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Sunbirds: Mirandi Riwoe in Conversation

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When

Saturday

April 6
10:00 am - 11:00 am

Where

Watt Space Gallery
20 Auckland St
Newcastle NSW 2300

Tickets

Free

Sunbirds: Mirandi Riwoe in Conversation

As an artist, Mirandi Riwoe is concerned with recreating histories too few of us know. Her new novel Sunbirds, takes readers on a journey through time to West Java in 1941 when love and revolution are in the air – and war is on its way. Mirandi speaks with Ashley Kalagian Blunt about engaging with colonialism and its reverberations.

This is a free event; no bookings required.

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The Speakers

Mirandi Riwoe

As an artist, Mirandi Riwoe is concerned with recreating histories too few of us know. Her new novel Sunbirds, takes readers on a journey through time to West Java in…

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A head and shoulders photograph of a white woman with shoulder-length wavy brown hair partially obscuring er face as she smiles at the camera

Ashley Kalagian Blunt

As an artist, Mirandi Riwoe is concerned with recreating histories too few of us know. Her new novel Sunbirds, takes readers on a journey through time to West Java in…

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