live – Jinghua Qian

I’m performing at the opening party for Footscray West Writers Festival this Friday alongside Maxine, Thabani and Emilie – yes all your faves!

Each writer is doing live collabs with other artists – Chris Ferric will be painting while I speak – I don’t know what the others are doing so it’ll be a surprise to me too. Actually at this point I haven’t even really decided what I’m doing. But the Orbweavers’ music was a highlight of last year’s festival for me so I’m really looking forward to that as well as hearing everyone read.

Event poster showing 8 circles with headshots for the artists listed below, on a cream coloured background with yellow and pink spiky shapes.

Footscray West Writers Festival Opening Night: Words Can Save the World
Friday 27 March 2026
7:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Footscray Drill Hall
395 Barkly St, Footscray VIC 3011 Kulin Nations
Tickets $40/$30/free for carers
Featuring Maxine Beneba Clarke + Angie Hart, Emilie Collyer + Martha Latham, Thabani T Tshuba + The Orbweavers, Jinghua Qian + Chris Ferric

I’m so excited for this one! A multigenerational line-up of storytellers surrounded by projected images of unapologetic dykes from the archives of Wicked Women (1988–96), an erotic zine published by Lisa Salmon and Jasper Laybutt. I’ll be reading my dirty Lex posts/poems, drinking up the queer gaze. Horny on main, we love it.

Wicked Words is a storytelling event that celebrates dyke and queer and trans sexuality. Gird your loins and prepare yourself to be swept off your feet. The lineup of storytellers includes Maude Davey, Jinghua Qian, Annaki Kisses, Tomoko Yamasaki, Gavril Aleksandrs, Bumpy Favell, and Lisa Salmon with videopoems by ReVerse Butcher.

Wicked Words
Saturday 29 June 2024
7 pm to 10 pm
Victorian Pride Centre
79-81 Fitzroy Street
St Kilda VIC 3182
Tickets here

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Footscray West Writers Festival opening night

Wicked Words at Vic Pride Centre