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Jazz Money is a Wiradjuri poet and artist based on Gadigal land, Sydney. Their practice is centred around poetics while producing works that encompass installation, digital, performance, film and print. Their writing has been widely published nationally and internationally and performed on stages around the world.
Jazz is a Guest Curator for the 2024 Festival. Her curated events create a rich exploration of poetry, fireside stories from First Nations storytellers and a unique conversation about Blak criticism.
We spoke with Jazz about the events they have curated for the Festival this year and where they'll be appearing in the Program.
Jazz Curates:
Blak Crit
“I have quite selfishly programmed [Blak Crit] as someone who works at the intersection of poetry, literature and the arts. I really wanted to bring together these incredible thinkers to see what they think is going on in the place where First Nations creativity intersects.”
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Firetalk
“Firetalk brings together short story writers from First Nations backgrounds from across the continent. We've got Tony Birch, Laniyuk, Melanie Saward, Mykaela Saunders and Enoch Mailangi all coming together to tell stories that are going to make you laugh and cry and send tingles up your spine.”
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Speak the Light
“Speak the Light is going to be a really powerful, nourishing poetry performance session of people speaking their own poetry, which is such a gift. I adore hearing poets perform their own work and I'm excited to be able to bring these national and international poets to the Sydney Writers’ Festival audience.”
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Hear Jazz on Race Matters
A spirit of protest and deep sensitivity echoes in this episode with two staunch First Nations activists and artists Jazz Money and Thea Anamara Perkins. Hear Levant Can Kaya, Thea and Jazz on personal archives and joyous collective imagination as antidotes to colonial violence and the politics of art-making as institutions try to stifle their resistance.