Writers from the Moana often traverse genre, audience, discipline and institutional restrictions as they work to accurately represent the communities of which they are a part, and celebrate the villages they work within.

Join storytellers Dr MahMah Timoteo (Tohoa Tetini), Dr Nathan Rew and Marina Alefosio in conversation with Festival Guest Curator Zech Soakai, as they discuss the possibilities, challenges and rewards of working in, with, by, and for their communities, both in the stories that they share, and the tales that they write.

Part of Zech Soakai’s guest curatorship.