First Nations Book Club at Story Lounge – Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe

Name: First Nations Book Club at Story Lounge – Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe
Start: 2022-06-23T17:00:00+08:00
End: 2022-06-23T18:00:00+08:00
Location: Story Lounge

Our First Nations Book Club is an introduction to a diverse range of texts by First Nations authors.

Jun 23, 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Story Lounge

Our First Nations Book Club is an introduction to a diverse range of texts by First Nations authors. Through an informal conversation we discuss each text, explore its themes, and celebrate First Nations stories and storytellers. Everyone is welcome to attend this safe space.

This session will be facilitated by Daniel Hansen, and the selected text is Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe.

In Dark Emu Bruce Pascoe argues for a reconsideration of the ‘hunter-gatherer’ tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians and attempts to rebut the colonial myths that have worked to justify dispossession. Pascoe provides compelling evidence from the diaries of early explorers that suggests that systems of food production and land management have been blatantly understated in modern retellings of early Aboriginal history, and that a new look at Australia’s past is required.Daniel Murray Hansen is a Ballardong Nyoongar performance poet and musician. He has performed around WA in Quairading, York, Northam, Denmark and more. Daniel uses poetry as platform to help others deal with mental health challenges they may be experiencing and to help gain recognition for Aboriginal people across Australia. He believes that poetry is in everything and everything is poetry.

Please note this event is being hosted at Story Lounge, our new storytelling pop-up in Hay Street Mall.

TICKETING

This event is free but please RSVP below.

BATHROOM

Please note that the Story Lounge does not have a bathroom but visitors can use the public bathrooms across Hay Street Mall at the Food Court.

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Story Lounge would not be possible without the Humich Group who donated the Hay Street Mall shopfront to activate the CBD for local writers and artists, as well as financial support from the City of Perth.

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