producing + events
Since 2017, I have produced readings, performances, book launches, panels, workshops, an international writers workshop and a festival as part of the Liminal project.
See the full list of Liminal events here.
The Liminal Festival
2024
Co-produced with Hasib Hourani and presented in partnership with The Wheeler Centre
With support from Creative Victoria’s Creative Ventures Program
In 2023, Liminal was invited by the Smithsonian to the Asian American Literature Festival in Washington DC, which ended up being cancelled, a few weeks out. Yet the wonderful AALF Collective refused this inexplicable cancellation, working to bring together community for an uncanceled festival. The mingling of solidarity, talent, joy and fury was unlike anything I have ever experienced. It was an invigorating and generative moment, and one which I’m sure will have ripples for years to come.
The Liminal Festival is one such ripple. When I returned to Naarm, I wanted to create a similar space, and after eight years of running Liminal, I finally felt I could invite some of the people I most admire. I secured funding and invited Hasib Hourani on as the festival’s creative producer. We decided we wanted to bring together our own talented community, for a few days of celebration, interrogation, rigor and joy; to create a space for small intimacies and big ideas; for accidental encounters and intellectual connections. Read more →
Slow Currents Writing Workshop
2022—2024
Co-produced with Rosabel Tan
With support from Creative Australia and Creative New Zealand
An international Asian diaspora workshop of eight early-career writers, the workshop brings together talented writers from Australia and Aotearoa: Bryant Apolonio, Saraid de Silva, Elizabeth Flux, Hasib Hourani, Nathan Joe, Rose Lu, Cher Tan and Chris Tse.
Formed through slow and intentional dialogue between Leah Jing McIntosh (Editor, Liminal) and Rosabel Tan (Director, Satellites), the two organisations have partnered with the Asian American Writers Workshop for their pilot year.
The 2022 workshop brought together these writers into dialogue with George Abraham, Piyali Bhattacharya, Alice Sparkly Kat, Hua Hsu, Viet Thanh Nguyen and Charles Yu; in 2023, the workshop travelled to Washington DC at the invitation of the Smithsonian’s Asian American Literature Festival. In 2024, the workshop travelled to Wellington for their third and final writing residency. Read more →