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This event is a fundraiser to support FIRE (Fighting in Resistance Equally) in their fight for First Nations justice and climate action. Entry to the event is free. We’ll be collecting donations on the night as well as donating $10 from every book sold on the night.
Join us for readings and performances by:
Alison Whittaker
Issy Phillips
Kenji Khozoei
Alex Gallagher
Claire Cao
Marcus Whale
Jonno Revanche
Sniz Rite
Dan Hogan
Jason Gray
Cash and card accepted for both purchases and donations to FIRE.
Subbed In takes place on the stolen land and waterways of the Gadigal-Wangal people of the Eora Nation. We pay our respects to elders, past and present. This land was never ceded, sold, or given up. Always was and always will be Aboriginal land.
When: Wednesday 15 January, 7-9pm
Where: Freda’s, 107-109 Regent Street, Chippendale, Sydney, Australia 2008
How much: Free
Access: Access to the venue is at street level and inside is a wide flat area. Access to toilets is up 4 concrete steps.
Drinks and food available.
The event is All Ages but minors must be accompanied by an adult.
About FIRE:
United against all forms of oppression and exploitation, socially, culturally and environmentally, FIRE continues to tirelessly fight for First Nations justice and climate action. Since January 2019, FIRE has been delivering water and installing water filters to drought stricken communities in north-west NSW covering Gamilaraay, Yuwaalaray and Barkindji countries around the Barka (Darling River). Access to water continues to be an issue as the climate crisis deteriorates and governments continue to prop up colonial-capital agribusiness projects to the detriment of community and Country.
About the artists:
Alison Whittaker is a Gomeroi poet and lawyer. Her second collection, BLAKWORK (Magabala 2018) was shortlisted for a Prime Minister’s Literary Award, a Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, and received a Queensland Literary Award for poetry.
Issy Phillips is a comedian, writer and climate advocate. She is one of GQ’s three brightest millennial comics and her critically acclaimed stand-up show ASMR Live has been performed to sell out audiences across Australia. She recently gave a Ted Talk on how we can use the arts as a medium to inspire action on climate change and is the co-founder of social enterprise Hiccup, which aims to engage young people with climate action through music and art.
Sniz Rite is a nurse living and working in Western Sydney.
Jason Gray is a Mauritian-Australian writer from West Sydney/Darug. His work is concerned with being a Person of Colour, bi-cultural, anti-racism and all bigotry, displacement, media, facing alt-centrism. His book HAUNT (THE KOOLIE) is available from Subbed In.
Alex Gallagher is a writer currently living and working on Gadigal land. Their work has appeared in Overland, Australian Poetry Journal, Southerly and Scum Mag, among others. Their debut chapbook Parenthetical Bodies was released in 2017 through Subbed In.
Kenji Khozoei is no longer a student of any institution and has therefore run out of ways out of writing a bio. For now, they live and sleep on Dharug land, 2148.
Claire Cao is a freelance writer and critic from Western Sydney. She is a fiction editor for Voiceworks and a member of Sweatshop: Western Sydney Literacy Movement. You can check out her work in The Lifted Brow, SBS Life, Rough Cut and Running Dog.
Marcus Whale lives on Gadigal land, making music, performance and writing. His works mine mythologies of longing, often appropriating the high drama of religious ritual. Marcus’ publications include wheeze (Subbed In, 2019) and Devotionals (Ruin Press, 2015).
Jonno Revanche is a writer and photographer based in Sydney and Adelaide.
Dan Hogan is a writer and primary school teacher from San Remo who currently works in Western Sydney. Some of their work can be found at www.2dan2hogan.com
About Subbed In:
Subbed In is a DIY literary organisation and small publisher. Subbed In provides a platform to amplify underrepresented voices, facilitating grassroots support for marginalised voices and writers/writing alienated by the literararararary establishment.
Community: This is a safer spaces event and as such there is zero tolerance for inappropriate behaviour of any kind.
To support FIRE & their efforts further, donations can be made to:
Bendigo Bank
FIRE
BSB : 633 000
Acct : 166 790 485
Put "water gift" in the description
See youse soon.
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All enquiries please email Dan: hello@subbed.in