Explore the 2026 Program

Family Secrets

Stories of the beauty and burdens families share

Susan Choi (Photo credit Laura Bianchi, Bogliasco Foundation)
Omar Musa (Photo credit Nana Franck)
S. Shakthidharan (Photo credit Alex Vaughan)
Sisonke Msimang (Photo credit Nick White)
Sunday 24 May 2026
3-3.55pm
Event Code: 135
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Blood isn’t the only thing that bonds these families who also share intergenerational secrets held through time and across countries.

2025 Booker Prize–shortlisted author of Flashlight Susan Choi, internationally acclaimed multi-disciplinary artist and author of Fierceland Omar Musa and award-winning playwright of Counting and Cracking and writer of Gather Up Your World in One Long Breath S. Shakthidharan consider their new books and the complicated families at their hearts.

Hear Susan, Omar and S. Shakthidharan share their perspectives on families, belonging and home from fascinatingly different backgrounds – Korean American, Bornean Australian and Sri Lankan Australian. In conversation with host Sisonke Msimang.
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