PERTH FESTIVAL

WRITERS WEEK19 – 25 FEBRUARY 2018

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Perth Festival acknowledges that our events take place on the traditional lands of the Noongar people and we wish to pay our respects to the traditional custodians of this country.

WELCOME TO WRITERS WEEKOur Writers program returns in 2018 with a new name, a new hub and a new vision. Perth Writers Week happens across the city, School’s Day takes over the Perth Cultural Centre and the weekend focus for all the family is at The University Club of Western Australia where we gather to share our love of words and ideas and much, much more. I was delighted when William Yeoman accepted my invitation to be our 2018 Guest Curator. The program reflects his extraordinary knowledge of literature, his passion for the arts and his eclectic taste. As you explore the program you will see not only great international authors and Australian legends like Helen Garner, but also a roll call of Western Australian writers including Kim Scott, Tim Winton, Robert Drewe and Josephine Wilson celebrating the writing of this marvellous place we call home. I am sure you will feel as excited as I am about Perth Festival Writers Week 2018.

WENDY MARTIN ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Seeing art in a new light means finding new ways to talk and write about art, which is part of the art of story. There’s a lot that’s new about Perth Festival Writers Week 2018. But at its heart remains the ancient tradition of sharing stories with one another. So this year you’ll find the same in-depth conversations and panel discussions you’ve come to expect from one of Australia’s best-loved writers’ festivals. Most of them will start with a short reading – a kind of secular prayer, a ritual. There will even be entire sessions devoted to storytelling and poetry readings. What’s new is the invitation to embrace mystery and play; to explore different spaces and levels of Page | 2

intimacy; to see how other disciplines, such as architecture, can be a form of storytelling. To see language in a new light.

WILLIAM YEOMAN GUEST CURATOR: WRITERS WEEK

This year’s Writers Week offers a range of experiences across different locations from Strange Company small bar in Fremantle to our new hub at The University Club of Western Australia. The Octagon Theatre’s evening program is a celebration of Australian storytelling featuring Kim Scott, Helen Garner, Tim Winton and William Yang. Meal-based events at The University Club’s restaurant embrace fashion, philosophy, literature and genre fiction and include guests such as Alan Hollinghurst, AC Grayling, Di Morrissey and Natasha Lester. There is a special focus on architecture, the centrepiece of which is a retrospective of Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine’s quirky documentaries about spaces and the people who use them. The University Club’s venues provide veritable theatres for dynamic interactions between readers and writers working in different genres, from rural romance and crime to memoir and poetry. There is Boffins’ new Festival boutique bookstore and a fun kids’ hub, while the Western Australian Museum presents a pop-up exhibition featuring your favourite quotes from your favourite WA authors. In other words, what’s not to like?

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Pages 2 – 6 feature grids containing numbered details of every Writers Week session, making planning or just browsing a breeze!

BY AUTHOR Finding your fave has never been easier. Page 7 contains a full alphabetical list of every Writers Week speaker alongside their session numbers for easy reference. Full details of the Writers Week program, including speaker biographies, available at perthfestival.com.au

BY SUBJECT Interested in Crime Fiction? Architecture? Fashion? Relationships? What are those weird letters next to each session number? Check out the back page for a key and you’ll see they’re there to help you find the session that’s just right for you.

BY VENUE Remember those grids? On the left are the names of each venue, in coloured squares. The same colours correspond to the same venues represented by the maps and plans on pages 8 – 9. You’ll also find the numbers for every session held in a particular venue there too.

FAMILY FUNKids have always been welcome at Writers Week, but never more so than this year. We have heaps of fun sessions and activities for kids, and their mums and dads, running across the entire weekend. The new family lounge upstairs at The University Club of Western Australia features a library and an activities and storytelling area, while Paper Bird’s Kombi van on the lawn outside celebrates children’s literature and art. Across at the Octagon Theatre, popular author and illustrator Matt Ottley presents The Sound of Picture Books with members of the West Australian Symphony Orchestra. Artists Dhwani Shah and

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Ragini Siruguri have come all the way from India to help kids create a spectacular mural based on their amazing activities book, Twins. The Book Doctor and Curated by Kids are back too. But best of all is Story Land, a series of storytelling sessions in intimate venues featuring some of Australia’s best children’s authors and illustrators, like Gabrielle Wang, Deb Fitzpatrick, Yasmin Hamid, Tamara Moss, Sabrina Dudgeon, Cristy Burne and Josie Boyle.

FEATURED EVENTSWHY LITERATURE MATTERS Fri 23 Feb, 7pm | Octagon Theatre | $25 – $40 Join Helen Garner & Kim Scott in conversation with William Yeoman as they discuss how we can write in this Australia and whether it is worth it.

MILES AHEAD Sat 24 Feb, 9am | Uni Club Restaurant | $72 – $80 Join Miles Franklin winners Josephine Wilson, Michelle de Kretser and Sofie Laguna as they discuss women, writing and winning over breakfast. With Gillian O’Shaughnessy. Presented in association with the Copyright Agency through the Cultural Fund.

MAGGIE’S RECIPE FOR LIFE Sat 24 Feb, 9.30am | Banquet Hall | $13 – $15 Maggie Beer and Ralph Martins discuss eating to avoid Alzheimer’s with Barbara Horgan.

DETOURS Sun 25 Feb, 1.30pm | Banquet Hall | $13 – $15 Musician Tim Rogers chats about his offbeat and immensely charming literary memoir with Danae Gibson.

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THE SOUND OF PICTURE BOOKS – TREESun 25 Feb, 11am & 12.15pm | Octagon TheatreFREEAuthor Danny Parker and illustrator/composer Matt Ottley join WASO’s string quintet and Yamaha’s Alf Demasi for an engaging family performance featuring spoken word, pictures, music, drama and more.Presented in association with The Literature Centre.

WORDS & IMAGE: AN EVENING WITH MASTER STORYTELLER WILLIAM YANG Sun 25 Feb, 7pm | Octagon Theatre | $25 – $40 Join William Yang for a powerful, heart-rending performance in photography and spoken word as he explores encounters with men, a friend dying of AIDS, his relationship with his mother, his uncle’s murder and his Taoist life philosophy. Presented in association with The China Australia Writing Centre.

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Maggie’s Recipe for Life: Maggie Beer and Ralph Martins on eating to avoid Alzheimer’s. With Barbara Horgan.

The Art of Translation: Samanta Schweblin, Nassim Soleimanpour & Robert Dessaix linguistic slippage & serendipity. With Ara Jansen.

Mamamia, it’s Boing Boing!: Cory Doctorow and Mia Freedman on blogging, business & everyting in between. With Emily Paull.

Glass Houses: Louise Penny on her latest Gamache thriller With Michael White.

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FREE The Best of Adam Sharpe: Graeme Simsion on music trivia & love found & lost & found again. With David McCooey.

Vasilisa the Wise & Other Tales of Brave Young Women: Kate Forsyth & Lorena Carrington on feminism & fairy tales. With Meri Fatin.

Dancing with language: Anna Haebich, Heather Rose & Noelle Janaczewska on language as ritual. With Sarah McNeill.Presented in association with the Copyright Agency through the Cultural Fund.

Doctors’ Writing Club: Louise Allan & Michelle Johnston on swapping medicine for manuscripts. With Meri Fatin.

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The Passage of Love: Alex Miller on intimate connections, youthful ambitions and the power of writing. With Caroline Baum.

Tin Man: Sarah Winman on unlived lives and life not imitating art. With Barbara Horgan.

Free to love, free to learn: Manal al-Sharif, Tess Woods & Amal Awad on dangerous passions. With Rosemary Sayer.

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Gabrielle Wang on A Ghost in My Suitcase and the transition from page to stage. With Sarah McNeill.

The Art of Navigation: Rose Michael on magic, ghosts and the alchemy of history. With David Hough.

The Everlasting Sunday: Robert Lukins on “a haunting debut novel about growing up, growing wild and what it takes to survive.” With Sarah Schadow.

Case Study $13-$15

The Sisters’ Song: Louise Allan on sisterly love, thwarted dreams, music and motherhood. With Jane Cornes Maclean.

The Rúin: Dervla McTiernan on a troubled Irish detective and a 20-year case that comes back to haunt him. With Kate Beaufoy

Poetry Land I: Charmaine Papertalk-Green, Stuart Barnes, Caroline Abbs, Tineke Van der Eecken & Corey Wakeling.

Collateral Damages: Fiona Harari and Leigh Straw on war and what survives in the survivors. With Rashida Murphy.

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FREE Beautiful Messy Love: Tess Woods on the perils of crossing the cultural divide to find the man of your dreams. With Monique Mulligan.

Return of the Dinosaurs: Bronwyn Houston on the dinosaurs that just might roam the Broome coastline today. With Heather Zubek.

You Belong Here: Laurie Steed on a marriage that rocks to a marriage on the rocks. With Jane Cornes Maclean.

Upper Colonnade

FREE STORY LAND with Miriam Lo & Emily-Rose Lochore.

STORY LAND with Deb Fitzpatrick.

Club Restaurant

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Miles Ahead: Breakfast with Miles Franklin winners Josephine Wilson, Michelle de Kretser and Sofie Laguna on women, writing and winning. With Gillian O’Shaunessy.$80/ $72

The Sparsholt Affair: Lunch with Alan Hollinghurst on illicit love and its consequences. With Geordie Williamson.$120/$108

Dolphin Theatre

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Frozen Music: Geoffrey Lancaster and Geoffrey London on the relationships between music and architecture. With Will Yeoman. FREE

The Courtyard

FREE PAPERBIRD KOMBI RUNNING FAMILY ACTICITES ALL DAYTARA BOOKS MURAL ACTIVITIES

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In Light of Shadows showcases the Berndt Museum’s Asian Collection. With curator Sarah

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Ridhuan.LAWRENCE WILSON ART GALLERY

SATURDAY 24 FEB 9am – 1:30pm

SATURDAY 24 FEB 1pm – 5:30pm

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Tex: Tex Perkins is the guy Iggy Pop called “the realest dude out there.” With Gillian O'Shaughnessy.

Late Style: Alex Miller, Robert Dessaix & Liz Byrski on creativity in later life. With Geordie Williamson.Presented in association with the Copyright Agency through the Cultural Fund

Saga Land: Richard Fidler & Kari Gislason on Icelandic myth and legend. With Gillian O'Shaughnessy.

Writing the Land: Di Morrissey, Charles Massy & David Ritter on environmental issues in writing. With Bron Sibree.

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FREE This Book Changed My Life: Gareth Evans, Jo Wilson, Claire Coleman, Heather Rose & Curated by Kids guest talk faves with Adam Suckling.

Tape This!: YA spoken word artist Steven Camden AKA Polar Bear in performance.

All the Burning Bridges: Steve Bisley on the sequel to his acclaimed memoir, Stillways. With Stella Glorie.

The Life to Come: Michelle de Kretser on her “profoundly moving… wickedly funny” new novel. With Annabel Smith.

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Virtual Reality - the facts: Frame VR's Stefan Szo demonstrates the latest VR technology and reveals its true power.

. Goodbye Vitamin: Rachel Khong on love grief and losing it - memory, that is. With Danae Gibson

Everywhere I Look: Helen Garner on finding the extraordinary in the ordinary. With Alice Nelson

The Incorrigible Optimist - A Political Memoir: Gareth Evans on life before, in and after politics. With Ben Martin

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Storyland: Catherine McKinnon on the interlinking narrative arcs piercing Australia’s past, present and future. With Sarah Schadow

True Stories: William Yang on documenting Australian culture in words and pictures. With Helena Grehan

False Claims of Colonial Thieves: Charmaine Papertalk-Green & John Kinsella on the politics of poetry and the poetry of politics. With Tony Hughes D'aeth

Seeing Saltwater Contry: Venessa Cox and Albert Wiggan on the art & culture of the Dampier Peninsula. With Kelly Fliedner.

Case Study $13-$15

On the Outskirts: John Kinsella on Dante, Blake and the nature of poetics and the poetics of nature. With Tony Hughes D'Aeth

A Tale of Ten Pianos: Geoffrey Lancaster on historic pianos and authentic performance style in classical music. With Ros Appleby.

Performance Anxiety: Rachel Khong, Robert Lukins & Laurie Steed on getting that first novel across the line. With Susan Midalia

The Tiny Museums: Carolyn Abbs on “adulthood as a series of sometimes haunted negotiations between past and present.” With Tineke Van der Eecken.

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FREE The Water Bearer: Tracy Ryan on fluency literally and metaphorically and why no word is an island. With Vivienne Glance.

Swimming on the Lawn: Yasmin Hamid on the winds of change that threaten an idyllic Sudanese childhood. With Bron Sibree.

We are Here: Talking with Australia’s Oldest Holocaust Survivors: Fiona Harari with Jane Cornes Maclean.

POETRY LAND II: David McCooey, Shevaun Cooley, Charlotte Guest, Renee Schipp & Ross Gibson.

Upper Colonnade

FREE . STORY LAND with Cristy Burne.

STORY LAND with Sabrina Dudgeon.

Club Restaurant

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How to Read a Dress: High Tea & fashion show with Lydia Edwards on women’s clothes through history and how they influence today’s fashions. With Natasha Lester.$90/$81

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Barbicania$15 Adult$13 Friend

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FREE PAPERBIRD KOMBI RUNNING FAMILY ACTICITES ALL DAYTARA BOOKS MURAL ACTIVITIES

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Poetry into Music: Katja Webb sings Aaron Copland’s 12 Songs of Emily Dickinson. With David McCooey & Ros ApplebyCALLAWAY AUDITORIUM

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SATURDAY 24 FEB 5pm – 8pm

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Dorothy Hewett Award : past winners Josephine Wilson & Odette Kelada meet the 2018 winner of this prestigous prize. With Terri-ann White.FREE

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FREE Tex & Tim do more than sing: Tex Perkins & Tim Rogers on the rock’n’roll life. With Simon Collins.

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Fever Dream: Samanta Schweblin on “maternal love, broken souls and the power and desperation of family.” With Susan Midalia.

. The Art of Fiction: Sarah Winman, Robert Drewe & Chris Womersley on the art and craft of writing. With Michael White.

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Secrets Between Friends: Fiona Palmer on the secrets that can make or break friendships. With Rashida Murphy.

The Fremantle Press Anthology of WA Poetry: John Kinsella & Tracy Ryan on the richness and diversity of Western Australian’s poetry. With Kate Noske

Case Study $13-$15

Glasshouses: Stuart Barnes on the potency of poetry and borrowed word-worlds. With Vivienne Glance

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FREE After the War: Returned Soldiers and the Mental and Physical Scars of World War I: Leigh Straw with David Hough.

The Alarming Conservatory: Corey Wakeling on “language & the spatial architectures of history and culture.” With Philip Mead

Dolphin Theatre

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Living Architectures: a screening of Bêka & Lemoine's film Barbicania$15 Adult$13 Friend

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Tim WintonA Terror To Australia: Boys Wild, Colonial and Contemporary$40 Adult$36 Friend$25 StudentOCTAGON THEATRE

SUNDAY 25 FEB 9am – 1:30pmVenue Ticket

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Beyond the Rural Romance: Rachael Johns, Fleur McDonald & Fiona Palmer on the joys of genre-skipping. With Ara Jansen.

Dishing it Out: Maggie Beer and Ralph Martins on why we’re all foodies at heart. With Sue Yeap.

Walkaway: Cory Doctorow on swapping one dystopian future for another. With Annabel Smith

Two Steps Forward: Anne Buist & Graeme Simsion on alternating chapters in a romantic journey. With Gillian O'Shaunessy.

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FREE Indigenous Speculative Aesthetics: Ambelin Kwaymullina, Claire G Coleman & Paul Collis on Indigenous spec-fic. With Elfie Shiosaki.

STORY LAND: Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales: Pull up a chair as Josie Boyle, Kate Forsyth, Lorena Carrington & Richard Fidler & Kari Gislason tell some ripping yarns.

Clear to the Horizon: Dave Warner on unsolved kidnappings in Claremont and PI Snowy Lane set to solve an icy cold case. With Kathryn Shine.

CAN ART CHANGE THE WORLD? Join Perth Festival artistic director Wendy Martin, London’s Southbank Centre artistic director Jude Kelly and Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour for a stimulating discussion about the importance of art to all our lives. With Kirsti Melville.

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The Westerly Centre Randolph Stow Memorial Lecture: Donna Mazza & Catherine Noske on Gothic undertones, romanticisation & lyricism in Randolph Stow.

City of Crows: Chris Womersley on 17th century Paris and the ties that bind a sorceress, a demon and a stolen child. With Amanda Curtin.

The Choke: Sofie Laguna on a child who “navigates an often dark and uncaring world of male power and violence.” With Caroline Baum.

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This I Would Kill For: Anne Buist on how far parents will go to protect their child. With Ray Glickman.

History & the Poet: Join critic and author Robert Wood and Catherine Noske as they discuss "Australian poetry now and its relationship to history, philosophy and politics."

The Beast of Hushing Wood: Gabrielle Wang on Ziggy Truegood’s battle to save her beloved Hushing Wood from dark forces. With Heather Zubek

Case Study $13-$15

Daring to Drive - A Saudi Woman’s Awakening: Manal al-Sharif with Rosemary Sayer.

Bad to Worse: Robert Edeson on drones, hieroglyphs and the possible triumph of good over evil. With Geraldine Mellet.

Dancing Home: Paul Collis on his exciting debut novel described as “Koori Noir”. With Susan Midalia.

The Book of Thistles: Noelle Janaczewska on surprising essayistic encounters with a much-maligned weed. With Laurie Steed.

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FREE Lintang and the Pirate Queen: Tamara Moss on a swashbuckling fantasy adventure with a kick-arse heroine and a Pirate Queen to die for. With Glenn Swift.

The Berndt Museum: Vanessa Russ on one of the world’s most important collections of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural material. With Kelly Flieder.

Drawing Sybilla: Odette Kelada on doodling at writers’ festivals and the challenges women writers face. With Sisonke Msimang.

Upper Colonnade

FREE STORY LAND with Yasmin Hamid.

STORY LAND with Tamara Moss.

Club Restaurant

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Democracy and its Crisis: Breakfast with AC Grayling on the challenges facing democracy today.$80/ $72

The Red Coast: Lunch with Di Morrissey on passion and resistance under the Kimberley’s blazing sun. With William Yeoman$120/$108

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An Unfinished Experiment in Living: Geoffrey London, Julian Bolleter & Tim Ross on the rise and fall of Modernism in Australian domestic architecture.FREE

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SUNDAY 25 FEB 9am – 1:30pm

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FREE CURATED BY KIDS TAKEOVERThe Curated By Kids team interview selected authors, interrogating

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FREE PAPERBIRD KOMBI RUNNING FAMILY ACTICITES ALL DAYTARA BOOKS MURAL ACTIVITIES

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The Sound of Picture Books Performance 1FREEOCTAGON THEATRE

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Detours: Musician Tim Rogers on his “offbeat and immensely charming literary memoir.” With Danae Gibson.

Ornament as Crime: AC Grayling, Alan Hollinghurst on aesthetics as transgression. With William Yeoman.

Dirty Girl: Juliet Wills on one of the most notorious unsolved cases in WA’s history, the murder of brothel madam Shirley Finn. With David Whish-Wilson.

Whipbird: Robert Drewe on the ghosts that haunt an unusual family gathering. With Ray Glickman.

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FREE Only: Caroline Baum on what it means to be the only child of damaged parents. With Charlotte Guest.

Beyond Veiled Clichés: the Real Lives of Arab Women: Amal Awad with Rafeif Ismail.

The Museum of Modern Love: Heather Rose on life as performance and intimacy as risk. With Geordie Williamson.

A Gala for Fay Zwicky: Morgan Yasbincek, David McCooey, Amanda Joy, Charlotte Guest, Corey Wakeling, Dennis Haskell, & Marcella Polain, Presented by Australian Poetry.

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Tall tales and true-ish: Kate Forsyth & Richard Fidler on mythology and the collective unconscious.

. Extinctions: 2017 Miles Franklin winner Josephine Wilson on the fragments we shore against our ruins. With Jane Cornes Maclean.

Nobody Real: Steven Camden on the real problem with imaginary friends. With AJ Betts.

Work Strife Balance: Mia Freedman on the price women pay for wanting it all. With Ben Martin..

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Terra Nullius: Claire G Coleman on Australia's colonisation told slant. With Kate Noske.

Suddenly One Summer: Fleur McDonald on love, loss and “unlikely connections of life on the land.” With Tess Woods.

Always Another Country - A Memoir of Exile & Home: Sisonke Msimang with Stella Glorie.

Lighthouse Noodles: Cristy Burne & Deb Fitzpatrick on writing for younger readers. With AJ Betts.

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The Author is Dead: Sara Foster, Elizabeth Tan & Robert Edeson on dangerous delusions in fact and fiction. With Annabel Smith.

The Criminal Re-Register: Ross Gibson on the poetics of police dossiers and found photographs. With Vivienne Glance.

Dancing in Shadows: Histories of Nyungar Performance: Anna Haebich with Cassie Lynch.

Dustfall: Michelle Johnston on her spectacular debut novel exploring the crashing consequences of a doctor’s single mistake.” With Emily Paull.

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FREE Mrs White and the Red Desert: Josie Boyle on the pros and cons of oral and written storytelling. With Cassie Lynch.

Bree’s Forest Adventure: Miriam Lo & Emily-Rose Lochore on the wonders of the South-West and working on their first illustrated book together

Homing: Shevaun Cooley “what constitutes a home, and how we might find our way there.” With Robert Wood.

Rubik: Elizabeth Tan on virtual lives and viral mortalities. With Jane Cornes Maclean

Upper Colonnade

FREE STORY LAND with Bronwyn Houston .

. STORY LAND with Matt Stanton.

STORY LAND with Josie Boyle.

Club Restaurant

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The Paris Seamstress: High Tea with Natasha Lester on the birth of pret-a-porter in 1940s New York. With Lydia Edwards.$90/$81

Dolphin Theatre

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Living Architectures: a screening of Bêka & Lemoine's film Koolhaas Houselife $15 Adult

Living Architectures: a screening of Bêka & Lemoine's film Barbicania

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FREE CURATED BY KIDS TAKEOVERThe Curated By Kids team interview selected authors, interrogating them

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FREE PAPERBIRD KOMBI RUNNING FAMILY ACTICITES ALL DAYTARA BOOKS MURAL ACTIVITIES

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PERTH WORKS Lost and Found Opera's "Ned Kelly"FreeCALLAWAY AUDITORIUM

Framing Ned: Peter Goldsworthy & Thomas de Mallet Burgess on the making of a new Australian opera. With Ros Appleby.FreeCALLAWAY AUDITORIUM

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SUNDAY 25 FEBSUNDAY 25 FEB 5pm – 8pm

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Taboo: Kim Scott on confronting the past to create a future. With Geordie Williamson.

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FREE The Examined Life: Caroline Baum, Steve Bisley & Sisonke Msimang on the art of memoir and making sense of the present through the past. With Tess Woods.

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Alt-histories: Claire G Coleman & Cory Doctorow on patterns of power and resistance. With Cassie Lynch.

. Crime is another country: Alan Carter, Dave Warner, Dervla McTiernan & Louise Penny on the place of place in crime fiction. With Ian Andrew.

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Time Ladies: Catherine McKinnon & Rose Michael on temporal traversals and reversals in fiction. With Annabel Smith.

The Coal Truth: the fight to stop Adani, defeat the big polluters and reclaim our democracy: David Ritter with Kathryn Shine.

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The Pleasures of Leisure: Robert Dessaix on the serious business of doing nothing. With Monique Mulligan.

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FREE Call of the Reed Warbler: Charles Massy on farming for the future. With Portland Jones.

Star Struck: David McCooey on life and death as play and a play between binary opposites and pop music poetics. With Vivienne Glance.

Dolphin Theatre

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Living Architectures: a screening of Bêka & Lemoine's film Barbicania$15 Adult$13 Friend

$13 StudentOther Spaces

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Words & Image: an evening with master storyteller William Yang.$40 Adult$36 Friend$25 StudentOCTAGON THEATRE

OUT & ABOUT 19 – 23 FEB

REGISTRATIONS REQUIRED FOR ALL FREE SESSIONS. Visit perthfestival.com.au

VENUE Mon 19/2 Tues 20/2 Wed 21/2 Thurs 22/2 Fri 23/2Strange Company, Fremantle5 Nairn St, Fremantle WA 6160

The Hidden Hours: Sara Foster on secrets, lies and the death of an author. With Susan Midalia.7pm-8pmFREE

The Paris Seamstress: Natasha Lester previews her exciting new novel. With William Yeoman.7pm-8pmFREE

The Greatest Gift: Rachael Johns on one woman’s decision to help another’s ultimate dream come true. With Monique Mulligan.12-1pmFREE

Coordinating conjunctions: Anne Buist & Graeme Simsion on wedding words and lives. With Ian Andrew.12-1pmFREE

Centre for Stories100 Aberdeen St, Northbridge WA 6003

Shevaun Cooley & Charlotte Guest talk poetry with Robert Wood .6-7pmFREE

Fervent Flavours: One of WA’s hottest chefs, Paul ‘Yoda’Iskov - Chef & Owner of Fervor and his team will be serving up dishes based around native WA foods.Join us for an evening of canapés, wine & conversation with Paul and Caroline Wood.6.30-9pmCost : $85

Northbridge Crime Walk: join David Whish-Wilson for a walk on the dark side as he takes you to some of Northbridge’s most notorious crime scenes.6-7.30pmFREEWALKING EVENT

Bird: Stephen Scourfield (spoken word) & William Yeoman (guitar) take you on a journey through rural England and WA’s Wheatbelt in words, music & images.6-7.30pmFREE

City of Perth Library573 Hay St, Perth, WA 6000

Alzheimer's, Eating & You: Professor Ralph Martins AO, leading Alzheimer's researcher and co-author (with Maggie Beer) of Recipe for Life talks to Barbara Horgan.6.30-7.30 pmFree

Stories in Stone: Cathedral Precinct and East End Historic Precinct History Walk with architect Phil Griffiths. Down to the River: Foreshore Walk with architect Julian Bolleter.6.30-8pmFreeWALKING EVENT

Marlborough Man: Alan Carter on crossing continents, past crimes and clear and present dangers. With Rosemary Sayer.6.30-7.30pmFree

A Novel Relationship: Graeme Simsion & Anne Buist talk to Geraldine Mellet.6.30-7.30pmFree

Linton and Kay West Perth, 11 Old Aberdeen Pl, West Perth WA 6005

24 Heures sur placeA screening of Bêka & Lemoine’s film about the characters that move through Paris’ Place de la République is preceded by a walk-and-talk encounter with Linton & Kay and Holmes a Court's new galleries.6 – 9pm(Film screens 7.30pm at The Backlot Cinema)$13 – $15Walking Event, Registration required

WALKING EVENTOctagon Theatre, University of WA

7-8pm Why Literature Matters: How can we write in this Australia, and is it worth it? Helen Garner & Kim Scott in conversation with William Yeoman.$40 Adult$36 Friend$25 Student

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*WALKING EVENT = you will start and end at the particular venue. You will be on your feet for 60 mins, the walk will be fairly gentle and will be wheelchair accessible.

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BITS TO KNOWBOFFINS BOOKSHOP OPEN SAT & SUN, 8AM – 7PM Visit Boffins’ pop-up bookshop in The University Club to buy that must-have copy of the book you’ve been hearing about. Browse a range of titles from our guest authors amongst an eclectic selection of technical, practical, special interest, fiction and children’s books.

BOOK SIGNING Authors will be signing in the marquee on Riley Oval, next to The University Club. Catch up with your favourite and get your books signed. More details available throughout the weekend.

RELAX & ENJOY Open all weekend, The University Club Café offers a range of drinks, hot foods, takeaway sandwiches, salads and light snacks. Relax in the Writers Courtyard Hub. Enjoy a cool drink, coffee, ice cream or a bite to eat from one of the food outlets.

WRITERS WEEK BOX OFFICE

DATE AMPHITHEATRE

OCTAGON

Fri 6.15 – 7.15pm

Sat 8.30am – 6pm 6.15 – 7.15pm

Sun 8.30am – 6pm 6.15 – 7.15pm

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BOOKINGSONLINE perthfestival.com.au PHONE 08 6488 5555 IN PERSON at our onsite Writers Week Box Office on event day

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REGISTRATIONS for all FREE Out & About sessions at perthfestival.com.au

PERFORMANCE LIMITATIONS AND BOOKING CONDITIONS All sessions are subject to change without notice. We recommend you pre-purchase your tickets online and choose e-ticket delivery: a $2 transaction fee applies. Where tickets are booked online or over the phone and you choose to have your tickets mailed or collected at the box office a $6 transaction fee will apply. All sales are final. Full terms and conditions of sale are available at perthfestival.com.au

ACCESS INFORMATIONPerth Festival is committed to making our events accessible. All Writers Week venues are wheelchair accessible. However, please note the Amphitheatre area is grassed.For specific details on venue accessibility please download our Access Guide from perthfestival.com.au/access If you have any questions about accessibility or would like to discuss your requirements with us, please contact us on 08 6488 8616 or access@perthfestival.com.au

PARKING & PUBLIC TRANSPORT For information about parking, visit uwa.edu.au and for transport timetables and information, visit transperth.wa.gov.au

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