2025 Blak & Bright Yarn Lab

Get ready for a day of inspiration, creativity, and culture!

Dive into the vibrant world of First Nations storytelling at Yarn Lab, a free education event hosted by State Library Victoria, presented in partnership with Blak & Bright.

What’s in store?

• Interactive workshops: Write, dream, and create alongside award-winning authors including Jazz Money and Daniel Browning.
• Lively panel discussions: Hear firsthand how stories shape and celebrate First Nations culture.
• Blak monologues performance: Experience powerful play excerpts brought to life by First Nations artists.

Who’s Invited?

• Secondary students in Years 9-12.
• Each school can bring up to 25 eager storytellers to soak up this incredible day of learning and fun.

Don’t miss this chance to celebrate the art of storytelling with some of the boldest voices in the Blak & Bright community.

Sign your school up now and let the stories come alive!

About Jazz Money

Jazz Money is a Wiradjuri poet and artist producing works that encompass installation, digital, performance, film and print. Their writing and art has been presented, performed and published nationally and internationally. Trained as a filmmaker, their first feature film WINHANGANHA (2023) was commissioned by the National Film and Sound Archive. Jazz’s debut poetry collection, the best-selling how to make a basket (UQP, 2021) won the 2020 David Unaipon Award. Their second collection mark the dawn (UQP, 2024) is the recipient of the 2024 UQP Quentin Bryce Award. 

About Zac James

Zac James is a proud Wonguktha, Yamatji and Murri man. Debuting with the Yirra Yaakin Aboriginal Theatre Company at the age of 19, he has been a prolific writer, actor and musician having starred in the ABC/Netflix show 8MMM Aboriginal Radio and SBS program Shadow Trackers. Kangaroo Stew is his first work published with Magabala Books. He has a fiery passion for teaching his Mob about writing and expressing stories.

About Aunty Fay Muir

Aunty Fay Muir is a senior Boon Wurrung and Wamba Wamba Elder, First Nations community leader and Koori Court Elder. She is a Language Specialist, working as a prison educator in First Nations languages and is a creative language revival consultant and collaborator.

Aunty Fay provides cultural guidance to students and teachers at all levels of the Victorian education system, providing cultural and curriculum advice. In 2020, she was inducted to both the Victorian Honour Roll of Women and the Victorian Aboriginal Honour Roll. Aunty Fay cares about sharing her culture and stories and loves to take readers on a journey of learning.

About Daniel Browning

Daniel Browning is an award-winning Bundjalung and Kullilli writer, journalist and radio broadcaster. Hailed as “an outstanding contribution to arts journalism”, his first book, Close to the Subject: Selected Works won the 2024 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction and the Indigenous Writing Prize at the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards. The book was also shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. Currently the ABC’s Editor Indigenous Radio, he also presents The Art Show podcast and the weekly arts new digest Arts in 30.