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Ubud Writers & Readers Festival 2018
Place: Ubud, Bali – INDONESIA.
Date : 24th-28th Oct 2018,
180+ AUTHORS, ARTISTS AND ACTIVISTS DESCEND ON BALI FOR UWRF’S 15TH YEAR AS SOUTHEAST ASIA’S LEADING FESTIVAL OF WORDS AND IDEAS
From Indonesia to Japan, Nigeria to Pakistan, Spain to Vietnam, more than 180 authors, artists and activists from across the archipelago and 30 other countries have converged in Ubud for the Festival’s milestone year.
Over the next five days, the UWRF will deliver more than 200 events across 30 venues, spanning open-air panel discussions, in conversations, special events, live music, poetry slams, Indonesian film screenings, cultural tours, book launches, art exhibitions and more.
Featuring the Festival’s most acclaimed authors, award-winning journalists and political mavericks, there in conversation series includes eminent British writer, Hanif Kureishi, twice Miles Franklin winner, Kim Scott, Australia’s former president of the Human Rights Commission, Gillian Triggs, celebrated author and essayist, Geoff Dyer, Indonesia’s Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, Susi Pudjiastuti, and former Foreign Minister, Marty Natalegawa, bestselling author Fatima Bhutto, and one of Italy’s most popular writers working today, Giuseppe Catozzella.
Audiences will hear how the #MeToo movement has impacted Asia; the region’s finest foreign correspondents will share their career-defining highs and lows; Indonesian writers will weigh in on what has and hasn’t changed during the 20 years since Reformasi was ushered in; and Balinese artists will examine their island after a century of tourism.
“As we reflect on the last 15 years and on how the Festival has evolved, as we look back on all the meaningful exchanges that have been made between Indonesian and international writers and readers, there is one thing that is clear. Most visitors in the early days said they knew nothing about Indonesian writers, but this has now changed. People are now sitting up and taking notice,” DeNeefe continued.
For further information:
http://www.ubudwritersfestival.com/