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Wellspring: Enquiry and Exchange
Bringing campus to the community, Wellspring is an exciting series of immersive events that explore new depths of cultural enquiry and exchange. A collaboration between The Street Theatre and the ANU School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, Wellspring invites Canberra’s curious to experience the inexhaustible source of human creativity and communication. From urban landscapes to rural communities, from South American political thrillers to the Italian Femminiello.
Get ready for big bold ideas inviting curiosity and conversation.
Memory in the City
Thursday 18 April, 5:30pm
Street Three
Re-imagine cities as places where memories, dreams, and ideas, like waves, keep riding in over the top of one another, undoing and complicating our identities.
Panel Discussion
Moderator, Ann-Sophie Levidis, Lecturer in French Studies, ANU
Andre Dao, Refugee Advocate and Novelist
Leslie Barnes, Associate Professor in French Studies, ANU
Desmond Manderson, Professor of Law, Director of the Centre for Law Arts and Humanities, ANU
Sue Thompson, Associate Professor of Southeast Asian Studies, ANU
Bushfire Stories
The Collective Power of Community
Thursday 16 May, 5:30pm
Street Two
The Australian Black Summer of 2019-2020 saw devastation on an unimaginable scale and gave rise to stories of intense trauma and loss, but also of communities rallying together to overcome adversity. Discover the hidden power of community and storytelling to inform, unite, heal, and overcome.
Panel Discussion
Moderated by Dr Ksenia Gnevsheva, Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, ANU
Professor Catherine Travis, Chair of Modern European Languages, ANU
Clare Young, award-winning filmmaker and creator of ‘The Heart of The Storm’ podcast
Gordon Waters, local radio station manager at Braidwood FM and narrator of ‘The Heart of the Storm’ podcast
Hamish Hudson, musical comedian and guest on ‘The Heart of The Storm’ podcast
Photo Credit Jarrah Knowles Photography
We've Been Here
A Meditation on Italian Folk Queerness
Thursday 4 July, 6pm
Street One
An experimental theatre and performance piece that questions 'where do we belong?' and how our gender, sexual, and ethnic identities play a role in this.
Artist
Summer Minerva is an italian-american queer, trans filmmaker, author, dancer, and researcher based in the US and Napoli. Their award-winning documentary, Summer Within (2023), is currently doing the festival circuit and their co-edited book Italian Trans Geographies was released in October 2023.
Latin Thrills
Screening Political Thrillers from South America
Thursday 15 August, 5:30pm
Street One
Explore Latin America, its politics and history, the boundaries of the personal and the political, the role of precarity, and the transnational impact of one of the most popular genres of our times: the political thriller.
Panel Discussion
Fabricio Tocco, Lecturer in Spanish, Australian National University
Claudia Sandberg, Senior Lecturer in Film, University of Melbourne
Luis Gómez Romero, Senior Lecturer in School of Law, University of Wollongong
