Power of Expression
An initiative of
EVENT PARTNERS
Arbitare Pty Ltd
We would like to respectfully acknowledge the Yamatji Peoples who are the Traditional Owners and First People of the land on which we stand. The Nhanhagardi, Wilunyu, Naaguja. We would like to pay our respect to the Elders past, present and future for they hold the memories, the traditions, the culture and hopes of the Yamatji Peoples.
Welcome to Big Sky 2024
Big Sky comes alive again for another bumper programme of festival favourites! In this our 19th year, the Geraldton Regional Library is delighted to present 4 days of energy and excitement - with something for everyone, whether you’re a reader, a writer or just love to explore new ideas. Immerse yourself in the passionate pursuit of feeding your imagination and support your local Library! Libraries have always been places where intellectual freedom is respected and promoted. In 2024, under the theme the Power of Expression, celebrate the impact and possibilties this freedom may bring. Just as a dropped pebble causes ripples in a pond, your participation spreads creativity in our community.
See you in Geraldton at Big Sky 2024.
Trudi Cornish
Manager Libraries, Heritage and Gallery City of
Greater Geraldton
GUEST SPEAKERS
Power of Expression
Yumna Kassab (Keynote Speaker)
Sue Boyd
George Criddle
Theona Councillor
Jake Dennis
Annie de Monchaux
Gabriel Evans
Sally Herzfeld (Gare) Chris HammerCaitlin Maling
Deborah Pike
Glenn B Swift
David Whish-Wilson Tess Woods
Most events (both free and paid) are ticketed.
Tickets are booked via the Library website or Humanitix.
library.cgg.wa.gov.au
Please note tickets move fast!
Kids Craft Activity
Date: Tuesday 1 October
Time: 10.00am - 12.00pm
Venue: Geraldton Regional Library
Tickets: FREE (no bookings required)
Soar into the Geraldton Regional Library and join in the fun of colouring a feather using a range of mediums! Your feather will become part of a beautiful collaborative owl installation. Plus, you can take home a feather of your own to show off. Suitable for ages 5-12 years.
Please note: We request that children are accompanied by an adult for all sessions.
PRE-FESTIVAL EVENTS
Old Geraldton Movie Matinee
Date: Tuesday 8 October
Time: 3.00pm - 4.30pm
Venue: Geraldton Regional Library
Tickets: FREE event (booking details pg6)
Relive days gone by and times past with the screening of a selection of short films featuring old Geraldton from our extensive Local History Collection.
Image: Marine Terrace, Geraldton, c1950. Courtesy Geraldton Regional Library.
THURSDAY 10 OCTOBER
Short Story Prize 2024
Congratulations to all our entrants in the 2024 Big Sky Short Story Prize! Stories have been received from across the Midwest and Gascoyne.
Winners will be announced at the Festival Opening Night. Our 2023 prizes were awarded to:
2023 Winner - Matilda Scotney
2023 Runner-up - Marc Christoffersen
2023 Highly Commended - Carrie Puzzar, Elizabeth Rogers, Jess Da Silva, Lorraine Lambert and Samantha Chant
Festival Opening Night
Date: Thursday 10 October
Time: 6.00pm - 8.00pm
Venue: Geraldton Regional Library
Tickets: FREE event (booking details pg6)
Get your Festival started with MC Anne Williams! Come along and celebrate the opening of Big Sky 2024. Meet our special guests, while enjoying live music, fun, laughter and light refreshments.
FRIDAY 11 OCTOBER
Workshop Painting with Words: Art-Inspired Poetry
Presented by Jake Dennis
Date: Friday 11 October
Time: 9.30am - 11.30am
Venue: Geraldton Regional Art Gallery
Tickets: FREE event (booking details pg6)
Become inspired by the creative relationships between plastic and literary artworks and artists by considering classic and contemporary models of ekphrasis (artinspired literature).
With your pen as your paintbrush, contemplate then experiment with ways to create your own ekphrastic poetry!
FRIDAY 11 OCTOBER
School Sessions
With Gabriel Evans
Date: Friday 11 October
Time: 9.45am - 10.30am and 11.00am11.45am
Venue: Geraldton Regional Library
Tickets: FREE event (School group bookings only)
West Australian children’s book author and illustrator Gabriel Evans shares his journey, his process of making picture books and how he creates his characters. Students will participate in a fun, handson illustration activity.
Story Time
Twilight Story Time
Date: Friday 11 October
Time: 5.00pm - 5.45pm
Venue: Geraldton Regional Library
Tickets: FREE event (booking details pg6)
Bring your favourite “cuddly” and get ready for lots of fun! Come dressed in your pyjamas and slippers, ready to listen to stories, sing songs and rhymes. Get your twinkle toes ready for some dancing too! Special guest appearance by children’s author and illustrator, Gabriel Evans. Suitable for ages 2-6 years.
Please note: We request that children are accompanied by an adult for all sessions.
FRIDAY 11 OCTOBER
Author Talk - Northampton
A Life of Crime
Chris Hammer, in conversation with David Whish-Wilson
Date: Friday 11 October
Time: 12.45pm - 2.00pm
Venue: Northampton RSL Hall, Cnr Essex Street and Great North West Coastal Highway, Northampton
Tickets: FREE event (booking details pg6)
With its thrilling narratives and complex characters, crime fiction crafts a world where justice and mystery collide. Join Chris Hammer in conversation with David Whish-Wilson, on the art of spinning the web of intrigue. Chris Hammer’s latest book The Valley will be published in October. Includes book signing and light refreshments.
FRIDAY 11 OCTOBER
Author Talk - Greenough
The Power of Her Voice
Sue Boyd, Deborah Pike and Caitlin Maling, in conversation with Sandra Carr MLC
Date: Friday 11 October
Time: 3.00pm - 4.30pm
Venue: Greenough Museum and Gardens, 11 Phillips Road, Greenough
Tickets: FREE event (booking details pg6)
Women’s writing challenges stereotypes, breaks down barriers and pushes for change. From international politics, to academia, relationships and home, Sue Boyd, Deborah Pike and Caitlin Maling share their experiences and how these have influenced their writing, in conversation with Hon. Sandra Carr MLC. Includes book signing and light refreshments.
FRIDAY 11 OCTOBER
Workshop
Storyboarding
Presented by Leah Addison and Nathanael Whale
Date: Friday 11 October
Time: 5.00pm - 8.30pm
Venue: Geraldton Regional Art Gallery
Tickets: $20 (booking details pg6)
Leah Addison and Nathanael Whale from the Illustration Club cover the basics of sequential art and comic making techniques. Accessible to all skill levels, everyone will leave with an original comic they have created!
Power of Expression
FRIDAY 11 OCTOBER
Cray Tales Revisited
Presented by Annie de Monchaux and Natasha Harradine
Date: Friday 11 October
Time: 6.30pm - 9.30pm
Venue: Batavia Brewing
Tickets: $45 (booking details pg6)
Includes dinner
In 1998, Annie de Monchaux set out to publish Cray Tales, a book offering a colourful account of the Western Australian Cray Fishing Industry.
Capturing the raw, magic appeal of the sea, its challenges and the people who pursue cray fishing as a job and way of life, Annie preserved a unique moment in local history. “Cray Tales Revisited” invites fishers back to retell their stories and yarn about times past.
Join author Annie de Monchaux and journalist, broadcast producer and presenter, Natasha Harradine as they host this unique reunion of local storytellers.
Image: Tarquin Smart by Tim Grant, from Cray Tales Gallery 108, https://www.craytalesbook.com/
SATURDAY 12 OCTOBER
Key Note Address
Presented by Yumna Kassab
Date: Saturday 12 October
Time: 9.00am - 9.30am
Venue: Queens Park Theatre
Tickets: FREE event (booking details pg6)
Experimental writing provides a departure from the traditional boundaries of storytelling and enables a broad mix of perspectives.
In her embrace of diverse communities and in the celebration of their stories, Yumna Kassab explores the power of literary expression and its ability to connect us with the human experience, challenge the status quo, and inspire change.
POP-UP FESTIVAL BOOK SHOP
QUEENS PARK THEATRE FOYER
Saturday, 9.00am - 1.30pm
Concurrent Session One
The Creative Journey
Chris Hammer, Tess Woods and Jake Dennis in conversation with Glenn B Swift.
Date: Saturday 12 October
Time: 9.45am - 10.45am
Venue: Queens Park Theatre
Tickets: FREE event (booking details pg6)
Every writer’s creative journey is different, shaped by their personal background, goals, and the stories they want to tell. Learn what inspires our special guest authors, Chris Hammer and Tess Woods, with poet and singer, Jake Dennis, in conversation with Glenn B Swift.
SATURDAY 12 OCTOBER
Murla-na Bula Wula
Bulangul
Date: Saturday 12 October
Time: 9.45am - 10.45am
Venue: Queens Park Theatre
Tickets: FREE event (booking details pg6)
Naaguja Singer-Songwriter Theona Councillor is the creator of the upcoming Naaguja-style Opera: ‘Murla-na Bula Wula Bulangul’ which retells the story of the 1854 massacre at Pelican Spring. She will be joined by Yamaji actor Bruce Denny, and settler artist George Criddle to discuss the importance of working together on the opera which will revive Naaguja cultural song, dance and story while producing an important truth-telling opportunity for the community to learn about the history of colonisation and its impact on Naaguja peoples.
Bruce Denny - Starting in community theatre in the late 80s, Bruce Denny has worked in professional theatre and film for over 30 years. With numerous writing commissions, acting roles, and directing credits under his belt his experience in all facets of theatre-making keeps him busy.
SATURDAY 12 OCTOBER
Concurrent Session Two
Date: Saturday 12 October
Time: 11.00am - 12.00pm
Venue: Queens Park Theatre
Tickets: FREE event (booking details pg6)
Searching for Meaning, Finding Joy
Annie de Monchaux and Deborah Pike in conversation with Lorraine Chapman.
Two beautifully crafted new stories take the reader along a familiar path of selfdiscovery, endurance, love and friendship. Join Annie de Monchaux and Deborah Pike in conversation with Lorraine Chapman, as they discuss their most recent releases, growing through life and finding yourself along the way.
Naaguja Cultural Knowledge and Holistic Practice Workshop
The Journey to Revitalisation
Date: Saturday 12 October
Time: 1.00pm - 2.30pm
Venue: Queens Park Theatre
Tickets: $25 (booking details pg6)
In this workshop led by Naaguja singer-songwriter Theona Councillor, participants will learn the importance of reclaiming and reviving Naaguja language. They will also learn about the revival of cultural practices of song, dance and storytelling that focus on ‘connection, healing and Country’. Open to all genders and ages.
SATURDAY 12 OCTOBER
Workshop
Watercolour Illustration
Presented by Gabriel Evans
Date: Saturday 12 October
Time: 9.30am - 11.30am
Venue: Geraldton Regional Art Gallery
Tickets: $45 (booking details pg6)
Join this hands-on workshop focusing on illustrative watercolour for picture books.
Gabriel will share his creative systems in watercolour and teach how you can apply them to illustrations through practical and imaginative exercises. Complete at least four small paintings.
All materials provided. Suitable for ages 16 plus.
Mid West Arts
MEMBERS EXHIBITION 2024
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Venue: Geraldton Regional Art Gallery, 24 Chapman Road, Geraldton, WA
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SATURDAY 12 OCTOBER
Self Help Session
Tech is not the Villain
Date: Saturday 12 October
Time: 11.00am - 12.00pm
Venue: Queens Park Theatre (Breakout Room 1)
Tickets: FREE event (booking details pg6)
Need help with the Library’s digital resources? Got a new e-Reader that you’re looking to master? Are you looking to improve your basic tech and online research skills?
Book a power session with a friendly Library staff member!
GardentoGlobe: a Haiku Writing Workshop
Presented
by Jake Dennis
Date: Saturday 12 October
Time: 11.30am - 1.00pm
Venue: Geraldton Regional Library
Tickets: $25 (booking details pg6)
Find community, publication, and readers worldwide through the Japanese poetic practice of haiku. Join our exploration of modern and traditional examples and discover elements like kigo and kireji. Gather seeds of inspiration you can plant into haiku ready to harvest.
BOOK SIGNING SESSION with our guest Authors
QUEENS PARK THEATRE FOYER
Saturday, 12.15pm - 12.45pm
SATURDAY 12 OCTOBER
Meet the Author Literary Lunch
With Tess Woods, Sue Boyd, Yumna Kassab, Deborah Pike & David Whish-Wilson
Date: Saturday 12 October
Time: 1.30pm - 3.00pm
Venue: Laian Restaurant (Monsignor Hawes Heritage Centre, Cathedral Avenue, Geraldton)
Tickets: $45 (booking details pg6)
Enjoy a delicious Middle Eastern themed luncheon on arrival at Laian Restaurant.
Followed by Speed Dating with the Authors. Have your questions ready as our special guests come to you! Spot prizes, fun and games. Tea and coffee provided, licenced venue.
SATURDAY 12 OCTOBER
Randolph Stow Address
Sally Herzfeld (Gare), in conversation
with Caitlin Maling
Date: Saturday 12 October
Time: 3.30pm - 4.30pm
Venue: Geraldton Regional Library
Tickets: FREE Event (booking details pg6)
The year is 1957 - Sally Gare is 21. It’s her second year as a teacher at the Forrest River Mission, some 3,000 kilometres north from Perth. Joining Sally at the Mission is Randolph Stow, aged 22 years. A strong bond of friendship is formed, as the two young people navigate life in the remote outback landscape. Fast forward some 40 years - it is 1998 and Stow gifts a treasure trove of memorabilia to the Library - bringing with it intimate recollections from the past.
Join West Australian poet Caitlin Maling in conversation with Sally Herzfeld (Gare), as they discuss Stow, the memories that spill over from this time, and the career of a remarkable teacher and her life-changing adventure in the remote north-west of Australia.
Image: ‘Self at home’ - Stow in his thatched mudbrick house at Forrest River Mission, 1957. https://westerlymag. com.au/randolph-stow-pictures-lettersand-conversations/
SATURDAY 12 OCTOBER
PoetryinthePub
Date: Saturday 12 October
Time: 6.00pm - 9.00pm
Venue: Walkaway Tavern, 1 Padbury Road, Walkaway Tickets: $45 OR $55 (includes bus pass) Buffet dinner included. (booking details pg6)
Bus Details: Departs 5.30pm from the Library, Chapman Road carpark. Returns to Library approx 9pm.
Poetry in the Pub is back with a rustic dinner night of poetry at the Walkaway Tavern. Featuring Poet of Jazz, Jake Dennis, with appearances by festival guest poet Caitlin Maling and storyteller extraordinaire, Glenn B Swift.
Join in the Open Mic!
SUNDAY 13 OCTOBER
Workshop Building Narrative Suspense –Strategies and Techniques
Presented by David Whish-Wilson
Date: Sunday 13 October
Time: 9.45am - 11.15am
Venue: Geraldton Regional Library
Tickets: $25 (booking details pg6)
A sound working definition of good writing is that it makes the reader want to read on, instead of putting the book down. This is applicable across all genres of prose fiction writing. Discuss some of the techniques and strategies that will help inject your narratives with a sense of urgency and intrigue – on a line by line level, and at the level of the scene, chapter and overall story arc – before applying these understandings in written exercises.
POP-UP FESTIVAL BOOK SHOP GERALDTON REGIONAL LIBRARY Sunday, 9.00am - 12.30pm
Live Broadcast by RadioMAMA @ Library, from 9.30am - 12.30pm
FIORENZA ON SUNDAY, 10.00am - 12.00pm
SUNDAY 13 OCTOBER
Q and A A
Dissection of Migrant Stories
Date: Sunday 13 October
Time: 9.30am - 11.00am
FestivalFinale Reading Between the Shelves
Date: Sunday 13 October
Time: 12.15pm - 2.00pm
Venue: Geraldton Regional Library
Tickets: FREE event (booking details pg6)
In collaboration with the Midwest Multicultural Association, join us for an insightful Q&A with Yumna Kassab and Linda Liem, as we dive into migration stories and the challenges of preserving heritage in a new cultural landscape.
Explore Australian life through a diverse lens, exploring the complexities of integrating into the fabric of regional communities, and the interplay of cultural displacement, race, and belonging— with an opportunity to share your own transhumance experience to enrich the conversation.
Venue: Geraldton Regional Library
Tickets: FREE event (booking details pg6)
After a packed weekend of literary delights, sit back, relax and enjoy our Festival Finale, with a selection of readings from special guests. Featuring Tess Woods, Yumna Kassab, Deborah Pike, Caitlin Maling and Sally Herzfeld (Gare).
BOOK SIGNING SESSION with our guest Authors GERALDTON REGIONAL LIBRARY
Sunday, 11.30am - 12.00pm
KID’S SUNDAY FUNDAY
Let’s get CRAFTY and CREATIVE!
A morning of FUN and GAMES at the Library for all kids (big and Little), 9.30am - 12.30pm
Storyteller Extraordinaire
Times: 10.00am - 10.30am, 10.45am - 11.15am and 11.30am - 12.00pm (free, no bookings required)
Glenn B Swift performs live, with a wide range of crazy, entertaining stories for all ages!
Creating Picture Book Characters
with Gabriel Evans
Time: 11.30am - 12.30pm
Tickets: $5 (booking details pg6)
Are you a crafty kid with a wicked imagination, who likes to draw and create interesting characters? Would you like to learn more from a real life author-illustrator?
Suitable for ages 7-12.
Sweet Olive Coffee van onsite
HIGHLIGHTS 2023
Yumna Kassab
Yumna Kassab is the author of The House of Youssef, Australiana and The Lovers. Her most recent book is Politica, an imagined history of the Arab world or else a feminine telling of politics. Her books have been listed for the Miles Franklin Award, Stella Prize, Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards and the Prime Ministers’ Literary Award. She is the inaugural Parramatta Laureate in Literature.
George Criddle
George Criddle is an artist and writer with early settler heritage in Jambinu, Geraldton. In 2023, George selfpublished ‘Summaries of a Settler Artist’s Journal: Letters to Elizabeth Criddle’ which creatively documents individual and collective family learning about the Pelican Spring Massacre of 1854. George is now co-producing a truth-telling opera Murla-na Bula Wula Bulangul with Naaguja woman, Theona Councillor.
Sue Boyd
Born in India, Sue Boyd was educated where her British Army father was posted - Ireland, Germany, Egypt, Cyprus, UK. In Sue was a volunteer teacher in Zambia, prior to studying at UWA, graduating with a BA Dip Ed and an honorary doctorate, recognising her work in international relations through her 35 year career in the Australian Foreign Service.
Theona Councillor
Theona Councillor is a NaagujaWilunyu woman whose ancestors are from the Greenough and Bowes Rivers. With over 20 years of experience in the music industry, Theona has recorded three albums and is currently working on the creative development and coproduction of Murla-na Bula Wula Bulangul – a thoonbijee or ‘opera’.
Annie de Monchaux
Annie’s novel, Audrey’s Gone AWOL, was published by Ultimo Press in April. Previous lives –nurse, mural artist, script writer Hollywood. Author of Cray Tales which was shortlisted for the WA Premier’s Award. Currently – three children, one husband, one dog, one cat (bad tempered), writing book three.
Jake Dennis
Burmese-Australian Boorloo-based entertainer Jake Dennis has been regularly published in local and international poetry anthologies and journals. JD’s 2023 prizes: Red Room Poetry #30in30, Queensland Poetry mentorship, and WAPI’s Secret City Micro-Residency. Recently married and always performing, @PoetOfJazz is a Writing WA Emerging Writers Program 2024-25 recipient.
Gabriel Evans
Gabriel Evans is a picture book author and illustrator. His books have been published in eighteen countries, shortlisted in the Children’s Book Council’s Picture Book of the Year award and read on ABC’s Play School. Gabriel makes his books from a small studio on a big hill surrounded by trees.
Deborah Pike
Deborah Pike is a writer and academic based in Sydney, who grew up in Northam and Perth. Deborah has an Honours degree in English from UWA, and a PhD from the University of Sydney. She is an Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Notre Dame, Sydney, and is a winner of an Australian Government Award for University Teaching. Deborah has travelled widely, holding numerous positions overseas. The Players is her first novel.
Sally Herzfeld (Gare)
Sally Gare was born in Western Australia in 1935. Following her teacher training, Sally’s first appointment was in 1956 at a Mission inland from Wyndham. Here Sally met Mick Stow in 1957. In the years following, Sally taught in remote schools near Port Hedland, later marrying Tom who engineered water supplies Wyndham-Waroona until 1969. They had three children then settled in Darlington and started Helena College.
Glenn B Swift
Glenn B Swift is a West Australian Storyteller and MC. He has been performing in schools, theatres and festivals in WA since 1988, including most Public Libraries from Albany to Kununurra. He has toured schools in Chile, Peru, Argentina and Uruguay, and in Iceland at the Reykjavik Public Library, in English!
Chris Hammer
Chris Hammer is a leading Australian crime fiction author. His first book Scrublands was an instant bestseller, winning the UK Crime Writers Association’s New Blood dagger, and has been adapted for television. He now written seven best-selling crime fiction novels. His latest book, The Valley, is published in October 2024.
David Whish-Wilson
David Whish-Wilson is the author of 10 novels and 3 creative non-fiction books. At 18, he left Australia and for the next decade worked overseas as a barman, actor, petty criminal, exterminator, teacher and drug trial guinea pig (among other jobs!). Two of David’s books have been shortlisted for Ned Kelly Awards. Perth was shortlisted for a WA Premier’s Book Award. Cutler is the first in the Undercover Series.
Caitlin Maling
Caitlin Maling is a WA poet and writer with five books published, the most recent of which is Spore or Seed, published in 2023 with Fremantle Press. Her work has been shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards and the WA Premier’s Book Awards. She is a lecturer at Curtin University, and lives near Walyalup with her young family.
Tess Woods
Tess Woods once had a simple life until her compulsion to write madeup stories complicated everything. She’s now an award-winning and bestselling author of contemporary fiction. Tess is also a physiotherapist, an obsessed little street library owner and has recently found herself accidentally directing Perth’s new Festival of Fiction.
FESTIVAL TEAM
Our special thanks to all our team members (staff and volunteers) who have worked so hard to make this festival a success!
Trudi Cornish, Annette Burton, Lily Valdez, Joanne Morgan, Briony Bray, Naz Bairaghi, Bec Edwards, Keely Grieve, Andrew Frith, Deb Sutherland, Sharon Sorensen, Silvia Borracci, Ayrah Mabitad, Diane McDonald, Esper Windsor, Ben Marsh, Deb Yeatman, Kaitlin Ajduk, Melinda Norman, Isabelle Cornish, Shauni Norman, Susan Smith, Jenni Hargrave, Lorraine Chapman, Anne Williams, William Upchurch, Erin Cleghorn, Gary Martin.
Thanks to our SPECIAL GUEST ARTISTS & CREATIVES
Bruce Denny Leah Addison
Nathanael Whale
For more information about our guests, Check out the Library website!
PRESENTERS
Sandra Carr MLC
Sandra Carr MLC is the Member of Parliament for the Agricultural Region, a mother of two and has a profound appreciation for the privilege of living in Big Sky country. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Literature and shared her love of words through teaching high school English in Geraldton, prior to becoming a Member of Parliament.
Lorraine Chapman
Lorraine Chapman is a primary school teacher who loves teaching creative writing to 6 year olds, 96 years old and anyone in between. She also loves being the president of Geraldton’s own writing group, Writers of the Coral Coast and is obsessed with her three sausage dogs and writing stories about them.
Linda Liem
Linda Liem writes to not forget-both figuratively and literally. Offbeat yet endearing. A cultural sponge who’s inquisitive like an octopus. Currently playing pickleball.
Natasha Harradine
Natasha Harradine first blew into Geraldton as a fresh-faced journalism graduate in 1998. She has 25 years’ experience in the media industry as a reporter, broadcaster and producer between Geraldton and Perth. She’s currently the Editor at ABC Midwest Wheatbelt and loves being part of the community.
Peter Fiorenza
Peter Fiorenza is a locally born and bred lad who loves Geraldton and its people. Peter is a City Councillor and has been a teacher at Nagle Catholic College for close to 25 years. Peter hosts his own Sunday morning radio program “Fiorenza” on Sundays, also broadcasting local football matches. Peter writes a regular column for the Geraldton Guardian.
FESTIVAL VENUES
• Batavia Brewing
60 Fitzgerald Street, Geraldton
• Geraldton Regional Art Gallery
24 Chapman Road, Geraldton
• Geraldton Regional Library
37 Marine Terrace, Geraldton
• Greenough Museum and Gardens
11 Phillips Road, Greenough
• Laian Restaurant
Monsignor Hawes Heritage Centre, Cathedral Avenue, Geraldton
• Northampton RSL Hall
Cnr Essex Street and Great North West Coastal Highway, Northampton
• Queens Park Theatre
Cnr Cathedral Avenue and Maitland Street, Geraldton
• Walkaway Tavern
1 Padbury Road, Walkaway
Live Streaming
If you can’t come along in person, why not enjoy some sessions online.
The following sessions will be Live Streamed from the Queens Park Theatre on Saturday 12 October.
Check the Library Facebook page on the day!
9.00am - 9.30am
Key Note Address, with Yumna Kassab.
9.45am - 10.45am
The Creative Journey, with Chris Hammer, Tess Woods and Jake Dennis, in conversation with Glenn B Swift.
11.00am - 12.00pm
Searching for Meaning, Finding Joy. Annie de Monchaux and Deborah Pike in conversation with Lorraine Chapman.
For more information or directions, please don’t hestitate to ask Festival Staff, or phone the Library on 9956 6659.
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