2025 PROGRAM
The Nightmare Sequence: Art, Witnessing and Fracture
DATE:
Saturday 21 March, 2026
LOCATION:
Qi Yoga Studio
COST:
$25.00
How do artists respond when the world fractures around them? Safdar Ahmed and Omar Sakr discuss The Nightmare Sequence, a collaborative work that blends art, poetry and political witnessing. This literary session explores form, trauma and the limits of language — asking what art can do in moments of rupture, and how creative work carries memory, anger and hope. Challenging and deeply literary. Content note: This session includes discussion related to the war in Gaza that some people may find challenging.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY
The Manly Writers' Festival acknowledges and thanks the original storytellers on the lands on which our events take place, the Gameraygal people of the Eora Nation. We acknowledge and respect their continuing connection and culture, and we pay our respects to ancestors and Elders, past and present, as well as emerging leaders.