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2015 EYE of the STORM--Alice Springs Program writers’ festival EYE OF THE STORM – finding home PROGRAM 17 –20 SEP 2015 OLIVE PINK BOTANIC GARDEN, ALICE SPRINGS ntwriters.com.au 1 The NT Writers’ Centre brings you EYE OF THE STORM in Alice Springs, and WORDSTORM in Darwin on alternate years. We also offer year-round workshops, talks and opportunities for writers at all stages of their craft, including residencies and mentorships. Membership is $55/$45 conc. per year Darwin 08 8941 2651 Alice Springs 08 8952 3810 [email protected] www.ntwriters.com.au NT Writers’ Centre Executive Directors – Sally Bothroyd and Michelle Crowther Eye of the Storm Creative Producer – Dani Powell Assistant Program Coordinator – Fiona Dorrell Production Team – Rob Hoad, Cy Starkman, Kristy Schubert, Eye of the Storm would like to Aaron Fredric acknowledge the Arrernte people Alice Springs Office as the traditional owners of the Ph 08 8952 3810 land we are meeting on, Mparntwe, [email protected] Alice Springs. CONTENTS – WELCOME 3 writers’ festival EYE OF THE CONTENTS STORM WELCOME 3 TICKETS 4 WELCOME FINDING HOME 5 Welcome to Eye of the Storm 2015. FEATURE EVENTS 6 As Minister for Arts and Museums, THURSDAY 8 I am delighted to support the Eye FRIDAY 9 of the Storm writers’ festival in Alice SATURDAY 11 Springs, presented by the Northern PROGRAM PLANNER 16 Territory Writers’ Centre. SUNDAY 18 The Eye of the Storm celebrates the WORKSHOP PROGRAM 21 tradition of storytelling located in Alice Springs and connects the WRITERS & Northern Territory with the writing STORYTELLERS 23 community across Australia. This Festival is an important oppor- tunity for writers to gather, celebrate their craft, and share ideas and stories in the culturally rich centre of Australia. It is the Northern Territory’s contribution to the national conversation about “Finding Home”. The Northern Territory Government is very proud to provide support of $165 000 per annum to the Writers’ Centre to develop and showcase contemporary Northern Territory writing. I invite you to enjoy every minute of Gary Higgins this very special event. Minister for Arts and Museums CONTENTS – WELCOME 3 Welcome delegates to 2015 NT Writers’ Festival – the Eye of the Storm. It’s with pleasure that I welcome delegates to this festival as it’s great to see people come to Alice Springs and be inspired by our fantastic land- scapes. It’s also great to see local tal- ent showcased and have locals learn traditional to the contemporary. It’s from locals. So I congratulate the NT important to have and to cultivate Writers’ Centre who have organised creativity in our community, as it this event, they have ensured an im- is helps us to both preserve and pressive program filled with talented celebrate our culture and diversity. writers to engage our imagination. I hope you enjoy your time at the In Alice we have a thriving creative festival and in Alice Springs. arts scene. It’s made up of many Damien Ryan different genres and forms, from the Mayor, Alice Springs Tickets ONLINE: ntwriters.com.au IN PERSON: Red Kangaroo Books, or at Festival until sold out. (Of Cows, Women and War online only.) All events have limited capacity so pre-book to avoid disappointment. SPECIAL OFFERS – online only NTWC Member Festival Pass All events (except From Alice to Mpartnwe & Walking, Writing and Ways of Seeing) $150 Non Member Offers: Official Festival Book Seller Become NTWC member and get 79 Todd Mall, 9am-5.30pm week days 1x panel free. $55/$45 conc. and 9am-3pm weekends and pop-up shop at OPBG during Festival 3 x Panels and Presentations $35 www.redkangaroobooks.comwriters’ festival EYE OF THE STORM2 x Night PROGRAM Events $35 2015 TICKETS – FINDING HOME 5 FINDING HOME When I came on board to develop the Eye of the Storm this year I picked up the threads of conversations, meet- ings, early planning and thinking that had been undertaken by the outgoing These questions are what we hope to Executive Director of NT Writers’ stimulate through this festival, to give Panos Couros, last year in consulta- focus to thinking and reading and tion with a group of local writers conversation over these four days and passionate about this place and the beyond. stories and writing that comes from it Alice Springs, or Mparntwe, is home by those who live here and those who to the Arrernte people and this was have traveled through. foremost in my mind as I developed I embraced the theme of Finding this program. I hope you can come Home, a theme both evocative and to some of the events where home provocative. Themes of home and be- is considered particularly from the longing and the search for sanctuary perspective of Aboriginal people filter through so much of the literature in this region, such as Doris Stuart of our time as people migrate, or are Kngwarreye’s exclusive tour through forced to move on account of conflict, her homeland, Mparntwe, on Friday dispossession or poverty. For some or book talks by Veronica Dobson and this has meant homelessness while Margaret Heffernan, on Saturday others see themselves belonging to morning following a session featuring an international community without writers and storytellers of the region – borders, a community enriched by Apmere Ngura Ngurra Ngurraji Home. digital publishing. I hope you can start with these special Where indeed is home? Is it the place events as a foundation for this Eye of of our ancestors, the house we grew the Storm festival and join with local up, or more a state of being where and guest writers and storytellers on the seeking stops and one is finally at the journey of Finding Home. home in the world? Of course there Dani Powell is no answer, only perspectives. Creative Producer, Eye of the Storm writers’ festival EYE OF THE STORM PROGRAM 2015 TICKETS – FINDING HOME 5 Of Cows, Women and War FeatURE Performance events Of Cows, Women and War was written From Alice to Mparntwe by Ajak Kwai and Bagryana Popov, Guided tour of Arrernte country based on the unpublished book by Alice Springs is built on Arrernte Ajak Kwai, with music written by country, at a place called Mparntwe, Kwai. The stories touch on all the belonging to the Mparntwe-arenye areas of Dinka people’s lives before people. and during the war in Sudan. Stories Doris Stuart Kngwarreye, Apmereke- of landscapes and courting rituals, of artwye for Mparntwe, would like to family tradition and pride. Stories of invite you as writers and storytellers to forced marriage, and why cows are a join her on a guided tour, through her curse for girls. Stories of loss, and the homeland, Mparntwe. high price women and children pay Cost: Priceless. Kngwarreye sees these in war. tours as part of her sacred duty of Performed by Ajak Kwai looking after country and feels that Director/Dramaturg: setting any price for this experience Bagryana Popov will cheapen it. However any dona- Music by Elliott Folvig tions will be gratefully accepted and and King Marong will be used to cover costs and to assist Designed by Doris and her families to continue to Adrienne Chisolm live and work for their country. Assistant Director: Writing: Participants are asked to Bridget Balodis respond with writing to be read in Image by Nik Harrison October at Watch this Space artist- run contemporary gallery. Come and taste Mogahid’s This tour will depart from the Alice delicious zalabia (Sudanese Springs Public Library following Ellen donuts) before the show van Neerven’s book talk. from 5.45pm at the Gazebo. Depart Alice Springs Public Library Olive Pink Botanic Garden (outdoors) Friday 18 Sep Saturday 19 Sep 1.30pm-4pm 6pm for 6.30pm start-7.30pm By donation $45/$40 NTWC/conc Limited capacity. Bookings essential. Limited capacity. Bookings essential. ntwriters.com.au ntwriters.com.au writers’ festival EYE OF THE STORM PROGRAM 2015 FEATURE EVENTS 7 Walking, Writing and Ways country which may begin to build a of Seeing sense of the Centre’s multi-layered A walk along the Todd River history: the landscape of the totemic Walking in nature has been variously ancestors, its settlement through con- appreciated and embraced as stress- flict, the river’s desert ecology, and a relieving, spiritual and inspiring. But generation lost. walking can also be a cultural act, Through the act of walking, and even political, and its role in how we your writing of it, you may find your perceive our world is profound. For own way into this unique part of things look different at 4km an hour. Australia, and yourself. This workshop considers walking The walk will be lead by Dr Glenn and writing as a fresh way of seeing Morrison – a journalist and author and producing places through text. living in Alice Springs since 1998, It encourages writers to slow down, Glenn has recently completed a PhD to let walking help shed the usual about walking and ideas of frontier filters through which we see, and to and home in the literature of Central perceive the world anew. Australia. This guided walk will follow the Todd River for 4 kms along its shady banks Sunday 20 Sept from the CBD to the historic Alice 8am-11am Springs Telegraph Station. Along the $45/$40 NTWC/conc way four local writers – Linda Wells, Limited capacity. Bookings essential. Dr Veronica Dobson, Dr Peter Latz ntwriters.com.au and Pat Ansell-Dodds – will each More information upon booking. offer a particular perspective of the writers’ festival EYE OF THE STORM PROGRAM 2015 FEATURE EVENTS 7 THUrsday The Dirty Word Night This year The Dirty Word Event 17 September plays host to the Alice Springs heats of the Australia Poetry Slam! Festival Opening Two minutes, just you, no props, one Gather before the sun goes down mic … your chance to tell it how it is.
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