First Nations Curators
The Art of Blak Critique
Sun 12 Sep, 10amState Library Victoria, Village Roadshow Theatrette
Hear from a panel of First Nations critics, reviewers and essayists as they discuss the importance of Blak critique and peer review in a predominantly white review culture that continues to sideline or superficially engage with Indigenous stories. The event’s programmer, Jingili Mudburra writer and editor Bridget Caldwell-Bright, chats with critic, essayist and descendant of the Yorta Yorta Declan Fry, critic, researcher and a descendant of Numbulwar Tristen Harwood, and Gomeroi poet and legal researcher Alison Whittaker.
Supported by the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund
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Bridget Caldwell-Bright is a Jingili and Mudburra editor based in Melbourne. She is currently working as an editorial policies advisor at the ABC as well as co-editor for weekly news digest SUBTEXT(E). She was previously co-editor for Archer Magazine’s First Nations Edition and managing editor for Blak Brow.
Born on Wongatha country in Kalgoorlie, Declan Fry has written for The Guardian, Saturday Paper, Overland, Australian Book Review, Liminal, Sydney Review of Books, Cordite, Kill Your Darlings and Westerly. His Meanjin essay ‘Justice for Elijah or a Spiritual Dialogue with Ziggy Ramo, Dancing’ received the 2021 Peter Blazey Fellowship.