In this panel event, voices from different generations and First Nations backgrounds come together to explore First Nations community and family networks, and how they relate to conceptions of motherhood, parenting and the transmission of First Nations knowledge systems. Ali Cobby Eckermann is the Windham Campbell Prize-winning author of memoir, poetry and verse novels, including Inside My Mother, and a survivor of the Stolen Generations. Dr Jackie Huggins’ decades of work as an author, historian and academic have focused on First Nations identity, activism and the question of feminism’s relevance for Indigenous women. An education academic and frequent media commentator, Dr Amy Thunig’s forthcoming memoir Tell Me Again explores the shaping of identity amidst intergenerational trauma and poverty – and deep familial love. For this wide-ranging conversation in partnership with Blak and Bright, they join host Bridget Caldwell-Bright for an insightful conversation about the women they have known, loved and learned from, and the women they are. This event will open with a Yarn Bomb from emerging Kamilaroi artist Emily Wells.
This event will be photographed and recorded for use by the Wheeler Centre. The bookseller for this event is Readings. Presented in partnership with Blak and Bright.
Celebrating our return to the stage and the rejuvenation of the arts and culture communities, Spring Fling is a short series of big ideas offering a delectable picnic spread of events with leading thinkers, writers and creators from Australia and abroad.
Spring Fling is supported by the Melbourne City Revitalisation Fund, a Victorian Government and City of Melbourne partnership.
Wheelchair accessible
Accessible toilets available
Ali Cobby Eckermann’s first collections of poetry little bit long time and Kami (2010) both quickly sold out their first print runs. Her verse novel His Father’s Eyes was published by OUP in 2011. Her second verse ...
Dr Jackie Huggins AM FAHA, a member of the Bidjara and Birri Gubba Juru peoples, is currently leading the work for Treaty/Treaties in Queensland. In popular demand as a speaker on Aboriginal issues, she is a well-known ...
Dr Amy Thunig-McGregor (B.Arts; M.Teach; PhD) is a Gomeroi/Kamilaroi/Gamilaraay academic who parents and partners on beautiful Awabakal Country. A full-time Research Fellow within the field of education at the University ...
Emily Wells is a proud Kamilaroi producer and playwright currently working with YIRRAMBOI Festival. As a Playwright, Emily's debut play Face to Face premiered at Metro Arts (Brisbane) as part of Playlab Theatre's 2022 Season ...
Bridget Caldwell-Bright is a freelance editor based in Melbourne, Victoria.