First Nations Book Club: Mullumbimby by Melissa Lucashenko
Featuring
- Casey Mulder
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Oct 26, 6:00 pm - 7:00 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 and free wine and cheese is provided.
This session will be facilitated by Casey Mulder and the selected text is Mullumbimby by Melissa Lucashenko.
Please note you are strongly encouraged to have read the selected text prior to attending this event.
ABOUT THE BOOK
When Jo Breen uses her divorce settlement to buy a neglected property in the Byron Bay hinterland, she is hoping for a tree change, and a blossoming connection to the land of her Aboriginal ancestors. What she discovers instead is sharp dissent from her teenage daughter, trouble brewing from unimpressed white neighbours and a looming Native Title war between the local Bundjalung families. When Jo unexpectedly finds love on one side of the Native Title divide she quickly learns that living on country is only part of the recipe for the Good Life. Told with humour and a sharp satirical eye, Mullumbimby is a modern novel set against an ancient land.
RSVP
This event is free but please RSVP below.
TOILET
Please note that the Story Lounge does not have a bathroom but visitors can use the public toilets across Hay Street Mall at the Enex Building.
THANK YOU
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 and Australia Council for the Arts.
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Casey Mulder
Collapse BioCasey is a Ballardong Noongar woman from Western Australia. She graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Education, and has been a high school educator and Student Services leader since 2009. In 2020 she completed a Master of Leadership and Management in Education at the University of Newcastle, and returned to the School of Indigenous Studies at UWA as the Coordinator of Teaching and Learning (Indigenous Students). She has a keen interest in First Nations storytelling in all its forms, and in December 2021 she received a Creative Development Scholarship from Magabala Books to complete an editing mentorship at Night Parrot Press in 2022. In May this year, she received a Writing Fellowship from Centre for Stories in Perth, to work on a memoir manuscript, and she was recently appointed as the Acting First Nations Editor for Westerly Magazine. Alongside her career in educational leadership, Casey is keen to further her knowledge and skills in creative writing, with the hopes of becoming a published author and advocating for First Nations storytellers in Australia within the publishing industry.
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