# Event Details - **Event Name**: FWF — Leah Manaema Avene: The Body, a Library - **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 18 Apr, 2026 at 10:00 am – Sat, 18 Apr, 2026 at 11:00 am (+10:00) - **Event Description**: Join writer, musician, researcher, and cultural worker Leah Manaema Avene for an opening address drawing from their book FIELDWORK.About this EventIn Ursula K. Le Guin’s Silence. Performance (1986), she writes of the trouble of the written word once it is no longer understood as an event — “like mistaking a wristwatch for the rotation of the planet.” Words, she suggests, can never fully capture the motion of life; they point, gesture, echo, but they are not the event itself.It is in the body, in breath, gesture, song, and movement, that stories continue to live. On these lands, stories have been held and shared since time immemorial — carried not only through language, but through kinship and care. The body itself becomes a library, rotating its own histories, keeping time with what has been passed down, what has been interrupted, and what continues to unfold.Leah Manaema Avene's opening address will draw from their book FIELDWORK, which is designed to be shared orally. Thinking beyond the written word, they explore the body as a site of knowledge, resistance, and remembrance. Moving between personal narrative, collective history, and embodied storytelling, this event asks us to consider: How do we honour the knowledge our bodies hold? How do we strengthen oral ways of knowing? How might expanding our ideas of time transform the way we know and remember? And how can we learn together, in relation to others, while resisting imposed systems of knowledge?About Leah Manaema Avene Leah Manaema Avene (she/they) is a Tuvaluan-Irish, Kulin raised, mother, aunty, daughter and community member with responsibilities to care for place, for people and for the future. As a psychotherapist, educator, and researcher, Leah's work is committed to decompressing the impacts of settler colonial oppression as it manifests in bodies, communities, and social systems. Through relational practices, narrative technologies, and cultural restoration, Leah supports people, professionals, leaders and communities to identify and repair the impacts of settler colonial conditioning. Leah is the author of Fieldwork: Collective Recovery from Colonial Fragmentation Order—a ‘book’ or body of work that is read to groups over 8-week cycles taking a therapeutic and critically and culturally conscious approach to wellbeing and cultural repair. https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events8/banners/8f3ddc90-2530-11f1-886e-e3e40c802de8-rimg-w1200-h160-dcffffff-gmir.jpg Yarra Libraries is proud to partner with Fairfield Books as our dedicated Festival bookseller.The Fitzroy Writers Festival is only made possible through the generous support of the Thomas, Samuel and George Ewing Trust, a fund that fosters literacy, libraries, and a lifelong love of learning for the benefit of Fitzroy residents and visitors.Fitzroy Writers Festival will be Auslan interpreted. The Fitzroy Town Hall entrance is located via a large set of stairs from Napier Street. Lift access is available via Moor Street. There are two wheelchair accessible toilets located in the Fitzroy Town Hall, next to the Ballroom.The Route 11 Tram stops at Bell Street/ Brunswick Street (from the city) or King William Street/Brunswick Street (from the north) and is a 350m walk to the Fitzroy Town Hall.If you have accessibility questions or requirements, please contact us at yarralibraries@yarracity.vic.gov.au or on 1300 695 427. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/fitzroy/fwf-—-leah-manaema-avene-the-body-a-library/100001983923456464 - **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art, Festivals, Entertainment, Music, fine-arts - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket URL**: https://consumer.pxf.io/c/1339408/3151484/39691?partnerpropertyid=1191892&MediaPartnerPropertyId=1191892&svlink=14105511&level=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com.au%2Fe%2Ffwf-leah-manaema-avene-the-body-a-library-tickets-1983923456464 - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: AUD ## Event venue details - **city**: Fitzroy - **state**: VI - **country**: Australia - **location**: Fitzroy Town Hall (Ballroom) - **lat**: -37.802104 - **long**: 144.97968400000002 - **full address**: Fitzroy Town Hall (Ballroom), 201 Napier Street, Fitzroy, Australia ## Event Organizer details - **affiliate_id**: 10 - **organizer**: Yarra Libraries (https://allevents.in/org/yarra-libraries/22518743) ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: banner - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events2/banners/2c1c890e196689802435bd2419515b1f767501b38f9c41c55bde4fd18e1c0848-rimg-w1200-h600-dc504594-gmir.jpg?v=1774102647 - **Alt text**: thumbnail - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events2/banners/b7c424eab8314a0c4aa4af71cb6d7ae6876af19602709470d01da1937f67cbe0-rimg-w400-h400-dc060606-gmir.jpg?v=1774102647 ## FAQs - **Q**: When is the event happening? - **A:** Sat, 18 Apr, 2026 at 10:00 am (+10:00) - **Q**: Where is the event happening? - **A:** Fitzroy Town Hall (Ballroom), 201 Napier Street, Fitzroy, Australia - **Q**: What is the ticket price? - **A:** starting from 0 up to 0 AUD - **Q**: Who is organizing the event? - **A:** Yarra Libraries - **Q**: What type of event is this? - **A:** Art, literary-art, Festivals, Entertainment, Music, fine-arts - **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about FWF — Leah Manaema Avene: The Body, a Library ? - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "FWF — Leah Manaema Avene: The Body, a Library", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events2/banners/2c1c890e196689802435bd2419515b1f767501b38f9c41c55bde4fd18e1c0848-rimg-w1200-h600-dc504594-gmir.jpg?v=1774102647", "startDate": "2026-04-18T10:00:00+10:00", "endDate": "2026-04-18T11:00:00+10:00", "url": "https://allevents.in/fitzroy/fwf-—-leah-manaema-avene-the-body-a-library/100001983923456464", "eventStatus": "https://schema.org/EventScheduled", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Fitzroy Town Hall (Ballroom)", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "201 Napier Street", "postalCode": "3065", "addressLocality": "Fitzroy", "addressRegion": "VI", "addressCountry": "AU" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "-37.802104", "longitude": "144.97968400000002" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Join writer, musician, researcher, and cultural worker Leah Manaema Avene for an opening address drawing from their book FIELDWORK.", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "AUD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-03-21", "availabilityEnds": "2026-04-18T11:00:00+10:00", "validFrom": "2026-03-21", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/fitzroy/fwf-—-leah-manaema-avene-the-body-a-library/100001983923456464" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "AUD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-03-21", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-03-21", "url": "https://allevents.in/fitzroy/fwf-—-leah-manaema-avene-the-body-a-library/100001983923456464", "price": 0, "name": "General Admission" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Yarra Libraries", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/yarra-libraries/22518743", "description": "Yarra Libraries delivers over 2,000 free community programs each year, ranging from early literacy programs (e.g. BabyTime & Storytime), digital literacy sessions, creative technology workshops, thought-provoking public lectures and literary festivals (Kids Book Fest & Fitzroy Writers Festival).Please register an account with Eventbrite to easily manage your own bookings." } ] } ] ```