wāni Le Frère

wāni is a Congolese-New Zealander Writer, Visual Storyteller as well as an award-winning performance artist and Poet.

His first solo performance work was nominated for two Greenroom Awards in 2017 winning best performance. wāni has gone on to win the Victorian Poetry Slam, coached the first ever Australia Poetry Slam team in Chicago USA, won the 2019 Wyndham Art Prize for his video work, the Arts House Evolution award for his theatre work ‘jana’, and most recently he became the Australian Poetry Slam National Champion.

He received his Masters In Arts and Community Practice (Honours) at the University of Melbourne’s Victorian College of the Arts and is a current PHD candidate at Monash University.

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