Wordcrafters’ Jubilee: Celebrating 20 Years of Co-Creation
Celebrating two decades of remarkable collaboration in co-transcreating diverse creative literature in Perth, bridging national and international boundaries alongside Vivienne Glance and Afeif Ismail
Featuring
- Dr. Vivienne Glance
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Nov 22, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Centre for Stories
Join Vivienne Glance and Afeif Ismail celebrate their unique collaboration of 20 years of co-transcreating diverse creative literature in Perth, nationally and internationally. This is a free event that brings together the community who have this shared creative journey. Enjoy an evening of multi-lingual poems, performances and stories, and relive the shared memories of a generous, cross-cultural community.
We will be joined by past collaborators, Mararo Wangai, Dennis Haskel, Mar Bucknell, Rafeif Ismail, Ilan Zagoria, and Roderic Pitty, who helped us build Transcreation into an internationally recognised practice. Let’s gather together to fondly recall the memories woven over the past twenty years.
Enjoy delicious Sudanese finger food, BUT PLEASE REGISTER so we have enough to share.
We also encourage community participation through open mic spots for poetry.
Vivienne Glance
Vivienne is a Western Australian writer and performer, working in poetry, fiction, performance and spoken word. She is most inspired by the big questions of the day and the small moments that link us all. She’s at her most creative when blending music, sound, text, light and movement in live performance.
Vivienne enjoys chairing sessions and presenting at Writers Festivals and she has also been invited to several writing residencies in Australia and abroad.
Vivienne is committed to community arts and inclusivity and works with Afeif Ismail transcreating his poetry and plays into English.
Vivienne holds a PhD candidate from the University of Western Australia, which researched representations of science in performance, and is a book reviewer and theatre critic.
Afeif Ismail
Afeif Ismail is an award-winning Australian-Sudanese writer. He is an internationally published poet and playwright whose works have been translated into German, Spanish and Swedish. His work in Australia has been recognised nationally through winning awards and nominations. Afeif has published many works of poetry in Arabic: Traps and some Tracks, Bet of the Argil, A Passage to the Aroma of Invisibility, and It’s your Bird. He has published many works of poetry in English too, such as Bet of the Argil, Mum! This World Lies to Us, Orphaned Birds and The African Magician playscript.
Afeif’s plays in Arabic have been produced in cities, towns and villages across Sudan from 1985 to 2000. His play for children, The African Magician, was commissioned and produced by Barking Gecko Theatre Company in Western Australia in July 2010.
Afeif was short-listed for the inaugural Kit Denton Fellowship for Writers of Courage in 2007. He was selected to workshop this play, with co-transcreator Vivienne Glance, at Playwriting Australia’s Canberra Workshop in June/July 2008. Afeif was awarded the inaugural Australian National Playwrights’ Conference (ANPC) Bursary in 2008. In 2009 he was a recipient of an inaugural Western Australian Theatre Development Initiative for his play The Shrouds or the Dead.
The African Magician was nominated for the 44th Annual AWGIE Award best script for Children Theatre in 2011and another play, Son of the Nile, was produced by Murdoch University Theatre in Education in Western Australia in 2012.
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TRAVEL AND ACCESSIBILITY
Central Perth Train Station is a 10 minute walk from Centre for Stories. The closest parking is at 6-8 Errichetti Place at Wilson Parking. Centre for Stories is a wheelchair-accessible building. If you have other accessibility needs, contact us at info@centreforstories.com.
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Dr. Vivienne Glance
Collapse BioVivienne is a writer and performer, working across media: poetry, performance, science, and written and spoken word. She also performs/records her writing and the work of other writers and has been invited to several festivals, both for writing and for theatre in Australia, UK and USA. She's committed to arts development and inclusivity in the community, and run workshops on playwriting, poetry-writing for children in schools, creating work across language and culture, adult creative writing classes, and sessions to help writers perform their work at readings and events. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Western Australia (UWA), researching representations of science in performance and writing a full-length performance work. In addition to this, she has been an Honorary Research Fellow at UWA. She has also worked as a project co-ordinator for Out of the Asylum Writers (WA), as a financial officer for Indigo journal (WA) and festival co-director for The Arts Catalyst (London), an organisation that she co-founded with Nicola Triscott in 1993.
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Afeif Ismail
Collapse BioAfeif Ismail is an internationally published poet and playwright from Sudan. His works have been translated into both German and Swedish. His achievements include winning the Naji Naaman’s Literary Prize 2015, 3 Seeds (3 short plays) presented by Always Working Artists at the Blue Room Theatre and The African Magician commissioned and produced by Barking Gecko Theatre Company and nominated for the Australian Writer’s Guild Award for Best Children’s Play in 2011. International Playwright Observer at 2014 New Visions/New Voices Workshop and Festival, at John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington DC, USA.
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