Australian
Festival of the Book
Program of Events Bendooley Street Cultural
& Community Precinct Bowral, NSW Southern Highlands April 26-28 2002 Friday 26th April 8.30am to 10.30am Literary Breakfast at
the Manning Hotel, Bowral with
David and Gerda Foster - discussing their book, A Year of Slow Food
5pm - 8pm Antiquarian Book Fair open in Memorial Hall. Jazz band
playing in courtyard next door. Fair closes at 8pm.
8.30pm Official opening in courtyard / Town Hall by Mayor and
IMB Chairman, Professor Ken McKinnon, followed by poet Les Murray reading.
Saturday 27th April
10am to 5pm - Antiquarian Book Fair open in Memorial Hall ($3
entry fee per person/ $5 per family)
10am to 4pm - Town Hall & Library
exhibitions open - 80 years of Ginger
Meggs; Bradman and the Book; The History of the Book in Australia; and hand-crafted
books by local
schools and artists
Publishing talks in Henrietta Rose Room
of the Town Hall
11am ParkerPattinson Publishing - family histories and self publishing
12 noon Ron Pretty - Poetry Australia Foundation & Five Islands Press,
discussing the poetry publishing industry
1pm Play publishing with John Senczuk, includes readings of new works
by
students from the Faculty of Creative Arts at Wollongong University Unfortunately
this item is CANCELLED
2pm to 4pm Career information and talks
from Universities and
Institutions - to be confirmed
Courthouse open for poetry readings
11am Poets in Court - Lizz Murphy, Venie Holmgren and Jennifer
Martiniello
12 noon Indigenous Poets - Ruby Langford, Anita Heiss, Elizabeth Hodgson
2pm Jennifer Compton
3pm Venie Holmgren
Common Room of Uniting Church Hall - storytelling
and cartooning
11am Cartooning/illustrating with Richard Collins
12 noon Story telling with Anna Jarrett
1pm Cartooning/illustrating with Richard Collins
2pm Story telling with Anna Jarrett
10am to 4pm - Bowral Primary School
Basement
Printing museum and working presses with Barry Tombs, the Australian
Calligraphers Association, paper making, bookbinder. Curated by Judy
Bourke.
Uniting Church Hall - Children & young
adult authors and general authors
readings
10am Fiona McKay
12 noon Di Bates
1pm Bill Condon
1.30pm Rob Hood
3pm Richard Harland
4pm Gerry Turcotte
Sunday 28th April
10am to 4pm - Book Fair open in Memorial Hall
10am to 4pm Town Hall & Library
exhibitions open - 80 years of Ginger
Meggs, The History of the Book in Australia and made books by local
schools and artists
Henrietta Rose Room of the Town Hall
11am Dr Joseph Davis on DH Lawrence and Grace Cossington Smith in Bowral
12 noon Andrew Ford, composer and presenter
of the ABC's The Music
Show, reads from and discusses his new book - Undue Noise: words about
music
1pm Prof. Martyn Lyons - Series Editor of
the "History of the Book in
Australia" published by Random House
2pm Catherine Hammond - freelance editor on manuscript assessment,
structural/copy editing and mentoring
2.30pm E-book demonstration and presentation by Chris Hosking of eInfo
Solutions
3pm John Scott [CANCELLED - unfortunately John Scott is now unable
to attend but the e-book demonstration will be extended for 15 minutes]
3.30pm SCWC Groups reading - Spanish Speaking Writers' Group, Thursday
Group and Southern Highlands Writers' Group
Courthouse open for poetry readings
11am Chris Mansell
12 noon Ali Smith
12.30 Verve - group of young writers currently being mentored
by
professional writers through the South Coast Writers Centre - read their
new works
2pm Lesley Fowler
Uniting Church Hall
3pm Keynote speech from author Frank Moorhouse on the publishing
industry
3.30pm Panel including Frank Moorhouse, Professor Martyn Lyons, and representatives
from the Australian Society of Authors including Jose` Borghino (CEO), the Managing
Editor from Allen
and Unwin, Rebecca Kaiser; Van Badham from the SCWC, Catherine Hammond,
freelance editor and Chris Hosking eInfo Solutions, with moderator Paul McShane
from the Southern Highlands Booksellers Association - discussing the
future of the book and reading. Open to Q&A from audience.
Panel seminar ends with celebratory cake cut for
the bicentenary of the first book published in
Australia. A facsimile copy of this book will be on display in the Old town
Hall exhibition.
CLICK HERE for historical background
Common Room of Uniting Church Hall- children's
author & storytelling
2pm Deb Abela
3pm Story telling for adults with David Shapiro
Bowral Primary School Basement
10am to 4pm - printing museum, Aust. Calligraphers Association, paper
making, bookbinders
The AFB has confirmed the following writers, poets,
publishers,
academics, illustrators, artists and organisations:
Frank Moorhouse
Les Murray
David and Gerda Foster
Deb Abela
Jennifer Compton
Andrew Ford
Catherine Hammond
Anita Heiss
Ruby Langford
Elizabeth Hodgson
Leslie Fowler
Lizz Murphy
Jennifer Martinello
Venie Holmgren
Chris Mansell
Ali Smith
Ron Pretty
John Scott (unfortunately cannot now attend)
Jo Davis
John Senczuk (unfortunately cannot now attend)
Prof Martin Lyons
Gerry Turcotte
Di Bates
Rob Hood
Bill Condon
Richard Harland
Fiona McKay
Richard Collins
Australian Society of Authors - Jose` Borghino
Anna Jarrett
David Shapiro
Five Islands Press
The Poetry Australia Foundation
Parker Pattison Publishing
PressPress - publishers
Allen and Kemsley Publishing
Allen and Unwin - Rebecca Kaiser
Aust. Calligraphers Association
Barry Tombs - printing museum
Judy Bourke - artist, book maker
The Bradman Museum
Chris Hosking e-Info Solutions (e-book reader distributor)