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Links 2003
Monday 19 May |
Friday, May 23, 2003
Please note: This event has been completed.
9-10.30am
Blazing the Trail: Building New Audiences in New Markets
SPC
Louise Dennys, Catherine Drayton, Chris Herschdorfer and Anna von Planta.
Chair: Fiona Inglis.
Presented by the Visiting International Publishers program.
9.30-11am
Translation
SDC 4
Igor Gelbach, Ouyang Yu, Niccolo Ammaniti and
Julie Rose.
Chair: Nicholas Jose
10-11am
In conversation
BM
Mike Richards talks about his book, The Hanged Man: the Life and Death of Ronald Ryan, to Michael Sexton.
10-11.30am
Truth and Fiction in History
SDC 2/3
Join Inga Clendinnen, Ann Curthoys, Antony Beevor, Sarah Vowell and Marcel Beyer.
Chair: Jane Connors.
10-11.30am
Eroticism
BT
Tobsha Learner, Annamarie Jagose, Sarah Dunant and Catherine Millet.
10.30-11.30am
A mother of all jobs
SPC
Fiona Giles, Susan Maushart and Aminatta Forna.
Chair: Debra Adelaide.
11.30am-12.30pm
In conversation
BM
Canadian short-story writer Lisa Moore talks to Good Reading's Caroline Baum about Cape Breton, painting and deep-sea diving.
11.30am-12.30pm
In conversation
SDC 4
Jeffrey Deaver in conversation with James Griffin.
12-1.30pm
Why Read the Classics?
BT
Australian writers Don Anderson, David Malouf
and Janette Turner Hospital suggest some answers.
Chair: Ramona Koval.
12-1.30pm
Writing for Change
SPC
Benjamin Zephaniah, Aminatta Forna,
Deborah Carlyon and poet Samuel Wagan Watson.
Chair: Tony Maniaty.
12-1.30pm
AURORA screenwriting
SDC 2/3
Jan Chapman, Christina Andreef, Anthony Anderson, Lynne Vincent McCarthy.
Chair: Sally Browning.
Presented by NSW FTO.
12.30pm
InterContinental Sydney
Literary Lunch
William Dalrymple, $52.
Bookings essential: 9240 1261.
1 for 1.30pm
Launch: Due Preparations for the Plague
The Wharf Restaurant
Janette Turner Hospital
1-2.30pm
Writing Out Grief
SDC 4
Shirley Painter, Gaby Naher, Patti Miller and
Ghada Karmi.
Chair: Ruth Wajnryb.
1-2pm
In conversation
BM
Marion Halligan, author of The Point, talks to Alan Saunders about food, sex and literature.
2-3.30pm
Poetry Reading
SPC
Samuel Wagan Watson, Benjamin Zephaniah, Ouyang Yu and Fathyen Hamama Handry.
Chair: British Council's Simon Gammell
2-3.30pm
Resilience
SDC 2/3
Anne Deveson and Raja Shehadeh.
Presented by Allen & Unwin.
2-3.30pm
Screening & Talk:
The Shadow of Mary Poppins
BT
Australian-born Pamela Travers penned one of
the most enduring books for children, yet her own life was filled with darkness. Join
biographer Valerie Lawson and documentary maker Lisa Matthews after the screening to discuss portraying a life on screen and the page.
Chair: James Hall.
3-4pm
Playing with the Script
SDC 4
Playwright Anthony Weigh and dramaturg
Chris Mead discuss with actors the development of
Weigh's new play The Lie of the Land.
Chair: Susan Hayes.
Presented by the National Playwrights' Conference.
In memory of Nick Enright.
2.30-3.30pm
The Gum Tree
BM
It is Australia's most common tree yet if holds many mysteries. Ashley Hay, author of Gum, talks with Roger McDonald about these remarkable trees.
4-5pm
In conversation
BM
German author Marcel Beyer talks about history and literature with Roger Wilkins.
4-5.30pm
Two Women of Science
SDC 2/3
Brenda Maddox discusses the lives of two of her latest subjects, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and DNA scientist Rosalind Franklin, and finds they have a lot in common.
Chair: Andrea Stretton.
4-5.30pm
A History of Aboriginal Activism
BT
How can non-indigenous Australians contribute to indigenous people's struggles? Marilyn Lake, Freedom Rider Ann Curthoys and Margaret Simons with indigenous authors Gordon Briscoe and John Maynard.
Chair: Larissa Behrendt.
4-5.30pm
Meet the Writers
SPC
Emily Ballou, Craig Bolland, David Kelly, Kathryn Heyman and Alan Attwood.
Chair: Australian Society of Authors' Jose Borghino.
4.30-6pm
Spine-Chilling
SDC 4
Jeffrey Deaver, Sarah Dunant and Peter Temple.
Chair: James Griffin.
5-6pm
Launch: Taste
SDC Cafe
A collection of fresh Australian talent from
the country's premier writing course.
Launched by
Glenda Adams.
6pm
Censorship & Suppression
SPC
The nature of censorship is changing. A panel
of experts looks at increasingly sophisticated
methods of media management. Louise Dennys, Rod Tiffen,
David Marr, Anne Summers and Chris Masters.
Presented by PEN.
6.30-8pm
Launch: Dhuuluu
Yala - To Talk Straight - Publishing Aboriginal Literature in Australia, by Dr Anita Heiss
BM
Launched by Jackie Huggins.
6 for 6.30pm
THE CORRECTIONS
City Recital Hall
The Corrections is one of the most celebrated novels of the decade. Jonathan Franzen is in conversation with literary editor, Malcolm Knox.
$20/$12 conc.
Bookings: 9351 7940 or 8256 2222.
6 for 6.30pm
WAR
Seymour Theatre Centre
Historian Antony Beevor, Canadian Deborah Ellis, social commentator Sarah Vowell, former diplomat Richard Woolcott and Anne Deveson discuss the US, war and the future of conflict.
Chair: ABC Radio National's Breakfast presenter Peter Thompson
$20/$12.
Bookings: 9351 7940.
6 for 6.30pm
In Occupied Territory
Riverside Theatres, Parramatta
Palestinian writers Raja Shehadeh and Ghada Karmi discuss Palestine and the diaspora. With Paula Abood.
Chair: Ihab Shalbak.
Presented by Parramatta City Council. Free.
Bookings recommended: 9252 7729.
6 for 6.30pm
Meet the Writers
Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery
Meet internationally bestselling author of
The Blue Day series Bradley Trevor Greive along with
Leo Cullen and John Larkin.
$15 incl supper and drinks.
Bookings: 4645 4444.
6-7.30pm
Crime
Ashfield Library
Australian crime writers Gabrielle
Lord and Shane Maloney talk with Ireland's Ken Bruen
about the mean streets. Free.
Bookings recommended: 9716 1810.
Sydney Dance Company Cafe
6-7pm
Australia Talks Books.
Join Radio National's Sandy McCutcheon and ABC TV's
James Griffin in Australia's biggest book club,
live to air.
7-10pm
ABC 702 Sydney's James O'Loghlin's live broadcast.
THE FESTIVAL CLUB
The Wharf
$10 at the door
8pm
In Bed with Danny Katz.
9pm
John Larkin in stand-up comedy mode.
9.45pm
John Birmingham's new book, Dopeland, delves into a world of bucket bongs and drug busts while New Zealand writer Chad Taylor's Electric tells of blackouts and high living.