PANEL DISCUSSIONS
PANEL DISCUSSIONS
IT’S BLACK AND WHITE
Saturday 6 May
Time: 1pm-2pm WOMEN WRITING WOMEN
Saturday 6 May
Time: 4pm-5pm CLUNES
BUSINESSES THE FUTURE OF THE FUTURE
Sunday 7 May
Time: 10am-11am MASCULINE LANDSCAPES
Sunday 7 May
Time: 2:30pm-3:30pm
Speakers:
Kate Grenville, Jane Harrison and
Rebe Taylor Speakers:
Hannah Kent, Clementine Ford,
Melissa Keil and Jane Harrison Speakers:
Melissa Keil, Mark Smith and
Jane Harrison Speakers:
AS Patric, Mark Smith and Jock
Serong
Host:
Aunty Marjorie Pickford and
Sara Weuffen Host:
The Wheeler Centre’s Gemma
Rayner WIDOW TWANKEY’S
48-50 Fraser Street
Cafe, Lolly Shop and Ice Cream
Parlour
Open 7 days Host:
Angela Crocombe, Kids Shop
Manager, Readings Host:
Professor Andrew Reeves
How can anyone write authentic
indigenous-white relationships?
This is a story of encounter
that needs to be told, but how?
Who can do it? By talking to
three writers who have brilliantly
and effectively navigated this
territory in their work, we ca n
begin to grasp the complexity
of this challenge. But beyond
that, what is the power of writing
these stories in shaping people’s
understanding and progressing
one of our fundamental national
dialogues. ‘A word after a word after a word
is power,’ wrote the feminist
author Margaret Atwood.
Bell Hooks wrote that 'what we
cannot imagine cannot come
into being.' If we cannot imagine
our past, then our future cannot
be properly formed; and if we
cannot imagine a better future,
we will remain stuck in an old
conversation. Come along, listen
and participate in this gripping
exchange of ideas.
16 CLUNES BOOKTOWN FESTIVAL 2017
What is the power of putting
a woman front and centre in a
story? And is it still a subversive
act? In this broad discussion at
Clunes Booktown Festival we’ll
hear from women who write
about women: Burial Rites author
Hannah Kent, Fight Like a Girl
author Clementine Ford, Becoming
Kirrali Lewis author Jane Harrison
and The Incredible Adventures of
Cinnamon Girl author Melissa Keil.
With experience writing across a
range of forms and genres – from
opinion columns to fantasy YA
novels to feminist manifesto to
historical fiction – these three
writers will discuss their priorities,
predicaments and even anxieties
when placing women at the
centre of their narratives. What
are the unique responsibilities of
describing female experiences?
Tim Hayes and Michael Waugh
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THE UNION BANK ARTS
CENTRE - FOR SALE
20 Fraser Street
Accommodation, gallery and
workshop spaces available in
historic building.
Erected in 1865 as a branch
of the Union Bank of Australia,
it was possibly designed by
Leonard Terry. In 1869 the
dwelling was added. The
building is substantially intact
and with its modern extension
has been converted for use
as an art studio facility and
accommodation.
Enquiries to: AAG Real Estate
5345 3533
What is the future of YA literature?
And how is YA literature actively
writing our cultural future by
speaking directly to the emerging
adults of the next generation?
Drawing on a brilliant line-up of
writers, this panel explores the
changing narratives, characters,
setting and concerns that now
populate contemporary YA.
Melissa Keil, Mark Smith and
Jane Harrison represent a
diversity of voices and styles.
Chaired by Manager of Readings
Kids Bookstore, YA expert and
bibliotherapist Angela Crocombe,
come along to find out where YA
literature is heading, and where
it’s taking us.
In Australia, boys have been
known to be boys in backyards, at
beaches, trapping rabbits, surfing
waves or being slowly boxed
into bleached-concrete urban
and suburban landscapes. With
emotional walls as wide as the
front nature strips, males have
been silent and grunty on the
outside while full of stark, poetic
passion on the inside.
With three extraordinary male
voices in AS Patric, Mark Smith
and Jock Serong, this panel
sets out to explore the various
landscapes of masculinity present
in their work and in our culture,
hoping to find some fresh insight
into a very old question: Can a
man still be a man without having
blood on his hands?'
HISTORIC
BUILDINGS
TOWN HALL Designed by the
architect Percy Oakden, the
building was opened in 1873 by
the Governor Sir George Bowen.
Later in the 1870s, the Supper
Room, previously known as the
Bible Christian Church, was
relocated from Fraser Street.
This building is one of the most
significant town halls in Victoria,
and is used extensively by the
Clunes community.
RSL The ES&A Bank is an
excellent surviving colonial bank
designed by Melbourne architect,
Leonard Terry (1825-1884).
Completed in 1871, the building
is typical of Terry’s conservative
Renaissance Revival style. The
ES&A Bank is one of three
banks in Fraser Street, together,
they form a landmark precinct,
built at the peak of Clunes
prosperity. The property was
used as a private residence at
the closure of the bank in the
1930s and purchased in 1954
by the Clunes sub-branch of the
Returned & Services League.
AAG REAL ESTATE OFFICE
Built in 1870 by Thomas Jones,
the building has seen many
tenants since Joseph Oldham
ran a hairdressing salon.
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