We're thrilled to host the Garramilla / Darwin launch of Jazz Money's much-anticipated new poetry collection, mark the dawn.

Jazz's poems ask about all the ways we rise to a moment, celebrating community and gathering while negotiating the legacies of the intersecting histories we inherit. As a queer First Nations poet, Jazz Money unflinchingly declares that, despite everything that has come before, we remain glorious, abundant, sexy, joyous and determined.

Join us in the gallery and enjoy wonderful conversation between Jazz and Melanie Mununggurr, a Djapu mother, poet, storyteller and performer. Books will be available for purchase and signing.

Details

• Monday 5 August 
• Arrive at 5.30pm for a 6pm start
• Free event, please register to attend via Eventbrite.

ABOUT JAZZ MONEY
Jazz Money is a Wiradjuri poet and artist producing works that encompass installation, digital, performance, film and print. Their writing and art has been presented, performed and published nationally and internationally, and their feature film WINHANGANHA (2023) was commissioned by the National Film and Sound Archive. Jazz’s first poetry collection, the best-selling how to make a basket (UQP, 2021) won the David Unaipon Award. Their second collection is mark the dawn, which was the recipient of the 2024 UQP Quentin Bryce Award.

ABOUT MELANIE MUNUNGGUR
Melanie Mununggurr is a Djapu mother, poet, storyteller and performer. Her writing is all-encompassing of her identity as Yolngu, the triumphs and struggles of motherhood, neurodiversity, being queer and connections to land and culture. Melanie uses her connection to her land, culture and language to decolonise the literary and performance space through the use of Dhuwal language weaved throughout her poems. Melanie has a book of poetry to be published in the near future and is about to release her first spoken word album.