DIRTY WORDS – a writers’ flash-festival
by admin ~ August 17th, 2006. Filed under: Events.
Media Release
For Immediate Release Thursday 17 August 2006DIRTY WORDS – How Writing Engages With Themes Of Country, Body, Humour, Grief, Markings, Politics and Censorship.
The Age Melbourne Writers Festival – Umbrella EventThursday August 24
10 am – 5.50 pm
ENTRY $20 & $15 Concession
VictoriaHotel, 215 Little Collins St Melbourne
www.victoriahotel.com.au
www.bhtafe.edu.auDirty Words will present a beautiful and confronting experience that explores the politics of land and body in dialogue. Consider the influence of land and soil in culture and writing, from the indigenous and post-colonial perspectives of identity and belonging, from the multiple meanings of the erotic and how the body is engendered for the individual and society.
For the third year, Box Hill Institute and Avant Press will host a writers’ flash-festival. The success of the 2004 and 2005 festivals, Word Music and Word Play, has encouraged expansion. This year’s event will be held on Thursday August 24th in the Swanston Room of the Victoria Hotel, Little Collins Street, Melbourne.
Dirty Words will present literary talent from varied backgrounds and perspectives whose written work reflects and challenges the theme of the festival. The festival design will include individual presentations and selected panels of Australian authors, including landscape writers, fantasy/horror writers and emerging writers, who will reflect upon and share their experiences on this informal and inclusive day.
Writers appearing —
- Barry Dickins
- Gregory Day
- Adrian Hyland
- Helen Milte-Bastow
- Deborah Crabtree
- Paul Haines
- Cameron Rogers
- Talie Helene
- Vandana Chan
- Maree Eggleston
- Paul Whitby
Dirty Words will also include the launch of poetry journal Divan, and music from The Golden Virtues.
Our intended audience will include students and the general writers’ festival public with an interest in writing, literature and art. The public will be able to interact with our presenters in an open and spontaneous environment.
Tickets: $20 and $15 concession price for a full-day program. Call the ticket hot-line (03) 9286 9645. Pre-purchase is highly recommended.
For further details on Dirty Words, please contact:
Helen Milte-Bastow at Box Hill Institute
(03) 9286 9645
or e-mail: H.Milte-Bastow@bhtafe.edu.au
