Weaving Poetic Diamonds with Anne-Marie Te Whiu
Join Anne-Marie Te Whiu in a workshop of exchange and ideas-building as she shares her creative side-hustle and invites you to share yours, forming connections between artists and artistic practices across form and process.
Date: Saturday 28 November 2026
Time: 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Delivery: In-Person
Fees: $70 full-price, $50 concession, $40 MobTix/Disability Support Pension
Location: Varuna Reading Room, Katoomba
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Many writers have a second life – a side-project, another medium, the thing they make when no one is watching. A novelist who paints. An academic who crochets. A poet who moonlights as a silversmith.
Join Australian-Māori (Te Rarawa) poet, weaver, editor, producer and educator Anne-Marie Te Whiu in a workshop of exchange and ideas-building as she shares her creative side-hustle and invites you to share yours, forming connections between artists and artistic practices across form and process. Discover what happens when we let go of creative silos and let one artform spark another.
Participants are invited to bring along a sample of work produced alongside their poetry, such as ceramics, painting, photography, knitting and jewellery making. Participants will leave the workshop with drafts of two new poems and connections to other artists in the community. If participants wish to bring photographs of their side-hustle creations instead, they're welcome to do so.
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Anne-Marie Te Whiu (Te Rarawa) is a freelance poet, editor, cultural producer and weaver. Her central praxis focusses on artistic collaboration and platforming the sovereignty and amplification of Indigenous and POC artists. Anne-Marie has produced and curated festivals and events for over 20 years including the Queensland Poetry Festival which she co-directed from 2015-2017. She has guest edited multiple poetry collections and journals including the Woven anthology, Whisper Songs by Tony Birch, Solid Air: Australia & NZ Spoken Word and most recently the Cordite Journal: 116 Remember alongside Palestinian scholar and writer Micaela Sahaar. Mettle is her debut poetry collection published with University of Queensland Press.