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Links 2003
Monday 19 May |
Saturday, May 24, 2003
Please note: This event has been completed.
9-10am
Kids' Special
SDC 1
Bring the children to see Jackie French, Andrew Daddo and Stephen Measday.
9.30-10.30am
So You Wanna be a Writer?
SPC
Linda Jaivin, Georgia Blain, Katherine Thomson and Ian David talk about the inspirations and turning points in their writing careers.
Chair: Jose Borghino.
Presented by the Australian Society of Authors and the Australian Writers' Guild.
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.
10-11am
In conversation
BM
Catholic priest Edmund Campion talks about an exceptional year with ABC TV's Compass presenter Geraldine Doogue.
10.00-11.30am
Happiness
SDC 4
We drive bigger cars, live in larger houses and earn more money than ever, but are we happy? Michael Pusey and Clive Hamilton.
Chair: Rachael Kohn.
10.00-11.30am
India
SDC 2/3
Historian, environmentalist and cricket writer Ramachandra Guha is joined by William Dalrymple, one of the world's finest travel writers and an expert on India, on the country of extremes.
Chair: Christopher Kremmer.
10-11.30am
White Out
Wharf 2
Rosemary Neill has divided opinion with her views on the social and political welfare of Aboriginal Australians. She is joined by Gordon Briscoe, Inga Clendinnen, Samuel Wagan Watson and Gregory Phillips.
Chair: Stephen Crittenden.
10.00-11.30am
Writing Back Home
BT
Ronny Someck was born in Iraq and lives in Israel. Ma Jian felt stifled by the communist regime in China. Marcel Beyer lives in Germany. Raja Shehadeh's home of Ramallah is a war zone. They talk to Radio National's Ramona Koval.
10.30-11.30am
Kids' Special
SDC 1
Get ready to laugh as children's authors Andy Griffiths and John Larkin talk about a soccer team that never wins, and all kinds of bum jokes.
11am-noon
The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelists
SPC
Chair: Angela Bennie.
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, Susan Hunt
Head Curator, the Museum of Sydney, 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 history buff and columnist for salon.com. Sarah Vowell talks to Caroline Baum.
noon-1pm
In conversation
BT
Find out just how historian Antony Beevor goes
about researching his celebrated books.
Chair: Mike Carlton.
noon-1pm
Looking for Alibrandi
SDC 1
Meet bestselling novelist Melina Marchetta, who talks about Alibrandi and her latest, Saving Francesca.
noon-1pm
In the Spotlight
Wharf 2
Hear New Zealand's CK Stead talk about poetry, criticism and his extraordinary works of fiction.
noon-1.30pm
How to be Alone
SDC 2/3
Jonathan Franzen.
Chair: Don Anderson.
noon-1pm
What makes a
winning short story?
SDC 4
The HQ short-story competition is in
its 10th year. Find out from the experts how to
launch your writing career in this renowned
competition. Peter Bishop, Lisa Moore and Mandy Sayer.
Chair: Alex Craig.
12.30-2pm
Living on the Line
SPC
These authors take their readers on a journey to the edge. David Kelly, Brett D'Arcy, Craig Bolland, Fiona McGregor and Chad Taylor.
Chair: Jane Palfreyman.
1-2pm
Extinction is Forever
BM
Bradley Trevor Greive's The Blue Day Book sold millions of copies around the world. He talks about his passion for the environment.
Chair: Peter FitzSimons.
1.30-3.30
WORD FOR WORD
This session has been moved to 10am Sunday.
1.30-3pm
Journeys
Wharf 2
International bestselling travel writer William Dalrymple, Holy Cow's Sarah MacDonald, James Cowan, Alan Attwood and Victoria Finlay discuss incredible journeys.
Chair: Simon Gammell.
1.30-3pm
Writing the Unthinkable
BT
Jeffrey Deaver, Rosemary Neill and Maree Giles.
Chair: Ramona Koval.
2-3pm
Shanghai Dancing
BM
Award-winning author Brian Castro's latest book is a fictional biography. He talks to Andrew Riemer about memory and family secrets.
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.
2-3.30pm
In conversation
SDC 2/3
Nicholas Jose and Nicolas Rothwell talk about their personal odyssey.
2-3.30pm
Spooling Through
SDC 4
ABC journalist Tim Bowden talks about his life to Michael Sexton.
2.30-4pm
White Moghuls
SPC
General James Achilles Kirkpatrick arrived in 18th-century India eager to make his name in the subjection of a nation. Instead, he was conquered by an Indian Muslim princess. William Dalrymple talks to Robert Dessaix about his latest book.
Presented by State of the Arts magazine.
3.30-5pm
Adaptation and the Novel
Wharf 2
Nicholas Shakespeare's screenplay of his novel
The Dancer Upstairs is being made by John Malkovich. Shakespeare is joined by Chad Taylor and Niccolo Ammaniti, whose work has also been adapted for the screen.
Chair: Jane Palfreyman.
3.30-5pm
Country of the Heart
BT
Join Deborah Bird Rose and the Mak Mak women from the flood plains of south-west Darwin in a showcase of image, text and spoken word.
4-5pm
Guilt
SPC
Author, academic and columnist for The Australian Susan Maushart talks about guilt with philosopher Simon Longstaff.
5.30-6.30pm
Launch: Unsweetened
SPC
UNSW Union's annual literary anthology. Launched by Tania Truniger.
4-5pm
King: The Life and Comedy
of Graham Kennedy
BM
He was called "the platinum blonde rabbit" but, as Graeme Blundell reveals, Graham Kennedy was a complex comic.
4-5.30pm
The Mean Streets
SDC 2/3
Gabrielle Lord, Shane Maloney, Ken Bruen, Peter Temple and Dorothy Johnston.
Chair: Cathy Cole.
4-5.30pm
Australia in the Eyes of the World
SDC 4
Hanifa Deen, Alison Broinowski, Shahin Shafaei and Linda Jaivin.
Chair: Anne Summers.
5.30pm
Launch of Dorothy Johnston's the White Tower
SDC Café.
Wakefield Press
Launched by Ken Bruen
6-7.30pm
Launch: Short Fuse Poetry
BM
Tug Dumbly, Michele Morgan, Margie Cronin, Richard Allen, SPC Norton and Samuel Wagan Watson read their work.
6.30-7.30pm
war of the words
BT
702 ABC Sydney presenter Richard Glover. Live recording.
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.
THE FESTIVAL CLUB
The Wharf
$10 at the door
7-8.30pm
The Pitching Competition.
9pm
Hello Kitty.
Join poets Natasha Cho, Cuong Nguyen, Ying Gilbert and Andy Quan for poetry karaoke-style. Your hostess for the evening is Happy Ho. Not to be missed. A sell-out at the 2002 Gay Games.