Revolution and Reform: Gender, Climate and Race

Hosted by Michael Williams / With Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Scott Ludlum and Joelle Taylor

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Join us for our second Twilight Talk as we take on the big question of change and how to achieve it. Each of our panellists works tirelessly and effectively as an agent of change and a powerful advocate for their ideas and communities. Scott Ludlam is an activist, writer and former Deputy Leader of the Greens. Michael Mohammed Ahmad is a celebrated author and founder of the Sweatshop Literacy Movement that promotes writers and literature in and from Western Sydney. Joelle Taylor is a poet, social activist and fierce advocate for vulnerable and marginalised communities.

Unfortunately, Benjamin Law will now longer be able to host this session. You can still catch him at Growing Up in Australia and the first Twilight Talk, Living Gender: Reimagining Masculinities and Femininities.

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Michael Mohammed Ahmad debut novel, The Tribe, won the 2015 Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelists of the Year Award and his second, The Lebs, was shortlisted for the 2019 Miles Franklin Literary Award. Mohammed is the founding director of the Sweatshop Literacy Movement. His most recent novel is The Other Half of You.

Scott Ludlam was a Senator representing WA from 2008 to 2017 and served as deputy leader of the Australian Greens. He has also worked as a filmmaker, artist and graphic designer. Full Circle is his first book, the fruit of a life of activism, study and travel.

Joelle Taylor is an award-winning poet and author. Her most recent collection, C+NTO & Othered Poems, won the 2021 T.S. Eliot Prize and was named by The Telegraph, the New Statesman, The White Review & Times Literary Supplement as one of the best poetry books of 2021. Joelle founded SLAMbassadors, the UK national youth poetry slam championships, as well as the international spoken-word project Borderlines, and is a co-curator and host of Out- Spoken Live, the UK’s premier poetry and music club currently resident at the Southbank Centre. She is the commissioning editor at Out-Spoken Press 2020-2022.

Michael Williams is the Artistic Director of Sydney Writers’ Festival and a former long-serving director at The Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas in Melbourne.

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WHEN

Tue 08 Mar, 5:00pm

WHERE

Pioneer Women's Memorial Garden
Plane Tree Stage

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FREE
No need to register or purchase a ticket.

NOTE

Wheelchair recharge station and assistance dog water stations available.

COVID-19 MANAGEMENT

Please note Adelaide Writers' Week COVID-19 Management Policy requires all patrons aged 16+ to be double vaccinated to gain entry to the site.

Patrons are strongly encouraged to wear masks at Writers' Week.

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