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Phew! That was something special. Today I went to a book launch at ARC Disability Services Inc., where three more writers from their creative cohort have published an illustrated children’s book. Trent Griffin ‘The Kindest Goat’, Darren Smith ‘Friends at First Sight’ and Andrew Barton / Imogen Lambeth’s ‘Frank the DJ’ I have been to a lot of launches in my time. This one had a different current running through it. Let me tell you about one of the books. Frank the DJ is structured with real craft. Frank is a flying fox who hears music drifting through the air and decides he wants toRead More →

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You hear a good story. It fires you up thinking about how that story would look on a stage. The story is coming from someone who has a very different culture to your own. Stop, stop, traffic light. Before you walk away saying (low key sanctimoniously) ‘this is not my story to tell, I have no business here’, I want to consider if there might be a collaborative opportunity. Ok, sure, I’ve been outspoken here before about leaving the stories of under-represented cultures alone. I stand by this. One or two celebrated Australian playwrights I could name have embarked on telling stories belonging entirely toRead More →