Sydney Writers' Festival

Sydney Writers' Festival 2005 Program

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

Events for  Sunday, May 29 2005

09 : 30	Ice Road SDC 2/3 Gillian Slovo   09:30 to 10:30 Jung Sydney Theatre Deirdre Bair, Helen Groth (Intro)   09:30 to 10:30 Biography Sydney Theatre Richard Wherret Lynette Ramsay Silver, Maryanne Confoy   09:30 to 10:30 Allen & Unwin Creche SPC Rehearsal Room  09:30 to 16:00
10 : 00	Going Native Bangarra Theatre Bob Beale, Michael Archer   10:00 to 11:00 Winter Journey SDC 4 Diane Armstrong, Rachael Kohn (Chair)   10:00 to 11:00 Speaking in Tongues SDC Studio 1 Andrew Ford, Martin Buzacott   10:00 to 11:00 The Art of Knitting Bangarra Mezzanine Anne Bartlett, Nicholas Jose (Chair)   10:00 to 11:00 Kim Toft Exhibition Riverside Theatre, Parramatta Kim Michelle Toft 10:00 to 17:00
10 : 30	The Legend of Big Red Aqua Shell James Roy 10:30 to 12:00
11 : 00	The New Matilda Sydney Theatre Richard Wherret Ramona Koval, Suad Amiry, Andrew West, Hilary McPhee   11:00 to 12:00 Robert Manne SDC 2/3 Robert Manne   11:00 to 12:00 The Art of Travel Sydney Theatre Eric Hansen, Tim Moore, Robert Dessaix, Jan Brokken, Annette Shun Wah   11:00 to 12:30 The Inaugural Gough Whitlam Lecture Government House Ivor Indyk, Wayne McKenna 11:00 to 12:30
11 : 30	Dirt Cheap: Life at the Wrong End of the Job Market SDC 4 Elisabeth Wynhausen, Julie McCrossin   11:30 to 12:30 Contemporary Writing in German Bangarra Mezzanine Lutz Seiler, Thomas Eichhorn, Lucas Cejpek, Margret Kreidl   11:30 to 12:30 John Kinsella Bangarra Theatre John Kinsella, Peter Minter (Chair)   11:30 to 12:30 Mr China SDC Studio 1 Tim Clissold 11:30 to 12:30
12 : 30	Jodi Picoult SDC 2/3 Jodi Picoult, Diana Simmonds (Chair)   12:30 to 13:30 Another Country Sydney Theatre Richard Wherret Rosie Scott, Claudia Karvan, Rachel Ward, Bryan Brown, Thomas Keneally, Cheik Kone, Mohsen Soltani, David Malouf, Nick Tate, Shahin Shafaei   12:30 to 14:00 Pho Noodle Soup Thanh Bin, Newtown Andrew Lam, Joanna Savill (Host) 12:30 to 14:00
13 : 00	The Big Why - Fact and fiction SDC 4 Michael Winter   13:00 to 14:00 Czeslaw Milosz - a tribute Bangarra Mezzanine Bernard Lane   13:00 to 14:00 Philip Nitschke Bangarra Theatre Philip Nitschke   13:00 to 14:00 A Certain Maritime Incident SDC Studio 1 Tony Kevin   13:00 to 14:00 Writing Saved my Life Sydney Theatre Augusten Burroughs, Alice Sebold, Lee Stringer, Julie McCrossin (Chair) 13:00 to 14:30
14 : 00	Animal Vegetable or Mineral: a poetic selection Powerhouse Museum, level 3 Robert Kennedy, Marcelle Freiman, Jill Jones, Joanne Wade, Elisabeth De Le Mont   14:00 to 14:45 Whose Truth? Writing and Globalisation Riverside Theatre, Parramatta Lewis Lapham, Susan George, Diane Armstrong, Nicholas Jose   14:00 to 15:30 Henry James SDC 2/3 Alan Hollinghurst, Don Anderson 14:00 to 15:30
14 : 30	Poets on life, art and writing men?s lives Bangarra Mezzanine Al Zolynas, Peter Skrzynecki   14:30 to 15:30 Absurdistan SDC 4 Eric Campbell, Annette Shun Wah (Chair)   14:30 to 15:30 Aceh - Indonesia?s Secret War Sydney Theatre Richard Wherret John Martinkus, Robert Ferguson (Chair)   14:30 to 15:30 Research and Writing SDC Studio 1 Gabrielle Lord, Sonia Shah, Michelle Arrow, Andrew Moore, Andrea Stretton (Chair)   14:30 to 16:00 Political speak: double-talk vs plain English Bangarra Theatre Richard Glover, Catharine Lumby, Linda Jaivin, Bob Debus, Neil James (Chair)   14:30 to 16:00 Afternoon Tea and Readings InterContinental Sydney Gillian Slovo, Vikas Swarup, Catherine Rey, Sonya Hartnett, Steven Carrol, Geraldine Doogue (Chair) 14:30 to 16:30
15 : 00	Memoir Sydney Theatre William Horwood, Miriam Toews, Tariq Ali, Lee Stringer 15:00 to 16:00
16 : 00	Memoir of Other Places Bangarra Mezzanine Peter Hill, Christopher Lawrence   16:00 to 17:00 The Myth of Ability SDC 2/3 John Mighton   16:00 to 17:00 How Australia Compares Sydney Theatre Richard Wherret Ross Gittins   16:00 to 17:00 Collapse City Recital Hall Jared Diamond, Paul Sheehan (Intro) 16:00 to 17:30
16 : 30	Lost in Transmission Bangarra Theatre Jonathan Harley   16:30 to 17:30 Sandman and Squires Sydney Theatre Steve Abbott, Tony Squires (Chair) 16:30 to 18:00
19 : 00	Collapse 2 Sydney Theatre Jared Diamond 19:00 to 20:00

Bookings - Please refer to each Event for Booking Information.