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Jun 3, 13 • Culture, Featured, Headline • No Comments »
Meet Eleanor Jackson, Peril’s poetry editor. She wants to meet more Asian-Australian poets. For dinner and dancing, maybe some long walks on the beach. But probably just reading poetry. I updated my blog the other day. For anyone who knows me,...
May 30, 13 • Arts, Culture, Featured, Headline, Reviews • No Comments »
There are many ways to tell a story and there are many types of storytellers. An incredible storyteller can make a boring story the most dramatic experience you’ve sat through, a poignant story can fall into a dead pit in the wrong hands. ...
May 30, 13 • Arts, Culture, Fashion, Featured, Headline, Reviews • 2 Comments »
The Sydney Writers Festival is an extraordinary undertaking. Not only is there a battery of renowned writers, publishers, critics and commentators packed into Sydney’s Walsh Bay precinct over six days, but the festival program is punctuated by...
May 5, 13 • Activism, Featured, Headline, Politics • No Comments »
RISE is the first refugee and asylum seeker organisation in Australia to be run and governed by refugees, asylum seekers and ex-detainees. Despite not having any full-time staff, RISE does not receive any funding from the federal government. ...
May 2, 13 • Fashion, Headline, Travel • 1 Comment »
I wrote a series of reflections on visibility, belonging and passing throughout 2011 and 2012. This version was edited for a reading during Lisa-Skye‘s Midsumma spoken word showcase, The Invisibles. My recent trip overseas has made me think...
Apr 19, 13 • Activism, Arts, Featured, Headline • 1 Comment »
You know when you are a brown girl in the world and you grow up reading Enid Blyton and Nancy Drew and all the newsreaders on television and all of your teachers at your very British primary school and then international high school are white? And...
Mar 23, 13 • Activism, Arts, Culture, Featured, Headline, Politics • 1 Comment »
I support myself as a professional artist and I recently left my gallery representation in Melbourne when I realised they had begun representing a white artist whose work has appropriated Indigenous Australian art. I’m not going to discuss that...
Mar 4, 13 • Activism, Arts, Culture, Featured, Headline, Politics, Uncategorised • 5 Comments »
I had the opportunity to speak at the first ever multicultural media forum at NSW Parliament last week. The Multicultural Media At A Crossroads conference was jointly organised by the Multicultural Media Awards, the UTS Faculty of Arts and Social...
Dec 6, 12 • Arts, Culture, Headline • No Comments »
PERIL: Can you describe some of the artworks you are exhibiting at APT7? HAHAN: My work in APT7 is part my ideas talking about the young artist position in Indonesia. Like one of the works ‘the journey’ is talking about effort some of...
Dec 6, 12 • Arts, Culture, Headline • No Comments »
PERIL: Can you describe some of the artworks you are exhibiting at APT7? GREG: Essentially I am exhibiting a selection of photographs, 4 to be precise. They represent a snap shot survey of thematic work I have been developing from 2007 to 2010 with...
