Live and Local is presented in partnership with Sydney Writers’ Festival and is a first for Australian literary festivals LOCAL Audiences at Live & Local events are invited to send questions EVENTS through to the guest writers via text message – number will be provided closer to the date. PROGRAM Please go to the BMEC website for program updates www.bmec.com.au or contact us on 6333 6161 Follow us on social media! facebook.com/BMECBathurst twitter.com/localstagesbmec LIVE & LOCAL LIVE STREAM EVENTS FRIDAY MAY 20 - SUNDAY MAY 22 GETTING PECKISH? This project has been assisted by the Australian government through the Ministry for the Arts’ Catalyst—Australian Arts and Culture Fund’ BMEC bar will have hot food available for lunch only Tea and coffee is available in downstairs foyer Water bottles can be refilled at the water coolers in the foyer SWF Live & Local = Sydney Writers’ Festival live stream FRIDAY 20 MAY = Bathurst Writers’ & Readers’ Festival Live Events Networking event: Writers Rainbow and Poetry Slam. Come along and meet local writers and network with festival goers and enjoy 1pm Theatre Doors open 7.30pm- 9pm City Hall drinks and nibbles, followed by Poetry Slam 1.20pm Theatre Welcome: BMEC Manager Stephen Champion If you are interested in performing in the poetry slam register on the SWF Live & Local: Let Nature Be Your Teacher day of the event at BMEC. Great prizes. All Welcome 1.30pm – 2.30pm Theatre Panel: Jeanette Winterson, Tim Flannery, James Rebanks hosted by ABC RN’s Natasha Mitchell SUNDAY 22 MAY SWF Live & Local: Inside The New Yorker SWF Live & Local: Kerry O’Brien: Living with Keating 3pm – 4pm Theatre 10am – 11am Theatre Panel: Ann Goldstein, Paul Muldoon hosted by Amelia Lester Kerry O’Brien talks to Ellen Fanning Book Groups: The Books We Loved and Some We Didn’t SWF Live & Local: Andrew Denton: Better Off Dead Conference 4.30pm – 5.30pm Theatre 11am – 11.30am Members of local book groups discuss some of the best and worst Andrew Denton in conversation with David Leser room books they have read. SWF Live & Local: David Gonski: I Gave A Gonski 6pm – 7pm Theatre SWF Live & Local: Annabel Crabb and Leigh Sales: Our Reading Year David Gonski in conversation with Margot Saville 11.30am - 12.30pm Theatre Annabel and Leigh muse over their reading year SWF Live & Local: Magda Szubanski and George Megalogenis: 7.30pm – 8.30pm Theatre Rated PG Magda Szubanski in conversation with George Megalogenis Workshop: The Importance of Telling Your Story – Whether You’re A Conference Writer Or Not In this short workshop, author Kim Kelly will take you 11.30-12.30pm Room through the many ways you can get your words out of your head and SATURDAY 21 MAY into the world. Register with Books Plus 6331 5994 SWF Live & Local: Why Women Should Rule the World Panel: Gloria Conference Sunday Sonnets – poetry on Sunday afternoon 10am – 11am Theatre 12.50 - 1.20pm Steinem, Ira Trivedi, Laura Tingle hosted by George Megalogenis Room Local poets read their own and other’s work Children’s Writing Workshop with author Paul Stafford SWF Live & Local: Sarah Ferguson: The Killing Season Uncut Conference 1.30 -2.30pm Theatre 10am – 11.30am School age children Years 2-4. Limited places available. Sarah Ferguson in conversation with George Megalogenis Room Register with Books Plus Ph 6331 5994 Conference Great books you may have missed in the last 12 months and what to 2.30pm – 3pm SWF Live & Local: James Rebanks: A Shepherd’s Life Room look out for later this year. With Jen Barry and James Paull 11.30am - 12.30pm Theatre James Rebanks talks to ABC’s Richard Fidler SWF Live & Local: Bob Brown: On Optimism 3pm – 4pm Theatre 12.50-1.20pm Theatre Paul Stafford Book Launch ‘Ned Kelly’s Helmet’ Bob Brown in conversation with ABC RN’s Ellen Fanning Conference Play Readings SWF Live & Local: Marlon James: A Brief History of Seven Killings 5.30pm – 6pm 1.30 -2.30pm Theatre 2015 Man Booker Prize winning author Marlon James speaks with Room Rehearsed readings of new works by local playwrights ABC RN’s Michael Cathcart SWF Live & Local: Paul Kelly: Seven Sonnets and a Song 4.30pm – 5.30pm Theatre Children’s Writing Workshop with author Paul Stafford Paul Kelly in conversation with Kate Mulvaney Conference 1.30pm – 3pm School age children Years 5-6. Limited places available. Room SWF Live & Local: Closing Address Hanya Yanagihara: Register with Books Plus Ph 6331 5994 The Conversations Between Words Hanya Yanagihara, author of one 2.30-3pm City Hall Play Reading Rehearsed readings of new works by local playwrights 6pm – 6.50pm Theatre of the most talked-about and most confronting books of the year, A Little Life, asks whether an author owes her reader anything more than SWF Live & Local: Stan Grant: Talking to My Country Stan Grant 3pm – 4pm Theatre that? How much can a reader be expected to handle? speaks about questions of our identity and race with Rhoda Roberts 6.50pm – 7pm Theatre Local Closing SWF Live & Local: America: Writers Talk Politics 4.30pm – 5.30pm Theatre Vivian Gornick, Roger Cohen, Aleksandar Hemon, Books Plus sales available in the foyer Dr David Smith, in conversation with Amelia Lester throughout the Festival. Panel: Latest Locals on the Shelf Snacks and lunches available 5.40pm - 6.30pm Theatre A selection of local writers talk about the books they have published during the last 12 months. Chair: Dave Rankine at downstairs bar Two Australian Contemporary Poets In Conversation and reading 6.40pm - 7.30pm Theatre from their work. Featuring Todd Turner and David Musgrave This schedule is correct at time of publication. Check website and social media regularly for updates.