The 2022 Brisbane Writers Festival program went live today, if you’re curious about the things produced by the day-job I took back in October. It was an exhausting, aggravating, ambitious beast of thing to land–especially given that we were sideline by omicron and a flood.
My my brain isn’t quite at the level of being proud of the job we’ve done, but I’m definitely proud of some elements. Mostly spots where we’re showcasing new and emerging voices, or the combination of talent feels like it’s going to resonate in a really intersting way.
Here are the fifteen events I’d make an effor to go and see over the course of the weekend, as I think they’ve got the potential to be sleeper hits (with the possible exception of Windswept, which is an In Covnersation likely to be a plain old hit given the autor involved) :
- Trans Lives, Trans Bodies: https://bwf.org.au/2022/brisbane-writers-festival/trans-bodies-trans-lives
- New Australian Masculinity: https://bwf.org.au/2022/brisbane-writers-festival/new-australian-masculinity
- Understanding Poetry: https://bwf.org.au/2022/brisbane-writers-festival/understanding-poetry
- Windswept: https://bwf.org.au/2022/brisbane-writers-festival/windswept-walking-in-the-footsteps-of-remarkable-women
- Debuting In A Pandemic: https://bwf.org.au/2022/brisbane-writers-festival/debuting-in-a-pandemic
- (Un)Represented Families: https://bwf.org.au/2022/brisbane-writers-festival/un-represented-families
- Let’s Talk About Love:https://bwf.org.au/2022/brisbane-writers-festival/lets-talk-about-love
- The Millennial Hustle: https://bwf.org.au/2022/brisbane-writers-festival/the-millennial-hustle
- Let’s Imagine The End Of The World: https://bwf.org.au/2022/brisbane-writers-festival/lets-imagine-the-end-of-the-world
- Looking Past The Shadow Of History: https://bwf.org.au/2022/brisbane-writers-festival/looking-past-the-shadow-of-history
- Solitary Women: https://bwf.org.au/2022/brisbane-writers-festival/solitary-women
- Domesticity Under Scruitiny: https://bwf.org.au/2022/brisbane-writers-festival/domesticity-under-scrutiny
- The Past Is Always Personal: https://bwf.org.au/2022/brisbane-writers-festival/the-past-is-always-personal
- Murder, Drugs, and Voyerism: https://bwf.org.au/2022/brisbane-writers-festival/murder-drugs-and-voyeurism
- Great Escapes: https://bwf.org.au/2022/brisbane-writers-festival/great-escapes
I’ve started to accumulate a lot of thoughts about how I like to program, and why I like to program that way, as a result of this experience.
Mostly, it should be noted, because I disagree with my boss and the various people doing the actual programming, and frequently found myself biting my tongue because deciding on events wasn’t really my job (I’m logistics and pulling the events together, not the hands-on programming).