Hello, very last minute but I’m chatting with Cheng Lei tonight after her show 1154 Days, a theatrical reflection on her experience of more than three years in Chinese detention,which is having its world premiere season at Arts House in North Melbourne this week. Tonight’s performance is sold out but there are still some tickets for the matinee tomorrow.
Photo: Sarah Walker
(Sorry tonight’s show was already sold out when I went to promote this so I wasn’t sure whether to post, but I wanted to say heads up and hello for people who do have tickets for tonight!)
I’m doing a gig next week where I’m gonna read all my best Lex posts. It’s not so much sexy poetry, more a microblog from the doldrums. Miserotica, if you will. Come have a laugh at my expense or buy me a drink.
Dinner Party Press presents Feminist Erotica with Katia Ariel, Amy Brown, Joan Fleming and Jinghua Qian Saturday 17 February 2024 7 pm Willows and Wine, Wurundjeri country 315 Victoria Street, West Melbourne VIC 3003 Book here
Damn, what a year. All I remember is feeling utterly gobsmacked and speechless at every turn, so it’s quite a shock to look back and find that somehow I rustled up all these words. Huge thanks to everyone who commissioned or booked or hired me – or sent me a coffee – going freelance at the start of lockdown was frankly terrifying and for a moment I feared I had done something very stupid. I could not have survived without the support of editors, collaborators, readers and friends. I couldn’t be more grateful. Here’s some of what I’ve been up to…
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Underfoot – secret histories of Footscray, June 2020, with Liz Crash.
Print: There’s great stories underfoot, Maribyrnong and Hobson’s Bay Star Weekly, 8 July 2020, p 10, by Benjamin Millar. Also online on 12 August 2020.
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I also made more than a dozen playlists – hear here – and ate my way through every single meat pie sold at the supermarket. I’m so ready for a new year and new obsessions. Fingers crossed for 2021.
Jinghua Qian 
