WEDNESDAY 10 JULY 2024 | INSTORE EVENT
6.00pm for a 6.30pm start | 60 mins
Join us for the inaugural ILF trivia night with MC Dr Anita Heiss to celebrate NAIDOC Week 2024 and raise funds for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation.
*Ten dollars from every ticket goes directly to ILF.
ABOUT THE EVENT
Dr Anita Heiss will act as MC for two rounds of trivia questions on Indigenous history, politics, culture and general knowledge. Join with a team of six or come alone and be assigned to a team of new friends. All are welcome, but team numbers are limited.
There will be raffles and prizes for the most original team name and best dressed team.
ABOUT OUR MC
Dr Anita Heiss is an internationally published, award-winning author of 23 books; non-fiction, historical fiction, commercial women’s fiction and children’s novels. She is a proud member of the Wiradyuri Nation of central New South Wales, an Ambassador for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation and the GO Foundation, and Professor of Communications at the University of Queensland. Anita is a board member of the National Justice Project and Circa Contemporary Circus. As an artist in residence at La Boite Theatre, she adapted her novel Tiddas for the stage and it premiered at the 2022 Brisbane Festival.
Her novel, Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray about the Great Flood of Gundagai, won the 2022 NSW Premier’s Indigenous Writer’s Prize and was shortlisted for the 2021 ARA Historical Novel Prize and the 2022 ABIA Awards. Anita’s first children’s picture book is Bidhi Galing (Big Rain) about the Great Flood of Gundagai. Anita enjoys running, eating chocolate and being a creative disruptor.
