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Foreign Soil by Maxine Beneba Clarke HACHETTE
2015 STELLA PRIZE SHORTLISTED TITLE Foreign Soil by Maxine Beneba Clarke HACHETTE ‘Wondrous as she seemed, Shu Yi wasn’t a problem I wanted to take on. Besides, with her arrival my own life had become easier: Melinda and the others hadn’t come looking for me in months. At home, my thankful mother had finally taken the plastic undersheet off my bed.’ Maxine Beneba Clarke, Foreign Soil INTRODUCTION TO THE TEXT suitable for study. A short synopsis and series of This collection of short stories won the Victorian reading questions are allocated for each story, along Premier’s Award for an Unpublished Manuscript in with any themes that are not included in the general 2013, and was subsequently published by Hachette list of the book’s themes below. Following this Australia. It went on to be critically recognised and breakdown are activities that can be applied to the appear on the shortlists for numerous awards. book more broadly. Like all of Maxine Beneba Clarke’s work, this ABOUT THE AUTHOR collection reflects an awareness of voices that are often pushed to the fringes of society, and frequently MAXINE BENEBA CLARKE is speaks to the experiences of immigrants, refugees and an Australian writer and slam single mothers, in addition to lesbian, gay, bisexual, poetry champion of Afro-Caribbean transgender and intersex people. In Foreign Soil, descent. She is the author of the Clarke captures the anger, hope, despair, desperation, poetry collections Gil Scott Heron is strength and desire felt by members of these groups, on Parole (Picaro Press, 2009) and Nothing Here Needs and many others. -
Middle Years (6-9) 2625 Books
South Australia (https://www.education.sa.gov.au/) Department for Education Middle Years (6-9) 2625 books. Title Author Category Series Description Year Aus Level 10 Rules for Detectives MEEHAN, Adventure Kev and Boris' detective agency is on the 6 to 9 1 Kierin trail of a bushranger's hidden treasure. 100 Great Poems PARKER, Vic Poetry An all encompassing collection of favourite 6 to 9 0 poems from mainly the USA and England, including the Ballad of Reading Gaol, Sea... 1914 MASSON, Historical Australia's The Julian brothers yearn for careers as 6 to 9 1 Sophie Great journalists and the visit of the Austrian War Archduke Franz Ferdinand aÙords them the... 1915 MURPHY, Sally Historical Australia's Stan, a young teacher from rural Western 6 to 9 0 Great Australia at Gallipoli in 1915. His battalion War lands on that shore ready to... 1917 GARDINER, Historical Australia's Flying above the trenches during World 6 to 9 1 Kelly Great War One, Alex mapped what he saw, War gathering information for the troops below him.... 1918 GLEESON, Historical Australia's The story of Villers-Breteeneux is 6 to 9 1 Libby Great described as wwhen the Australians held War out against the Germans in the last years of... 20,000 Leagues Under VERNE, Jules Classics Indiana An expedition to destroy a terrifying sea 6 to 9 0 the Sea Illustrated monster becomes a mission involving a visit Classics to the sunken city of Atlantis... 200 Minutes of Danger HEATH, Jack Adventure Minutes Each book in this series consists of 10 short 6 to 9 1 of Danger stories each taking place in dangerous situations. -
Beats of Your Town
BEATS OF YOUR TOWN On the eve of the release of their new album ‘Ocean’s Apart’, Grant McLennan, co-leader of watershed Brisbane pop group, The Go-Betweens, takes the time to grant Robiter an interview. Matthew ‘The Rock Lobbster’ Lobb reports The Clowns Come To Town – Film School Rejections and UQ Librarians Long before Queensland art tangled at a pretty summit with pop music (the years prior to LP wonderworks such as Before Hollywood, Liberty Belle And The Black Diamond Express and 16 Lovers Lane) , one Grant McLennan had been knocked back from film and television school on account of his 16 years. Enrolment in an arts program at the University of Queensland came, therefore, as a sort of edifying compromise. Once at St. Lucia, the undergraduate - a brainy eldest child from rural Queensland - befriended a gracefully mincing eccentric named Robert Forster who played guitar and wrote his own songs. The two bonded over shared tastes in skewered pop culture and spent a lot of time at the Humanities library reading, in import copies of The Village Voice, about emerging bands like Television and Talking Heads. Go-Betweens circa '78: Librarians Beware No doubt McLennan was more OCEAN’S APART PICKED APART Grant talks Robiter through the new studious than his pal who failed both at arts and at convincing him to album form a rock group. While a disciplined McLennan passed classes with focused endeavour, Forster was crashing heavily and channelling his ‘Here Comes A City’ (the first vigour into composing songs about would-be love interests. -
About the Book 2 About the Author 2 Conversation Starters 3 for Reference 4 Also by Michelle De Kretser 4 If You Liked This Book
About the book 2 About the author 2 Conversation starters 3 For reference 4 Also by Michelle de Kretser 4 If you liked this book ... 4 Welcome to Allen & Unwin’s Book Group Guide for The Life to Come the dazzling new novel from Michelle de Kretser, author of Questions of Travel, bestseller and winner of the Miles Franklin Award. About the book Set in Sydney, Paris and Sri Lanka, The Life to Come is a mesmerising novel about the stories we tell and don’t tell ourselves as individuals, as societies and as nations. It feels at once firmly classic and exhilaratingly contemporary. Pippa is a writer who longs for success. Celeste tries to convince herself that her feelings for her married lover are reciprocated. Ash makes strategic use of his childhood in Sri Lanka but blots out the memory of a tragedy from that time. Driven by riveting stories and unforgettable characters, here is a dazzling meditation on intimacy, loneliness and our flawed perception of other people. Profoundly moving as well as wickedly funny, The Life to Come reveals how the shadows cast by both the past and the future can transform, distort and undo the present. This extraordinary novel by Miles Franklin-winning author Michelle de Kretser will strike to your soul. ‘...one of those rare writers whose work balances substance with style. Her writing is very witty, but it also goes deep, informed at every point by a benign and far-reaching intelligence.’ Kerryn Goldsworthy, Sydney Morning Herald About the author Michelle de Kretser was born in Sri Lanka and emigrated to Australia when she was 14. -
The Scene Issue 1
i ARI remixthe scene issue 1 NOTHING HAPPENED Artist: Unknown Medium: Mixed Media Location: Brisbane Date: Circa 1980s If you had one word for the Brisbane 80ss art scene what would it be? and if one word isn’t enough then help yourself to some more nothing happened... nothing could be further from the truth time to change the story Brian Doherty If you had one word for the Brisbane 80s art scene what would it be? Please tell me - and if one word isn’t enough then help yourself to some more. I really need your contribution for three ARI Remix publications to help correct the proposition that NOTHING happened. The first publication, to be available online at issuu.com, has a focus on the overall art scene in Brisbane in the 1980s. The second will focus on the Artist Run Spaces and the third will focus on artists. We will be using some content from this facebook site and from the remix.org.au site. You can also submit your ideas and images specifically for the Remix publications at http://www.remix.org.au/pages/ contact-us-01-2/ Just put ‘newsletter’ in the ‘post tag’ field. Hope to hear from you soon!# ariremix “... despite the work that has been done, there remains a general perception that there is not much to either write about or exhibit when it comes to the history of Artist-Run projects in Brisbane...” Peter Anderson Marginal Notes: towards a history of an artist-run scene, Brisbane, the 1980s Eyeline 82, p62 nothing happened.. -
Kool'zine (The Go-Betweens)
Hard On For Love 38.776 caracteres alrededor de The Go- Betweens CANCIONES DE AMOR. irresponsabilidad. Todas esas cosas vienen de en - tonces; sería bonito recuperarlo, pero son otros í. Lo sé. Cuadrar al toro más lidia - tiempos…Para mi, son ideas falsas ahora. do de la música popular adolescen - Todavía creo que hay un millón de buenas razo - Ste. Conseguir que se le ericen los nes para la rebeldía…pero la gente lo esta ha - pelillos de la nuca a la puta más revisita - ciendo a partir de un esquema que existió en los da en cinco décadas de cultura musical ‘50, y la primera mitad de los ‘60. De ahí toda juvenil. Hacer CANCIONES. Punto. esa retorica y esos estúpidos sueños que la gente El Tópico entre los Tópicos, y a la vez su sigue a pesar de que están caducos desde hace propia razón de ser. treinta años…Lo veo como una trampa real, ”La fuerza que me impulsa al componer es una trampa en la que la gente joven cae, a la hacer algo totalmente inspirado y brillante, cap - que se adapta .” (RF, 2)– , y no es difícil com - turar mi vida en una canción... realmente me prender su condición de cronistas privile - gustaría escribir una canción como ‘Young Girls giados de los mil y un recorridos de la pa - Are Coming To The Canyon’ de Mamas and sión; una pasión que en un tiempo de una Papas: me gustaría escribir una realmente real - austeridad emocional espartana, obliga mente buena canción pop de tres acordes. Eso es -ineludiblemente, a cada segundo- a luchar en lo que pienso en este momento” (RF, 2). -
Media Release
Media Release Sofie Laguna named winner of Miles Franklin Award 2015 Award has supported Australian authors with close to $1 million in philanthropic funds distributed 23 June 2015 Perpetual, as Trustee of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, today announced Sofie Laguna as the winner of the 2015 award for her novel, The Eye of the Sheep. The Miles Franklin Literary Award, recognised as Australia’s most prestigious literary prize, was established in 1954 through the Will of My Brilliant Career author, Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin, to encourage and support writers of Australian literature. Ms Laguna will receive $60,000 in prize money with her novel strongly presenting “Australian Life in any of its phases” and judged to be of the “highest literary merit”, in line with the criteria set out by Miles Franklin. Since moving away from careers in law and acting, Melbourne-based Ms Laguna has written for a wide readership, from picture books for very young children to series for older readers. Her debut novel for adults, One Foot Wrong, was long-listed for the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 2009. The Eye of the Sheep was selected from a short list of powerful Australian voices depicting unforgettable characters, including authors Joan London, Sonya Hartnett, Christine Piper and Craig Sherborne. Commenting on behalf of the judging panel, State Library of NSW Mitchell Librarian, Richard Neville, said that the power of Ms Laguna’s finely crafted novel lies in the “raw, high-energy and coruscating language” which describes the world of central character, young Jimmy Flick. “Jimmy Flick is a character who sees everything, but his manic x-ray perceptions don’t correspond with the way others see his world. -
Australian Indigenous Virtual Heritage
1 Australian Aboriginal Virtual Heritage A philosophical and technical foundation for using new media hardware and software technologies to preserve, protect and present Aboriginal cultural heritage and knowledge. Protecting, preserving and promoting Aboriginal arts, cultures, heritage and knowledge using 3D virtual technologies. Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts (Research), Creative Industries Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, 2014 Image 1 - This virtual screen shot is from Vincent’s World and represents a re-create of a view and path (Songline) around the base of the Tombs in the Mt Moffatt Section of Carnarvon Gorge. This document meets the requirements of a presentation of thesis by published as specified in Section 123 of the Queensland University of Technology MOPP. 2 Keywords Australia, Aboriginal Australia, Aboriginal Virtual Heritage, Aboriginal Digital Heritage, Indigenous history, arts and culture, virtual technologies, virtual reality, digital knowledge management, virtual culture, digital culture, digital mapping, spatial knowledge management, spatial systems 3 Abstract Cultural knowledge is a central tenant of identity for Aboriginal people and it is vitally important that the preservation of heritage values happens. Digital Songlines is a project that seeks to achieve this and was initiated as a way to develop the tools for recording cultural heritage knowledge in a 3D virtual environment. Following the delivery of a number of pilots the plan is to develop the software as a tool and creative process that anyone can use to record tangible and intangible natural and cultural heritage knowledge and to record the special significance of this knowledge as determined by the traditional owners. -
Modern Post: Workflows and Techniques for Digital Filmmakers
Modern Post Workflows and Techniques for Digital Filmmakers This page intentionally left blank Modern Post Workflows and Techniques for Digital Filmmakers Scott Arundale and Tashi Trieu First published 2015 by Focal Press 70 Blanchard Road, Suite 402, Burlington, MA 01803 and by Focal Press 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Focal Press is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2015 Taylor & Francis The right of Scott Arundale and Tashi Trieu to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Notices Knowledge and best practice in this field are constantly changing. As new research and experience broaden our understanding, changes in research methods, professional practices, or medical treatment may become necessary. Practitioners and researchers must always rely on their own experience and knowledge in evaluating and using any information, methods, compounds, or experiments described herein. In using such information or methods they should be mindful of their own safety and the safety of others, including parties for whom they have a professional responsibility. Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. -
16 Lovers Lane Was Just One of Those Defining Moments in My Education
Amanda Brown - perform the album in full, as well as some b-sides and classic favourites such as Cattle and Cane. To bring this much-loved collection of songs to life, the band is completed by Dan Kelly, Danny Widdicombe and Luke Peacock, plus an all-star line-up of guest vocalists including Jen Cloher, Alex Gow, Dave Graney, Laura Jean, Paul Kelly, Clare Moore, Rob Snarski, and Romy Vager. Melbourne Festival Artistic Director Jonathan Holloway said: ‘The great thing about coming to Australia from Europe is you actually have to learn everything there is to know about Australiana and 16 Lovers Lane was just one of those defining moments in my education. To hear it recreated by original Go-Betweens members and some of Melbourne’s greatest musicians of today will be something you won’t want to miss.’ ‘One of the most literary albums ever made by an Australian band. Pull apart any of the lyrics and you have lines that could stand alone as poetry.’ -The Guardian ‘People still love these timeless songs and fully appreciate their importance to our cultural fabric.’ - The Music AUSTRALIA // MUSIC 16 LOVERS LANE Lindy Morrison, Amanda Brown, John Willsteed and special guests Arts Centre Melbourne, State Theatre A band whose legacy is proving timeless, Brisbane’s The Sat 6 Oct Go-Betweens created songs that formed a meaningful 8pm backdrop to many Australian lives. $39 - $79 Their 1988 release 16 Lovers Lane is recognised as one of festival.melbourne the finest Australian albums of all time and has a devoted Arts Centre Melbourne 1300 182 183 international following. -
Books of the Year
Survey Books of the Year Sarah Holland-Batt in Catherine Lacey’s Pew (Granta), a novel that reads like After years of anticipation, I was thrilled to finally read Jaya Flannery O’Connor penned an episode of The Twilight Zone. Savige’s dazzling third volume, Change Machine (UQP, reviewed In non-fiction, fellow Western Australian Rebecca Giggs’s BOOK YOUR SEASON PACKAGE in ABR, October 2020): an intoxicatingly inventive and erudite Fathoms: The world in the whale (Scribe) left me feeling like I’d collection rife with anagrams, puns, and mondegreens that surfaced from some uncharted deep – breathless, awestruck, ricochets from Westminster to Los Angeles to Marrakesh, re- and brimming with questions. mixing multicultural linguistic detritus into forms of the poet’s own invention. Yet for all the book’s global sweep, it’s the quiet Judith Brett poems about fatherhood that stay with me, especially Savige’s For the past two springs, I have driven from Victoria to the immensely moving elegy for a premature son, ‘Tristan’s Ascen- Flinders Ranges. Not this year, of course. Instead, locked sion’, with its devastating simplicity: ‘Oh, son. You stepped off down in the city, I read Garry Disher’s three novels set in one stop too soon. / Your mother has flown // all the way to South Australia’s dry farming country, where Constable Paul Titan / to look for you.’ I also loved Prithvi Varatharajan’s Hirschman drives up and down the Barrier Highway to solve Entries (Cordite), an introspective and deeply intelligent crimes small and large: Bitter Wash Road, Peace, and the most collection of mostly prose poems whose overriding note is one recent, Consolation (Text). -
Dita Sramkova Diploma Abhorsen Trilogy
MASARYK UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE Does the Walker Choose the Path, or the Path the Walker? – Female Characters in Garth Nix’s The Abhorsen Trilogy Diploma Thesis Brno 2011 Supervisor: Written by: Ing. Mgr. Věra Eliášová, Ph.D. Bc. Dita Šrámková Prohlášení Prohlašuji, že jsem záv ěre čnou diplomovou vypracovala samostatn ě, s využitím pouze citovaných literárních pramen ů, dalších informací a zdroj ů v souladu s Disciplinárním řádem pro studenty Pedagogické fakulty Masarykovy univerzity a se zákonem č. 121/2000 Sb., o právu autorském, o právech souvisejících s právem autorským a o zm ěně n ěkterých zákon ů (autorský zákon), ve zn ění pozd ějších p ředpis ů. Souhlasím, aby práce byla uložena na Masarykov ě univerzit ě v Brn ě v knihovn ě Pedagogické fakulty a zp řístupn ěna ke studijním ú čel ům. Declaration I hereby declare that this diploma thesis is my own work and that all the sources of information I have used are listed in the references, in compliance with the Penalty Code for students of the Faculty of Education of the Masaryk University and Act No. 121/2000 Coll. on Copyright and Rights Related to Copyright and on Amendment to Certain Acts (the Copyright Act) as amended. I approve that this diploma thesis is stored and available for study purposes in the library of the Faculty of Education at the Masaryk University Brno Bc. Dita Šrámková Acknowledgement: I would like to thank my supervisor, Ing. Mgr. Věra Eliášová, Ph.D., for giving me her support and guidance throughout the writing process.