Centre for Stories in Perth, Western Australia | Non-profit organisation

Centre for Stories

Locality: Perth, Western Australia

Phone: +61 8 9328 1443

Address: 100 Aberdeen St 6003 Perth, WA, Australia

Website: http://www.centreforstories.com

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25.01.2022 On October 10 its World Mental Health Day and we'll be hosting a conversation with women in sport. In this intimate afternoon of open and honest conversation at the Alex Hotel, hear from three Perth-based women leading programs in community sport that support our mental well being through movement. They’ll share true stories from the field and ring and together we’ll discuss how we can shape our future of sport. Learn more about the event and our speakers here: https://centreforstories.com/event/women-in-sport/

24.01.2022 And that’s a wrap! These lovely faces are just the tip of the iceberg of the many passionate writers, poets, mentors and arts practitioners involved in the Inclusion Matters Project. Over the last 12 months, we’ve been working with emerging writers and poets to develop new works, hot desk, attend festivals, perform readings, and develop a community of writers who champion inclusivity and diversity. Thank you to everyone involved! Photos by Jesse Roberts.

24.01.2022 I say moved, but we never really ‘left’ Hong Kong. My father still works there. My mother and brother live there as well. My sisters and I all have permanent residency. Before COVID-19, I could still safely say that I returned at least three times every year. When asked where she is really from Siobhan Hodge names a country where she has never lived and in remembering her childhood and the first poem she wrote and all of the poetry thereafter she reflects on what it mea...ns to be between homes. Read it here: https://centreforstories.com/story/journal-siobhan-hodge Siobhan Hodge has a PhD. in English literature. Her thesis examined the creative and critical legacy of the ancient Greek poet Sappho. She won the 2017 Kalang Eco-Poetry Award and was shortlisted for the 2019 Fair Australia Prize. Her work has been published in Overland, Westerly, Southerly, Cordite, Plumwood Mountain, Voice&Verse, Peril, and the Fremantle Press Anthology of WA Poetry. Her chapbook, Justice for Romeo, is available through Cordite Books. Journal is funded by the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries, the Copyright Agency and our Founders Circle See more

24.01.2022 Much of Asian parenting seemed to involve clear if sometimes implicit ultimatums, consequence and accountability. If we failed, we would have only ourselves to blame. Adele Aria’s family await a visit in a porcelain building that rattles with family ghosts and the heavy unspoken expectations of duty. One day, a girl no older than Adele is kicked out, and it makes Adele reflect on their own experiences, the myth they made of adults, and their future. Read it here: ht...tps://centreforstories.com/story/journal-adele-aria/ Adele writes non-fiction and poetry with occasional forays in short fiction. A passionate advocate for human rights and social change, they draw on their studies and personal experiences of complex trauma, disability, and queerness to explore the politics of existence and identity, and the ways in which we integrate personal and shared histories. They have been published in international and Australian literary and academic publications. Adele is grateful to be living and writing upon Noonga Boodjar. Journal is funded by the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries, the Copyright Agency and our Founders Circle. See more

22.01.2022 I believed that reading stories about my adopted country and writing my own responses as I negotiated cultural dislocation would change the way I experienced my new reality. Reading would reinforce my understanding of Australia; as country, as idea. Writing would enable me to map my journey and become a cultural insider. 35 years after this diasporic moment, this is what I know. Sense making has become story making. The wonderful Rashida Murphy, who has been involved with t...he Centre for a number of years, recently completed an Inner-City Residency with us, and has answered a few questions about this time with us and has also generously shared a piece of writing she wrote during her residency about the stories we choose to tell and write and sense-making. Incredible work as always, you can read it here: https://centreforstories.com//inner-city-residency-rashid/

22.01.2022 Being Asian Australian means I balance on the one hand, my Burmese-Karen linguistic and cultural heritage, of which I am immensely proud, and the cultural values and relationships I have inherited in growing up in Australia. That’s Chris Lin, speaking about the many facets of identity for our CFS x LIMINAL collaboration last year. On 5 December, Chris will be facilitating Third Culture Kids a discussion at Toastface Grillah about identity in the diaspora to kick off the C...ITY BLOCK of Side Walks 2020. He’ll be joined by Gisele Ishimwe, Alexander Te Pohe, and Rafael Gonzalez. Here is some preliminary reading to keep you occupied until then... - Read more about Chris via Liminal Magazine - Gisele’s blogs via giselehaba.com - Alexander Te Pohe’s work can be found via Djed Press, our Journal series, and in our second anthology, To Hold the Clouds (available on our website) - And, Rafael’s work can be found via our Journal series, and in our most recent anthology, To Hold the Clouds (available via our website) Side Walks is free by RSVP but we’ve booked out! Email [email protected] to join our waiting list. Until then... happy reading! Thanks to our sponsors: City of Perth, Rayner Real Estate, and Aspen Corporate. https://centreforstories.com/event/side-walks-city-block/

21.01.2022 We just received this incredible collection of stories from our friends at Liminal Magazine ahead of the release in November. These are stories of the future from their inaugural fiction prize longlist, featuring emerging and established writers of colours, and they're sites for collisions against eurocentric ideals, against narrows concepts of excellence, against stagnant ideas of the world to come, and collisions in the way our lives connect with others, in how our pasts ...shift against the present, and in how our imaginations sit against our realities. Congratultions to Liminal, all of the published writers and Pantera Press. Preorder it here: https://www.panterapress.com.au/product/collisions/

21.01.2022 The lack of recognition for writers who are quitting is kind of startling, because it’s something that happens all the time, and often for reasons just as practical and sensible as for those who are formally retiring. The novelist who has been dropped by their publisher and can’t find a home for their third book. The journalist who can’t make ends meet on a freelance income. The poet who has lost faith in what they’re doing. Ben Walter feels like he’s constantly on the ...edge of pressing the big red button on his desk that sounds the final siren to end his career as a writer, and he’s sure many of his contemporaries feel the same. Here he contemplates the quietness of quitting writing, and the celebration that this is owed. Read it here: https://centreforstories.com/story/journal-ben-walter Ben Walter's poetry, essays, and experimental short stories have appeared in Lithub, Meanjin, Overland and a wide range of other publications. His latest book, Conglomerate, was published as part of the Lost Rocks series, and shortlisted in the Tasmanian Premier's Literary Prizes. He is the fiction editor at Island. Journal is funded by the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries, the Copyright Agency and our Founders Circle. See more

21.01.2022 Sport has been a man's game but with the number of girls and women getting on the field and in the ring around the world what is the future of sport, especially as the grassroots movement to support their physical and mental wellness stagnates? Join us on World Mental Health Day this Saturday for a candid conversation between Kate Marano, Lisa Longman and Rachael Lynch about leading our community so that girls and women in sport can thrive. https://centreforstories.com/event/women-in-sport/

20.01.2022 "So you’ll see that this anthology matters for so many important reasons. It gives voice to those who might otherwise be silenced. It makes ethical demands on the reader. It gives us the aesthetic pleasure of story and language, including language other than English. It shows the commitment of the fabulous Centre for Stories and its dedicated mentors to help emerging writers refine their craft and contribute to the wider literary and political culture. And finally, To Hold th...e Clouds reminds us that the best writing raises questions rather than provides simple answers to the complex experience of being alive." We recently celebrated the official launch of To Hold the Clouds our latest collection of writing from emerging local writers and we're thrilled to be able to share the speech that author and mentor Susan Midalia wrote for the event we held. Read it here: https://centreforstories.com//susan-midalias-launch-speec/ Find To Hold the Clouds here: https://centreforstories.com/product/to-hold-the-clouds/

20.01.2022 As a mother, this notion of ‘self first’ feels at odds with the concept of motherhood where sacrifice is the ultimate virtue. My top priority had to be myself. The alternative was a world where my son would grow up motherless. The moment Sandi Parsons announced she was pregnant a slew of friends and family passed judgement but her pregnancy progressed without incident. But in 1995 postnatal statistics indicated that women with Cystic Fibrosis were unlikely to survive th...e toddler years. So, she took ever parenting short-cut with both hands to find stolen minutesfor her health, and to make the most of her time with her son as he grew and explored the world. Read it here: https://centreforstories.com/story/journal-sandi-parsons Sandi Parsons lives and breathes stories, as a reader, writer and storyteller. She is passionate about engaging readers and diversity in storytelling. Sandi is a Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award Judge 2020, 2021 (Early Childhood category). Sandi's creative nonfiction has been published in MiNDFOOD and Frankie. She is a contributor in the Growing Up Disabled in Australia Anthology. She lives in Western Australia with her favourite husband, some problem puppies and many teetering stacks of books. Journal is funded by the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries, the Copyright Agency and our Founders Circle. See more

19.01.2022 Happy NAIDOC Week! Listen to artist Tyrown Waigana who was one of our Inner City Residents explain his artwork ‘Shape of Land’, which he created for the this year's poster. And make sure you're following National NAIDOC.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wgPR4sxj1s

19.01.2022 Lockdown has caused nature to encroach upon my ordered world. Tendrils have creeped into the cracks... I find myself touching and stroking bark, and breathing in the mess of cockatoo-desecrated gum nuts. I am even drawn to nature via the online world. There is an old paperbark tree standing sentinel out the front of Bindy Pritchard’s house and over the years she has tried not to get too connected to it. But during lockdown she starts to notice more and more about it, to... think more about the natural world. She craves daily walks along the Djarlgarra river, follows the Guardian’s Tree of the Week, and learns about mushrooms. And through this connection she unearths memories and realises what fuels her writing. Read it here: https://centreforstories.com/story/journal-bindy-pritchard Bindy Pritchard lives and writes in Perth, on the traditional land of the Whadjuk people. Her fiction has been published in various journals such as Westerly, Review of Australian Fiction and Kill Your Darlings. Her debut story collection Fabulous Lives (Margaret River Press) was shortlisted for the 2019 Western Australian Premier’s Prize for an Emerging Writer. Journal is funded by the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries, the Copyright Agency and our Founders Circle. See more

18.01.2022 In navigating and surviving dating-app-dates (D.A.D.’s for short), it is entirely vital to have some sort of escape system. The last date Baran Rostamian went on pre-corona didn’t go very well and it quickly became apparent that both she and her date wanted to get out of there. Luckily, Baran has a coded emergency text system for bad dates, and he was on his way the moment she texted him the word indigo. Read Baran’s story for our online Journal for creative nonf...iction here: https://centreforstories.com/story/journal-baran-rostamian Baran Rostamian is a second-year student studying English Literature and Law and Society at the University of Western Australia. She is also currently a participant in the Inclusion Matters mentoring program for emerging local writers from CALD backgrounds at the Centre for Stories in Perth. In her spare time Baran enjoys bubble tea, cats and critiquing French cinema. Journal is funded by the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries, the Copyright Agency and our Founders Circle. See more

17.01.2022 Join author Bindy Pritchard tomorrow for a free intensive writing session at the State Library of Western Australia. Every Saturday for National Novel Writing Month, SLWA are providing a free space for writers to work. This is the second weekend, and you'll be in great hands with Bindy Pritchard, who's short story collection, Fabulous Lives, was shortlisted for the WA Premier's Book Awards.... https://fb.me/e/3aQiHHYMY

16.01.2022 Join us this Saturday for World Mental Health Day and hear from women in sport about physical and mental wellbeing when you're playing the man's game. With sports journalist Kristen Marano, the Young Woman's Boxing Project Lisa Longman, and the Hockeyroo's Rachael Lynch, they’ll share true stories from the field and ring and discuss how we can shape our future of sport for the better. More information here: https://centreforstories.com/event/women-in-sport/

15.01.2022 Follow Amplify Bookstore - they just opened with the aim of representing BIPOC writers on shelves!

15.01.2022 This identity comes with its own complicationsyears of denial and compulsory heterosexuality, religious and internalised homophobia, fear, shame, the longing to be free and visible and me. All this pain I didn’t choose, but what the world gave me. Kaya Ortiz is remembering who she is, who she’s been all along before anyone told her who she should be, and leaving behind an unwanted legacy of shame. The day she gets her nose pierced is a moment when she gets to choose he...r pain, and for her it symbolises pride and love. Read it here: https://centreforstories.com/story/journal-kaya-ortiz/ Kaya Ortiz is an emerging writer and poet from the southern islands of Mindanao and lutruwita/Tasmania. A queer woman of colour, she is interested in histories, identity, heritage and language. Her poetry has appeared in Scum, Peril, Westerlyand the 2020 Affirm Press anthology After Australia, among others. Kaya currently lives in Boorloo/Perth. Journal is funded by the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries, the Copyright Agency and our Founders Circle. See more

14.01.2022 Our friends at The Blue Room Theatre are on the hunt for an Operations Manager, and Communications and Engagement Coordinator. Applications will close at 12pm on Tuesday 17th November for both positions. https://blueroom.org.au/new-employment-opportunities-at-t/

13.01.2022 My young daughters find my electronic struggles amusing. They’ve never used a typewriter. Like other young folk, they’ve taken to the laptop like sunflowers turning naturally to the sun. Manohar Shetty contemplates our computer age and recalls the sound of his typewriter, the tinkle after the completion of each line. He remembers of all of the typists in Bombay sitting outside law courts and busy commercial areas in the bylanes of the Fort area while their fingers flash...ed at seventy words a minute. And in this ode to the typewriter, in the loss of the past, he finds fertile hunting ground for poetry. Read it here: https://centreforstories.com/story/journal-manohar-shetty/ Manohar Shetty’s Full Disclosure: New and Collected Poems (1981-2017) was recently published by Speaking Tiger, comprising his individual collections. In the UK his poems have appeared in London Magazine, Poetry Review, Wasafiri and Poetry Wales. In the United States his poems have appeared in Chelsea, The Baffler, Atlanta Review and New Letters, and Helix in Australia. Several anthologies feature his work, notably The Oxford India Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian Poets (ed Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, OUP, N Delhi) and in anthologies edited by Eunice de Souza and Vilas Sarang. Shetty has been a Homi Bhabha Fellow and a Senior Sahitya Akademi Fellow. He edited Goa Today magazine for several years and has worked in newspapers in Mumbai and Bangalore. His collection of short stories is forthcoming in 2019. He has lived in Goa since 1985. Journal is funded by the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries, the Copyright Agency and our Founders Circle. See more

11.01.2022 This month Lit Live - great short stories read by great stroytellers - is about hopes, dreams, longings and secrets. Come and enjoy an engaging and relaxed evening of entertainment with like-minded people. Presented by Sarah McNeil, featuring Lit Live regular Caitlin Beresford-Ord.... Event link: https://centreforstories.com//lit-live-longings-and-secre/

10.01.2022 We're very, very excited for a special book club event on December 17 at the Centre to celebrate the recent launch of Liminal Magazine's Collisions. Experimental, genre-bending, lucid stories from emerging and established writers of colour stories of the future from their inaugural fiction prize longlist. Register here: https://centreforstories.com//book-club-collisions-fictio/

10.01.2022 If you're an emerging Australian writer looking to launch your career the University of Queensland Library, supported by the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund, has a $25,000 Fellowship for you to develop a new work of creative writing. Applications close October 16. Head here: https://web.library.uq.edu.au//awards-and-fellowships/crea

09.01.2022 This toxic employer had screamed in public, mocked my sincerity and called me inept. I had kept my chin up and fingers crossed. The umpteenth draft of the episode, warm now in that folder, would convey that. But with freelance writing, one never knows. Barnali Ray Shukla remembers all of the details of a June morning thirteen monsoons ago when she learned that it isn’t easy to forgive someone who nearly killed you. That day she was waiting to hear back about some writin...g she’d re-submitted for a job, she had to take her ma-in-law to the clinic, her dad called about a pending legal suit, and then she found herself on a bus when a rogue driver caused an accident. Read it here: https://centreforstories.com/sto/journal-barnali-ray-shukla Barnali is an Indian writer, filmmaker and poet. She has featured in anthologies in India, the USA, Hong Kong, Singapore and the UK. Her maiden poetry collection is called Apostrophe. In her cine life Barnali has written and directed one full length feature, two documentaries, and two short films. She lives in Mumbai with her plants, books and a husband. Journal is funded by the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries, the Copyright Agency and our Founders Circle. See more

09.01.2022 Rashida Murphy, Gerard D’Cruz and Saadia Ahmed will be taking a closer look at Netflix’s ‘Indian Matchmaking’ and the real-life consequences of the billion-dollar marriage-industrial complex during Side Walks this year our one-day sprawling celebration of storytelling and literature. Meet the lineup... Rashida Murphy lives and writes on the unceded lands of the Whadjuk people. She drinks too much coffee and spends most of her time cuddling a grey cat called Shanti. ... Gerard is a Malaysian born Malayalee, living in Australia since 2008. He works as a full time GP. When free, he dabbles in charcoal pencil sketches and pastels and loves karaoke. He was strongly opposed to the idea of arranged marriages until he found himself in one. Saadia Ahmed is a writer, blogger, vlogger and storyteller. Her writing focuses on human rights women’s, in particular. She hails from Lahore in Pakistan and is now based in Australia. Indian Matchmaker is the third event of the CITY BLOCK of Side Walks on Saturday December 5, and @studio281gallery will be hosting this leg of the day. Both the CITY BLOCK and the NORTHRBRIDGE BLOCK are fully book out but you can email [email protected] to go on the waiting list. Thanks to our sponsors: City of Perth, Rayner Real Estate, and Aspen Corporate. https://centreforstories.com/event/side-walks-city-block/

08.01.2022 Join journalist Kristen Marano and our speakers Bella Ndayikeze, Lisa Longman, and Rachael Lynch on World Mental Health Day for a conversation about women in sport where they'll share true stories from the field and ring and discuss how we can shape our future of sport for better. More information here: https://centreforstories.com/event/women-in-sport/

07.01.2022 Join Adele Purrsisted tomorrow for a free intensive writing session at the State Library of Western Australia. Every Saturday for National Novel Writing Month, SLWA are providing a free space for writers to work. This is the third weekend, and you'll be in great hands with Adele, who was on the writers mentored through our Inclusion Matters program and published in our recently launched anthology To Hold The Clouds.... More on the event: https://fb.me/e/4CvxsOWUS More on Adele: https://centreforstories.com/story/adele-aria/ More on To Hold the Clouds: https://centreforstories.com/product/to-hold-the-clouds/

07.01.2022 This Saturday is World Mental Health Day and we're running an event with Kristen Marano, Lisa Longman and Rachael Lynch, to discuss leading change in our communities to shape the future of sport for the physical and mental wellbeing of girls and women. This personal and candid event will explore the man's game and why the grassroots model to support girls and women in sport has stagnated despite an increasing number of them hitting the field across the world. Learn more here: https://centreforstories.com/event/women-in-sport/

07.01.2022 These sentences that came out of the mouths of teachers and school friends, it made me doubt my own identity. These sentences stressed that for some reason I needed to validate my Asian-ness, validate what I looked like, who I was. The last few months have produced meaningful conversations around race and identity for Yoshika Kon and stirred memories from her adolescent years, moments when others made her falter and doubt who she was. But she’s changed a lot since then,... and she has a message for those who can’t be bothered to learn her name. Read it here: https://centreforstories.com/story/journal-yoshika-kon Yoshika Kon currently works as a Communications Officer at Propel Youth Arts WA, and enjoys writing and taking photos for her often neglected blog and Instagram. A keen listener, she is particularly fond of conversations surrounding topics of race and identity, Asian popular culture especially in the context of globalization, books, travel and food. Journal is funded by the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries, the Copyright Agency and our Founders Circle. See more

06.01.2022 There will be more gatherings to attend post-pandemic. In the meantime, I continue to gather thoughts, ideas and words. I have more dreams to gather. I’ve stories to write, and hopefully publish. Gatherers are seekers and finders, dreamers and doers. A pandemic cannot stop the gathering and sharing of stories. In the first week of March when talk of a virus and racial finger-pointing began, Karen Wyld was catching up with other members of the SA First Nations Writers G...roup to plot a year of writing activities and celebrate blak literary success. She was planning a year of being less distant, but she’d soon find that impossible. She writes of the many ways she has gathered and still gathers, despite this. Read it here: https://centreforstories.com/story/journal-karen-wyld Karen Wyld is a freelance writer and author living on the coast, south of Adelaide. Her novel Where the Fruit Falls, published by UWA Publishing, won the 2020 Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript. Journal is funded by the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries, the Copyright Agency and our Founders Circle. See more

05.01.2022 I’ve learned to hone my anger like a knife. I carry it around for self-defense. My anger at you, at this homophobic country, at leaders too self-important to really care about anything, much less us. Tania De Rozario returns to the apartment where, 15 years ago, she left her mother and grandparents behind after leaving without saying goodbye. Now, they’re all gone, and she’s left with disappointment and anger, with her memories of her mother, and she’s talking to walls ...in a house that failed to become a home. Read it here: https://centreforstories.com/story/journal-tania-de-rozario Tania is a visual artist and writer. She is the author of Somewhere Else, Another You (2018), And The Walls Come Crumbling Down (2016), and Tender Delirium (2013), all published by Math Paper Press. Her work has won Singapore’s Golden Point Award for English Poetry (2011) and has been shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize (2014). Tania’s writing can be found in various literary journals including Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner Online Journal, Blue Lyra Review, and The Asian American Writers Workshop Journal. Her visual art has been showcased in Singapore, Amsterdam, San Francisco, Chatham, London and Moscow. Tania also co-founded EtiquetteSG, a platform that develops and showcases art, writing and film by women from and in Singapore. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia. Journal is funded by the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries, the Copyright Agency and our Founders Circle. See more

04.01.2022 Humble brag time! We’re thrilled to have Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa working on our latest project, Forbidden Love. Sukhjit is a spoken word artist who has performed at Australia’s Got Talent, TEDxUWA, and has toured around Australia. Her theatre production, Fully Sikh (Barking Gecko Theatre Company and Black Swan) was a raging success. Currently, she’s developing two TV projects, What would Suki Do? and One of the good ones and in her down-time she’s working with us on ‘Forb...idden Love’! Forbidden Love is our oral storytelling project that celebrates relationships of all forms, especially the peculiar ones! Do you have an interesting relationship that’s itching to be told? Participation details here: https://centreforstories.com///new-project-forbidden-love/ Photograph by Leah Jing. Liminal Magazine.

03.01.2022 Do you have a story to tell based on your own life or family history? Learn how to capture these moments with Rosemary Sayers who's Life Writing course is back by popular demand. Every Saturday morning for six weeks starting November 14.... https://centreforstories.com//life-writing-with-rosemary-/

03.01.2022 This Friday learn how to resist colonial narratives in your writing with author Rashida Murphy. Through a series of discussions and exercises learn how to write with political awareness.

03.01.2022 My phone’s screen is lit up with ‘!’ Happy Father’s Day. It’s the 20th of June, Father’s Day in Hong Kong. I quickly copy and paste the same message, add a few emojis, and hit send. I would’ve been on a plane back home right now. Every year Tiffany Ko and her siblings take turns visiting their family in Hong Kong. This year it was her turn, but instead she’s still in Perth, reminiscing of a chocolate cake her father bought her as a child. Read Tiffany’s st...ory for our online Journal for creative nonfiction here: https://centreforstories.com/story/journal-tiffany-ko Tiffany Ko is a Chinese-Australian emerging writer living and practicing on Whadjuk Noongar boodja. She explores identity and belonging in her work, especially within an Asian-Australian context. Her creative pieces have appeared in the Singapore Review of Books and Pulch Mag, and is forthcoming in the anthology To Hold the Clouds by the Centre for Stories.You can find her on Twitter @tiffanykowrites. Journal is funded by the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries, the Copyright Agency and our Founders Circle. See more

01.01.2022 SAVE THE DATE! Side Walks is back with support from the City of Perth. A one-day sprawling adventure of literature and storytelling across Northbridge and Perth City, Side Walks is about celebrating local stories, activating spaces with arts and culture, and moving through the city with friends new and old. This pop-up event builds on the success of Side Walks 2019, where we were joined by the likes of Janet Carter, David Whish-Wilson, Lisa Longman, Tinashe Jakwa, Sisonke Msi...mang, Ron Bradfield Jr, and many more. So mark December 5 in your calendar for five free events and keep your eyes peeled for the program which will be announced soon!