Ubud Writers & Readers Festival is partnering with Writing WA to create UWRF Perth, running 8-10 October. This will be a hybrid event, combining live events and presentations at The Rechabite Hall in Perth, and in Bali. There will also be online participation from international speakers. These events will be live-streamed, allowing for interaction in real-time with live audiences in both Perth and Bali, and with our online audience across the globe.
Celebrated Indonesian author Ayu Utami, a pioneer of women’s erotica in Indonesia, along with Fogarty Award-winner Rebecca Higgie, will share stage and screen with Professor Krishna Sen to explore the …
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In Phosphorescence, Julia Baird immerses herself in nature to explore friendships, family, loss, and illness, to seek the inner light that brightens our lives in the darkest times. In The …
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Australian politician and academic Anne Aly, award-winning children’s author Meg McKinlay, and documentary filmmaker Victoria Midwinter Pitt are all three exceptional women of widely different backgrounds. They have come together …
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In The Nutmeg’s Curse, Amitav Ghosh shares how Western colonialism and exploitation in the Banda Islands, Maluku, is the origin of climate change’s current dynamics. Hilmar Farid, the Director-General of Indonesia’s …
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In Semut, Christine Helliwell shares the story of an Australian secret military operation launched into the remote jungled heart of the Japanese-occupied island of Borneo, in the final months of …
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In 1965, the U.S. government helped the Indonesian military killed one million innocent civilians to eliminate the largest communist party outside China and the Soviet Union. Vincent Bevins’ bold and …
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Australia’s First Nations people are the country’s first memory holders and storytellers. However, their stories are often left unheard. Join three First Nations writers, Elfie Shiosaki, Jarrad Travers, and Cass …
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When a global health crisis closes borders between and within countries, does literature’s potential to transport people to new places take on greater significance? David Allan-Petale, whose debut novel, Locust Summer, …
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Poets Emily Sun and Felix K. Nesi are powerful emerging voices in the literary communities of Australia and Indonesia, respectively. Their poetries consider the personal and political impacts of imperialism, …
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Mulat Sarira is a Balinese philosophy that invites us to reflect on various aspects of ourselves and broader humanity, such as our relationship with the environment, society and the spiritual. …
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Untuk tahun ke-18, sebagai acara sastra terkemuka di Asia Tenggara, Ubud Writers & Readers Festival hari ini, Rabu (08/09/2021), mengumumkan daftar lengkap acara Main Program. Lebih dari 130 penulis, jurnalis, seniman, dan aktivis …
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival telah mengumumkan tahapan pertama para pembicara yang akan bergabung tahun ini dalam program yang akan berlangsung selama sebelas hari, yang terdiri dari berbagai diskusi menarik, …
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