Residents in Conversation (online)
Featuring
- Franchesca WalkerSee more about Franchesca Walker
Jul 27, 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Online
This event will take place via Zoom. Please use the link below to access the meeting.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82897912137?pwd=RjFTQWFrckJXYy83VFpFZFdVTWlqdz09
Meeting ID: 828 9791 2137
Passcode: 271617
Hear from Bayswater Café Residency writers, Franchesca Walker and Zarah Burgess, as they chat to Jay Anderson about their time at Drip Expresso and share some of the work they produced during their residencies.
Bayswater Café Residency is a writer-in-residence program funded by the City of Bayswater. This program supports two writers to undertake a writing residency at Drip Expresso for a total of 12 days over a four-to six-week period. This project aims to support local writers to develop their craft and produce new work, and to make writers visible to the general public.
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Franchesca Walker
Collapse BioFranchesca Walker (Ngāti Rakaipaaka, Ngāti Pāhauwera, Pākehā) is a writer and storyteller living on Whadjuk Noongar land. Born and raised in Aotearoa New Zealand, she arrived in Australia after her father had what can only be described as a mid-life crisis and decided that his life passion really lay in driving trucks in WA mines. This life-changing decision might be why Franchesca writes memoir—as a show of thanks (or is it punishment?) to her father for exposing her to the Perth way of life. It also doesn’t hurt that her father and the rest of her family are infinitely more interesting than any characters that could come from her own mind. Franchesca’s work has most recently been performed as part of Baredfaced Stories and published by the Centre for Stories.
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