Major events

Saturday 24 May

10am-12pm

Indigenous games
Redfern Oval
Put on your running shoes and learn traditional indigenous games. To make sure you're playing fair, we've got a special guest umpire.

11am-12.30pm

In conversation
Justice & Police Museum
Irish crime writer Ken Bruen has done to crime what the Sex Pistols did to music. He talks to Stuart Coupe.
Free. Bookings recommended: 9252 7729.

11am

Exclusive PREVIEW - The Dancer Upstairs
Dendy Opera Quays
Plus talk by screenwriter Nicholas Shakespeare.
Chair: Sandra Hall.
$18/$15. Bookings: 9247 3800

11am-1pm

City Limits
Museum of Sydney
John Birmingham, David Burchell and Alan Saunders discuss Sydney - is it really a harbour paradise?
$10 at the door includes museum tour.

11.30am-12.30pm

In conversation
BM
She's a novelist, history buff and columnist for salon.com. Sarah Vowell talks to Caroline Baum.

2-3pm

In the Gutter … Looking at the Stars
Visit literary sacred sites with Mandy Sayer and Louis Nowra on a walking tour of Kings Cross.
Bookings essential: 9252 7734. $25/$20.

7pm

Les Murray's Octave
Verbruggen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium
Les Murray reads his work to a musical background inspired by his poems.
Adults $40, conc $35, students $25, children $20.
Bookings: Sydney Opera House, 9250 777 or email bookings@soh.nsw.gov.au
Presented by The Song Company, Sydney Writers' Festival and the Guggenheim Foundation.

8pm

LET LOOSE
BT
Two new plays from the other side of the razor wire: Halal el Mashakel by Linda Jaivin and Refugitive by Shahin Shafaei.
$10 at the door.