Singer, writer and director Robyn Archer, writer Nicholas Jose, festival director Nicolas Low and director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Elizabeth Ann Macgregor discuss how to build a resilient creative society able to take risks. The panellists explore ideas based on their writing in Griffith REVIEW 23: Essentially Creative.
NICHOLAS JOSE (LOCAL) NICHOLAS JOSE is a novelist and essayist who has written widely on contemporary Australian and Asian culture. His novels include Avenue of Eternal Peace, The Rose Crossing, The Red Thread and, most recently, Original Face. He has also published Chinese Whispers, Cultural Essays and Black Sheep: Journey to Borroloola. He has a chair in Writing in the University of Western Sydney’s Writing & Society Research Group. He will take up a Harvard chair of Australian Studies for 2009-10.
NICOLAS LOW (INTERSTATE) NICOLAS LOW is a writer, artist and arts festival director. He writes for various Australian publications, is an award-winning installation artist, runs graphic/web design practice SSLCTD and is co-editor and designer of the Nomadology travel writing project. Recent work has included directing the National Young Writers’ Festival, sitting on the curatorial board of the Next Wave arts festival and completing a Masters in Creative Writing at the University of Melbourne.
ELIZABETH ANN MACGREGOR (LOCAL) ELIZABETH ANN MACGREGOR is the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. Her essay in Griffith REVIEW 23: Essentially Creative explores how contemporary artists connect with communities.
ROBYN ARCHER (INTERSTATE) ROBYN ARCHER is a singer, writer, director, artistic director and public advocate of the arts in Australia and around the world. Robyn is known for her own writing, including political songs in shows like Pack of Women and Kold Komfort Kaffee. She is an exponent and a champion of music theatre and the classic European cabaret tradition, and is always writing in various forms from songs to shows to essays, articles, speeches and verse.
JULIANNE SCHULTZ (LOCAL) JULIANNE SCHULTZ is the founding editor of Griffith REVIEW and a professor in the Centre for Public Culture and Ideas at Griffith University. She has written extensively about the media and is the author of Reviving the Fourth Estate: Democracy,Accountability and the Media, Steel City Blues and the librettos Black River and Going Into Shadows. She co-chaired the Creative Australia stream at the Australia 2020 Summit.
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