca Featuring: Royyan Julian Fairy tales, myths and monsters! Go wild into the deep jungles of imagination to create a story of your own with fiction and short story writer Royyan Julian.
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Discover the story of indigo, and the plant-to-dye process. First, watch a stunning shadow play telling the story of a young girl so moved by the natural world that she vowed to only work with natural colours. Then, get hands-on to learn the dying process for yourself!
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People You’ll Meet Adam Breasley • Australian
Adam Breasley is a writer and human rights activist who is documenting his experiences of working with Nobel Peace Laureates, including the latest findings in brain science showing the benefits of cultivating compassion. Adam’s work has brought him into close contact with advocates of forgiveness and compassion such as His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Vietnamese monk Thich Nhat Hanh, and Parents Circle Families Forum Israeli-Palestinian Bereaved Families for Peace and Reconciliation.
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Agustinus Wibowo • Indonesian Agustinus Wibowo is an Indonesian travel writer and photographer. His first book was Selimut Debu (A Blanket of Dust, 2010), followed by Garis Batas (Borderlines: A Journey through Central Asia, 2011), and Titik Nol (Ground Zero, 2013). He has pioneered a new genre in Indonesian travel literature, allowing readers to experience the writer’s physical, spiritual and emotional journey as they contemplate their own conflicts and anxieties.
Alicia Walsh • Australian Alicia is an experienced and award-winning writer of short films, and works intensively with newer writers to help kickstart their creativity, and to structure ideas into stories. She is currently the Head of Screenwriting at Sydney Film School, and is editing several projects for other writers.
Amanda Lee Koe • Singaporean
Ananda Sukarlan • Indonesian Born in Jakarta, Ananda moved to Europe at the age of 17, graduating summa cum laude from the Royal Conservatory of Den Haag. He has won a number of international prizes, including the Nadia Boulanger Award of Orleans. Critically-acclaimed, Ananda is “one of the world’s leading pianists … at the forefront of championing new piano music” (Sydney Morning Herald). Supported by the Embassy of Spain and Institute Cervantes
Anastasia Lin • Chinese/Canadian Anastasia Lin is an award-winning actress, beauty pageant titleholder, and human rights advocate. In 2015, Lin was to represent Canada at the Miss World pageant in China. However, she was refused a visa and declared a persona non grata by Chinese authorities for her outspoken views on the country’s human rights violations and persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. An accomplished actress, Lin often works at the intersection of art and activism.
Andrew Fowler • Australian Award-winning investigative reporter and author Andrew Fowler began his career in England. For 20 years he was a reporter with Australian ABC TV’s Four Corners and Foreign Correspondent programs. He now lives in Paris and Sydney, researching and writing books.
Anita Heiss • Australian
Amanda Lee Koe is the fiction editor of Esquire (Singapore), a 2013 Honorary Fellow of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa and the youngest winner of the Singapore Literature Prize for the short story collection Ministry of Moral Panic.
Anita Heiss (Wiradjuri Nation) is the author of non-fiction, historical fiction, commercial women’s fiction, poetry, social commentary and travel articles. Anita was a finalist in the 2012 Human Rights Awards and the 2013 Australian of the Year Awards (Local Hero). Anita manages the Epic Good Foundation and is a creative disruptor.
Amit Chaudhuri • Indian
Annabel Smith • Australian
Amit Chaudhuri is the author of six novels, the latest of which is Odysseus Abroad. He is also a critic and a musician and composer. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Awards for his fiction include the Commonwealth Writers Prize, the Betty Trask Prize, the Encore Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, and the Sahitya Akademi Award. In 2013, he was awarded the first Infosys Prize in the Humanities for outstanding contribution to literary studies. He is Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia.
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Annabel Smith is the author of The Ark, Whisky Charlie Foxtrot, and A New Map of the Universe. In 2012 she was selected by the Australia Council as one of five inaugural recipients of a Creative Australia Fellowship for Emerging Artists. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing. Supported by Writing WA
People You’ll Meet Ariel Leve • American
Ariel Leve is an award-winning senior writer and columnist, formerly on contract at the Sunday Times Magazine in London for 10 years. Her memoir, An Abbreviated Life (2016), was described as “mesmerizing” by the New York Times. She writes for the Guardian, the New York Times, and Esquire, and has been published in the Telegraph, the FT Magazine, the Observer, the Wall Street Journal and numerous other publications.
Arif Springs • Indonesian
Azri Zakkiyah • Indonesian Graduating from Universitas Airlangga Surabaya in 2014, Azri Zakkiyah sees writing as a form of spiritual journey. Her first novel was published during her first year of high school and, since then, she has published a further 13 books. She is currently finishing her Masters degree in Medical Physics.
Bayu Wirayudha • Indonesian Bayu Wirayudha founded Friends of the National Parks Foundation in 1997, a non-governmental organisation with a mission to assist in the preservation and conservation of wildlife within the national parks of Indonesia. He was nominated for Kalpataru Award (Hero of the Earth) in 2005 and 2007, awarded Conservation Pioneer by the Balinese government in 2007, and received The Art of Activism Award from the Rainforest Action Network USA in 2012.
Arnold Zable • Australian
Baz Dreisinger • American
Arnold Zable is a highly acclaimed novelist, storyteller, educator, and human rights advocate. His books include Jewels and Ashes, The Fig Tree, Café Scheherazade, Scraps of Heaven, Sea of Many Returns, Violin Lessons and, most recently, The Fighter. He lives in Melbourne.
Arung Wardhana Ellhafifie • Indonesian Arung Wardhana Ellhafifie was born in Bangkalan in 1981. Over the course of his career, Arung has authored many plays and monologues. Under the pseudonym Hoirul Hafifi he also works as a director and screen writer.
Ashwini Devare • Indian Ashwini Devare is the author of Batik Rain, a collection of short stories that explore the theme of cross-cultural conflict. A former broadcast journalist, Ashwini worked as a correspondent with BBC World’s Asia Business Report and CNBC.
Dr. Baz Dreisinger is: professor, journalist, justice worker, film and radio producer, cultural critic and prison-rights activist.
Boni Chandra • Indonesian West Sumatra-born Boni Chandra writes short stories and children stories. His works have been published widely, across mediums including television, newspapers, radio and online. In 2014, his short story Peserta Sayembara was chosen as the winner of the Sayembara Penulisan Cerpen Hutanta.
Bonni Rambatan • Indonesian Bonni Rambatan is the co-founder of Jakartabased design-focused social enterprise, Rambatan Saddhadhika Design Firm. Having one foot in the comic book industry as an artist and writer, and another foot in critical theory as a freelance essayist, he specialises in designing stories that foster critical thinking and social change. Supported by The Japan Foundation
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Originally from West Java, Arif was born into a traditional family where money was short. Arif learned grassroots ways to heal his family through herbs and spices. In Ubud his love for raw food really began, and in combination with his traditional up-bringing Arif is now behind some of the most delicious raw food delights on the island.
People You’ll Meet Bri Lee • Australian
Bri Lee is a Brisbane-based writer and the Founding Editor of the feminist interview series Hot Chicks with Big Brains. She is the inaugural recipient of the Kat Muscat Fellowship and her debut memoir, Eggshell Skull, will be published by Allen & Unwin in early 2018.
Bruce Pascoe • Australian
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Bruce Pascoe is a Bunurong, Tasmanian, and Yuin man who lives in a secret bay called Gipsy Point in Victoria. He is a prolific writer and has written more than 30 books. In 2016, Bruce’s most recent non-fiction book, Dark Emu (2014), won the Book of the Year and Indigenous Writer’s Prize in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards.
Charlotte Wood • Australian Charlotte Wood is the author of five novels and a book of non-fiction. Her latest novel, The Natural Way of Things, won the 2016 Stella Prize and the 2016 Indie Book of the Year and has been shortlisted for many other prizes. A book of selected interviews with Australian authors, The Writer’s Room, also appears this year. Supported by MUD Literary Club
Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan • Singaporean Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan is a New York-based journalist and author of the new novel Sarong Party Girls, which was named one of Amazon’s ‘Best Books of the Month’ for July 2016, A Tiger In The Kitchen: A Memoir of Food & Family, and editor of the fiction anthology Singapore Noir.
Chris Raja • Australian Christopher Raja migrated to Melbourne from Kolkata in 1986, and now lives and works in Alice Springs. He is the co-author of the play The First Garden (Currency Press, 2012) and author of the acclaimed young adult novel, The Burning Elephant (Giramondo, 2015). Supported by NT Writers’ Centre
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Çiler İlhan • Turkish Çiler İlhan began her writing career with poems at the age of 10 and, since then, her stories, book reviews, and articles have been published in a variety of magazines and newspapers. She has contributed to various anthologies, and has published two books: Chamber of Dream Merchants and Exile (which received the 2011 European Union Prize for Literature).
Dahlia Rasyad • Indonesian Born in Palembang in 1983, Dahlia Rasyad was chosen as Language Ambassador to South Sumatra. Her role involves editing Indonesia’s local culture manuscripts and managing the Terusan Tua publishing company. Her first novel, Perempuan yang Memetik Mawar (2013), won the literature award from the Yogyakarta Language Center for Best Prose in 2014. She is working on her second novel, and lives in Yogyakarta.
Damon Young • Australian Damon Young is a prize-winning philosopher and writer. He is the author of seven books in English and translation, including The Art of Reading, How to Think About Exercise, Philosophy in the Garden and Distraction. Young is also the author of several popular children’s books, including My Sister is a Superhero.
David Dyer • Australian David Dyer grew up in Australia and, after leaving school, studied nautical science and became an officer in the merchant navy. He then studied law and worked as a solicitor in Sydney and London. In 2014 he was awarded a Doctorate in Creative Arts. The Midnight Watch is his first novel.
David S. Abraham • American David S. Abraham is Senior Fellow at New America and the author of The Elements of Power. His career spans from commodities trading and Wall Street to the White House, where he oversaw international and natural resource programs. He is a frequent speaker on resources and technology demands, and founded Outpost, a coworking space in Ubud.
People You’ll Meet Deasy Tirayoh • Indonesian
Mother of two, Deasy Tirayoh is a poet and script writer, and also writes short stories. Her recent book is Tanda Seru di Tubuh, and she’s an active member of the local literary community of Rumah Andakara. She’s now living in Kendari, Southeast Sulawesi.
Dene Mullen • British
Diana Von Cranach • British UK-born, Cordon-Blue trained Diana Von Cranach has been based in Bali for more than 20 years, opening the Puri Ganesha Villas in 1997. Here she developed her own ‘rawfully good’ interpretation of the living food movement, adapting it for local ingredients.
Dimas Indiana Senja • Indonesian Dimas Indiana Senja is the pseudonym of Dimas Indianto S. He was born in Brebes on December 20, 1990. Dimas writes poems, short stories, essays, articles, and journals, as well as nurturing the literary community Komunitas Pondok Pena Purwokerto.
Desi Anwar • Indonesian
Dinny Jusuf • Indonesian
Desi Anwar is a prominent senior anchor, journalist, writer, and photographer based in Jakarta, Indonesia. Desi has published several books featuring her photography and philosophical musings both in English and Indonesian, A Romantic Journey, Tweets for Life: 200 wisdoms for a happy, healthy and balanced life, and A Simple Life.
Dinny Jusuf is the woman behind Torajamelo, a weaving textile-made fashion, gift and homewares line. Her brand focuses on solving the feminisation of poverty and the rejuvenation of the dying art of hand-weaving in Indonesia. Dinny is also known as a women’s rights activist and has published two books about the Toraja textiles.
Supported by Gramedia Pustaka Utama
Dewi Lestari • Indonesian Dee Lestari is a bestselling novelist and criticallyacclaimed Indonesian writer. Her 2001 debut novel, now a hexalogy, was Supernova. Outside the Supernova series, Dee has written Perahu Kertas (Paper Boat) and three anthologies: Filosofi Kopi (Philosophy of Coffee), Madre, and Rectoverso. Dee is also known as an accomplished singer and songwriter.
Diana Greentree • Australian After a lengthy career performing in theatre, film and TV, Diana’s work with Actors for Refugees inspired her to write The Camros Bird, launched in Ubud by Julian Burnside. Formerly playreading coordinator with the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival, Diana returns to the Festival to one of her favourite roles, that of moderator/ presenter.
Djenar Maesa Ayu • Indonesian Following the publication of Mereka Bilang Saya Monyet, Djenar Maesa Ayu went on to become one of Indonesia’s most controversial writers. Her works are described as provocative, sensational, and disturbing at the same time, dealing with many topics considered taboo in Indonesia. She is also an actress, screenwriter, and filmmaker.
Donny Harimurti • Indonesian Born in Central Java, Donny Harimurti trained as a civil engineer before moving into digital and cyber technology in the 1980s. In 1984 he married a Balinese woman, and moved to Bali. Introduced to Balinese spirituality, he came to believe it to be the origin of the Javanese ‘Kejawen’ way of life. In 1999 he established the Babad Bali website to share his new-found local Balinese wisdom. In 2004 he registered the Balinese traditional script to unicode, and the Javanese script in 2006.
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Dene Mullen is editor in chief of Southeast Asia Globe magazine, a regional current affairs, business and lifestyle title with distribution in eight Southeast Asian countries. Originally from London, Dene has been in the journalism industry for 12 years and has worked as an editor for The Independent (UK), FIFA (worldwide), Hayters Teamwork (UK) and Phnom Penh Post (Cambodia).
People You’ll Meet Drew Ambrose • Australian
Drew Ambrose is a Senior Producer for Al Jazeera’s Asian current affairs program 101 East. Based in Malaysia, he has reported from over 25 countries. His work has won the New York Festival Gold Medal, Asian Human Rights Press Award, Global Media Award and other journalism prizes.
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E. Rokajat Asura • Indonesian E. Rokajat Asura has received many awards for his literary works. In 2016, he published a number of historical works of fiction, including Tafsir Wangsit Siliwangi dan Kebangkitan Nusantara, Raden Pamanah Rasa: Kemaharajaan Nusantara Yang Tak Terungkap, and Suluk Gunung Jati: Novel Perjalanan Ruhani Syekh Syarif Hidayatullah. He lives in Cilegon, West Java.
Eka Kurniawan • Indonesian This author of eight published books – several of which have been translated into foreign languages, including Beauty is a Wound and Man Tiger – has been compared to the late great Pramoedya Ananta Toer. (To which he says, “we tend to look at Indonesia differently.”)
Elizabeth Inandiak • French Elizabeth D. Inandiak, born in France, is a writer, translator and community activist. She has travelled the world as a reporter and written several film scripts. In 1989 she settled in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Her work includes the translation and recreation of the Javanese epic Centhini into French, Indonesian and English. Her new book, Babad Ngalor-Ngidul, is a tale about the earthquake and the volcanic eruption in Yogyakarta.
Elizabeth Pisani • British Researching her book Indonesia Etc.: Exploring the Improbable Nation, Elizabeth Pisani ate dog, took tea with corpses and Sultans, and travelled 23,000 kilometres around a country that has fascinated and maddened her for 25 years.
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Ellen van Neerven • Australian Ellen van Neerven is an award-winning writer of Mununjali and Dutch heritage. Her first book, Heat and Light (UQP, 2014), was the recipient of the David Unaipon Award and the Dobbie Literary Award. It was also shortlisted for The Stella Prize and the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. Comfort Food is her first collection of poetry. Supported by MUD Literary Club
Emi Mahmoud • Sudanese/American A poet and activist originating from the war-torn region of Darfur, Emi Mahmoud is the reigning Individual World Poetry Slam Champion of 2015. Currently a senior at Yale University, a Leonore Annenberg Scholar, and Global Health Fellow, Emi studies Anthropology and Molecular Biology at Yale in the hopes of one day alleviating structural disparities on maternal and child health in disadvantaged communities the world over. Supported by Embassy of the United States
Emmanuela Shinta • Indonesian Emmanuela Shinta is an activist and filmmaker whose work is widely known in Southeast Asia. She is the founder of Ranu Welum foundation. With a reputation for leading and empowering young people, she regularly speaks at workshops, graduations, panel discussions, activist forums, and even in churches, around the region.
Endy Bayuni • Indonesian Endy Bayuni is editor-in-chief of The Jakarta Post. A 33-year journalism veteran, he has previously worked for Reuters and Agence France-Presse. He is a regular commentator on Indonesian politics and foreign policy, and the changing media landscape, and is currently executive director of the International Association of Religion Journalists. He has been the recipient of a number of international fellowships.
Evi O. • Australian Evi O. is a book designer, art director and artist. She has worked in publishing for a decade, creating award-winning books for chefs, brands and creatives internationally. Her design studio OetomoNew is based in Sydney, Australia.
People You’ll Meet Gemi Mohawk • Indonesian
Born in Palembang, South Sumatra, Gemi Mohawk fell in love with poetry when he was a teenager. His first book, Sirami Jakarta dengan Cinta, was published in 2008, and his second book, Indonesianus, Sajak Megak was published in 2011. He is currently working on his third book, to be published soon.
Gill Westaway • British/Australian Gill lives in Indonesia, on Lombok, running her small guesthouse. In her former incarnation working for the British Council, she collaborated closely with writers and artists, managing and chairing literary events. She is also a freelance translator and editor.
Gillian Slovo is a playwright and the author of 13 books, including five crime novels, the courtroom drama Red Dust, and the Orange Prizeshortlisted Ice Road. Her research for her play The Riots inspired Ten Days. She was president of English PEN from 2010–2013 and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Born in South Africa, she lives in London.
Githa Hariharan • Indian Githa Hariharan has written novels, short fiction and essays over the last three decades. Her highly acclaimed work includes The Thousand Faces of Night which won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book in 1993, the short story collection The Art of Dying, the novels The Ghosts of Vasu Master, When Dreams Travel, In Times of Siege and Fugitive Histories, and a collection of essays entitled Almost Home: Cities and Other Places.
Hannah Kent • Australian Hannah Kent’s debut novel, Burial Rites, was translated into twenty-eight languages. It won the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize and the Guardian First Book Award. Hannah’s second novel, The Good People, was published in October 2016.
Hanya Yanagihara is the author of two novels: The People in the Trees and A Little Life. She lives in New York City.
Heather Ellis • Australian Heather Ellis, author of Ubuntu: One Woman’s Motorcycle Odyssey Across Africa, has worked as a radiation technician, a motorcycle courier, a journalist and in communications. Her journey took her into the soul of Africa where she was shown ‘ubuntu’, a Bantu word that translates as: ‘I am because we are’.
Helon Habila • Nigerian Helon Habila was born in Nigeria and is the author of three novels, Oil on Water, Measuring Time, and Waiting for an Angel. Habila’s current book is The Chibok Girls, a nonfiction account of the Boko Haram kidnappings in Nigeria. His work has won many honours and awards, including the Commonwealth Prize for Best First Novel (Africa Section), the Virginia Library Foundation’s fiction award, and the Windham-Campbell Prize.
Hollie McNish • Scottish/British Hollie is a poet and spoken word artist who straddles the boundaries between the literary, poetic, and pop scenes. A UK Slam Champion and Winner of the Arts Foundation Fellowship in Spoken Word, Hollie’s online videos have repeatedly gone viral (4 million views and counting). Hollie has toured internationally and her poems have appeared on Radio 4, XFM, MTV, Channel 4, BBC 1, BBC 2, The Guardian and beyond. Supported by Creative Scotland and the British Council
Hotlin Ompusunggu • Indonesian Dr Hotlin Ompusunggu, a licensed dentist, was born in Sumatra, and is the co-founder and head of Alam Sehat Lestari, a non-government organisation in West Kalimantan. Hotlin has received many prestigious awards including the Whitley Fund for Nature Conservation Award (2011), the Kartini Award (2012), SheCan Award (2013), and Tokoh Perubahan Republika (2015). In 2016 she was awarded the Whitley Gold Award and Kalpataru (Hero of the Earth) by the president of Indonesia.
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Gillian Slovo • British
Hanya Yanagihara • American
People You’ll Meet I Wayan Juniarta • Indonesian
Wayan Juniarta is a full-time journalist who finds solace in crafting essays following his tragically failed attempt in writing poetry. His first and probably last book, Bungklang-Bungkling, records the hilarity and ludicrousness of Balinese men.
Ian Burnet • Australian
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Ian Burnet’s interest in Indonesia and its lesser known eastern archipelago has led him to write three books on Indonesian history: Spice Islands (2011), East Indies (2013) and Archipelago – A Journey Across Indonesia (2015). He is currently working on his fourth book about this fascinating island nation.
Illya Sumanto • Malaysian Illya Sumanto is a herbalist who has performed around the world to heal through spoken word and theatre. Part of Poetry Café KL, a collective that organises poetry workshops, readings and slams in Kuala Lumpur, she specialises in working with young writers and theatre performers. Illya has been recognised by The Ministry of Education, and the University of Malaya for her achievements. Supported by by Arts for Women/PWAG Indonesia
Iswadi Pratama • Indonesian Iswadi Pratama works as the artistic director, and as an actor, at Teater Satu. He has been writing poetry, essays and prose since 1990. His plays have been performed throughout Indonesia, Malaysia, Australia and Germany.
Jamie James • American Jamie James is an American novelist and critic, and has been based in Indonesia since 1999. He is the author of seven books, including Andrew & Joey, a novel, Rimbaud in Java, and The Glamour of Strangeness, a global study of expatriate artists and writers, newly published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York.
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Janet DeNeefe • Australian/Indonesian Melbourne-born Janet DeNeefe, the Founder & Director of the annual Ubud Writers & Readers Festival, Ubud Food Festival, and Bali Emerging Voices Festival, has lived in Bali for nearly three decades. Her latest book is Bali: Food of My Island Home, following her memoir Fragrant Rice. She is also the owner of Casa Luna, Indus and Bar Luna restaurants in Ubud.
Janet Steele • American Janet Steele is an Associate Professor in School of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University. She is working on a book on journalism and Islam in the Malay Archipelago, and divides her time between Washington and Jakarta.
Jeet Thayil • Indian Jeet Thayil’s four poetry collections include English and These Errors Are Correct, which won the 2013 Sahitya Akademi Award for poetry. His novel Narcopolis won the 2012 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, and was shortlisted for five other prizes, including the Man Booker prize, the Man Asian Literature Prize and the Commonwealth Prize.
Jeni Caffin • Australian Jeni Caffin is the former director of Byron Writers Festival, former international program director of Ubud Writers & Readers Festival, and is currently curating a program of ideas events at NORPA, NSW’s premier regional arts organisation.
Jennifer Lindsay • Australian Jennifer Lindsay first went to Indonesia in 1971 and has lived there at various times since in various guises, including student, researcher, diplomat, and program officer. She has translated many literary and academic works from Indonesian into English, and is a regular translator and columnist for the weekly Indonesian magazine Tempo. She divides her time between Indonesia and Australia.
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Jenny Lindsay • Scottish/British
Jenny Lindsay is a poet, performer, and promoter of spoken word, based in Edinburgh. Her poetry has featured on BBC Radio Scotland and the BBC World Service, among others. Jenny’s debut collection, The Things You Leave Behind was published by Red Squirrel Press in 2011. Her most recent pamphlet is Ire & Salt (Stewed Rhubarb, 2015). Supported by Creative Scotland and the British Council
Jenny Niven • Scottish/British
Jesse Paris Smith • American
Joko Sucipto was born in Bangkalan in 1992. He studied Indonesian Language and Literature in STKIP PGRI Bangkalan, and graduated in 2015. He has been a theatre activist at Komunitas Masyarakat Lumpur since 2013. His writing has been included in many anthologies, and his own volume of poetry, Klonnong, was published in 2016. He also writes for theatre.
Joseph Rio Jovian Haminoto • Indonesian Joseph was born in Jakarta in 1973. He holds a Master of Science from Oxford University and has published a number of books including Don Joviano, Kionelle: The Avenue to Northern Ireland, and Catatan Si Boy.
Juan Pablo Villalobos • Mexican
Jesse Paris Smith is a composer and instrumentalist, activist, and event producer. She has performed globally in many configurations, collaborating with other musicians and artists, including Soundwalk Collective, Tenzin Choegyal, Tree Laboratory, Shyam Nepali, Raju Lama, and her mother and brother. With Rebecca Foon, she launched Pathway to Paris, a fundraising initiative and multi-media event series focused on bringing awareness to climate change.
Juan Pablo Villalobos was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1973. He’s the author of the novels Down the Rabbit Hole (shortlisted for The Guardian First Book Award), Quesadillas and I’ll Sell You a Dog. His novels has been translated into fifteen languages. Supported by Embassy of Mexico
Jill Dawson is the best-selling British author of eight novels, including Fred & Edie (short-listed for the Whitbread and Orange prizes, and voted one of 50 essential reads by a living author), Watch Me Disappear (long-listed for the Orange Prize), The Great Lover (about Rupert Brooke), Lucky Bunny, and The Tell-Tale Heart.
Kadek Sonia Piscayanti was born in Singaraja, Bali, in 1984. She has published a number of books including: Karena Saya Ingin Berlari (2007), Literature is Fun (2012), The Story of A Tree (a compilation of five scripts)(2013), The Art of Literature (2014), and Perempuan Tanpa Nama (2015).
Jill Dawson • British
Joko Anwar • Indonesian Joko Anwar was born in Medan, North Sumatra. He is a prominent Indonesian director, scriptwriter, and producer. His latest film is A Copy of My Mind.
Kadek Sonia Piscayanti • Indonesian
Kalawai Rap Crew • Indonesian Kalawai Rap Crew is a hip-hop group from Tobelo, Halmahera Utara, formed in 2012. Deny, Melky, Sony, and Victor met as children while living in a refugee camp in Manado, following a riot in their hometown. Kalawai means ‘spear’, a tool traditionally used by the Halmahera people for self-defense and hunting. The name itself represents their desire to eliminate hostility, differences, and social inequality through music. Supported by Telkomsel
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Jenny Niven is Head of Literature, Languages and Publishing at Scotland’s national funding and development agency, Creative Scotland. Jenny was formerly Associate Director at the Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas in Melbourne, and Program Manager of the Melbourne Writers Festival. From 2004–2009 she lived in Beijing, where she was inaugural director of the groundbreaking festival, The Bookworm International Literary Festival.
Joko Sucipto • Indonesian
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Kamila Shamsie • British/Pakistani
Leila S. Chudori • Indonesian
Kamila Shamsie is the author of six novels, which have been translated into more than 25 languages. She has twice been shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction and was one of Granta’s ‘Best of Young British Novelists’ in 2003. She grew up in Karachi, and now lives in London.
Leila S. Chudori is a well-known Indonesian journalist, and her first novel is Pulang (2012). It starts with the tale of four Indonesian journalists banned from their homeland after the Communist purge of 1965. It won the Khatulistiwa Literary Award in 2013 for Best Fiction and was praised by Publishers Weekly as “a remarkable book”. World Literature Today included it as one of the 75 Notable Translations of 2015, and it has been translated into English, French, Dutch, German and Italian.
Ken Spillman • Australian
Lionel Shriver • American
From Australia, Ken Spillman is the author of around 60 books and the editor of many others. His books for young people have appeared in more than a 15 countries and in many translations. Over the past six years, he has presented sessions to approximately 80,000 school children. Supported by Writing WA
A widely-published journalist, Lionel Shriver is the author of 11 novels, including the New York Times bestsellers So Much for That and The Post-Birthday World. Winner of the 2005 Orange Prize, the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin was adapted for a feature film in 2011. Lionel Shriver won the BBC National Short Story award in 2014. Her twelfth novel, The Mandibles: A Family, 2029–2047, is published in 2016 and her work has been translated into 28 languages.
Ketut Yuliarsa • Indonesian Ketut Yuliarsa has worked as a writer, actor, and musician, in Indonesia and Australia. He has published two volumes of poetry, and is currently advisor to the Bali Provinsional Government Literary program. In 1986, he and his wife, Anita, established the first bookshop in Ubud – Ganesha Bookshop, specialising in books on Indonesian studies in English. In 2004, Ketut and Anita established the Books For Bali Project, to foster literacy and learning in Bali through the donation of books to local schools and libraries.
Kevin Williamson • Scottish/British Neu! Reekie! co-founder Kevin Williamson is a Robert Louis Stevenson Award winner, founder and chief of infamous Rebel Inc. publishing house (known for launching the careers of writers such as Irvine Welsh and Alan Warner), Robert Burns aficionado with a hit Edinburgh Festival show under his belt, and co-editor and strident voice within Bella Caledonia. Supported by Creative Scotland and the British Council
Lola Taylor • Australian Raised in Tasmania, Lola has always had a holistic view of health and wellness which led her to pursue a career as a naturopath, where she applies scientific knowledge and traditional healing methods to bring her clients back to a state of health and healing.
Louise Doughty • British Louise Doughty is the author of eight novels including Apple Tree Yard, which has been translated into 28 languages worldwide. Her sixth novel, Whatever You Love, was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and longlisted for the Orange Prize. Her most recent book is Black Water, published by Faber.
Kirsti Melville • Australian
Made Janur • Indonesian
Kirsti Melville is an award-winning documentary producer and the presenter of Earshot on ABC RN. When she’s not busy telling other people’s stories, you’ll find her curled up reading them. She’s addicted to understanding the complexities of human relationships and adding to the growing pile of books beside her bed.
A world traveller native to Bali, Made Janur is passionate about environmental sustainability. A partner of Moksa, an Ubud-based restaurant with a plant-to-plate focus, Made believes in the transformative healing power of food.
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People You’ll Meet Made Runatha • Indonesian
The world’s first Indonesian-certified plant-based chef, Made Runatha approaches his work with a single mandate: making healthy food taste fantastic. Specialising in raw, vegan and vegetarian dishes, he now heads Moksa in Ubud, where he follows the journey of his ingredients from the restaurant’s organic garden, through to the dishes he plates up each day.
Made Suar-Timuhun • Indonesian Made Suar-Timuhun is the pseudonym of I Made Suartana. Born in Timuhun in 1987, Made graduated from IKIP PGRI Bali in 2011. He has been writing in Balinese since 2013, and focusing on short stories since 2014. His works have been published in the Bali Post, Pos Bali, Majalah Ekspresi, Majalah Canang Sari and Satua.
Made Sugianto is from Tabanan, Bali and has twice received the prestigious literary award, Rancage, for his achievements and dedication to Balinese literature. His newest novel is titled Ki Baru Gajah.
Madelaine Dickie • Australian Madelaine Dickie is an Australian writer and surfer. Her first novel Troppo (published by Fremantle Press) is set in Sumatra, Indonesia, and is about black magic, big waves, and mad Aussie expats. Troppo won the 2014 City of Fremantle T.A.G Hungerford Award.
Magda Szubanski • Australian Magda Szubanski is one of Australia’s best known and most-loved performers. Her memoir Reckoning won the 2016 Indie Award for NonFiction, the 2016 NSW Premier’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction, the 2016 Nielson Bookdata Booksellers Choice Award, the 2016 Australian Book Industry Award for Biography, and the Australian Book Industry Award for Book of the Year 2016.
Maria Inês Almeida trained as a journalist and received the Revelation Prize for Journalists Club in 2005. She began writing for children and young adults eight years ago and is the author of more than 30 books, including When I…Grow Up, and biographies of public figures, including Nelson Mandela and Malala Yousafzai.
Marieke Hardy • Australian Marieke Hardy is a screenwriter, blogger, radio broadcaster, columnist and author. She is cocurator of sellout literary salon Women of Letters and a regular panelist on The First Tuesday Book Club. A collection of her essays, You’ll Be Sorry When I’m Dead, was released through Allen and Unwin in 2011.
Mariska Setiawan • Indonesian Mariska is a young Indonesian soprano from Surabaya. She has participated in masterclasses in Indonesia and abroad, working with Stella Zhou, Professor Renate Faltin, and Ildiko Raimondi from Hochschule für Music Hanns Eisler and the Mozarteum. Mariska has released two albums. The latest is titled An Essay on Love. Supported by the Embassy of Spain and Institute Cervantes
Mark O’Toole • Australian Mark O’Toole is a screenwriter who began his career as a stand-up comedian, before going on to write and produce comedy for TV and film. In a career spanning 20 years, he has worked across a broad range of shows, most recently producing the award-winning Indigenous sketch show ‘Black Comedy’ for the ABC.
Mayank Austen Soofi • Indian Mayank Austen Soofi is an author, blogger, and photographer who started his working life as a waiter in a Delhi hotel.
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Made Sugianto • Indonesian
Maria Ines Almeida • Portugese
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Mehjabeen Abidi-Habib • Pakistani
Mehjabeen is committed to exploring community and belonging, and how humans and nature can co-exist. She is a social ecologist educated in diverse cultures and languages who returned to Pakistan to work with communities on topics including their sense of well-being and world views. She combines writing with scholarship and development practice.
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Melizarani T. Selva • Malaysian Melizarani T. Selva is a Malaysian spoken word poet, educator, journalist and author of Taboo. She was the first Malaysian to perform poetry at Asia’s largest TEDx event, TEDxGateway in Mumbai, and her poems have been performed on various prominent stages across six countries, and have been translated into Bahasa Malaysia and French. Supported by The Barrett Reid Foundation honouring the late Shelton Lea
Michael Cathcart • Australian Michael holds degrees from the University of Melbourne and Australian National University. He has worked as a university lecturer, theatre director, and freelance writer. He has presented several history documentaries on ABC TV and is the host of Books & Arts, a daily arts program on ABC Radio National. His most recent book is a study of the tragic Burke and Wills expedition called Starvation in a Land of Plenty (National Library of Australia, 2013).
Michael Pedersen • Scottish/British Co-founder of Neu! Reekie!, Michael Pedersen is a Robert Louis Stevenson Award winner, John Mathers Trust Rising Star of Literature winner, Canongate Future 40 awardee, and Callum McDonald Memorial Award finalist. His poetry is published by revered publisher Polygon books, with fans ranging from Irvine Welsh and Liz Lochhead to Stephen Fry. Supported by Creative Scotland and the British Council
Michael Vatikitiotis • British Michael Vatikiotis is a writer and journalist living in Singapore. After training as a journalist with the BBC in London, he moved to Asia and was a correspondent and then editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review. He has written two novels set in Indonesia.
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Michael Vietch • Australian Michael Veitch began his career performing and writing in television sketch comedy, and today is a well-known radio broadcaster and writer. He has worked as a theatre critic and contributor for several Australian newspapers and has published six books ranging in subjects from travel writing, marine science and military aviation history.
Michael Williams • Australian Michael Williams is the Director of the Wheeler Centre. He is also the host of Blueprint for Living, a weekly show on ABC Radio National.
Michaela McGuire • Australian Michaela McGuire is the author of Last Bets: A true story of gambling, morality and the law. Her journalism has appeared in The Monthly, Good Weekend and The Big Issue. She co-curates the best-selling Australian literary salon Women of Letters.
Mitchell S. Jackson • American Mitchell S. Jackson’s debut novel The Residue Years was praised by publications including The New York Times, The Paris Review, and The Times of London. Jackson is the winner of a Whiting Award. His narrative nonfiction book Survival Math will be released from Scribner in 2017. He serves on the faculty at New York University and Columbia University. Supported by Embassy of the United States
Monez Gusmang • Indonesian Monez is an illustrator, graphic designer, and pattern designer. Monez was born and raised in Bali. He was educated at ISI (Institut Seni Indonesia) Bali, where he achieved his Master Degree of Art in 2014. Most of Monez’s artwork is inspired by Balinese folktales, and he is known for both his commercial work and pop-art gallery work from 2006. One of his most recent artworks is a children’s book in collaboration with an American author, entitled How I Sent My Hug Around The World.
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Murizal Hamzah is a writer and a journalist. After graduating from Social and Economic Agriculture at the University of Syiah Kuala Banda Aceh in 2001, he trained in investigative reporting in the US. His recent biography, Jalan Panjang Menuju Damai Aceh (2014), tells the story of the leader of the Free Aceh Movement, Hasan Tiro.
Nersalya Renata • Indonesian
Pallavi Aiyar • Indian An award-winning journalist, Pallavi Aiyar has spent the last 15 years reporting from across China, Europe, and Indonesia. Most recently, she authored a global parenting memoir, Babies and Bylines. Her other books include the Chinamemoir, Smoke and Mirrors, the novel Chinese Whiskers, and – an Asian’s take on Europe’s crisis – Punjabi Parmesan. Her new book on air pollution in Delhi and Beijing is forthcoming.
Pam Allen • Australian Pam Allen holds an adjunct academic position at the University of Tasmania, Australia. As well as teaching the Indonesian language, her research interests include contemporary Indonesian literature and popular culture, with a particular interest in postcolonialism, gender and minority ethnic voices. She is an experienced and widely published literary translator from Indonesian to English, and has worked for many years as a translator with the Lontar Foundation in Jakarta, and with the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival.
Ni Putu Rastiti • Indonesian
Panida Tancharoen • Thai
Ni Putu Rastiti currently works in mental health care in Bali. Her first book entitle Pohon Keinginan. Her works have been published in the Bali Post, Media Indonesia, Koran Tempo, Radar Bali Jawa Post Group, and Media Indonesia, as well as a number of anthologies.
Ni Made Purnama Sari • Indonesian Ni Made Purnama Sari writes poems, prose and essays. In 2014, she received an award from Anugerah Hari Puisi Indonesia and was the second winner of Sayembara Manuskrip Buku Puisi DKJ in 2015. Her works have been published in many mediums across Indonesia. Alongside her creative writing, she also works as a freelance journalist and assistant editor.
Nino Ricci • Canadian Nino Ricci’s novels have been published in 17 countries and have earned him a host of awards, including Canada’s Governor General’s Award, and England’s Betty Trask Award and Winifred Holtby Prize. His Lives of the Saints trilogy was adapted as a miniseries starring Sophia Loren. Ricci’s most recent novel is Sleep.
Panida Tancharoen is a design researcher, toy and game designer, and illustrator. She designs toys and games to solve social issues and improve quality of life. Her work has included toys for disabled children, and games on human rights, money management, law and education, disaster preparedness, and the environment. In 2014–2015, she was a fellow of HANDS! (Hope & Dreams) Program For Disaster & Environmental Education. Supported by The Japan Foundation
Panut Hadisiswoyo • Indonesian For the last 15 years, Panut Hadisiswoyo has been fighting to preserve the Sumatran forest and its orangutans. He is the founder and director of the conservation organisation, Yayasan Orangutan Sumatra Lestari (Orangutan Information Centre). He was awarded the Whitley Award in 2015 and recently received the Emerging Explorer (2016) award from National Geographic.
Paul Hardisty • Australian Paul E Hardisty is the author of The Abrupt Physics of Dying, one of the London Telegraph’s 2015 crime books of the year, and shortlisted for the prestigious CWA Creasy Dagger award for best thriller or crime novel of 2015 by a new author. The sequel, The Evolution of Fear, has just been released.
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Nersalya Renata was born in Central Lampung. Nersalya is known for her poems, and for her work as an actress with Indonesian theater group Teater Satu Lampung. Her first poetry collection is Lima Gambar di Langit-Langit Kamar.
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Petra Kamula • British/Australian
Petra Kamula is a writer and creativity coach. A graduate of the University of East Anglia’s esteemed Creative Writing MA, Petra has had poems and short stories published in leading literary magazines in the UK and Australia. She works internationally for arts organisations and – in both her creative and academic work – is interested in the ideas of transgression and surrealism.
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Philip Wilcox • Australian Philip Wilcox is the current Australian Poetry Slam Champion and a two-time NSW Poetry Slam Champion. Philip is a full-time(ish) poet, part-time playwright and sometimes rap battler. He has performed alongside poets Harry Baker, Phil Kaye, and Sarah Kay. This year Pitt Street Poetry has published his first collection of poems, Beetle Prayer. Supported by The Barrett Reid Foundation honouring the late Shelton Lea
Prabhu Darmayasa • Indonesian After 23 years in India, Darmayasa returned to his homeland, where he has written more than 500 articles and published more than 30 books, including a Brief Study on the Catur Veda, Glory of the Cow According to the Vedas, Canakya Niti Sastra, and Spreading Spiritual Pearls. He has translated the Bhagavadgita into Indonesian, which is the 45th edition in just 4 years.
Putu Fajar Arcana • Indonesian Fajar studied Indonesian Literary at Udayana University, in Bali. He is author of a number of books including Bilik Cahaya, Bunga Jepun, Samsara, Surat Merah untuk Bali, and Gandamayu. His poetry collection, Manusia Gilimanuk, was awarded the Pataka Widya Karya by the Bali Provincial Government. Putu has worked for Indonesian newspaper Kompas since 1994. Supported by Kompas
Raka Ambarawan • Indonesian I Dewa Raka Ambarawan is resident mixologist at the world-renowned and award-winning Ubud restaurant, Locavore. His passion for distinctive ingredients and tastes means his show-stopping cocktails take the Locavore tasting menus to the next level.
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Ratih Kumala • Indonesian Ratih Kumala was born in Jakarta in 1980 and studied at Sebelas Maret University of SurakartaIndonesia, majoring in English Literature. She is the author of six works of fiction; Tabula Rasa, Genesis, and Larutan Senja, Kronik Betawi, Gadis Kretek (now published in English and German translations), and Bastian dan Jamur Ajaib. She also writes for TV and film.
Reggie Baay • Dutch Reggie Baay (Leiden, The Netherlands, 1955) is a writer of novels, non-fiction and theatrical plays. Descended from parents rooted in the former Dutch East Indies, his work focuses on subjects concerning the history of Indonesia, especially the effects of the former Dutch colonial rule on Indonesian society.
Reynaldo de Luna • Spanish/Mexican Half-Spanish and half-Mexican, Reynaldo de Luna began his career in the culinary industry at just seven years old. Seven countries and 11 years later, he landed in Bali and has since worked in some of the island’s most renowned restaurants.
Richard Loseby • Australian Richard is the author of two previously bestselling and award-winning travel books, Blue is the Colour of Heaven, and Looking for the Afghan, both published internationally by Penguin. A Boy of China, published by HarperCollins, has received rave reviews in Australasia and is due for release in the US and UK markets in 2017.
Richard Oh • Indonesian Richard Oh is a director and writer, known for his films Koper (2006), Terpana (2016) and Melancholy Is a Movement (2015).
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Rima Sjoekri spent her youth in New Zealand where recipes are many and ingredients are beautiful. She lets instinct be her guide – diving deep into recipes and discovering the cooking wisdom within them, which has culminated in her first book, Senirasa. Rima is the co-founder of an online recipe platform Rasamasa.com, and is part of the Indonesian Heritage Society where she acts as a volunteer guide at the Museum Nasional in Jakarta.
Rio Helmi • Indonesian Rio Helmi has been photographing Asia, and writing for international publications, since 1978. His work can be seen in magazines, documentaries, and more than 20 large-format photographic books. He blogs about a wide range of topics for the Huffington Post.
Robert Epstone is co-founder of Solemen Indonesia, an Indonesian-registered, non-profit charity primarily focused on efforts to help the disadvantaged in Bali. He is past vice president of Rotary Club, Canggu district, and current member of the Rotary E-club of Bali.
Rodney Glick • Australian Rodney Glick is a co-founder of Seniman Industries, a creative collective specialising in award-winning coffee studios, roasteries, product design, interiors and consulting. He is a certified coffee ‘Q’ Grader by the Specialty Coffee Association of America and the Coffee Master at Seniman Coffee Studio, Ubud.
Royyan Julian • Indonesian Royyan Julian studied literature at Universitas Negeri Malang and Universitas Gadjah Mada. His books are: Sepotong Rindu dari Langit Pleiades (2011), which won the short story award LeutikaPrio, Tandak (2015), which won the Sayembara Sastra Dewan Kesenian Jawa TImur award, and Metafora Ricoeurian dalam Sastra (2016).
Rucina Ballinger is a long-term resident, having moved to Bali in 1974. She has written a book on Balinese performing arts, founded the Grup Gedebong Goyang (comedy troupe), is the only (known) Westerner who has been the head of a banjar (klian adat), and has worked in the non-profit sector for over a decade.
Russell Darnley • Australian Russell began travelling and working in Asia in 1972, and operated a field study centre in Ubud from 1984–2002. As a consultant to the Australia Indonesia Institute, an educational writer, and digital education pioneer, his outlook is eclectic, interdisciplinary, passionately scientific, and profoundly spiritual. He writes stories in the creative non-fiction genre.
Samantha Brown • Australian Samantha Brown has worked as a correspondent with Agence France-Presse in Bangkok, Phnom Penh, and Jakarta. She is a co-founder of Travelfish. org, the most comprehensive independent online guide to travelling in Southeast Asia.
Sami Shah • Pakistani Comedian and writer Sami Shah has been profiled in the New York Times and by ABC’s Australian Story, and has appeared on BBC Radio 4, BBC Asian Network, TEDx, The Project, and QI. He is the author of I, Migrant, and his latest book is Fire Boy, an urban horror story set in Pakistan. Sami is a frequent contributor to ABC Radio National.
Seno Gumira Ajidarma • Indonesian Seno’s works reflect the undying rebel in his heart, tackling political oppression and state-sponsored violence, a dangerous taboo during the New Order regime. His works include Saksi Mata, Manusia Kamar and Penembak Misterius. He has won the SEA Write Award, Dinny O’Hearn Literary Prize and the Khatulistiwa Award. Seno is also an accomplished photographer.
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people YOU’LL MEET
Robert Epstone • British
Rucina Ballinger • Indonesian
People You’ll Meet
Shandra Woworuntu • Indonesian
Shandra Woworuntu is originally from Indonesia, and she is a survivor of human trafficking and domestic violence. Today, she fights valiantly and shares her testimony in an effort to prevent this injustice from happening to others. In 2014, she founded the Mentari Human Trafficking Survivor Empowerment Program.
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Shelley Kengisberg • Australian Shelley is a freelance writer, editor, and lecturer based in Sydney, and fortunate enough to run writing/editing retreats in paradisiacal places (Australia, Bali and, in 2017, Ibiza). Editing in Paradise and Writing in Paradise provide deep support to begin, develop and complete manuscripts of all genres. She presents workshops for writers centres and festivals in Australia, Singapore, Bali, Japan, and South Africa.
Sidik Nugroho • Indonesian Since winning third place in his college’s short story competition in 2002 for his work titled Surat Kakakku, Sidik Nugroho made the leap into the literary world. He writes in many forms, from short stories to novels. In recent years, he has been interested in exploring the topics of death and mystery. Supported by Gramedia Pustaka Utama
Slamet Rahardjo • Indonesian Born in 1949, Slamet Rahardjo started his career in theatre. A legendary and highly-regarded Indonesian actor, director, and screenwriter, Rahardjo has received many national and international awards for his work. In 1991, his film Langitku, Rumahku was chosen to represent Indonesia in the 63rd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film.
Soetan Radjo Pamoentjak • Indonesian Born in Batu Sangkar, West Sumatra, Soetan Radjo Pamoentjak is a world citizen. His first poetry anthology is Tuhan Dimakan Belatung.
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Stan Grant • Australian Stan Grant is the International Editor for SKY News, the Indigenous Affairs Editor for The Guardian and the author of The Tears of Strangers and Talking to My Country.
Stanley Harsha • American Stanley Harsha, a former journalist and US diplomat, had four assignments to Indonesia spanning 12 years. He has been married to an Indonesian woman for 28 years. He now divides his time between his homes in Colorado and Jakarta. Like the Moon and Sun is his first book.
Step Vaessen • Dutch Step Vaessen has been working in Southeast Asia and based in Indonesia for 19 years, and is currently working as the Indonesia correspondent for Al Jazeera English. She is the author of the book Jihad Met Sambal and has made several films for Al Jazeera.
Steven Gale • British Steven Gale is a festival moderator and curator based in London. He has worked at theatres in England and Scotland, and taught at universities in Ireland and the US. Since 1997, Steven has chaired over 350 author events at literature festivals worldwide.
Sugi Lanus • Indonesian Sugi Lanus was born in 1972 in Bali. He studied Balinese and the ancient Javanese language, and literature, at Udayana University, Bali. He founded the Hanacaraka Society in 2006, a nonprofit organisation concerned with preserving and studying classical Balinese and Lombok texts. He works as an academic and was invited to speak at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2015.
People You’ll Meet Suki Kim • Korean/American
Suki Kim is a novelist and journalist and the only writer ever to go live undercover in North Korea. Born and raised in South Korea, Kim is the author of a New York Times bestselling investigative literary nonfiction, Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea’s Elite. Her novel, The Interpreter, was a finalist for a PEN Hemingway Prize, and her nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, Harper’s, New York Review of Books, and The New Republic. Supported by Embassy of The United States
Susana Moriera Marques • Portuguese Susana Moreira Marques is a writer and journalist living in Lisbon. Her work has appeared in Público, Granta, The Guardian, Lettre International, and many others. She is the author of Now and at the Hour of our Death. Supported by Embassy of Portugal & Instituto Camoés
Susanne Gregor was born in Zilina, Slovakia, and moved to Austria at age 9, where she studied German and Communication Studies. Her first novel, Kein eigener Ort, won the Writing Between Cultures Prize in 2010. Her latest book is Territorien (Territories). She lives in Vienna, Austria. Supported by Austrian Embassy
Tanya Evanson •Canadian She recently guest edited Arc Poetry Magazine and was published in Where the Nights Are Twice As Long (Gooselane 2015), Oratorealis, Litlive, Cordite and Womanspeak. She is on tour in support of her fourth album zenship.
Teng Biao • Chinese Dr Teng Biao is a law scholar and human rights lawyer. He is a visiting fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and a member of the Independent Chinese PEN Center. He was chosen as one of the “top 100 Chinese public intellectuals”. He cofounded the Open Constitution Initiative (GongMeng), and is also the founder and president of China Against the Death Penalty.
In 1997, Tenzin Choegyal arrived in Australia with little more than a bag, his dranyen, and a voice full of passion for Tibet. His raw talent soon caught the attention of the directors of the country’s largest folk festival, Woodford Folk Festival, and, since, he has created a successful international career as a musician, playing at events including the WOMAD festivals and several Concerts for Tibet at Carnegie Hall, New York. The Brothahood • Australian The Brothahood use hip-hop as a tool to instil faith into young Muslims who are conflicted with their own identity. They break down stereotypes and misconceptions of Muslims from the West, as well as bringing positive insights into life through music, regardless of race, gender or creed. They’ve created a whole new theme to the wider hip-hop scene whilst maintaining hip-hop’s core essence: taut and intelligent rhymes, and production skills that are sharp and always on-point. Supported by the Australia-Indonesia Institute at the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Islamic Museum of Australia
Tim Baker • Australian Tim Baker is the best-selling author of Occy, High Surf, Bustin’ Down The Door, Surfari and Australia’s Century of Surf. He has won the Surfing Hall of Fame Culture Award three times and is a former editor of Tracks and Surfing Life magazines.
Tim Bartholomew • Australian Australian-born Tim Bartholomew has always been intrigued by the intertwining of food and culture. Growing up on a biodynamic farm he found inspiration in the provenance of food, a sentiment he brings to the slow, grassroots menu of Ubud’s Hujan Locale.
Tom Owen Edmunds • British Tom Owen Edmunds heads the Climate Change Unit at the British Embassy Jakarta. Previous posts include Lahore and Colombo. In the 1990s he was described by the British Journal of Photography as “one of the world’s leading travel photographers”. He shot assignments in over 100 countries, published books on Bhutan and Mexico, and photographed the BBC Great Journeys books.
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Susanne Gregor • Austrian
Tenzin Cheogyal • Tibetan/Australian
People You’ll Meet Toni Pollard • Australian
Toni was an Indonesian language teacher for 50 years and, since retiring 11 years ago, Toni has become a translator of Indonesian literature, working mainly for Lontar Foundation. She is a regular contributing translator to the annual UWRF Emerging Writers anthology. Having traveled widely throughout the archipelago, Toni’s most recent adventure was a sailing trip on a traditional pinisi from Flores to Ambon.
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Tony Wheeler • Australian Travelling across Asia on the ‘hippie trail’ led to the creation of Lonely Planet series. Despite having now left the company, Tony is still ‘on the road’ for months every year. His travels to weird places led to the books Tony Wheeler’s Bad Lands and Tony Wheeler’s Dark Lands. This year his travels have taken him to Panama City – just as the Panama Papers story broke – and to Chernobyl where, he reports, the radiation levels aren’t so bad anymore. Tony is currently working on a book on Australia’s Islands for the National Library of Australia.
Triyanto Triwikromo • Indonesian Triyanto Triwikromo received Tokoh Seni Pilihan Tempo 2015 award after writing Kematian Kecil Kartosoewirjo and Pusat Bahasa’s literary award in 2009 for Ular di Mangkuk Nabi. His works, including A Conspiracy of God-killers (2015), The Serpent in The Holy Grail (2015), and Upside-Down Heaven (2015), were showcased at the 2015 Frankfurt Book Fair.
Valli Little • Australian Valli is the senior contributing editor of delicious. magazine, where she creates up to 60 recipes every month inspired by her travels and love of food. Valli’s passion for her subject shines through in her writing and recipes, and she is the author of 12 bestselling cookbooks.
Voranai Vanijaka • Thai Voranai Vanijaka is the editor in chief of GQ Magazine Thailand. He teaches Political Communication and Global Media Studies at Thammasart University. From 2008 to May 2014, he was an awarding-winning political commentator with the Bangkok Post newspaper. He has hosted three political talk shows in the past.
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Warih Wisatsana • Indonesian Warih Wisatsana has received a number of awards including the Taraju Award, the Borobudur Award, the Bung Hatta Award, the Kelautan Award, and the SIH Award for his work. He has appeared at the Utan Kayu International Literary Biennale, Winternach Den Haag, Inalco Paris, the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival, Poetry and Sincerity, and JillFest. His poetry collections are Ikan Terbang Tak Berkawan, and May Fire & Other Poems.
Wida Winarno • Indonesian As the daughter of one of Indonesia’s leading culinary experts, Professor Winarno, Wida Winarno inherited his passion for food. The woman behind Indonesian Tempe Movement, Fit & Healthy Community, and a secretary to Indonesian Food Analist Network since 2014, Wida now lives in Bogor, West Java, with her family.
Wojciech Jagielski • Polish Born in 1960, Wojciech Jagielski is a journalist and writer, specialising in former-USSR countries, Central and South Asia, and Africa. He is the author of seven books, three of which have been published in English – Towers of Stone, Night Wanderers, and Burning The Grass. Supported by the Embassy of the Republic of Poland
Wregas Bhanuteja • Indonesian Wregas Bhanuteja studied film and television at Institut Kesenian Jakarta. In 2014, his short film Lembusura was chosen to compete at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival 2015. Another short film, The Floating Chopin (2015) competed at the 40th Hong Kong International Film Festival and his film Prenjak (In The Year of Monkey) was awarded Leica Cine Discovery Prize for Short Film at Semaine de la Critique, Cannes Film Festival 2016.
Yassmin Abdel-Magied • Australian/ Sudanese Queensland Young Australian of the Year in 2015, Yassmin Abdel-Magied is a mechanical engineer, social advocate, writer and petrol head. Debut author at 24 with the coming-of-age-memoir Yassmin’s Story, she advocates for the empowerment of youth, women and those from racially, culturally and linguistically-diverse backgrounds. Yassmin is passionate about making ‘diversity’ the norm. Supported by Writing WA
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Schedule Day 1 Program Category
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Thursday, 27 October 2016 9
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Welcome Ceremony and Keynotes with Seno Gumira Ajidarma and Anastasia Lin
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Eka Kurniawan: Beyond Beauty is a Wound
The View From Here
Magda Szubanski: Reckoning
Main Program Indus Restaurant
Suki Kim: Undercover in North Korea
Tat Tvam Asi
The Art of Reading
Main Program Taman Baca
In Order to Live
Tethered Travel
Fact or Fiction
Main Program Joglo @ Taman Baca
First Language
Side By Side
Being the Change
Main Program Neka Museum
Special Events
Bahasa Breakfast at Joglo @ Taman Baca
Cultural Workshops
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Editorial Wo
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Come To Your Sense Cooking Class & Market Tour at Casa Luna Village Cycling Tour at Desa Visesa Ubud
The Kitchen Live Music & Arts Film Program
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Festival Club @ Bar Luna
Book Launches
Children Youth & Program
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Behind the Screen at Rumah Kayu @ Taman Baca Your Pop-Up Adventure at Campuhan College
Meet Press
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The Philosophy of Conservation
At the Extreme
All the Single Ladies
Found in Translation
Paradise Revisited
Origin Stories
Reading the Archipelago
La Lengua De Cervantes
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A New York Night with Hanya Yanagihara at Room4Dessert
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Women of Letters at Indus Restaurant
orkshop at Kori Ubud
es at Taksu Spa & Restaurant
My Sky, My Home at Betelnut
Melancholy is a Movement at Taman Baca
Stories, Cloth, and Archipelago: A Journey Writers Respond to Titanic – Midnight Toraja Across Indonesia Tat Tvam Asi Watch Dancing Rain at Warwick Ibah Luxury Villas & Spa Gangga to Mekong: A Cultural Voyage Through Textiles at The Elephant Zero: When Journey Takes You Home at Rondji Restaurant Bhagavad Gita (Nyanyian Tuhan) at Il Giardino Looking for Bali at Rio Helmi Gallery & Cafe
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Women of Words Poetry Slam at Betelnut
Poetronicaat Taman Baca (until 23:00)
Poet’s Club (until 23:00)
My Character at Campuhan College Club Mind Map at Rumah Kayu @ Taman Baca
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Main Program Neka Museum
Thinking Without Borders
Anastasia Lin: Beauty With Purpose
Surviving Slavery
Imagining India
Main Program Indus Restaurant
Camera Obscura
Ariel Leve: An Abbreviated Life
Writing Real Lives
Mitchell S. Jackson: The Resident Years
Main Program Taman Baca
Scratching the Itch
How We Write
USA in Asia
Reporting from the Edge
Main Program Joglo @ Taman Baca
Mystical Bali
The Child Inside
Make Art Not War
Mother Nature
Special Events
Workshops
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Cultural Workshops The Kitchen
Basa Bali Breakfast at Joglo @ Taman Baca
Lunch with Magda Szubanski at Maya Ubud Resort & Spa
Poetry & Performance at Taksu Spa & Restaurant Balinese Permaculture Tour at Desa Visesa Ubud Batik Painting at Nirvana Studio
Tempe with a Twist at Toko Toko
Food as Medicine at Toko Toko
Wok to Table in a Flash at Toko Toko
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Live Music & Arts
Film Program
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Book Launches
Children Youth & Program
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Ayo! Lets Go! at Campuhan College Out Loud: Performance Poetry at Rumah Kayu @ Taman Baca Whiskers, Paws, and Stories Galore! at Villa Kitty
Po a
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Should Journalism be Constructive?
Seno Gumira Ajidarma: My Indonesia
Beyond Exile
Daughters of a Diaspora
UWRF Book Club
Evolving English
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Susana Moreira Marques: At the End Talking Fiction with Lionel Shriver at Mozaic
Long Table Dinner at Desa Visesa Ubud People of Letters at Indus Restaurant
Writing Every Day at The Samaya Ubud Action! at Kori Ubud
Raw Food Revolution at Toko Toko
The Music of Cervantes at Taman Baca
hind the Mosquito Net at Betelnut
Emerging Writers– National Oration at Taman Baca Nay at Taman Baca
Hidden Legacy 31 Guys 31 Lessons & Candle Hope at Sri Ratih Cottages
Are You a Superhero? at Campuhan College oetry Workshop: Truth or Dare at Rumah Kayu @ Taman Baca The Story of Indigo at Yellow Coco Creative Nest
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Style Meets Taste Toko Toko
Babies & Bylines
Ubuntu & the Art of Motorcycle Riding
Neu! Reekie! (until 23:00)
The BE Book at The Elephant Far From Boring at Il Giardino Senirasa: A Cooking Companion for Indonesian at Rondji Restaurant
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Schedule Day 3 Program Category
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Saturday, 29 October 2016 9
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Main Program Neka Museum
Beyond the Front Page
Lionel Shriver: The Mandibles
Making America Great Again?
Cinematic Indonesia
Main Program Indus Restaurant
The Self and I
Juan Pablo Villalobos: Down the Rabbit Hole
China, Outspoken
Stan Grant: Talking to My Country
Main Program Taman Baca
Prison and the Pen
The Good Samaritan
Eternal Indonesia
The Tipping Point
Main Program Joglo @ Taman Baca
Inside the Echo Chamber
The Ground Beneath Our Feet
The Spell of Poetry
Dalam Bahasa Indonesia
Special Events
Morning Meditation at Taman Baca (begins at 7:30)
The Travellers Lunch at Alila
Bahasa Breakfast at Joglo @ Taman Baca
The Writing Ritual - Find Your Creative Process at Taksu Spa & Restaurant
Workshops
daily SCHEDULE SCHEDULE daily
15 30 45
Cultural Workshops
Surf & Travel Writing at Hubud
Culinary Jalan-Jalan Walking Tour at Casa Luna (begins at 06:00)
Research for Novelists at Kori Ubud
The Language of Offerings at Nirvana Studio
The Kitchen
Coffee in the Making at Seniman Coffee Studio
Sarong Dreaming at Toko Toko
Jack in the Hummus at Toko Toko
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Live Music & Arts
Torajame in
Film Program Festival Club @ Bar Luna
Book Launches
Children Youth & Program
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Hip-Hop Can Change the World at Campuhan College Unlock Your Imagination at Rumah Kayu @ Taman Baca
The at
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It Chooses You
Charlotte Wood: The Natural Way of Things
Screen Addicts
Baz Dreisinger: Incarceration Nations
The Past is Present
Cooking the Books
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Late Night Laughs with Sami Shah at Casa Luna Restaurant, 22:00–24:00
Around the World in 80 Bites at bridges
Writing Funny at Plataran Ubud Hotel & Spa True Stories at The Samaya Ubud
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The Elements of Story at Desa Visesa Ubud
ant to Plate Toko Toko
Cocktail Hour, Locavore–Style at Toko Toko Makers Market at Taman Baca Sunset Sounds at Taman Baca Art Alive – Live Drawing with Monez at Taman Baca Poetry Slam at Betelnut
elo, Weaving Compassion n Toraja at Betelnut
e Tree of Confidence t Campuhan College Toy Story mah Kayu @ Taman Baca
Fire on the Front Line Erstwhile: A Communion of Time at The Elephant Balinese Textiles for God and People & Balinese Painting and Sculpture at Sri Ratih Cottages
The Glamour of Strangeness
Spirit of Punk
Tales of Two Cities at Watercress Women in Bali at Fivelements Stolen at Rondji Restaurant UWRF Anthology Launch 2016: Tat Tvam Asi at Joglo @ Taman Baca
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Schedule Day 4 Program Category
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Sunday, 30 October 2016 9
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Main Program Neka Museum
I, Migrant
Hanya Yanagihara: A Little Life
Home
Desi Anwar: Talking Points
Main Program Indus Restaurant
In Their Skin
Helon Habila: The Chibok Girls
Forgiveness is a Practice
Hannah Kent: The Good People
Main Program Taman Baca
Ancient Texts
The Look of the Book
Island Lore
Poetry Gets Loud
Main Program Joglo @ Taman Baca Literary Jalan-Jalan meet at Taman Baca
Special Events
Look Who’s Coming to Lunch at Loca
A Delicious Journey at Casa Luna Mengupas Sastra at Desa Visesa Ubud
Workshops
daily daily SCHEDULE SCHEDULE
Cultural Workshops The Kitchen
Visual Storytelling at Taksu Spa & Restaurant Herb Walk at Casa Luna A Spice Journey: Masterclass & Lunch at Alaya Jembawan Resort
Live Music & Arts
Indones
Film Program Ground Zero (CD Launch) at Rondji Restaurant
Book Launches
Children Youth & Program
Make a Short Film: Tips & Tricks at Campuhan College The Urban Journalist at Rumah Kayu @ Taman Baca
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Darkness And Lights
Open Road, Open Book
The State of the Union
Shining a Light
The Power of Story
Mother Tongue
15 30 45
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Remembering Made Wijaya at Indus Restaurant
avore
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UWRF Closing Night Party at Blanco Renaissance Museum
sian Short Film Showcase at Betelnut
Indonesia Calling at Betelnut
Tigress at Hotel Tjampuhan & Spa
Digital Comics & Disasters at Campuhan College Timpal Tiang (My Friends!) at Yellow Coco Creative Nest Wild Worlds & Fairy Tales at Rumah Kayu @ Taman Baca
Jakarta Arts Council: Poetry Launch at The Elephant
Truth Without Fear at Hotel Tjampuhan & Spa
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in & around UBUD
In & Around Ubud
UBUD CULTURE The heart of Bali’s cultural and culinary scenes, Ubud is the perfect setting for an international Festival of brave voices, bold ideas and extraordinary stories. There are plenty of things to see and do. If possible, try to allocate at least a week for your visit and take time to explore. We recommend you try Balinese cuisine, attend a traditional dance performance (there are many around town, including Ubud Palace), visit the Monkey Forest (but be warned, they are feisty!), take a stroll in the rice paddies or along Campuhan Ridge, and stop in at one of Ubud’s many cultural institutions (such as ARMA, Neka Museum and Museum Puri Lukisan).
GETTING TO & AROUND UBUD Ubud is within easy reach of Denpasar and Ngurah Rai International Airport. The easiest way to get to Ubud from the airport and other regions is via taxi. Prices are negotiated with the driver but usually cost around IDR 300,000. In Ubud, take advantage of our Free Shuttle Bus (see map) or else try walking, hiring a scooter or bicycle, or taking a driver or ojek (scooter ride). There are numerous rental options in town, or else visit our Box Office for information.
GENERAL INFORMATION
Free Shuttle Bus
Our free shuttle buses run October 26–30, from 8am–6pm. The bus runs on a 30-minute circuit commencing at Puri Lukisan Museum on Jl. Raya Ubud. It then stops at Taman Baca (including the Box Office and Joglo @ Taman Baca), Indus Restaurant, and Neka Museum. The bus has capacity for 15 people.
Tickets
Head to our Box Office (see map opposite) to buy tickets, or pick up your pre-bought tickets and lanyard.
Information
The best place to find up-to-date information is the website, www.ubudwritersfestival.com. In person, find information at the Box Office (see map).
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Toilets
There are toilets at all our locations.
First Aid
For minor injuries, visit the First Aid area in Taman Baca (see map). For more serious injuries, please head to Ubud Clinic on Jl. Campuhan, open 24 hours a day (0361 974 911/2799 911).
Parking
Parking is limited. We suggest taking the Shuttle Bus, ojek or driver.
ATMs
ATMs near the Festival Hub are located at the Indomaret store, opposite Indus Restaurant, and Bintang Supermarket.
ATM
Prayer Room
First Aid
Toilet
Media Centre
Volunteer Basecamp
Parking Lot
REJUVENATING SPA PACKAGE Enjoy a 30% discount on all treatments between 8.00 am - 1.00 pm and receive the following additional benefits: For a minimum one hour treatment, enjoy the use of our spa pool. On a minimum two hour treatment, we will include a 30 minute foot massage. Also receive a 10% discount in our River Cafe. Plus a spa gift.
For reservation and information on prices, please contact spa at maya at 977888 SPAATMAYA.COM