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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

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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 TracksBet of the ArgilA 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 ArgilMum! This World Lies to UsOrphaned 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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