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Links 2003
Monday 19 May |
Thursday, May 22, 2003
Please note: This event has been completed.
9.30-11am
Cruel to be Kind - Criticism and the Artist
SDC4
Poet, novelist and critic C. K. Stead, Sarah Dunant, Herald music writer Bernard Zuel and film critic Sandra Hall.
9.30-11am
Reading from the winners of the NSW Premier's Literary Awards
SPC
Chair: Elaine Lindsay.
10-11.30am
Chronicling a Life
SDC 2/3
Join biographers Ramachandra Guha, Brenda Maddox, Marilyn Lake and Mike Richards.
Chair: Don Anderson.
10am-noon
Politics and the Australian Novel
BT
Hanifa Deen, Shane Maloney, Brett D'Arcy and Delia Falconer.
Chair: James Hall.
10-11am
In conversation
BM
Author Shirley Painter in conversation with Patti Miller
10am
philosophy on the wharf
Breezeway
Join St James Ethics Centre director Dr Simon Longstaff for a discussion on life, the universe and everything.
11am
Launch: From the Suburbs: Building a Nation from our Neighborhoods by Mark Latham MP
Sydney Dance Company Cafe.
To be Launched by: Gough Whitlam former Prime Minister
11.30am-1pm
From the Eyes of a Child
SDC 4
The books of David Almond, Niccolo Ammaniti, Sonya Hartnett, Deborah Ellis and Benjamin Zephaniah see the world from a child's perspective.
Chair: Mark MacLeod.
11.30am-12.30pm
In conversation
BM
Israeli poet Ronny Someck talks about his work with Heat magazine's Ivor Indyk.
11.30am-1pm
Memoir
SPC
Hear four very different Australian authors -
Nancy Phelan, Brian Castro, Tim Bowden and Gaby Naher - talk about their recent memoirs.
12-1.30pm
Australia - The State We're In
SDC 2/3
Michael Pusey, David Burchell, Independent MP Peter Andren and Herald opinion-page editor Julia Baird discuss the state of the nation.
Chair: Diana Simmonds.
12.30pm
InterContinental Sydney
SMH Dymocks Literary Lunch
Join US author Jonathan Franzen for lunch. $63.
Bookings: 9449 4366.
12.30pm-2pm
Indigenous Sporting Heroes
BT
Discover unsung heroes with John Maynard, boxer
Keith B. Saunders and Dr Ken Edwards on bowler Eddie Gilbert.
1-2pm
Voices from Asia
BM
Hear La Rose, Fathyen Hamama Handry and Chi Zijian.
Chair: Asia Link's Chris McKenzie
1.30-2.30pm
The Tampa Crisis:
What the PUBLIC Knew
SPC
David Marr and Marian Wilkinson talk about what we knew then and
what we know now.
1.30-2.30pm
Secrets and Spies - The Harbin Files
SDC 4
Research for Mara Moustafine's memoir took her to the headquarters of the former KGB.
2-3pm
In conversation
SDC 2/3
Janette Turner Hospital talks to ABC Radio
National's Ramona Koval about her new book, Due Preparations for the Plague.
2.30-4pm
In conversation
BT
Richard Woolcott and Alison Broinowski discuss diplomacy, Asia, Australia and being in the hot seat.
2.30-3.30pm
In conversation
BM
Igor Gelbach is a physicist - as are his most recent protagonists. He talks to The Science Show's Robyn Williams about literature and science.
3-4.30pm
Calling Australia Home
SPC
Ouyang Yu, Hanifa Deen, Susan Maushart and Emily Ballou talk about the experience of settling in the Lucky Country.
3-4.30pm
Engaging the Next Generation
SDC 4
These writers encourage a love of books in young people: David Almond, Andy Griffiths, Benjamin Zephaniah, Sonya Hartnett and Markus Zusak.
Chair: Rowena Danziger.
4-5pm
Faith
BM
James Cowan and Marilyn Lake talk about books and questions of biography.
4.30-6pm
Atmosphere
BT
Authors Michelle de Kretser, Anthony O'Neill, Annamarie Jagose and Kathryn Heyman create a powerful atmosphere in their recent novels.
4-5.30pm
Telling Dangerous stories
SDC 2/3
Aminatta Forna, Margaret Simons,
Deborah Ellis and Maree Giles took risks when they wrote about war, secret women's business and assassination.
Chair: Annette Shun Wah.
5-6pm
In conversation
SPC
Victoria Finlay travelled the world to discover the history and secrets of colour. She's with Good Reading's Caroline Baum.
Presented by Good Reading.
5.30pm
Launch: Nancy Phelan
SDC Cafe
Launched by Andrea Stretton.
6 for 6.30pm
Launch: Brian Castro & HEAT's Eggplant Dreaming
Barton Room, Sydney Grammar School, College Street*
* Parking in school grounds, enter on Stanley Street.
6pm for 6.30pm
Sex in the City
Seymour Theatre Centre
French art critic Catherine Millet talks about sex,
intimacy and love with author and academic Fiona Giles.
$20/$12. Bookings: 9351 7940.
Presented by State of the Arts magazine.
6pm for 6.30pm
Sydney Town Hall talk
Sydney Town Hall
Award-winning British historian Antony Beevor, whose books include Stalingrad and Berlin - Downfall 1945, talks to Bob Carr about war, history and what we've learned from bloody conflict.
$20/$12.
Bookings: 9351 7940.
6pm for 6.30pm
The Great Wall - Experiences of China
The Whitlam Library, Cabramatta
Chi Zijian, Ouyang Yu and Ma Jian share the story of their homeland.
Free.
6-7.30pm
Living in the 70s
The Arthouse Hotel
Put on your gossamer shirt and step back in time with Alison Pressley, Graeme Blundell, Moya Sayer-Jones and Dave Warner in a celebration of fondues, pineapple rings and the handlebar moustache.
Chair: ABC 702 Sydney's Simon Marnie.
$10 at the door.
6.30-8pm
Launch: Indigenous Health
BM
Dr Gordon Briscoe, Dr Gregory Phillips.
Launched by Senator Aden Ridgeway.
THE FESTIVAL CLUB
The Wharf
$10 at the door
7 for 7.30pm
Talkin' it Up: A Celebration of Indigenous spoken-word poetry
Romaine Moreton, Samuel Wagan Watson, Anita Heiss, Michelle Blanchard.
MC Cathy Craigie.
Presented by Message Sticks and Sydney Writers' Festival.
9pm
The Sydney Morning Herald's Best Young Australian Novelists
Chair: Malcolm Knox.