BRUNSWICK ARTISTS' BAR // FREE ENTRY // KITCHEN & BAR OPEN 5.30PM

Izzy Roberts-Orr

Izzy Roberts-Orr is a poet, writer, broadcaster, and arts worker based on Dja Dja Wurrung land in Regional Victoria. Izzy is a 2020-2022 recipient of the Australia Council Marten Bequest Scholarship for Poetry, and her first book of poetry Raw Salt is forthcoming. Her work in progress is Medusa is a Modern Woman.

Denise Chapman

Denise Chapman is a counter-narrative storyteller, poet and academic who lectures in children’s literature and inclusive children’s media at Monash University. She uses oral stories, children’s literature, poetry, and digital images as counternarrative windows for liberation. Her artistic work has been presented at The Wheeler Centre, LaMama Poetica, Brisbane MetroArts, The University of Melbourne’s Digital Studio, the RMIT Non/Fiction Lab’s Present Tense as well as A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Her creative work continues the traditions of her maternal grandparents’ Gullah heritage. Denise was runner-up for Poetryspective’s 2019 Retro Slam and shortlisted for the Queensland Poetry’s 2022 XYZ Prize for Excellence in Spoken Word. She is the 2023 Mem Fox Fellow, and her poetry-film work was featured within the Volume: Bodies of Knowledge exhibition at the Counihan Gallery this year. Her work explores themes of home, immigration, belonging, Black motherhood, as well as eco-racism.

Jini Maxwell

Jini is a writer and curator based in Naarm. They are currently working on their first poetry collection, Summer Animal.

Hasib Hourani

Hasib Hourani is a Lebanese-Palestinian writer, editor, arts worker, and educator living on unceded Wurundjeri Country. His practice disrupts expectations of place, archive, and the relationship between the two.

Hasib is a 2020 recipient of The Wheeler Centre’s Next Chapter Scheme and his 2021 essay, ‘when we blink’ was shortlisted for The LIMINAL & Pantera Press Nonfiction prize and is published in their 2022 anthology, Against Disappearance. Hasib is currently working on a book of poetry about suffocation and the occupation of Palestine. You can find his work in Meanjin, Overland, and Going Down Swinging, among others.

The kitchen is open until 9pm too if you are keen to grab some food.

BRUNSWICK ARTISTS' BAR, downstairs of the BRUNSWICK BALLROOM, 314 Sydney Rd, Brunswick 

Delicious food menu on offer 5 nights a week, kitchen open until 9pm