"We have designed a bold new festival with new talent, new stories and new events, delivered in new hybrid ways, while bringing back old favourites (artists and events). We figure Blak stories are needed more urgently than ever, in the face of climate change, pandemics, Blak Lives Matter. We need access to connection, compassion and country through stories. Here’s to Blak words live.” - Jane Harrison, Director Black & Bright Festival.
The 2022 edition of the Blak & Bright festival (Thursday March 17 until Sunday March 20) will bring together the world’s oldest storytelling traditions in bold and innovative ways.
The event will feature over 67 of Australia’s most exciting storytellers in a diverse range of genres from oral stories to epic novels, from poems to monologues, from history to activism.
Jane Harrison Blak & Bright Festival Director says the event is curated to give voice to stories that are rarely heard, with guests including Tony Birch, Claire G. Coleman, Elders, Jazz Money, Nardi Simpson, Ellen van Neerven, Tara June Winch, Chelsea Watego, Alexis Wright, Yung Tent Embassy activists and more.
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