The Two Fires Festival was established in 2005 to celebrate the legacy of Judith Wright as a poet/writer, environmentalist and activist for Indigenous rights.


The 2011 festival highlights will include a focus on rivers, with Shoalhaven Visions, an exhibition to be opened by artist John Wolseley of works by more than 20 artists involved in a wetlands field study; walking the Shoalhaven with Yuin elder Uncle Max Harrison; a panel on the Murray Darling with Jessica Weir and Stephen Ross; a wide range of writers, word performers and poets featuring Glenn Colquhoun, New Zealand’s best selling poet, John Wolseley and Barry Hill on their Birds book collaboration; Fiona Capp tracing Judith Wright’s landscapes of inspiration; Rhyll McMaster and Alan Gould on the tugs between poetry and prose; dynamic word performers Romaine Moreton, Ezra Bix, Terry Jaensch; poet Adrienne Eberhard evoking ‘country & creatures’; a dance performance to a Judith Wright poem; basket weaving & hip hop workshops with Indigenous artists; Saturday night concert with the Stiff Gins, Kavisha Mazzella & Johnny Huckle; panel discussions involving Professor Jim Falk, Roderic Pitty, Uncle Max Harrison and others still to be confirmed; Two Fires Poetry Competition winners announced.

About the Festival

The festival happens every two years in Braidwood, NSW where Judith Wright Judith Wrightlived the last three decades of her life. The festival is gaining a reputation as a uniquely adventurous event, delighting and surprising its audiences with its wide range of creative and intellectual offerings.

About Braidwood

Braidwood, in the dramatically beautiful Southern Tablelands, provides a relaxed, warm-hearted and intimate setting for the festival. In a world where the push is often to make everything bigger and more dazzling, the Two Fires Festival takes pride in celebrating simplicity, renewed contact with land and community, strong Indigenous involvement, as well as artistic and intellectual vitality.