Thursday 25 March 2010 at 10:00amReadings Carlton: 309 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053Drop into Readings Carlton for Story Time, every Thursday (excluding school holidays), from 10am to 10.30am, beginning Thursday February 18. For children aged 2 – 5 year old. Free event, no need to book. Please note: This is not a child-minding service. We ask that parents stay with their children for the reading. To find out more please call us on (03) 9347 6633.
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Thursday 18 March 2010 at 10:00amReadings Carlton: 309 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053Drop into Readings Carlton for Story Time, every Thursday (excluding school holidays), from 10am to 10.30am, beginning Thursday February 18. For children aged 2 – 5 year old. Free event, no need to book. Please note: This is not a child-minding service. We ask that parents stay with their children for the reading. To find out more please call us on (03) 9347 6633.
Thursday 11 March 2010 at 10:00amReadings Carlton: 309 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053Drop into Readings Carlton for Story Time, every Thursday (excluding school holidays), from 10am to 10.30am, beginning Thursday February 18. For children aged 2 – 5 year old. Free event, no need to book. Please note: This is not a child-minding service. We ask that parents stay with their children for the reading. To find out more please call us on (03) 9347 6633.
Thursday 25 March 2010 at 6:30pmReadings Carlton: 309 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053Join us for the launch of SEW (Supporting and Empowering Women), a development project that employs HIV+ women in Tanzania. Carry bags are hand-stitched by the women, and will be available for sale at Readings. With a conviction that employment is the best way to relieve poverty and help heavily stigmatized HIV+ women, SEW works to provide these women with meaningful employment. All proceeds return to the women so they can one day launch their own businesses. Come for a drink and hear the story behind SEW and how it has benefitted the women
Wednesday 24 March 2010 at 6:30pmReadings Carlton: 309 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053The Charismatic Personality by Dr Len Oakes explores the idea that a single person can change the course of nations, peoples, and movements through the force of their own personality is something many may find fascinating and more than a little scary. How does such a thing happen? Join us for a lively discussion about personalities and people’s behaviour. Free, but bookings essential on (03) 9347 6633 or by email.
Tuesday 23 March 2010 at 6:30pmReadings Carlton: 309 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053In The River: A Journey through the Murray-Darling Basin, Chris Hammer takes us on a journey through Australia’s heartland, following the rivers of the Murray-Darling Basin, recounting his experiences, his impressions, and, above all, stories of the people he meets along the way. It’s a journey punctuated with laughter, sadness and reflection. The River: A Journey through the Murray-Darling Basin looks past the daily news reports and their sterile statistics, revealing the true impact of our rivers’ decline on the people who live along their shores, and on the country as a whole. It’s a tale that leaves ...
Tuesday 09 March 2010 at 6:30pmReadings Carlton: 309 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053Kim Humphrey’s new book Excess: Anti-Consumerism in the West will be launched by local author Christos Tsiolkas. Over-consumption is one of the key issues of our time, especially in the Western world. Over the past decade, in the face of historically unprecedented levels of consumer spending in the West - and the more recent impact of recession - a vigorous politics of anti-consumerism has emerged in a range of wealthy nations. This timely and original new book provides a comprehensive overview and analysis of what has come to be called the 'new politics of consumption'; a politics ...
Thursday 18 March 2010 at 6:30pmReadings Carlton: 309 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053Join us in the celebration of the release of Shane Howard - Lyrics to be launched by Tracee Hutchison. A great night of music and stories. Standing room only. Free, but please book on 9347 6633 or by email.
The Wheeler Centre programme officially began on Saturday night with 'A Gala Night of Storytelling' at the Melbourne Town Hall. The Wheeler Centre grew out of Melbourne's successful application to become a UNESCO City of Literature and a Victorian Government initiative to support writing and ideas in our city. So there was quite a buzz surrounding the first event, in which twelve of Australia’s favourite writers reflected on storytelling and the tales that have been passed down to them through the generations. And it was quite an experience. Each writer stepped up, without fanfare, to the microphone and related their story to a capacity crowd of approximately 2000 people. Some, like ...
Martin Hughes quietly launched Affirm Press in 2007 with the publication of the Slow Guides to Melbourne and Sydney. The Slow Guides aim to 'celebrate all that’s local, natural, traditional and sensory' about life in our cities. They explore different aspects of local lifestyle and character with attention to the finer details. And the response has been great, with the expansion of the series internationally in 2010, co-producing Slow London and Slow Dublin with Hardie Grant, another great local independent publishing house. Affirm has followed the Slow Guides with an eclectic selection of titles from some great local authors, focusing on building a strong and dynamic publishing space for new and ...
Sunday 21 March 2010 at 10:30amReadings Carlton: 309 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053It’s on! To celebrate the release of the next Beast Quest book join us for the tournament to end all tournaments. There will be giveaways and there will riots. Bookings essential on 9347 6633 or by email.
Wednesday 17 March 2010 at 6:30pmReadings Carlton: 309 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053Join us for a discussion on Gideon Haigh’s provocative lead essay on Australian reviewing culture in the new journal Kill Your Darlings, convened by editor Rebecca Starford, who regularly reviews for The Age and The Australian. Gideon will discuss the timidity and clubbishness of Australian reviewing culture, as he sees it reflected in the literary scene. Giving their points of view from the adjacent worlds of film and music will be The Big Issue’s books editor Jo Case and DVD editor Anthony Morris. Anthony is a film reviewer for Empire and writes on The Wire for Kill Your Darlings ...
Monday 15 March 2010 at 6:30pmReadings Carlton: 309 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053Join us as author Kirsten Tranter, talks about her debut novel, The Legacy with Peter Craven. Here Australian Ingrid inherits a fortune and leaves Australia, to marry Gil Grey and set up home amid the New York art world. There she becomes the stepmother to Gil's teenage artist daughter Fleur, a former child prodigy. At 9am on September 11, 2001, she has an appointment downtown. And is never seen again. Or is she? This book is a mystery and a compelling meditation on the nature of art, truth, friendship and love. Free, but please book on 9347 ...
Wednesday 10 March 2010 at 6:30pmReadings Carlton: 309 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053To acknowledge and celebrate International Women’s Day (on the 8th) join us as Jean talks of her new book Brazen Hussies: A Herstory of Radical Activism in the Women’s Liberation Movement in Victoria. This book documents the actions, conferences, collectives, publications and demonstrations that took place to change Melbourne. Free, but please book on 9347 6633 or by email.
well it's february already and albert and amelia have been temporarily distracated from the found sound 2010 programming - so many projects, so little time! a short hiatus is in order ... thanks to everyone who's contacted us about being involved this year, we have you on our radar and will keep you posted for sure ...
hi all, check out the review of Dale Gorfinkel and Joe Talia's Found Sound performance in un magazine atwww.unmagazine.org
The idea of Australia Day makes me feel vaguely unwell: the thought of yobbos with Aussie flags and cans of VB clasped tightly in their hands staggering around the streets. So here I am, hiding out at work, and hoping it will soon all be over. But despite disturbing reports coming out of this country about the way we treat aboriginals, Indian students and refugees, among others, there's gotta be some good news, right? Well here are some of the best things to come out of Australia recently - fiction, art, history - take your pick. And while your waiting for the snags to cook up on the ...
Thursday 18 February 2010 at 10:00amReadings Carlton: 309 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053Drop into Readings Carlton for Story Time, every Thursday (excluding school holidays), from 10am to 10.30am, beginning Thursday February 18. For children aged 2 – 5 year old. Free event, no need to book. Please note: This is not a child-minding service. We ask that parents stay with their children for the reading. To find out more please call us on (03) 9347 6633.
Tuesday 02 March 2010 at 6:30pmReadings Carlton: 309 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053Elizabeth Kostova will talk about her latest novel, The Swan Thieves with Amanda Smith, presenter of Artworks on ABC Radio National. The Swan Thieves is the much-anticipated new novel from the author of the international bestseller, The Historian. When Robert Oliver, a renowned painter, attacks a famous canvas in the National Gallery of Art, psychiatrist Andrew Marlowe is intrigued and takes him on as a patient. But the seemingly random act of violence is a mere scratch on the surface of something altogether more mysterious. Told through the narratives of the psychiatrist and each of the women in Robert Oliver’s ...
Monday 18 January 2010 at 6:00pmReadings Carlton: 309 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053 Drop into Readings Carlton to see Charlie Parr - one of the greatest musicians and human beings. So many country-blues artists are crippled with retro-ism and purism, but he has brought wonder and excitement to this music. Even Charlie's foot coming down on the floor boards screams with more soul and life than most anything – past or future. Free, no need to book.
Wednesday 17 February 2010 at 6:30pmReadings Carlton: 309 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053Poet Kevin Brophy will launch David Carlin’s memoir Our Father Who Wasn’t There, his investigation into the life and death of his father, who committed suicide when David was six months old. It was the 1960s in isolated Western Australia, a place in which emotions were discreetly veiled, women did not attend funerals — and suicide was a sin. Free, no need to book.
Tuesday 16 February 2010 at 5:45pmReadings Carlton: 309 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053Minister Bronwyn Pike will be launching Jackie Dickenson (recipient of an Australian Prime Ministers' Centre 2009-10 Fellowship) and Robert Corcoran’s comprehensive guide to Australia’s unique and colourful political language, A Dictionary of Australian Politics. Free, no need to book.
Monday 22 February 2010 at 6:30pmReadings Carlton: 309 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053Need a new perspective on life? Well, here you are – in celebration of Bob Franklin’s debut collection of stories, Under Stones, comedian and author Tony will be rejoicing in asking Bob the difficult questions! Free, but please book on 9347 6633 or by email.
Monday 15 February 2010 at 6:00pmReadings Carlton: 309 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053Room to Read is an innovative non-profit leader dedicated to promoting and enabling global education. Founded in 2000, the organisation is based on the belief that education is crucial to breaking the cycle of poverty in the developing world. Since then, the organisation has supported over 3 million children by providing increased access to higher-quality educational opportunities. Founder John Wood will talk about the organization and how you can become involved. Free, but please book on 9347 6633 or by email.
Monday 08 February 2010 at 6:30pmReadings Carlton: 309 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053Welcome to our first poetry gig of the year – and what a beauty. We are delighted to bring you three of Australia’s finest. Kevin Brophy was editor of the literary journal Going Down Swinging from 1980 to 1994. He has had eleven books published including four books of poetry. He teaches creative writing at the University of Melbourne. Chris Wallace-Crabbe is a Melbourne writer and Chair of the Australian Poetry Centre. His latest book is Telling a Hawk from a Handsaw. Andrew Sant co-founded the literary magazine, Island, in Tasmania and served as an editor for ten ...
