Like always, there’s so much I want to see, but family commitments being as they are, I won’t get to them all. I’m particularly planning to get to:
Joss Whedon’s Keynote Address, Friday 27th August, 9.30pm, Melbourne Town Hall.
Tickets already purchased! (Luckily – they’ve sold out)
The Amplified Author – Exploring New Business Models For Writers with Cory Doctorow, September 1, 5pm. The Wheeler Centre.
Fantastic value, $60 for three hours (Haven’t checked yet if tickets are still available)
Thursday Night Swing Club, September 2, 8pm, The Toff In Town
Celebrating Going Down Swinging‘s 30th anniversary edition.
From Woolf to Wolf, September 3, 1pm, ACMI2
Blurb from website: Sophie Cunningham, Monica Dux and Emily Maguire revisit the classic feminist books – Virginia Woolf’s A Room of Her Own, Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex, Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch and Naomi Wolf’s The Beauty Myth. Hosted by Jo Case.
Frontiers of the Imagination, September 4, 2.30pm, ACMI2
This is Adam’s session: I only had to say the names ‘China Míeville’ and ‘Alastair Reynolds’ and he said, “I’m there.”
Les Murray: In Conversation, September 4, 5.30pm, ACMI2
Blurb from website: In a rare appearance, Australia’s most celebrated poet, Les Murray, discusses his work and reads from his latest collection, Taller When Prone.
The New Gothic, Sunday September 5, 5.30pm, Feddish
Blurb from website: Is there a ‘New’ Gothic, or just new stories under the same roiling clouds of the centuries-old genre?
I could go on!
I will take this opportunity to also mention my session again. Also MWF related, Angela Meyer asked festival guests some interview/interactive-style questions over at the MWF blog: here are my answers to the topics Passion and The Last Movie I Saw.
I hope I’m not forgetting anything…
Have a lovely week 🙂
