Newcastle Writers Festival.
10am
The Space before the Stars: Indira Naidoo in Conversation about finding space for her broken heart in nature and the urban landscape.
After her sister died during the pandemic she found on her normal walk a large 150 year old Morton Bay Fig that she had passed so many times before spoke to her and saved her .
11.30
The Power of Art to heal – the ongoing engagement with the struggle for justice
Damien Linnane, Kathleen Mc Phillip, Sarah-Jane Page, and hosted by Suzanne Smith.
Judy Beveridge, Keri Glastonbury, Sarah Holland–Batt
and Juno Gemes at the remembering and celebrating Robert Adamsom event.
1.30
Onward: Celebrating Robert Adamson. Readings by Judith Beveridege, Keri Glastonbury, Sarah Holland–Batt, Robbie Coburn, Mark Mordue with DC Cross and Juno Gemes – his final reading at Brett Whiteley Studio launch of “Reaching Light’
Sarah Holland–Batt reading in honour of Robert Adamsom
Judy Beveridge reading in honour of Robert Adamsom
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Juno Gemes The late Robert Adamsom
. This is the last reading at the launch of his book Reaching Light. It was at at the Brett Whitley Gallery and videoed by Juno Gemes and shared with us today.
3.00
Book launch of two books
1. Bobish by Magdalena Ball a poignant poetry memoir of her great grandmother and her escape from the programs of Eastern Europe
and
Willo Drummond in Moon Wrasse, engages with gender transition from the perspective of a life partner – and disenfranchised grief.