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Sydney Writers’ Festival Puts Access on the Page
This year’s festival is highly accessible with events that are free, have disability content as well as tactile works. In particular, a free Nightwriting Poetry Installation will feature poets reading their work from memory in the dark and full text versions of the poems will be transformed into body-powered wall projections. Authors to watch out for include:
Ruby Langford-Gibini
Ruby Langford-Gibini
is the author of five books and a proud elder of the Bundjalung people
from northern New South Wales. She has lived a remarkable and inspiring
life as an indigenous woman and a wheelchair user. Ruby will discuss
her contribution to the ‘Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature'
on Saturday 24 May, 2.30-3.30 pm at the Sydney Dance Company, Studio 1.
This is a free event and the free Shuttle Bus from Circular Quay and
Sydney Dance Company are wheelchair accessible. Ruby’s first book, Don’t Take Your Love to Town,
was originally published in 1988, and republished in 2007. It won the
Australian Human Rights Award for Literature and the Pandora Books
Women Writers’ Award in 1989. Her latest book, ‘All My Mob’, was published in 2007.
Ryan Knighton
Ryan Knighton has been losing his sight for the last fifteen years. He has also published three books, developed a screen play at the Sundance Screenwriter’s Lab, is the subject of a documentary, has taught contemporary literature, pop-culture and creative writing and is an international guest at this year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival. Ryan will present his latest book, the memoir ‘Cockeyed’, an original and humorous coming-of-age story that ‘lights a new path into what we can know about our world through unseeing eyes’. He is also on a panel presentation, ‘Not Another Misery Memoir…’ with Judy Lucy and Imran Ahmad. The documentary ‘As Slow as Possible’, about Ryan’s 15 year wait for ‘his last sliver of sight to go’ is also screening and is a free event on Friday 23 May from 6.30 to 8.30pm at Bangarra Theatre, Pier 4/5, Hickson Road, Walsh Bay. Both the free Shuttle Bus from Circular Quay and Bangarra Theatre are wheelchair accessible.