Nongkrong presents: Liwetan

Thursday 29 January 2026
6:30 pm 8:30 pm 18:30 20:30

Blak Dot Gallery 33 Saxon Street Brunswick, VIC, 3056 Australia (map)

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Liwetan

Grained explores rice as both sustenance and metaphor across Global South communities, reflecting on how this single ingredient carries shared histories.

As part of this exhibition, Nongkrong will be hosting a Liwetan: a traditional Indonesian practice of communal dining where nasi liwet (spiced rice) and simple sides are served on banana leaves and eaten with hands. We'll make sambals together and honour the ways eating together creates spaces for memory, belonging, and collective care, and where rice becomes not just nourishment but a vessel for understanding our interconnected stories.

ABOUT OUR HOST

Nongkrong

Nongkrong is an Australian-Indonesian festival that platforms the voices and creativity of the Indonesian diaspora in so-called Australia through food and the arts, creating shared spaces of belonging, solidarity, and cultural exchange.

Moira Tirtha

Moira is the founder and executive producer of Nongkrong (@nongkrongfest), an Indonesian diaspora festival that fosters community connection through food, and the editor of wine and culture magazine, Veraison (@veraisonmag). When they’re not working in human rights policy or freelancing as a writer/cook/somm, they are forever looking for the best (and most outrageous) food and drink pairing.