Unfinished Symphony (or poem or essay or story), with Holly Childs

and are pleased to invite you to a KINGS Emerging Writers Program Workshop, Unfinished Symphony (or poem or essay or story), with Holly Childs

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The KINGS gallery will be open from 12:00pm, and the workshop will run from 3:00 until 5:00pm on Sunday, 7th June 2026.

KINGS Artist-Run is at 69 Capel Street, West Melbourne, 3000.

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Bring a short text that you have stopped working on, but that you still want to “finish.”
We will do some exercises to figure out where to go from here.

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Holly Childs is a writer and artist based in Naarm Melbourne. Their work, across fiction, poetry, visual art, and performance, focuses on the shifting mechanisms of storytelling in a contemporary world in which physical matter is constantly being reshaped, recontextualised, and rewritten by emerging crises, trends, and technologies.
Their work has been shown at Palais de Tokyo (Paris, FR), Rupert (Vilnius, LT), 3HD (Berlin, DE), Atonal (Berlin, DE), Easterndaze (Berlin, DE), Trust (Berlin, DE), Hellerau (Dresden, DE), Museum Kurhaus (Kleve, DE), Rewire (the Hague, NL), Rile (Brussels, BE), Botanische Tuin Zuidas (Amsterdam, NL), PAF (Olomouc, CZ), Arcadia Missa (London, GB), Fuzzy Vibes (Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland), Metro Arts (Meanjin Brisbane), Minerva (Eora Sydney), Firstdraft (Eora Sydney), Soft Centre (Tharawal Casula), Liquid Architecture (Naarm) and Arts House (Naarm).
They are a PhD candidate in Fine Art at Monash University, researching zones, vibes, and higher dimensional space.

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Places are limited, but there will be a waitlist in place if needed. Tickets are free but donations are very much appreciated.

If you have booked a ticket but are unable to attend, please cancel your ticket via Eventbrite or email [email protected] to allow those on the waitlist to be notified.

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In 2026, KINGS Emerging Writers’ Program is supported by un Projects and the City of Melbourne. The EWP is run by Amy Stuart, Rachel Gresswell and Emily Kostos.

KINGS Artist Run is wheelchair accessible, however we do not have a wheelchair accessible bathroom.

Please email [email protected] for any inquiries.

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Photo: Keelan O'Hehir.

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