In Other Words 2021 by Adelaide Festival Centre

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Tarntanya Palti Trukkuku OzAsia Palti Kaurna Yartangka pintyathi. Ngadlurlu Kaurna miyurna tampinthi. Puki-unangku parna yaitya mathanya Wama Tarntanyaku. Ngadlurlu parnaku tapa purruna parnaku Yarta-itya tampinthi. Ngadlurlu namurli tuwilarra nguyanguya muri-itya wapinthi. Adelaide Festival Centre's OzAsia Festival is produced on Kaurna land. We respect the Kaurna people as the traditional custodians of the Adelaide Plains. We honour their cultural and spiritual relationship with their country and we do so in the spirit of reconciliation.

LAURA KROETSCH

Program Curator, In Other Words Welcome to In Other Words, OzAsia Festival’s celebration of words—both on and off the page. This year the event takes us through Australia, and (remotely) visits some of our regional neighbours. The realities of COVID–19 mean we are not presenting the larger event we had planned. Instead we are presenting a hybrid event. It will take place in the Dunstan Playhouse and feature writers and thinkers live on stage and on screen. Perhaps most importantly, the event is free and open to all. For those unable to attend in person we will live–stream the entire event on the OzAsia Festival website. The idea behind In Other Words is to explore both intimate stories and big ideas. We hope to do this by bringing together writers, artists, and thinkers for conversations about family, COVID–19, leadership, grief, trauma, sex and history. Celebrate food culture with Adam Liaw and Hetty McKinnon. Explore today’s India with journalist Barkha Dutt. Chinese novelist Chen Qiufan will consider the future and Indian writer Yashica Dutt will tell the truth about caste. We will open the event with a conversation about Australia’s relationship with China and close with a debate that states: Australia is an Asian Country. I hope you are able to join us in the Dunstan Playhouse or online for three glorious days considering the complexities of the world we live in now.

With special thanks to

The Honourable

STEVEN MARSHALL MP ANNETTE SHUN WAH

Artistic Director, OzAsia Festival Can there be a more critical time for words? Words of wisdom, insight, courage and reason. Welcome to OzAsia Festival’s In Other Words, where the spotlight focuses on the conversations we need to have, from fresh new perspectives. Join leading thinkers and writers from Australia and Asia in this provocative and illuminating program. From politics to poetry, racism to relationships, leadership to lyricism, freedom of expression to the liberating power of truth, beauty and our shared humanity, In Other Words delves deeply into the big themes of our time through a diversity of both new and familiar voices. In Other Words, it will be a breath of fresh air!

Premier of South Australia

I am delighted to welcome you to the inaugural In Other Words, OzAsia Festival’s new writing and ideas program: a free event putting the spotlight on the important conversations we need to have. Conversations about our future, our culture, specifically the position of Australia in Asia and Asia in Australia. What better place to hold these discussions than where our First Nations peoples have come together for thousands of years, on the banks of the Karrawirra Pari – the Red Gum Forrest River. In Other Words is another innovation that builds on OzAsia Festival’s powerful reputation for leadership in cultural exchange in the Asia Pacific, and Adelaide’s central role in that engagement.

DOUGLAS GAUTIER AM

BENJAMIN LAW

ROANNA GONSALVES

There is nothing like South Australia’s own OzAsia Festival and Adelaide Festival Centre, together with the incomparable Annette Shun Wah in the first year of her three-year term as Artistic Director. We continue to find new and exciting ways to center art, culture, community and dialogue in the heart of the city.

Real talk: 2021’s been rough. It’s been a brutal year for Australian arts. It’s been a heartbreaking time for many Asian Australians with anti–Asian sentiment on the rise during COVID–19.

It may seem frivolous to create art in the middle of a pandemic, but through this breathless crisis we keep hungering for words to stitch us together with pleasure and relief.

(Honestly, it’s been so rough that you could tell me that it’s still 2020 and I’d probably believe you.)

Our days are sutured with words of need and survival; with stories of family, friends, neighbours sinking, rising up across countries and continents, passed on in many languages, told and retold.

CEO & Artistic Director Adelaide Festival Centre

In Other Words will bring together over forty speakers and artists across more than twenty sessions. Although some speakers may not be able to join us in person, we are thrilled to bring all sessions to audiences online and in the Dunstan Playhouse through our new hybrid presentation model. Join us for conversations not to be missed.

Guest Curator In Other Words

But as we step—tentatively; optimistically—into sunlight, I can’t think of a better time to celebrate the stories of the roughly 1/10 Australians with Asian heritage, build on a porous and dynamic Asian Australian history that predates white settlement and colonisation, and to share knowledge and art here on Kaurna land. And given I’ve spent so much of this year in lockdown, I can’t wait to share a dumpling or 70 with you.

Guest Curator In Other Words

We have all been apart for so long. I can’t wait for us all to come together again, to honour the imagination, be enchanted by the stories that connect us and keep us alight in these dark hours, to be delighted again, by words.

ATTEND IN PERSON AND ONLINE In Other Words will be held in the Dunstan Playhouse at Adelaide Festival Centre and live-streamed online from the OzAsia Festival website. Many speakers will join us on screen from their homes as we respond to COVID-19 border closures. We look forward to sharing this event with you.

REGISTER Capacities are limited for this event. To guarantee your seat, please register your attendance on the OzAsia Festival website or using the QR code below. One day pass will confirm your seat at any session that day. *Excluding the opening night event and closing night debate. The opening night session You are Here (and so is China) and closing debate Australia is an Asian Country require separate registrations. Your day registration will not guarantee you access to those events. You’ll receive confirmation of your registration via email. Please bring this with you for admission into the auditorium. If you’re having trouble registering, we’re here to help. Call us on 131 246. Patrons who have not registered to attend will be admitted subject to capacity.

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BOOK STALL Join us at the beloved Imprints Book Stall in between sessions all weekend. Purchase books by our remarkable speakers and kick off your summer reading! Dunstan Playhouse Foyer Sat 6 & Sun 7 Nov 9am – 5.30pm

OPENING NIGHT

YOU ARE HERE (AND SO IS CHINA)

Evelyn Goh

Natasha Kassam

Geoff Raby AO

Australia takes its place in the Asia Pacific, its geographical home, with some reluctance. For this session three experts come together to talk about the region, in particular the implications of an increasingly powerful China. Professor Evelyn Goh is the author of The Asia Pacific’s “Age of Uncertainty”. Natasha Kassam is a Director at the Lowy Institute and her areas of expertise include China’s domestic policy, Australian foreign policy, Taiwan, and human rights. Geoff Raby AO is a former Ambassador to China and author of China’s Grand Strategy and Australia’s Future in the New Global Order. Moderator: Tory Shepherd Capacity is limited for this event and specific registration is required to attend: ozasiafestival.com.au/events/in-other-words

Sat 6 Nov 6.15 – 7.30pm

CLOSING NIGHT DEBATE

AUSTRALIA IS AN ASIAN COUNTRY

Benjamin Law

Sunil Badami

Jennifer Wong

Oliver Phommavanh

Marc Fennell

Eugenia Flynn

Anchuli Felicia King

Having begun the weekend by placing Australia firmly in the Asia Pacific, we close the inaugural In Other Words with a rousing debate. While we may know where Australia lives geographically – what do we think about its culture? Hosted by Benjamin Law, this event brings Jennifer Wong, Marc Fennell, Sunil Badami, Oliver Phommavanh, Eugenia Flynn and Anchuli Felicia King together to claim the nation for the affirmative – or perhaps not! Grab a drink, come cheer on your team, and find out what makes Australia Asian. Capacity is limited for this event and specific registration is required to attend: ozasiafestival.com.au/events/in-other-words

Sun 7 Nov 5.30 – 7pm

LUNCH ON THE RIVERBANK WITH PARWANA Durkhanai Ayubi Join Durkhanai Ayubi for a conversation about her family’s journey from Afghanistan to celebrated Adelaide eatery Parwana. At the heart of the story is Farida Ayubi, a woman who has kept the customs and traditions of Afghan cuisine alive for her family and community. Enjoy Farida’s food at this special lunch, conversation, and book signing. Moderator: Katie Spain Fri 5 Nov 12 noon – 2pm Riverbank Footbridge All Tickets $69

SCHOOL SESSIONS

WRITING HUMOUR: IT’S NOT THAT HA HA HARD Oliver Phommavanh

Everyone has a sense of humour, but does your humour make sense? Oliver Phommavanh loves to make people laugh, whether it’s on the page writing humour for kids, or on stage as a stand-up comedian. He also shares his passion for writing with kids, using his experience as a primary school teacher. Oliver will go through fool-proof techniques for writing hilarious jokes, weird characters, and wacky story lines. There’s a little bit of drawing on your own experiences, actual drawing of characters, and more! Discover how easy it is to inject laughs into your writing. Oliver has performed at various comedy and writers festivals around Australia and Asia. His recent books include Brain Freeze, Don’t Follow Vee and Natural Born Loser, and his best known: Thai-riffic!, Con-nerd and The Other Christy. Fri 5 Nov 10am, 11.15am and 12.45pm 45mins Online only Registrations required Suitable for Years 6–7

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MORNING MEDITATION Science and religion agree that the best way to start the day is with a morning meditation. Join us on the Riverdeck for a 15-minute meditation and set yourself up for the day. A morning meditation encourages clear thinking, optimism, and contentment. There is nothing to say you can’t grab that coffee too. Think of this as our gift to you as we start each day of In Other Words. Sat 6 & Sun 7 Nov 9am, 15mins Riverdeck, Dunstan Playhouse

SATURDAY NOVEMBER

9.30 – 10.30am

10.45 – 11.45am

12 noon – 1pm

WAVES ACROSS THE SOUTH

THE BOOK OF FORM AND EMPTINESS

AT WHAT COST: A FREE MEDIA

Sujit Sivasundaram

Join celebrated historian Sujit Sivasundaram on a fascinating voyage around the global south, from the Bay of Bengal to the Tasman Sea as he seeks to reconsider the age of revolution: 1789 and 1848. Told from the perspective of indigenous and nonEuropean people, his is a story of an extraordinary cast of characters whose lives were informed by colonial rule. Moderator: Laura Kroetsch

Ruth Ozeki

James Oaten

Michael Smith

Novelist, filmmaker and Zen Buddhist priest Ruth Ozeki’s new novel The Book of Form and Emptiness tells the story of Benny Oh, a boy who discovers he can hear voices coming from objects after the death of his father. Seeking some quiet, Benny hides out in the public library where he discovers a book that speaks only to him. Join Ruth for a conversation about grief, creativity and psychological difference.

Michael Smith was one of the last Australian journalists to leave China, an experience he recounts in his memoir, The Last Correspondent. James Oaten left India on an Australian repatriation flight earlier this year. They have both had to consider the question of a free press, often at risk to their person. Join them in a conversation with Peter Greste about the present and future challenges to a free media.

Moderator: Laura Kroetsch

Moderator: Peter Greste

ALL SESSIONS ARE IN DUNSTAN PLAYHOUSE

SATURDAY NOVEMBER

1.15 – 2.15pm

2.30 – 3.30pm

3.45 – 4.45pm

RACISM 2.0: AUSTRALIA TODAY

TRAUMA, STORY, TRUTH

INDIA NOW WITH BARKHA DUTT

Michael Mohammed Ahmad Paige Clark Anchuli Felicia King Expressions like ‘Asian invasion’ and ‘yellow peril’ are all too familiar to anyone living in Australia, especially in the wake of COVID-19. Come together to talk about the experience of living in Australia today. Founding director of Sweatshop Literacy Movement and Arab Australian author Michael Mohammed Ahmad; Chinese American Australian fiction writer, researcher and teacher Paige Clark; and Thai Australian theatre artist Anchuli Felicia King.

Larissa Behrendt

Award-winning novelist and non-fiction writer Larissa Behrendt has long written about the ways memory and trauma inform generations of First Nations Australians, including in her new novel After Story. Amandi Haydar was a practicing lawyer when her father murdered her mother, an act that provoked a terrible reckoning within the family. Join them as they consider the way the past informs the present and the future. Moderator: Tory Shepherd

Moderator: Benjamin Law

Amani Haydar

ALL SESSIONS ARE IN DUNSTAN PLAYHOUSE

Barkha Dutt

Award-winning journalist Barkha Dutt joins us for a conversation about India today, from the blight that is COVID-19, to the crackdowns on the media, and the political toll the virus has had on Modi’s’ government. She gives us an insider’s look at the politics of both India and the region as the world continues to grapple with disease, climate change and political instability. Moderator: James Oaten

5 – 6pm LEADERSHIP LOOKS LIKE THIS

Muneera Bano

Lyma Nguyen

Each year the Asian Australian Leadership Summit presents the 40 Under 40 Most Influential Asian Australians Awards – an initiative that celebrates the accomplishments of Asian Australians and confronts Australia’s ‘bamboo ceiling’. At this session, 2020 overall winner, lawyer and human rights activist Lyma Nguyen and 2019 overall winner Dr Muneera Bano, a software engineer who works with human-centred technologies, are joined by the 2021 winner for a conversation about leadership. Moderator: Benjamin Law

KATIE ASPEL

BRIAN RUIZ

WORDS & MUSIC Across OzAsia Festival stories take various forms. As part of In Other Words, we celebrate the connection between words and music with local artists Katie Aspel and Brian Ruiz. Katie is a Ngarrindjeri Woman from Raukkan, and her music is all about storytelling. Brian Ruiz is man who sings from the soul with honeyhusked vocals. Grab a drink and join them on the Riverdeck for yet another kind of storytelling. Sat 6 Nov, Katie Aspel Sun 7 Nov, Brian Ruiz 4.30 – 5.30pm Riverdeck, Dunstan Playhouse

SUNDAY NOVEMBER

9.30 – 10.30am

10.45 – 11.45am

12 noon – 1pm

COMING OUT AS DALIT

MAKING FOOD MAKING CULTURE

GHOSTS

Yashica Dutt

Adam Liaw

Hetty McKinnon

In her memoir Coming Out as Dalit, Yashica Dutt recounts her mother’s ambitions to overcome poverty by passing herself and her family off as Brahmin. Under these extremely stressful circumstances Dutt was a success, a well-educated professional, who didn’t know how to live. Her book is an account of refusing to ‘pass’ and the larger implications of the upper-class idea that India is ‘past’ caste.

Food begins at home, and in this session two celebrity chefs talk about family meals. In To Asia, With Love Hetty McKinnon celebrates the food of her Chinese childhood in Australia. In Tonight’s Dinner Adam Liaw once again makes Asian food easy and delicious. Together they explore their own personal histories and encourage new takes on tradition. Join them for a conversation about memory, culture and food.

Moderator: Roanna Gonsalves

Moderator: Benjamin Law

ALL SESSIONS ARE IN DUNSTAN PLAYHOUSE

Paige Clark

Jamie Marina Lau

In Paige Clark’s story collection She is Haunted a widow dresses as her husband in order to avoid grieving, and another bargains with God to keep her unborn child. In Jamie Marina Lau’s Gunk Baby a girl opens a healing centre in a mall, looking for human connection. Both writers explore the lives of women as they negotiate grief, identity, friendship, motherhood, consumerism and loss. Moderator: Jennifer Wong

1.15 – 2.15pm

2.30 – 3.30pm

3.45 – 4.45pm

GIRLS! GIRLS! GIRLS!

FATHERS AND DAUGHTERS

AI 2041: 10 VISIONS FOR THE FUTURE

Dorcas Tang Michelle Aung Thin Wing Kuang

Mimi Kwa

Ruhi Lee

Chen Qiufan

There is a particular place where racism and sex collide – too often it is in ideas about Asian women’s bodies. Michelle Aung Thin is a novelist and academic who has written about Myanmar, women and refugees. Dorcas Tang is a photographer and her recent project ‘Love Me Long Time’ looks at Asian identity, desire, and sex. Wing Kuang is a journalist who has written about fetishes and dating apps.

Mimi Kwa’s memoir House of Kwa opens as Mimi receives a letter advising that her father was suing her. In Ruhi Lee’s memoir Good Indian Daughter, Lee reflects on her disappointment when she learned she was pregnant with a girl. For both women these experiences prompted them to look back at the families that raised them, and in doing so explore complex cultural and generational divides.

With The Waste Tide, Chen Qiufan established himself as a science fiction superstar and sometimes oracle. The novel is a future thriller set in a world of electronic waste. AI 2041 – a collaboration with former head of Google China, KaiFu Lee – explores how AI will change our world over the next twenty years. Told in ten stories, this brilliant collection moves around the globe imagining our possible futures.

Moderator: Jacqueline Lo

Moderator: Sonya Feldhoff

Moderator: Marc Fennell

ALL SESSIONS ARE IN DUNSTAN PLAYHOUSE

SPEAKERS MICHAEL MOHAMMED AHMAD

MICHELLE AUNG THIN

DURKHANAI AYUBI

Gadigal Country (Sydney), Australia

Wurundjeri Country (Melbourne), Australia

Kaurna Country (Adelaide), Australia

Michael Mohammed Ahmad is the founding director of Sweatshop Literacy Movement and the award-winning author of The Tribe (2014), The Lebs (2018) and The Other Half of You (2021).

A multi-award winning novelist and academic at RMIT University, Michelle Aung Thin was born in Burma/Myanmar, grew up in Canada and lives in Melbourne. Michelle has written about colonial Rangoon, Rohingya ethnic cleansing, mixed-race identity and the AsianAustralian experience.

Durkhanai Ayubi is an Adelaide based writer and restaurateur. Her first book Parwana: recipes and stories from an Afghan Kitchen was published in 2020. She is a Fellow of the Atlantic Fellowship program, based in Oxford, UK.

SUNIL BADAMI

MUNEERA BANO

LARISSA BEHRENDT

Gadigal Country (Sydney), Australia

Wurundjeri Country (Melbourne), Australia

Gadigal Country (Sydney), Australia

Sunil Badami is a writer, academic and broadcaster. He’s written for pretty much every major Australian media outlet, as well as devising, producing and presenting a number of shows and documentaries on ABC Radio. He’s currently editing his once-lost first novel for publication.

A passionate advocate for women’s empowerment, STEM education, and diversity and inclusion, Dr Muneera Bano has a strong commitment to smash society’s gender and cultural assumptions about scientists. A ‘Superstar of STEM’, ‘Most Influential Asian-Australian Under 40’ in 2019, and Ambassador ‘Go Girl, Go For IT’ 2020/2021, she aims to inspire the next generation of girls in STEM careers.

Larissa Behrendt is the author of three novels: Home, Legacy and After Story, published in 2021. She has published numerous books on Indigenous legal issues and was awarded the 2009 ‘NAIDOC Person of the Year’ award and 2011 ‘NSW Australian of the Year’. She wrote and directed the feature films, After the Apology and Innocence Betrayed. She is the host of Speaking Out on ABC radio and is Distinguished Professor at the Jumbunna Institute at the University of Technology, Sydney.

SPEAKERS QIUFAN CHEN

PAIGE CLARK

Shanghai, China

Wurundjeri Country (Melbourne), Australia

Chen Qiufan (a.k.a. Stanley Chan) is an award-winning Chinese speculative fiction author, translator, creative producer, and curator. His works include the novel Waste Tide and, co-authored with Kai-Fu Lee, the book AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future.

Paige Clark is a Chinese/ American/Australian fiction writer, researcher and teacher. Her first book of fiction, She Is Haunted, was published in July 2021 by Allen & Unwin.

BARKHA DUTT India

Barkha Dutt is an awardwinning TV journalist, anchor and columnist with more than two decades of reporting experience. She is India’s only Emmy-nominated journalist who has won multiple national and international awards, including the Padmashri, which is India’s fourth highest civilian honour.

YASHICA DUTT

MARC FENNELL

EUGENIA FLYNN

New York, USA

Gadigal Country (Sydney), Australia

Wurundjeri Country (Melbourne), Australia

Yashica Dutt (she/her) is a leading anti-caste expert, journalist and the award-winning author of the non-fiction memoir, Coming Out as Dalit. Dutt recently won India’s Sahitya Akademi Yuva Pursukar and her work has been published in the New York Times, Foreign Policy and The Atlantic.

Marc Fennell is a Walkleywinning journalist, author, and documentary maker. He is the host of Mastermind (SBS), The School That Tried to End Racism (ABC) and The Feed (SBS). Marc also created chart-topping podcasts It Burns, Nut Jobs (Audible) and Stuff The British Stole (ABC). Marc is the Creative Director of the not-forprofit advocacy group Media Diversity Australia.

Eugenia Flynn is an Aboriginal (Larrakia and Tiwi), Chinese Malaysian and Muslim academic and writer. Her thoughts on the politics of race, gender and culture have been published widely in such publications as IndigenousX, Peril magazine and the anthology #MeToo: Stories From the Australian Movement.

SPEAKERS EVELYN GOH

ROANNA GONSALVES

AMANI HAYDAR

Ngunnawal Country (Canberra), Australia

Gadigal Country (Sydney), Australia

Evelyn Goh is the Shedden Professor of Strategic Policy Studies at The Australian National University. Her research focuses on East Asian history, security and international relations. Her books include Rising China’s Influence in Developing Asia (Oxford, 2016) and Rethinking Sino-Japanese Alienation (Oxford, 2020).

Roanna Gonsalves is the award-winning Indian Australian author of the acclaimed collection of short fiction The Permanent Resident (UWAP) published in India as Sunita De Souza Goes To Sydney (Speaking Tiger). Her four-part radio series On the Tip of a Billion Tongues, commissioned and broadcast by ABC RN’s Earshot program, is an acerbic portrayal of contemporary India through its multilingual writers.

Amani Haydar is an awardwinning artist, mum, lawyer, writer and advocate for women’s health and safety based in Western Sydney.

NATASHA KASSAM

ANCHULI FELICIA KING

WING KUANG

Gadigal Country (Sydney), Australia

Wurundjeri Country (Melbourne), Australia

Natasha Kassam is the Director of the Lowy Institute’s Public Opinion and Foreign Policy Program and fellow of the ANU National Security College’s Futures Council.

Anchuli Felicia King is a playwright, screenwriter and multi-disciplinary artist of Thai-Australian descent. The Royal Court Theatre’s mainstage production of Felicia’s play White Pearl marked her professional debut in May 2019. White Pearl was subsequently produced by Sydney Theatre Company / National Theatre of Parramatta in Sydney and the Studio Theatre in Washington, DC in the United States.

Wing Kuang is a Melbourne-based journalist with bylines at ABC News, The Age, The Saturday Paper and Griffith Review.

SPEAKERS MIMI KWA

JAMIE MARINA LAU

BENJAMIN LAW

Wurundjeri Country (Melbourne), Australia

Gadigal Country (Sydney), Australia

House of Kwa is Mimi’s first book, a departure from her 20-year career as a TV reporter and news anchor for the ABC and Channel 9.

Jamie Marina Lau is a writer, multidisciplinary artist and the author of Pink Mountain on Locust Island and Gunk Baby.

Benjamin Law is a writer and broadcaster. He’s the author of The Family Law (2010), Gaysia (2012), the Quarterly Essay Moral Panic 101 (2017) and editor of Growing Up Queer in Australia (2019). Benjamin created and co-wrote three seasons of the award-winning SBS TV series The Family Law, based on his memoir, and his sold-out debut play Torch the Place (Melbourne Theatre Company) ran February– March 2020.

RUHI LEE

ADAM LIAW

HETTY MCKINNON

Boon Wurrung land (Victoria), Australia

Gadigal Country (Sydney), Australia

New York, USA

Ruhi Lee writes on Boon Wurrung land. Her articles, poetry and book reviews have been featured in The Guardian, ABC Life, SBS Voices, South Asian Today, WILD magazine and The Big Issue among other publications.

Adam Liaw is a cook, author and television presenter also wellknown as the winner of MasterChef Australia. A regular contributor to numerous publications, Adam also hosts the popular SBS television series Destination Flavour and The Cook Up with Adam Liaw.

Hetty McKinnon is a Chinese-Australian cook and food writer based in Brooklyn, New York. She is the author of four bestselling cookbooks, Community, Neighbourhood, the awardwinning Family and her latest To Asia, With Love. Hetty is also the editor and publisher of multicultural food journal Peddler and the host of the magazine’s podcast The House Specials.

SPEAKERS LYMA NGUYEN

JAMES OATEN

RUTH OZEKI

Larrakia Nation (Darwin), Australia

New Delhi, India

Massachusetts, USA

Lyma Nguyen received her title as overall winner of the ‘40 Under 40 Most Influential Asian-Australians’ for 2020. In 2014, Lyma was the youngest of ‘45 Trailblazing Women Australian Lawyers’ whose oral history is to be archived in Australia’s National Library, in recognition of her pro bono practice since 2009 as International Civil Party Counsel at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal in Cambodia.

James Oaten is the South Asia Correspondent for the ABC. He has covered the Covid-19 pandemic extensively, including the catastrophic second wave, the troubled vaccine rollout and the economic migrant crisis after the country was plunged into a six-week national lockdown last year.

Ruth Ozeki is a novelist, filmmaker, professor, and Zen Buddhist priest. She is the author of My Year of Meats, All Over Creation, A Tale for the Time Being, and The Face: A Time Code. Her novel, The Book of Form and Emptiness, is forthcoming.

OLIVER PHOMMAVANH

GEOFF RABY AO

SUJIT SIVASUNDARAM

Gadigal Country (Sydney), Australia

Cambridge, UK

Oliver Phommavanh loves to make people laugh on the page as a children’s author and on the stage as a comedian. Oliver uses his experience as a primary school teacher to inspire kids to write. Oliver’s books include The Other Christy, Thai-riffic! and Brain Freeze.

Dr. Geoff Raby was Australia’s Ambassador to China from 2007 to 2011. After 27 years in the public service, he completed his Ambassadorial term and resigned to establish Geoff Raby and Associates in 2011. Dr. Raby serves as an Independent Nonexecutive Director of ASXlisted companies, Yancoal, Oceanagold and Netlinkz. Dr Raby also served as an independent director with Fortescue Metal Group.

Sujit Sivasundaram was born and educated in Sri Lanka. He came to Cambridge in 1994 to study engineering and then natural sciences and history and philosophy of science. He has taught at LSE, EHESS in Paris, the University of Singapore, the University of Sydney, and the University of Cambridge. He specialises in world history, especially the Pacific and Indian oceans and their islands, the history of race and the history of the British Empire.

SPEAKERS MICHAEL SMITH

DORCAS TANG

JENNIFER WONG

Gadigal Country (Sydney), Australia

Michael Smith has been covering China for over 20 years and is currently the China correspondent for the Australian Financial Review. He lived and reported from China up until September 2020, when the Chinese government compelled the last Australian journalists to leave the country. He currently resides in Sydney with his partner.

Dorcas Tang fl˚ is a third-generation Chinese-Malaysian artist and photographer currently working on unceded Gadigal land. Their past projects have included ‘Los Paisanos del Puerto’, examining the historical Chinese diaspora of Costa Rica. They aim to encourage critical dialogue through creating socially engaged visual narratives.

Jennifer Wong is a Chinese-Australian writer, journalist, and comedian from Sydney. She’s the presenter of Chopsticks or Fork?, a sixpart ABC TV series about Chinese restaurants in regional Australia. She also recently presented two episodes of Dateline (SBS) on China-Australia relations, and Taiwan.

MODERATORS SONYA FELDHOFF

PETER GRESTE

JACQUELINE LO

Kaurna Country (Adelaide), Australia

Turrbal and Yuggera Country (Brisbane), Australia

Kaurna Country (Adelaide), Australia

Sonya Feldhoff has enjoyed a more than 30-year career in radio as a journalist, newsreader, producer and presenter. She currently hosts the ABC Radio Adelaide Afternoons program.

Journalist and author Peter Greste is UNESCO Chair in Journalism and Communication, Professor at the University of Queensland and founding director of the Alliance for Journalists’ Freedom.

Professor Jacqueline Lo is Pro Vice-Chancellor (International) of the University of Adelaide and Founding Chair of the Asian Australian Studies Research Network.

KATIE SPAIN

TORY SHEPHERD

Kaurna Country (Adelaide), Australia

Katie Spain is a journalist, wine writer and author who grew up on a dairy farm in rural South Australia before chasing words and adventure across the globe.

Tory Shepherd is a senior journalist with Guardian Australia. You can hear her regularly on ABC radio and see her on shows including The Drum and The Project.

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WHITE PEARL By Anchuli Felicia King

Sydney Theatre Company and Riverside’s National Theatre of Parramatta

With a shrewd eye, acerbic wit and machine gun dialogue, Anchuli Felicia King deftly unravels toxic corporate culture, the complexity of Pan-Asian relations and racism in a wildly entertaining, gasp-inducing night at the theatre.

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FATHERS AND DAUGHTERS pg17

2.30pm

TRAUMA, STORY, TRUTH pg14

GIRLS! GIRLS! GIRLS! pg17

1.15pm

GHOSTS pg16

12pm

MAKING FOOD, MAKING CULTURE pg16

10.45am

COMING OUT AS DALIT pg16

9.30am

pg12

(Riverdeck, Dunstan Playhouse)

RACISM 2.0: AUSTRALIA TODAY pg14

1.15pm

OPENING NIGHT: YOU ARE HERE (AND SO IS CHINA) pg8

6.15pm

12pm

AT WHAT COST: A FREE MEDIA pg13

LEADERSHIP LOOKS LIKE THIS pg14

5pm

pg14

(Riverdeck, Dunstan Playhouse)

AFTERNOON MUSIC: KATIE ASPEL

4.30pm

THE BOOK OF FORM AND EMPTINESS pg13

10.45am

WAVES ACROSS THE SOUTH pg13

9.30am

pg12

(Riverdeck, Dunstan Playhouse)

MORNING MEDITATION

9am

INDIA NOW WITH BARKHA DUTT pg14

3.45pm

9am

MORNING MEDITATION

SUNDAY 7 NOV

SATURDAY 6 NOV

ALL EVENTS IN DUNSTAN PLAYHOUSE, UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED

PLANNER AND MAP

CLOSING NIGHT DEBATE: AUSTRALIA IS AN ASIAN COUNTRY pg9

5.30pm

AFTERNOON MUSIC: BRIAN RUIZ pg15

4.30pm

AI 2041: 10 VISIONS FOR THE FUTURE pg17

3.45pm

MONTEFIORE ROAD

FESTIVAL DRIVE

CONVENTION CENTRE

RIVERBANK FOOTBRIDGE

STATION ENTRANCE

LIFT RAILWAY

INTERCONTINENTAL HOTEL

RIVERBANK CARPARK

LIFT

DROP OFF AREA

RAILWAY STATION

SKYCITY CASINO

EOS HOTEL

ACCESS DROP-OFF ONLY

BOX OFFICE

DUNSTAN PLAYHOUSE SPACE THEATRE ARTSPACE

ENTRANCE

TA T RD PH SHO EC OUS VEL K E

IV E

RIVER TORRENS

NORTH TERRACE

CLOSED

(Underground)

FESTIVAL DRIVE

PARLIAMENT HOUSE

FESTIVAL PLAZA CARPARK (Pedestrian access to King William Road only)

UNTIL FEB 2022

FESTIVAL THEATRE

WALK OF FAME

LUCKY DUMPLING MARKET

NORTH TERRACE

ELDER PARK

KING WILLIAM ROAD

COVID-19 INFORMATION

HOW TO BOOK AT

HOW TO GET HERE

IN PERSON: Select BASS outlets

Measures are in place to keep patrons, artists, and staff safe. Refer to our FAQs before your visit: adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au/covid19

Redevelopment continues around Adelaide Riverbank. For access routes and a map, please visit the website: adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au/ getting-here Register your details online or with your ticket purchase to receive an email with up-to-date access details before your visit.

PARKING

Parking is available around the city. Visit the website for recommended car parks and discount parking: adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au/parking

ACCESS SERVICES

At Adelaide Festival Centre venues, access facilities include a wheelchair loan service, assistive hearing systems, accessible toilets, accessible seat allocations, and access friendly drop off/pick up locations. For more information visit: adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au/access When booking tickets, please inform the operator if you have specific access requirements. For all other disability access enquiries please contact Patron Services: contact@adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au (08) 8216 8600

ONLINE: ozasiafestival.com.au or bass.net.au

BY PHONE: BASS 131 246

CONDITIONS OF TICKET PURCHASE Lost or Stolen Tickets

Reserved seat tickets may be replaced in most instances however general admission tickets cannot be replaced. Please call BASS on 131 246 for assistance.

Transaction Fees

A one-off, non-refundable service and handling fee of $8.95 applies per transaction; this is regardless of the number or value of items purchased. For further information regarding fees, visit our website: adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au/ticketsinfo/general-ticket-information *Please note no transaction fee applies to registrations for free events during In Other Words.

THANK YOU TO OUR FESTIVAL PARTNERS IN OTHER WORDS IS PRODUCED AND PRESENTED BY

GOVERNMENT PARTNER

EXECUTIVE FESTIVAL PARTNERS Hong Kong Economic & Trade Office, Sydney Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

FESTIVAL PARTNERS

PROGRAM PARTNERS

ACCOMMODATION PARTNER

MEDIA PARTNERS

VEHICLE PARTNER

ADELAIDE FESTIVAL CENTRE IS THE HEART OF THE ARTS IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA Established in 1973, it is Australia's first capital city arts venue and hosts more than one million people annually. As well as presenting theatre, dance, music and exhibitions, Adelaide Festival Centre creates diverse festivals to inspire, challenge, educate and entertain. We welcome audiences of all ages, experiences and cultures.