Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Wednesday 12 June
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Breakfast Club is a platform that interrogates how the world and art collide.
Following a highly successful series at the Wheeler Centre during the 2012 Next Wave Festival, your early morning shot of artistic and intellectual insight is back. Every Wednesday morning for four weeks this June, we’ll explore different issues that stimulate our artists and creative thinkers as they develop new work.
We’re not interested in expert-led formats or a room full of people thinking the same things; we want big opinions, good discussion and personal stories. And coffee (that’s important). Each event runs for one hour, and will be punctuated by a series of provocations from artists, writers, thinkers and commentators. Guests for this session are Giselle Stanborough, Matt Blackwood and Jessica Alice. Your host will be Emily Sexton.
The biennial Next Wave Festival will take place in May, 2014. The aim of this series is to get the artists (and audiences) thinking about the big questions.
Light breakfast by Yoghurt Culture and Small Batch coffee by donation.
More online
Stop, collaborate and listen. Follow #NWbclub to discuss Breakfast Club topics on Twitter (two ‘Live Scribes’ will be tweeting each event); subscribe to the brand new Breakfast Club podcast (via Soundcloud or iTunes) and catch up with blog posts at the Next Wave website.
Featuring
Matt Blackwood
Matt Blackwood is an award-winning writer and artist who has received commissions for his Locative Literature projects. He is fascinated with stories experienced and linked to the places where these stories are set, no matter how magnificent or mundane.
Matt’s passion for literature and place led to the creation of the Locative Literature platform MyStory, for which he received a City of Melbourne Laneway Commission. He received an Australian Poetry residency to create the speed dating narrative of 6Stories, an Australia Council Digital Writing grant to create a QR code made from thousands of recycled keyboard keys to activate 1Story at Federation Square, an Arts Centre Melbourne commission to create World War I inspired stories for LetterBox at Hamer Hall, and 2Stories was exhibited at NGV Studio as a part of the Emerging Writers' Festival.
Matt’s latest project, 7Stories, is set along Swanston Street and the Bourke Street Mall in Melbourne during the 2013 Melbourne Writers' Festival.
Matt is on Twitter as @MattyBlackwood. His website is www.mattblackwood.com
Giselle Stanborough
Giselle Stanborough is an emerging intermedia artist whose practice often addresses online user generated media and the way in which such technologies encourage us to identify and perform notions of self.
She graduated from COFA in 2010 with the University Medal. Since then she has exhibited in galleries around NSW and in Melbourne. Her work has been shown online in the Washington Post’s ‘Pictures of The Day’ and in Hennessy Youngman’s ‘Art Thoughtz’.
Emily Sexton
Emily Sexton is a former Head of Programming for the Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas.
She was the recipient of a prestigious Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship in 2014. Previously, she was Artistic Director of Next Wave (2010–14), where her key achievements were a radical rethink of an arts festival model, and a series of landmark commissions, publications and talks featuring First Nations artists, co-curated with Tony Albert and Tahjee Moar and titled Blak Wave.
In 2013, she was Artistic Director of the Ian Potter Cultural Trust’s 20th Anniversary Celebrations at the Melbourne Recital Centre. She was also Creative Producer for Melbourne Fringe Festival for 2008–10.
Emily has been a proud Board Member for Arena Theatre Company, Snuff Puppets and Theatre Network Victoria, and is alumnus of the Australia Council’s Emerging Leaders Program (2011). She is a regular peer assessor for the Australia Council for the Arts, Creative Victoria, and other philanthropic trusts and foundations. Emily holds a Bachelor of Arts (Media and Communications, English) from the University of Sydney (2005). She is a regular host and facilitator for writers’ festivals and arts organisations around Australia.
Jessica Alice
Jessica Alice is a writer, editor, broadcaster and speaker from Melbourne.
She is Poetry Editor of Scum and Sex & Gender Columnist for Spook magazine. Jessica was Co-Director of the National Young Writers’ Festival in 2014 & '15.
Jessica’s writing and reviews have been published in The Guardian Australia, Junkee, VICE, The Lifted Brow, Spook, The Victorian Writer, Voiceworks, Cordite Poetry Review, Scum, Lip Magazine, among others.
She has previously worked as the Poetry & Short Prose Editor of The Lifted Brow, Literature & Books Editor of Lip magazine, Online Editorial Assistant for Kill Your Darlings, and Poetry Editor of Voiceworks. Jessica was a presenter and producer of Women on the Line and Spoken Word for 3CR Melbourne, and was Radio Adelaide Breakfast’s feminist insider.