Sydney Writers' Festival

Sydney Writers' Festival 2005 Program

Please note all these events have completed, this listing is for archive purposes.

Events for  Saturday, May 28 2005

09 : 00	War on Cockatoo Towns Place Wharf Gwynne Dyer, Peter Cochrane, Michael Sexton (Chair) 09:00 to 13:00
09 : 15	Children?s Book Council Workshops The Rocks  09:15 to 15:30
09 : 30	Harold Bloom - The School of Resentment Sydney Theatre Harold Bloom, John Kinsella   09:30 to 10:30 Eric Hansen SDC Studio 1 Eric Hansen, Andrea Stretton (Chair)   09:30 to 10:30 Stella Duffy Bangarra Theatre Stella Duffy, Sarah Bryden-Brown (Chair)   09:30 to 10:30 The Almond Picker Bangarra Mezzanine Simonetta Agnello Hornby, Mary Kostakidis (Chair)   09:30 to 10:30 The Life of Morris West - The Caroline Simpson Memorial Lecture SDC 4 Maryanne Confoy   09:30 to 10:30 A River Ran Through It SDC 2/3 Claire Miller, Patrice Newell, Ticky Fullerton, David Suzuki   09:30 to 11:00 Allen & Unwin Creche SPC Rehearsal Room    09:30 to 16:00 Imagination, Invention and Experience in Literary Fiction Sydney University Dr Eva Sallis 09:30 to 16:30
10 : 00	Poetry and Translation Richard Wherrett Studio Les Murray, Thomas Eichhorn, Lutz Seiler, Tony Frazer, Ouyang Yu   10:00 to 11:00 The Italian Romance Aqua Shell Joanne Carroll, Carol George (Chair)   10:00 to 11:30 Women on Crime Sydney Opera House Jane Clifton, Cathy Cole, Gabrielle Lord, Jodi Picoult   10:00 to 11:30 Words on the Rocks Susannah Place Museum    10:00 to 12:00 Kim Toft Exhibition Riverside Theatre, Parramatta Kim Michelle Toft 10:00 to 17:00
11 : 00	A Writer's Life Sydney Theatre Helen Garner, Roger McDonald   11:00 to 12:00 The Big Bang (Sat) Bangarra Theatre Simon Singh   11:00 to 12:00 Dark Punchlines - Comedy and Crime SDC 4 Mark Billingham   11:00 to 12:00 Christopher Lawrence SDC Studio 1 Christopher Lawrence   11:00 to 12:00 The N Word Bangarra Mezzanine Stephen Hagan 11:00 to 12:30
11 : 30	Globalisation, debt and imagining another world SDC 2/3 Susan George, Bob Debus   11:30 to 12:30 The First Act of Violence Sydney Theatre Richard Wherret Edison Yongai, Zahra , Rukhshana Sarwar, Hussein Al-Hashimy, Denis Asif Sado, Paula Adood 11:30 to 13:00
12 : 30	Jumpman SDC 4 James Valentine   12:30 to 13:15 The Writer and the Librarian Sydney Theatre Mark Kurlansky, Nancy Pearl (Chair)   12:30 to 13:30 Newfoundland Bangarra Theatre Michael Winter, Caroline Baum (Chair)   12:30 to 13:30 Crude: The Story of Oil SDC Studio 1 Sonia Shah, Robert Ferguson (Chair) 12:30 to 13:30
13 : 00	UTS Writers' Anthology Bangarra Mezzanine Anna Funder   13:00 to 14:30 Politics and the Novel SDC 2/3 Caryl Phillips, Eva Sallis, Gillian Slovo, Christos Tsiolkas 13:00 to 14:30
13 : 30	Australia in Another Tongue Sydney Theatre Richard Wherret Les Murray, Catherine Rey, Thomas Eichhorn, Andrew Riemer   13:30 to 14:30 James Moloney & James Roy SDC 4 James Maloney, James Roy   13:30 to 14:30 Writing Home Sydney Opera House Heidi Dokulil, Cerentha Harris, Chris Johnson, Phillip Goad, Mark Wakely, Alan Saunders (Chair) 13:30 to 15:00
14 : 00	A Bill of Rights SDC Studio 1 Larissa Behrendt, George Williams   14:00 to 15:00 Augusten Burroughs Sydney Theatre Augusten Burroughs, Richard Glover (Chair)   14:00 to 15:00 Under Their Skins - Characterisation Bangarra Theatre Steven Carroll, Tony Wilson, Adib Khan, Carmel Bird, Vikas Swarup 14:00 to 15:30
14 : 30	3 nations, one war Liverpool Regional Museum Andrew Lam 14:30 to 16:30
15 : 00	Stimulating Debate and Building Talent SDC 2/3 Morry Schwartz, Frank Moorhouse, Julianne Schultz (Chair)   15:00 to 16:00 From Thesis to Book SDC 4 Cassi Plate, Drusilla Modjeska, Nikki Christer   15:00 to 16:00 Playing With Water (Launch) Bangarra Mezzanine Kate Llewellyn, Roger McDonald   15:00 to 16:30 Banana Heart Summer Sydney Theatre Richard Wherret Merlinda Bobis 15:00 to 16:30
15 : 30	Some Great Thing SDC Studio 1 Colin McAdam, Ramona Koval   15:30 to 16:30 Quirky Traveling Sydney Opera House Tim Moore, Andrea Stretton (Chair)   15:30 to 16:30 So you want to change the world Sydney Theatre Susan George, David Suzuki, Mark Kurlansky, Sonia Shah 15:30 to 17:00
16 : 30	Why Writers Lie SDC 2/3 Malcolm Knox, Deirdre Bair, Jane Messer (Chair)   16:30 to 17:30 Sonya Hartnett SDC 4 Sonya Hartnett, Jason Steger (Chair) 16:30 to 17:30
17 : 00	War of the Words Bangarra Theatre Richard Glover   17:00 to 18:00 In the Shadow of Swords SDC Studio 1 Sally Neighbour   17:00 to 18:00 Cockfighter's Ghost Wine Tasting with winemaker Patrick Auld Aquashell   17:00 to 18:00 Left Right Left Bangarra Mezzanine Robert Manne, David Marr (Chair)   17:00 to 18:30 Dead Europe (launch) SDC Cafe Christos Tsiolkas 17:00 to 18:30
17 : 30	Magazines, politics, a war and more... Sydney Theatre Lewis Lapham, Phillip Adams   17:30 to 18:30 Chinese Poetry and the Contemporary World Sydney Theatre Richard Wherret Yang Lian, Ouyang Yu   17:30 to 18:30 Digging Up Deep Time Australian Museum Abbie Thomas, Paul Willis 17:30 to 19:30
18 : 00	Mandy Sayer?s Pictures from Life Festival Club Mandy Sayer   18:00 to 19:00 Eyewitness Iraq SDC 2/3 John Martinkus, Eric Campbell, Gwynne Dyer, Jonathan Harley   18:00 to 19:30 Poetry Crimes Justice & Police Museum    18:00 to 20:00 Stargazing SH Erwin Gallery Peter Hill 18:00 to 20:30
19 : 00	The Line of Beauty Sydney Theatre Alan Hollinghurst, Robert Dessaix (Chair)   19:00 to 20:00 Readings From Around the Globe Bangarra Mezzanine Yasmina Khadra, Jan Brokken, James George, Mark Kurlansky, Terri Janke 19:00 to 20:30
19 : 30	The Big (thrilling) Reading Festival Club Jodi Picoult, Stella Duffy, Michael Robotham, Jane Clifton, Gabrielle Lord, Annette Shun Wah (Host) 19:30 to 22:00
20 : 00	Hip Hop Night Bangarra Theatre DJ Nick Toth, MC Trey, Lena Nahlous 20:00 to 22:00
20 : 30	Grand Central Winter Sydney Theatre Lee Stringer, Caro Llewellyn (Chair) 20:30 to 21:30

Bookings - Please refer to each Event for Booking Information.