Anz programme 2015 by Ben Gilbey

A Festival of Stories, Debates Films, Performance an nd Music

EVENTS BEGIN 17 MAY 2015 LONDON AND BRIGHTON FESTIVAL WEEKEND 28-31 MAY 2015 KING’S COLLEGE LONDON www.ausnzfestival.com x BOX OFFICE 020 7692 8780

2015 PROGRAMME

“Why just improve on what’s been done before, when you can totally reimagine it.”

Occasionally, people come along who are not content with simply moving things along. They want to take things further. Bored by reinvention of the superficial kind, their goal isn’t to improve on what has been done before – but to totally reimagine it. Flying Reimagined by Etihad, proud sponsors of the Australia & New Zealand Festival of Literature & Arts. Nicole Kidman featured in Etihad’s A380 flying daily between London and Abu Dhabi and from June 2015, onwards to Sydney. * World Travel Awards 2014

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Welcome to the second Australia & New Zealand Festival of Literature & Arts Every day, stories and ideas inspired by Australia and New Zealand are shared locally, nationally and globally, and it’s our privilege to import and curate a tailor-made selection here in London for you this May. Debate, literature, music and film are the main forms of choice this year, powered by boundless creativity and original thought. As you’ll see from the programme, the Festival will explore Australia and New Zealand’s biggest challenges, covering issues such as national identity, politics, the environment and the economy. Our speakers will also uncover common ground with the UK and beyond. What makes us different, and what experiences do we share? How can we understand our global neighbours a little better? We hope these conversations and connections continue to stimulate fresh collaborations throughout the UK and beyond, and see Australian and Kiwi talent reach bigger audiences. Whether it’s being involved as a storyteller, a volunteer or a supporter, you can be a part of this adventure too. Find out more on page 34. We’re honoured to have within our emerging Festival community a diverse and exceptional group of thinkers, artists, leaders, supporters and storytellers. Welcome aboard. We hope you enjoy the show.

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SPEAKER & ARTIST INDEX NAME

NATIONALITY

EVENT NUMBER

NAME

NATIONALITY EVENT NUMBER

A. C. Grayling

Julia Gillard

AUS

Post-2

Alan Duff

June Mendoza

AUS/UK

Alan Wearne

AUS

Kate Grenville

AUS

16, 38

Alex Clark

Katherine Gallagher

AUS

5, 8

Alice Miller

8, 17

Kelly Lovelady

AUS

Alicia Sometimes

AUS

Pre-7, 11, 35

Kerry Brown

Angela Smith

Li Cunxin

AUS

Post-4

Angus Forbes

AUS/UK

Lindy Tennent-Brown

Anthony Weigh

AUS

Lyell Cresswell

13, 40

Australian Piano Quartet

AUS

Mark Baldwin

FIJI/NZ

Belle Chen

AUS/TAI

Mark Little

AUS

Ben Ellis

AUS

Melissa Lucashenko

AUS

Pre-3, 1, 18, 25, 49

Bill Hayton

Mervyn Street

AUS

Carmen Callil

AUS

Pre-2

Michael Walling

Christopher Bowen

Nellie Bell

AUS/UK

Christopher Clark

AUS

Nicholas Shakespeare

Claire Potter

AUS

5, 17, 53

Nicola Clayton

Omar Musa

AUS

6, 12, 30, 53

Cyrus Gabrysch David Chuguna

AUS

9, 44

Pat Lowe

AUS/UK

9, 23, 44

David Walker

AUS

Paul Ewen

6, 39

DBC Pierre

AUS

Paul Gravett

Diana Brightmore-Armour

Peter Carey

AUS

Pre-2

Diane Lees

Peter Rose

AUS

22, 35

Don Watson

AUS

29, 51

Peter Walker

Duncan Sarkies

Pre-9, 1, 6, 33

Rebecca Hossack

AUS

44, A1-A4

Dylan Horrocks

42, 52

Robyn Archer

AUS

Eileen Chanin

AUS

Roger Langridge

Elizabeth Knox

Ros Kelly

AUS

Eloise Miller

Rose Fenton

Emma Jones

AUS

Ruth Padel

22, 46

Evelyn Conlon

IRE

Sarah Kendall

AUS

Fiammetta Rocco

ITAL

Sean Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien (Joe Blossom)

Gaye Sculthorpe

AUS

Selina Tusitala Marsh

1, 6, 30

Geraldine Doogue

AUS

3, 54

Shiraz Maher

Helen Trinca

AUS

Stella Duffy

Hermione Lee

Pre-2

Stephen Morgan

AUS/UK

Holly Ringland

AUS

23, 41

Steve Toltz

AUS

Howard Jacobson

Suzanne Azzopardi

Ian Henderson

AUS

26, 34

Tait Young Musicians

AUS/NZ

James Belich

Tara June Winch

AUS

18, 46

Jane Cornwell

AUS

Tim Radford

UK/NZ

Janina Matthewson

Tony Birch

AUS

18, 38, 48

Jarred Christmas

Tony Wheeler

Jaya Savige

AUS

5, 17, 21, 53

Tony White

Jayson Gillham

AUS

Vincent O Sullivan

22, 43, 53

Jesse Blackadder

AUS

10, 23, 36

Wayne Harrison

AUS

Joanna Woods

IRE

Xenia Deviatkina-Loh

Joe Havlat

AUS

Zubin Kanga

AUS

John-Paul Muir

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PRE Festival Events

TUESDAY 19 MAY

LITERATURE TALK

PETER CAREY IN CONVERSATION With Peter Carey, Hermione Lee. Chaired by Carmen Callil. Bloomsbury Theatre 7pm – 8.30pm £10/£8/£7 conc. Perhaps best-known for winning the Booker Prize twice, Australian novelist Peter Carey returns with his latest novel, Amnesia, described as “the story of WikiLeaks, as if transmogrified by Dickens and turned into a thrilling fable for our post-Edward Snowden era”. Peter will talk to biographer and critic Hermione Lee about how Australia has forfeited democracy by “brown-nosing” to the CIA; why privacy should be an inalienable right and what it is like to write about Australian politics while living in New York. In association with Royal Society of Literature and Intelligent Life

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FRIDAY 22 MAY

SATURDAY 23 MAY

LECTURE IDENTITY

FILM

BLACK, WHITE AND BRINDLE: Aboriginality in an age of unreason

ALL THIS MAYHEM

With Melissa Lucashenko. British Museum 7pm – 8pm £5/£3. Since 1788, Aboriginal people have been pinned relentlessly beneath the microscope of the European gaze. Today, that same gaze asks: our skin too pale, our English too accomplished and our minds too modern, who are we to claim that we are people of the First Nations? Born in 1967, in Brisbane, Melissa Lucashenko comes from European and Aboriginal descent. She has written several novels and non-fiction essays, including Steam Pigs, a story of racial identity.

Hackney Picturehouse 1pm (104 mins) £8.60/£7.60/£6 (online prices). All This Mayhem is the honest, uninhibited story of two Australian brothers – Tas and Ben Pappas – who rise from being outsiders to the highest ranking skateboarders in the world, renowned to this day. It tells of the intense bond between brothers that both propels them to the pinnacle of their sport and proves their undoing, in this tragic story of Shakespearian proportions. To be followed with a live Q&A via Skype featuring Tas Pappas and director Eddie Martin.

SATURDAY 23 MAY

SUNDAY 24 MAY

FILM

THE DARK HORSE

THE LAST WAVE

Hackney Picturehouse 4pm (124 mins) £8.60/£7.60/£6 (online prices).

Hackney Picturehouse 4pm (106 mins) £8.60/£7.60/£6 (online prices).

Starring an extraordinary New Zealand cast, The Dark Horse is the inspiring true story of a charismatic, brilliant but little-known Kiwi speed chess champion, Genesis Potini, known as Gen (Curtis). James Napier Robertson’s second feature-length film is a provocative and deeply affecting drama about a man who searches for the courage to lead in the face of adversity, and in doing sofinds purpose in passing on his gift to the children in his community.

Richard Chamberlain stars as white lawyer David Burton, who agrees to defend a group of Aboriginal Australians accused of killing one of their own. Burton suspects the victim has been killed for violating a tribal taboo, but the defendants deny this. Plagued by apocalyptic visions of water, Burton slowly realises that he shares a connection with those accused of the crime.

Ambiguous, unsettling and atmospheric, The Last Wave is a remarkable vision of mysticism challenging pragmatism.

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SUNDAY 24 MAY

MONDAY 25 MAY

FILM

MUSIC PERFORMANCE SCIENCE

GOODBYE PORK PIE

ELEMENTAL

Hackney Picturehouse 1pm (90 mins) £8.60/£7.60/£6 (online prices).

Planetarium at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich 7pm – 8.45pm, 9.15pm – 11pm £12/£11 conc./£10 child or guardian

Young rascal Gerry (Kelly Johnson) steals a car and, heading south, meets John, who wants his wife back, and a hitchhiker named Shirl. Soon they are driving to Invercargill to find John’s wife, with the cops in hot pursuit, whom they elude with hair-raising driving, verve and trickery. Also starring the late Bruno Lawrence, Geoff Murphy’s second feature was a low-budget smash, proving that New Zealanders could make blockbusters too.

Delivered in collaboration with the Australia and New Zealand Festival, this unique planetarium show explores four theories of how the universe began. Including live music, theatrical performance and striking visuals, the show will be introduced by Professor Chris Lintott, presenter of the BBC’s The Sky at Night.

24-25 MAY

SCHOOLS Programme PERFORMANCE LITERATURE

THE DEMOLITION OF THE CENTURY AT BRIGHTON FRINGE With Duncan Sarkies, Joe Blossom. Brighton Fringe Festival, 24 Kensington Street, Brighton 7.30pm – 8.30pm £11/£9.50 A man in a brown suit stands at a microphone, book in hand. Across from him sits a pianist, poised to serenade you. Hear stories of a man who has lost his socks, his ex-wife and, most importantly, his son Frank. Become enveloped in the world of award-winning screenwriter Duncan Sarkies’ novel, The Demolition of the Century. Buy tickets from the Brighton Fringe website. In association with the New Zealand Society UK

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The Festival will extend its audience reach by bringing the best of Australian and New Zealand literature to young people in schools across London and the regions. Activities provided will include author talks, storytelling and workshops. We are developing our outreach and engagement work throughout the year. Visit our website for more information and to get in touch.

MAIN Festival

FRIDAY 29 MAY

BUSINESS LITERATURE POLITICS

2. THE ASIAN CENTURY With Bill Hayton, David Walker and Kerry Brown. Lucas Theatre 2pm – 3.30pm. £15 China is the second largest economy in the world and on track to overtake the US in the coming decades. With Australia and New Zealand both relying on trade from the prosperous East, questions are being raised for two nations that still look to the US and the West for defence and security. And while immigration from Asia continues to rise, what cultural shifts are emerging at home? In association with the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies

THURSDAY 28 MAY

MUSIC PERFORMANCE LITERATURE POETRY

BUSINESS

1. FESTIVAL OPENING NIGHT

3. INSPIRING WOMEN REFLECT

Lucas Lecture Theatre 7pm – 8.30pm (no interval) £25/£18

With Diane Lees CBE, Robyn Archer AO, Geraldine Doogue AO, Diana Brightmore-Armour. Chaired by Ros Kelly AO. Lucas Theatre 4pm – 5.30pm £20

The Festival’s launch event welcomes acts from across the 2015 programme: a blistering mix of poets, performers, musicians and writers from Australia and New Zealand. We are delighted to be featuring comedian Jarred Christmas, entertainer Javier Jarquin, didgeridoo player Tony White, writers Steve Toltz, Melissa Lucashenko and DBC Pierre, performance poet Selina Tusitala Marsh and the Kiwi writing and musical double act Duncan Sarkies and Joe Blossom, who will perform an extract from their show Demolition of the Century.

Four high-profile women reflect on their career paths and lessons learned. After a question and answer session the afternoon will be rounded off with informal networking over drinks and canapés. Chairing the event is former Australian cabinet minister The Hon. Ros Kelly AO. Sponsored by Ros Kelly AO and David Morgan AO in association with Women on Boards UK. Supported by ANZ

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FRIDAY 29 MAY

FILM

PERFORMANCE LITERATURE

4. THE TURNING

6. LITERARY DEATH MATCH: Aus/NZ Special!

Lucas Theatre 5.45pm – 8.45pm £8/£5 conc.

With Adrian Todd Zuniga, Suzanne Azzopardi, Selina Tusitala Marsh, Omar Musa, Sarah Kendall, Duncan Sarkies and Stella Duffy as a judge. Chapel Doors 8pm, runs 8.30pm – 9.45pm £10/£8/£7 conc.

The Turning showcases 17 talented Australian directors from diverse artistic disciplines; including Robert Connolly, Warwick Thornton and actress Mia Wasikowska; each of whom have directed a chapter of this hauntingly beautiful short-story collection by award-winning author Tim Winton. The connected tales explore the extraordinary turning points in ordinary people’s lives in a vivid portrait of a small coastal community. The cast includes Cate Blanchett, Miranda Otto, Richard Roxburgh, Hugo Weaving and Rose Byrne.

4 authors, 3 judges, 2 finalists, 1 epic finale (and a bunch of really attractive lit-nerds).In this special edition for the Aus & NZ Festival, four writers read their own work for up to seven minutes and are appraised by three all-star judges. Two finalists are chosen to compete in the Literary Death Match finale, a (vaguely) literary game to decide the ultimate winner.

SATURDAY 30 MAY

POETRY DISCUSSION

DISCUSSION LITERATURE

5. REMEMBERED MUSIC: Celebrating Gwen Harwood (1920-95)

7. WAR STORIES: Uncertain Allies

With A.C. Grayling, Katherine Gallagher, Claire Potter, Jaya Savige. Chapel 6.30pm – 7.30pm £10/£8/£7 conc. Admired for her dazzling, sensuous musicality and uncompromising critical intelligence, Gwen Harwood, one of Australia’s preeminent 20thcentury poets, continues to find new readers at home and here in the UK. To mark the 20th anniversary of Harwood’s death, Remembered Music: A Celebration of Gwen Harwood (1920-95) brings a range of voices together to celebrate her enduring poetic legacy. In association with Literary Review

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With James Belich, Christopher Clark. Safra Theatre 10am – 11am £10/£8/£7 conc. In August 1914, political alliances were scrappy and ill-defined. British colonies were revolting in search of a national identity and the European elite was said to be suffering a ‘crisis of masculinity’ caused by the threat of the rise of the previously marginalised proletarian. Historians James Belich and Christopher Clark will reflect on the Great War and the alliances that were challenged and strengthened – across the UK, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. Supported by the New Zealand High Commission

SATURDAY 30 MAY

CLASSICAL MUSIC PERFORMANCE POETRY

WORKSHOP

8. THE MORNING COFFEE SESSIONS: Poetry and live music in the Chapel

10. CAPTURING YOUNG HEARTS: Writing for the Middle Grades

With Alice Miller (poet), Katherine Gallagher (poet), Joe Havalat (piano), Xenia Deviatkina-Loh (violin). Chapel 10am – 11am £10/£8/£7 conc.

With Jesse Blackadder. Workshop Space 10am – 12.30m £20

Music and literature have a shared influence that dates back to ancient Greece; from the advent of song to the role of church music throughout the Middle Ages and beyond. Composers across the centuries have turned to literature for vocal accompaniment, inspiration and storytelling in instrumental music. This event will unite contemporary composers of both Australian and New Zealand music and poetry for a collaboration curated to begin each day of the Festival weekend.

The ages of 8-12 are known as the golden age of reading – a time when children fall in love with books and develop as independent readers. ‘Capturing Young Hearts’ focuses on developing the storytelling skills needed to write for this age group. Subjects covered include how to create engaging, memorable characters; how to structure stories for junior readers; practical exercises to jump-start creativity and advice on getting published.

DISCUSSION ENVIRONMENT FAMILY

DISCUSSION SCIENCE

9. STORYTELLING: The Girl From the Great Sandy Desert

11. ART MEETS SCIENCE: New Ways of Seeing

With Pat Lowe, David Chuguna, Mervyn Street. Council Room 10am – 11am Adults: £5, children up to 12 years: free.

With Mark Baldwin, Professor Nicola Clayton, Alicia Sometimes. Safra Theatre 11.30am – 12.30pm £10/£8/£7 conc.

Australian writer Pat Lowe will read from The Girl From the Great Sandy Desert, the charming account she co-authored of the life of Mana, a young Walmajarri girl, and her family living in north-west Australia. Jukuna Mona Chuguna’s semi-autobiographical stories depict the daily life of hunting and gathering, kinship obligations, the never-ending search for water, and the exploits of children growing up. Pat Lowe will be in conversation with Mervyn Street, the book’s illustrator.

Artistic director of contemporary dance Mark Baldwin (Fiji/NZ), and Professor Nicola Clayton, an expert in comparative cognition, discuss their choreographic works and jointly authored book Mind and Movement: A series of Beautiful Questions, to be published late 2015. Musician and poet Alicia Sometimes (Aus) and Professor John Gribbin discuss Elemental, their musical and visual performance exploring the beginning of time, presented as part of this year’s Festival (25 May).

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SATURDAY 30 MAY

DISCUSSION HISTORY IDENTITY POLITICS

LITERATURE HISTORY DISCUSSION POLITICS

12. RADICALISATION AND NATIONAL IDENTITY

15. SOME HERE AMONG US

With Nicholas Shakespeare, Omar Musa, Shiraz Maher. Great Hall 11.30am – 12.30pm £10/£8/£7 conc. Australian spoken word artist Omar Musa and Shiraz Maher from the International Centre for the Study of Radicalism will discuss radicalisation in the context of national identity (particularly in the light of December’s terrorist attacks in Australia). Joining them is Nicholas Shakespeare, whose novella Oddballs is about the single act of hostility on Australian soil in WW1 when two disaffected Muslim men opened fire on an open train packed with picnickers. In association with English PEN

With Peter Walker. Safra Theatre 1pm – 2pm £10/£8/£7 conc. Described as a novel for our times, Some Here Among Us by former foreign editor Peter Walker takes readers from the shores of New Zealand to the political heart of Washington and on to the hills above Beirut. Set across two generations of political upheaval, it is a meditation on youth and promise and loss in the face of two of the most controversial wars in modern history, and the global legacies they leave behind.

CLASSICAL MUSIC PERFORMANCE POETRY

DISCUSSION LITERATURE

13. SINGS HARRY, BILL AND MICK: a celebration of Douglas Lilburn and Denis Glover

16. KATE GRENVILLE IN CONVERSATION

With Christopher Bowen, Lyell Cresswell, Lindy Tennent-Brown. Chapel 11.30am – 12.30pm £10/£8 conc. Douglas Lilburn’s 1953 setting of Denis Glover poetry, Sings Harry – one of New Zealand’s most enduring song cycles – is the starting point for this exploration of New Zealand sound, character and landscape by tenor Christopher Bowen and pianist Lindy Tennent-Brown, both from New Zealand. The event will include the premiere of two new works inspired by Sings Harry and based on Denis Glover’s other man-alone characters: Lyell Cresswell’s Old Mick and Patrick Shepherd’s Arawata Bill.

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With Kate Grenville. Great Hall 1pm – 2pm £10/£8/£7 conc. The Festival is delighted to host Kate Grenville in discussion about her new memoir One Life: My Mother’s Story. The book pays tribute to a woman whose life spanned a century of tumult and change; for whom the spectacular shifts of the 20th century offered new freedoms and choices in an era when women had been expected to have no ambitions beyond the domestic. It is a deeply moving homage by one of Australia’s finest writers.

SATURDAY 30 MAY

POETRY

WORKSHOP

17. SOUTH COUNTRY: 21st Century Antipodean Voices (I)

19. WORLD MAKING FOR FICTION WRITING

Readers: Selina Tusitala Marsh, Alice Miller, Alan Wearne, Jaya Savige. MC: Claire Potter. Chapel 1pm – 2pm £10/£8/£7 conc.

With Claire Potter as MC, the line-up includes poets and performers Selina Tusitala Marsh, Alice Miller, Alan Wearne and Jaya Savige.

This workshop aims to offer writers some strategies for the creation of whole, real-seeming worlds in long fiction, through the collaborative construction of a single fictional situation – a premise, plot, setting, and a cast of characters. It is a kind of structured play, where writers might be temporarily shaken free from the habits and burdens of their current projects through the license of participating in an invention for whose shape, tone, and impetus they were not solely responsible.

DISCUSSION LITERATURE

FILM

18. NEW STORIES (Books Just Out)

20. ONCE WERE WARRIORS

With Melissa Lucashenko, Tony Birch, Tara June Winch. Chaired by Fiammetta Rocco. Council Room 1pm – 2pm £10/£9/£8 student.

Lucas Theatre 1.30pm – 3.15 pm £10/£5 conc.

Leading lights in the Australian and New Zealand poetry scene gather for an afternoon of Antipodean readings, illuminating Australian and New Zealand poetic talent in the 21st century.

Three leading Australian writers present their new works. Melissa Lucashenko will introduce Mullumbimby, a story of romantic love and cultural warfare; Tony Birch will reveal The Promise, a short-story collection about love, loss and faith while Tara June Winch will discuss both Swallow the Air, about a young Aboriginal girl who sets off to Sydney to find her absent father and her aboriginal identity, and her new novel set in the humanitarian aid world.

Workshop Space 1pm – 3.30pm £20

Eighteen years into their marriage, Beth finds herself trapped in a destructive, violent relationship with volatile Jake. It will take all Beth’s strength to save herself and her children from the man she has loved since adolescence. Director Lee Tamahori's visceral and hard-hitting depiction of gang and domestic violence amongst an urban Mãori whãnau (family) was adapted from Alan Duff’s best-selling 1990 novel of the same name by screenwriter Riwia Brown.

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SATURDAY 30 MAY

DISCUSSION

FAMILY DISCUSSION

21. BRILLIANT CREATURES

23. DRAMATIC BEAUTY: Children’s Fiction from The Kimberley Region

With Howard Jacobson, Helen Trinca, Jaya Savige. Great Hall 2.30pm – 3.30pm £10/£8/£7 conc. In his TV series Brilliant Creatures, Booker Prizewinning author Howard Jacobson investigates the cultural invasion of four Australians who arrived in London in the 1960s: writer Clive James, feminist Germaine Greer, performer Barry Humphries and art critic Robert Hughes. Each has been hailed a leading rebel of their era – so who today can lay claim to such influence? In association with The Australian

With Jesse Blackadder, Pat Lowe. Chaired by Holly Ringland Council Room 2.30pm – 3.30pm £10/£8/£7 conc. A book event featuring children’s authors Jesse Blackadder and Pat Lowe, whose work is inspired by and set against the dramatic backdrop of The Kimberleys in Western Australia. Jesse Blackadder’s Paruku: The Desert Brumby is a moving tale inspired by the true story of the Kimberley brumbies (or wild horses) and their journey to Dubai. Pat Lowe’s The Girl with No Name tells the story of Matthew and his unusual friendship with an Aboriginal girl.

DISCUSSION POETRY HISTORY

FILM

22. WAR IN WRITING: Ruth Padel in conversation with Vincent O’Sullivan

24. THE DEAD LANDS

With Ruth Padel, Vincent O'Sulllivan. Chaired by Peter Rose. Chapel 2.30pm – 3.30pm £10/£9/£8 In the reflective setting of the beautiful Chapel at King’s College London, British poet and novelist Ruth Padel and New Zealand poet laureate Vincent O’Sullivan discuss why they choose to write about war and how they approach their subject matter. Ruth is currently finishing her second novel set during WWII in Crete, while Vincent will read from his WWI song cycle Notes from the Front. In association with the Australian Book Review

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Lucas Theatre 3.45pm – 5.35pm £10/£8 conc./£5 student. Playwright and film director Toa Fraser directed The Dead Lands by Glenn Standring, a Mãori language UK/NZ co-production. Set in New Zealand’s pre-colonial days, the lean and violent tale of Mãori warfare centres on Hongi (James Rolleston), a Mãori chieftain’s teenage son, who must avenge his father’s murder. Both bruising and thrilling, The Dead Lands was selected as New Zealand’s entry for Best Foreign Language Film for this year’s Academy Awards.

SATURDAY 30 MAY

DISCUSSION

IDENTITY

MUSIC

25. BREAKING THE CYCLE

27. NELLIE BELL SHOWCASE

With Alan Duff, Melissa Lucashenko, David Kendall. Safra Theatre 4pm – 5pm £10/£8/£7 conc.

Chapel Sunday 3.15-4pm £10/£8/£5 conc.

Domestic violence, alcoholism, drug addiction and rape are characteristics of the destructive social and cultural cycles that persist within certain communities across the world. Alan Duff, writer of critically acclaimed novel Once Were Warriors (which was made into a film), and Melissa Lucashenko, author of Steam Pigs and Killing Darcy, will discuss these issues in the context of communities in New Zealand, Australia and Europe, and ask whether anything has changed. In association with The Reading Agency

Join us for an afternoon performance in the beautiful Chapel of King’s College with the Australian singer, songwriter, musician and producer, Nellie Bell. Nellie, born Natalie Gauci, is an up-and-coming artist based in Melbourne and Hackney, London. Her music spans a range of genres, including jazz, pop and soul; she’s said to be Bruno Mars, Alicia Keys, Imogen Heap and Norah Jones in one body. Please note this event is now taking place on Sunday.

DISCUSSION FILM HISTORY

WORKSHOP

26. THE STORY OF THE KELLY GANG

28. FICTION WRITING: Seeds to a Good Story

With Angus Forbes, Ian Henderson, Stephen Morgan, Cyrus Gabrysch. Great Hall 4pm – 5.15pm £10/£8/£7 conc. The Story of the Kelly Gang, directed by Charles Tait in 1906 and tracing the life of the infamous outlaw and bushranger Ned Kelly, is the world's first surviving full-length feature film. The footage has been restored by the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA), and this special screening will have a live piano accompaniment. After the film, the audience will hear the fascinating story of how Charles Tait’s ground-breaking work was made, then lost, then discovered again by his grandson Angus Forbes. The latter has also written a screenplay treatment about his grandfather, Charlie and the Gang.

With Tony Birch. Workshop Space 4pm – 6pm £20 This workshop, run by established Australian novelist and writer Tony Birch, will furnish participants with a range of skills and exercises, such as character development, point-of-view, structure and endings, to enhance their fiction writing, both long and short. Students will also be introduced to a range of stimuli that act to produce the seeds of a good story, including still photography, objects and feature film. Please bring a notebook or laptop.

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SATURDAY 30 MAY

DISCUSSION POLITICS BIOGRAPHY

MUSIC

29. POLITICAL LIVES

32. TAIT CONCERT: JAYSON GILLHAM AND THE AUSTRALIAN PIANO QUARTET

With Don Watson. Safra Theatre 5.45pm – 6.45 pm £10/£8/£7 conc. Don Watson was the speechwriter for former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating. Recollections of a Bleeding Heart, the memoir based on his diaries from the four turbulent and exhausting years of Keating’s tenure, is widely deemed a masterpiece in political writing. Keating’s four years as in power set Australia on a new course. At this special event, Don will reflect on Australian and British politics since publishing Bleeding Heart in 2002.

With Jayson Gillham, Evgeny Ukhanov (piano), Thomas Rann (cello), Rebecca Chan (violin), James Wannan (viola), Daniel de Borah (piano). Chapel 7.30pm – 9pm £12/£10 conc./£9 student. The Tait Memorial Trust supports young Australian performing artists in the UK and is delighted to work with the Festival to welcome some of our critically acclaimed awardees including Jayson Gillham, Thomas Rann and Daniel de Borah.

Pianist Jayson Gillham and the APQ unite in a double bill to present an evening of ensemble and solo piano, exploring contemporary Australian repertoire and the forgotten generation of early-Australian classical composition.

DISCUSSION IDENTITY

PERFORMANCE LITERATURE

30. WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?

33. THE DEMOLITION OF THE CENTURY

With Omar Musa, Selina Tusitala Marsh. Great Hall 6pm – 7pm £10/£8/£7 conc.

With Duncan Sarkies, Joe Blossom. Great Hall 8.15pm – 9.30pm £10/£8/£7 conc.

Two writers and performance poets will discuss how their identity has influenced their work and the evolving shift of balance between different ethnic communities across their respective countries. Omar Musa is a Malaysian-Australian rapper, poet and novelist while Selina Tusitala Marsh is a senior lecturer at the University of Auckland, where she teaches New Zealand and Pacific Literature and Creative Writing. Selina is of Samoan, Tuvaluan, English and French descent.

The Demolition of the Century sees the awardwinning New Zealand writer Duncan Sarkies stage a humorous and sometimes heartbreaking tribute to families, memories and the fragility of the human mind. He tells the story of Tom Spotswood, an alcoholic insurance investigator who has lost his socks, his suitcase, his ex-wife and his son, Frank. Duncan’s performance will be accompanied by Wellington musician Joe Blossom’s haunting and invigorating soundtrack. In association with the New Zealand Society UK

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SATURDAY AT A GLANCE LUCAS THEATRE FILMS 10.00 10.15

SAFRA LECTURE THEATRE TALKS 7. WAR STORIES: UNCERTAIN ALLIES James Belich,Christopher Clark.

GREAT HALL TALKS

11. ART MEETS SCIENCE: NEW WAYS OF SEEING Mark Baldwin,Professor Nicola Clayton, Alicia Sometimes.

12. RADICALISATION AND NATIONAL IDENTITY Nicholas Shakespeare,Shiraz Maher, Omar Musa..

PERFORMANCES

10.30 10.45 11.00 11.15 11.30 11.45 12.00 12.15 12.30 12.45 1.00 1.15 1.30

20. ONCE WERE WARRIORS

15. SOME HERE AMONG US: 16. KATE GRENVILLE IN CONVERSATION THE JOURNALIST & THE FICTION WRITER Kate Grenville. Peter Walker.

1.45 2.00 2.15

21. BRILLIANT CREATURES Howard Jacobson, Helen Trinca, Jaya Savige.

2.30 2.45 3.00 3.15 3.30 3.45

24. THE DEAD LANDS (NZ) 25. BREAKING THE CYCLE Alan Duff, Melissa Lucashenko, David Kendall.

4.00 4.15 4.30 4.45

26. THE STORY OF THE KELLY GANG Angus Forbes, Ian Henderson, Stephen Morgan, Cyrus Gabrysch .

5.00 5.15 5.30

29. POLITICAL LIVES DON WATSON

5.45

30. WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? Omar Musa, Selina Tusitala Marsh.

6.00 6.15 6.30 6.45 7.00 7.15 7.30 7.45 8.00

33. DEMOLITION OF THE CENTURY Joe Blossom, Duncan Sarkies.

8.15 8.30 8.45 9.00 9.15 9.30 9.45 10.00

FILMS

TALKS

PERFORMANCES

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SATURDAY AT A GLANCE CHAPEL POETRY & MUSIC 8. THE MORNING COFFEE SESSIONS: POETRY AND LIVE MUSIC IN THE CHAPEL (1) Alice Miller (poet), Joe Havlat, Xenia Deviatkina-Loh (violin), Katherine Gallagher (poet).

COUNCIL ROOM TALKS 9. STORYTELLING: THE GIRL FROM SANDY DESERT Pat Lowe, Mervyn Street, David Chuguna.

WORKSHOP SPACE WORKSHOPS 10. CAPTURING YOUNG HEARTS: WRITING FOR THE MIDDLE GRADES Jesse Blackadder.

10.00 10.15 10.30 10.45 11.00 11.15

13. SINGS HARRY, BILL AND MICK: A CELEBRATION OF DOUGLAS LILBURN AND DENIS GLOVER Christopher Bowen, Lyell Cresswell, Lindy Tennent-Brown.

11.30 11.45 12.00 12.15 12.30 12.45

17. SOUTH COUNTRY: 21ST CENTURY ANTIPODEAN VOICES (I) Jaya Savige, Claire Potter, Alan Wearne, Alice Miller, Selina Tusitala Marsh.

18. NEW STORIES (Books just out) Tony Birch,Tara June Winch,Melissa Lucashenko, Fiammetta Rocco.

20. WORLD-MAKING FOR THE WRITING OF FICTION Elizabeth Knox.

1.00 1.15 1.30 1.45 2.00 2.15

22. WAR IN WRITING: RUTH PADEL IN CONVERSATION WITH VINCENT O’SULLIVAN Ruth Padel, Vincent O Sullivan, Peter Rose.

23. DRAMATIC BEAUTY: WRITING FROM THE KIMBERLEY REGION FOR CHILDREN Jesse Blackadder, Pat Lowe, Holly Ringland.

2.30 2.45 3.00 3.15 3.30 3.45

28. FICTION WRITING: SEEDS TO A GOOD STORY Tony Birch.

27. NELLIE BELL SHOWCASE Nellie Bell.

4.00 4.15 4.30 4.45 5.00 5.15 5.30 5.45 6.00 6.15 6.30 6.45 7.00 7.15

32. DOUBLE BILL: JAYSON GILLHAM & THE AUSTRALIAN PIANO QUARTET Jayson Gillham, Australian Piano Quartet.

7.30 7.45 8.00 8.15 8.30 8.45 9.00 9.15 9.30 9.45

POETRY & MUSIC

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10.00

SUNDAY AT A GLANCE LUCAS THEATRE FILMS

SAFRA LECTURE THEATRE TALKS

GREAT HALL TALKS

10.00 10.15

34. THE ONE DAY OF THE YEAR: LET’S TALK ABOUT ANZAC Wayne Harrison, Mark Little, Fiona Press, Anthony Weigh, Ben Ellis, Dr Ian Henderson.

10.30 10.45 11.00 11.15 11.30 11.45 12.00 12.15 12.30

38. THE INDIGENOUS VOICE Tony Birch, Kate Grenville, Michael Walling.

39. THE WRITER AND HIS (ALTER) EGO Paul Ewen, Eloise Miller.

43. THE LIFE & LEGACY OF KATHERINE MANSFIELD Vincent O Sullivan, Joanna Woods Angela Smith.

44. COLLECTING STORIES FROM THE DESERT Pat Lowe, Mervyn Street, David Chuguna, Rebecca Hossack.

12.45 1.00 1.15 1.30 1.45

47. THE WALER:AUSTRALIA'S GREAT WAR HORSE

2.00 2.15 2.30 2.45

48. URGENT NARRATIVES: WRITING THE ENVIRONMENT Tony Birch, Rose Fenton.

3.00 3.15 3.30 3.45

50. BOY

4.00 4.15

51. DON WATSON ON THE BUSH Don Watson, Tony Wheeler.

4.30 4.45 5.00 5.15

52. THE GRAPHIC NOVEL: DYLAN HORROCKS IN CONVERSATION WITH ROGER LANGRIDGE Dylan Horrocks, RogerLangridge, Paul Gravett.

5.30 5.45 6.00 6.15 6.30

55. PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK: THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY 56. RISKS, FAITH AND FRIENDSHIP: STEVE TOLTZ IN CONVERSATION Steve Toltz, Alex Clark.

6.45 7.00 7.15 7.30 7.45 8.00 8.15 8.30 8.45 9.00 9.15 9.30 9.45 10.00

FILMS

TALKS

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SUNDAY AT A GLANCE CHAPEL POETRY & MUSIC

COUNCIL ROOM TALKS

WORKSHOP SPACE WORKSHOPS

35. THE MORNING COFFEE SESSIONS: POETRY AND LIVE MUSIC IN THE CHAPEL (II) Peter Rose (poet), Belle Chen (piano), Alicia Sometimes (poet), John-Paul Muir (piano).

36. STORYTELLING: DEXTER THE COURAGEOUS KOALA Jesse Blackadder.

37. TELLING OTHER PEOPLE'S STORIES: WRITING ACROSS CULTURES Pat Lowe.

10.00 10.15 10.30 10.45 11.00 11.15 11.30 11.45

40. COLLABORATION IN CONTEMPORARY MUSIC Zubin Kanga, Kelly Lovelady, Lyell Cresswell.

45. TAIT YOUNG MUSICIANS SHOWCASE Chad Vindin, Lisa Bucknell, Joanna Norman, Kylie Bucknell, Marcus Norman, Olivia Francis.

41. ALTERNATIVE WORLDS Elizabeth Knox, Holly Ringland, Janina Matthewson.

12.00 12.15 12.30 12.45

46. THE MARA CROSSING: ON JOURNEYS ACROSS THE GLOBE Ruth Padel, Evelyn Conlon, Tara June Winch.

42. DRAWING STORIES: WRITING WORLDS Dylan Horrocks.

1.00 1.15 1.30 1.45 2.00 2.15 2.30 2.45

27. NELLIE BELL SHOWCASE Nellie Bell.

49. WHO OWNS CULTURE? Gaye Sculthorpe, Tim Radford, Melissa Lucashenko.

3.00 3.15 3.30 3.45 4.00 4.15

53. SOUTH COUNTRY: 21ST CENTURY 54. AWAKENING, FOUR LIVES IN ART ANTIPODEAN VOICES (II) Eileen Chanin, Geraldine Doogue, Jaya Savige, Vincent O Sullivan, June Mendoza. Claire Potter, Omar Musa, Emma Jones.

4.30 4.45 5.00 5.15 5.30 5.45 6.00 6.15 6.30 6.45 7.00 7.15 7.30 7.45 8.00 8.15 8.30 8.45 9.00 9.15 9.30 9.45

POETRY & MUSIC

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The BP exhibition

Indigenous Australia enduring civilisation 23 April – 2 August Supported by BP

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EXPLORE THE WORLD’S INDIGENOUS CULTURES...

FESTIVAL OF FIRST NATIONS 9 - 25 june 2015 Including ILBIJJERI Theatre’s Beautiful One Day and the films of Rolf de Heer

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SUNDAY 31 MAY

DISCUSSION HISTORY THEATRE

STORYTELLING FAMILY

34. THE ONE DAY OF THE YEAR: Let’s Talk About ANZAC

36. STORYTELLING: Dexter The Courageous Koala

With Wayne Harrison, Mark Little, Fiona Press, Anthony Weigh, Ben Ellis. Chaired by Dr Ian Henderson. Great Hall 10.30am – 11.30am £10/£8/£7 conc.

With Jesse Blackadder. Council Room 10.30am – 11.30am £5/free for kids under 12

For war veterans like Alf, ANZAC Day is the chance to commemorate history, celebrate heroism and conjure national pride. For Alf’s son Hughie, it’s just an out-of-date nationalist nostalgia fest... Coinciding with the revival of The One Day of the Year in London, cast and director Wayne Harrison – former artistic director of the Sydney Theatre Company – will join us to discuss the public debate that inspired Alan Seymour’s 1958 play.

The Australian author Jesse Blackadder reads from her children’s novel, Dexter The Courageous Koala. Ashley’s holiday isn’t anything like she expected. Picked up by her eccentric aunt Micky and driven out beyond network range to ‘Toad Hall’, her troubles are just beginning. In a matter of hours she is facing a furious storm, a flooded creek and an electrical blackout – not to mention a koala emergency. For 8-to-13-year-olds (and anyone who loves koalas).

CLASSICAL MUSIC POETRY PERFORMANCE

WORKSHOP

35. THE MORNING COFFEE SESSIONS: Poetry and live music in the Chapel (II)

37. TELLING OTHER PEOPLE’S STORIES: Writing Across Cultures

With Peter Rose (poet), Belle Chen (piano), Alicia Sometimes (poet), John-Paul Muir (piano).

With Pat Lowe. Workshop Space 10.30pm – 12.30pm £20

Chapel 10.30 am – 11.30am £10/£8/£7 conc.

In this writing workshop, author Pat Lowe will share her own experience of gathering stories and rewriting them, identifying some personal stories told to her by Australian Aboriginal people, and will invite participants to discuss the ethical dilemmas and practical difficulties of interpreting someone else’s world for an English-reading audience. She would love to meet others who have dealt with or are facing similar challenges. You are encouraged to bring along anything you would like to present/discuss, as well as notebooks or laptops.

Music and literature have a shared influence and inextricable links that date back to ancient Greece; from the advent of song to the role of church music throughout the Middle Ages and beyond. This event will unite Australian and New Zealand composers of both music and poetry for a collaboration curated to open each day of the Festival weekend, as both artistic forms will be paired in performance by readers and instrumentalists.

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SUNDAY 31 MAY

DISCUSSION IDENTITY

MUSIC DISCUSSION

38. THE INDIGENOUS VOICE

40. COLLABORATION IN CONTEMPORARY MUSIC

With Tony Birch, Kate Grenville. Chaired by Michael Walling. Safra Theatre 12pm – 1pm £10/£8/£7 conc. What does it mean to write with an ‘indigenous voice’? What role has indigenous writing and culture played within the domestic agenda and on the world stage? Aboriginal groups and Torres Strait Islanders are at the core of Australian identity but how do people in the UK and beyond relate to their stories? Chaired by Origins Festival Director Michael Walling and including writers Kate Grenville and Tony Birch. In association with the Origins Festival

With Lyell Cresswell, Kelly Lovelady, Zubin Kanga. Chapel 12pm – 1pm £10/£8/£7 conc. Not down (under) with Australian contemporary music? The avant-garde musical scene is in fact alive and well in the southern hemisphere. Issues of identity in music, the working relationship between artists, and experiences of producing and performing new music to a global audience will be discussed and in part performed, by two of Australia’s finest advocates in the business: composer Lyell Cresswell, conductor Kelly Lovelady and pianist Zubin Kanga.

DISCUSSION LITERATURE

STORYTELLING DISCUSSION

39. THE WRITER AND HIS (ALTER) EGO

41. ALTERNATIVE WORLDS

With Paul Ewen. Chaired by Eloise Miller. Great Hall 12pm – 1pm £10/£8/£7 conc.

With Elizabeth Knox, Janina Matthewson. Chaired by Holly Ringland. Council Room 12pm – 1pm £10/£8/£7 conc.

Paul Ewen will discuss his first novel (and second publication), How to be a Public Author? by his literary alter ego, Francis Plug. Francis Plug makes it his mission to attend any bookshop talks, signings, interviews and literary festivals. Perpetually drunk and socially awkward, Plug’s narrative relates anecdotes of his encounter with writers such as AS Byatt, Howard Jacobson, VS Naipaul, Julian Barnes and Peter Carey.

An event exploring alternative worlds in fiction, bringing together a range of storytelling, from fantasy to fairy tales to mythology from two of New Zealand’s most exciting writers. Elizabeth Knox’s best-known works also include The Dreamhunter Duet, a fantasy series for teen readers. Writer and film critic Janina Matthewson’s debut novel Of Things Gone Astray is a magical fable about modern life, values and finding the things that really matter.

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SUNDAY 31 MAY

WORKSHOP

DISCUSSION ART

42. DRAWING STORIES, WRITING WORLDS

44. COLLECTING STORIES FROM THE DESERT

With Dylan Horrocks. Workshop Space 1pm – 3pm £20

With Pat Lowe, David Chuguna, Mervyn Street. Chaired by Rebecca Hossack. Great Hall 1.30pm – 2.30pm £10/£8/£7 conc.

Every time we tell a story or draw a picture, we give birth to a whole new world and open up new ways of seeing, speaking and reading. That’s the idea, anyway... Whether you're an experienced cartoonist or simply curious, this workshop, run by acclaimed graphic novelist Dylan Horrocks, will encourage you to forge new paths, strengthen your voice and explore the infinite potential of comics.

In the 1980s Pat Lowe went to live for three years in a camp in the Great Sandy Desert of Western Australia, where she came to know Jukuna Mona Chuguna and her family. Eventually they began to record Mona’s stories, Pat having realised what a rich source of valuable cultural information these were. This event includes a special appearance from Mona’s son, dancer and Ngurrara Ranger David Chuguna.

DISCUSSION

MUSIC CLASSICAL MUSIC

43. THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF KATHERINE MANSFIELD

45. TAIT YOUNG MUSICIANS

With Vincent O’Sullivan, Joanna Woods, Angela Smith. Safra Theatre 1.30pm – 2.30pm £10/£8/£7 conc. The panel will discuss the life, work and legacy of Katherine Mansfield, the modernist New-Zealand short-fiction writer. Born in 1888 in Wellington, Mansfield grew up in colonial New-Zealand and moved to the UK aged 19 where she befriended the likes of Virginia Woolf and D.H. Lawrence. Mansfield secured her reputation as a writer with the story collection Bliss (1920) and reached the height of her career with her 1922 collection The Garden Party. She died of tuberculosis aged 34.

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With emerging artists and students. Chapel 1.30pm – 2.30pm £10/£8/£7 conc. Join us for this showcase of young Australian & New Zealand talent studying in the UK. The Tait Trust has supported young Australian performing artists since 1992 and to date has helped more than 250 young Australians. The Festival is delighted to welcome three young musicians from New Zealand in this celebration of classical music excellence. Supported and presented by the Tait Memorial Trust

SUNDAY 31 MAY

DISCUSSION MIGRATION

DISCUSSION ENVIRONMENT

46. THE MARA CROSSING: ON JOURNEYS ACROSS THE GLOBE

48. URGENT NARRATIVES: Writing the Environment

With Ruth Padel, Evelyn Conlon, Tara June Winch. Chaired by Jane Cornwell. Council Room 1.30pm – 2.30pm £10/£8/£7 conc.

With Tony Birch. Chaired by Rose Fenton Great Hall 3pm – 4pm £10/£8/£7 conc.

Based around the theme of migration, this event explores the journeys people make in search of ‘home’, what it might symbolise and how it relates to their final destination. Panellists include Ruth Padel, poet and author of The Mara Crossing and On Migration: Dangerous Journeys and the Living World; and Evelyn Conlon, the Irish novelist of Not the Same Sky, the story of Irish girls shipped off to Australia between 1848 and 1850 during the Great Famine.

As the arguments around climate science continue to rage, alerting the world to the risks of a changing environment becomes more urgent. But how best to do this? How can writers write about climate change, and to what extent should their own views influence the narrative? Part of the global ‘Weather Stations’ project, which examines climate change through the prism of literature and storytelling. In association with Free Word Centre

FILM

DISCUSSION

47. THE WALER: Australia’s Great Horse

49. WHO OWNS CULTURE?

Lucas Theatre 1.30 pm – 3.15 pm £10/£5 conc.

With Gaye Sculthorpe, Melissa Lucashenko. Chaired by Tim Radford. Council Room 3pm – 4pm £10/£8/£7 conc.

More than 130,000 Australian horses served in WW1. The Waler uses archival footage, re-enactment and contemporary interviews to take us on an epic journey across the vast Indian Ocean, to the pyramids of Egypt, the living hell that was Gallipoli, and the unforgiving desert sands of the Middle East. The film explores two celebrated partnerships: Michael Shanahan and ‘Bill the Bastard’, and Guy Haydon and ‘Midnight’; and ultimately reveals why our horses did not come home.

The panel will consider the challenges of exhibiting and presenting other cultures through the arts and the relationships that can exist between humans and objects, where objects can represent both lost people and painful histories. Featuring author Melissa Lucashenko and Gaye Sculthorpe, curator of the Indigenous Australia exhibition at the British Museum.

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SUNDAY 31 MAY

FILM

DISCUSSION

50. BOY

52. THE GRAPHIC NOVEL: Dylan Horrocks in conversation with Roger Langridge

Lucas Theatre 3.45pm – 5.30pm Boy (James Rolleston) is a-obsessed dreamer who lives with his brother Rocky (Te Aho Aho EketoneWhitu), a tribe of deserted cousins and his Nan. Boy’s father, Alamein (Waititi), is the subject of Boy’s fantasies as he imagines him as a deep sea diver, war hero and a close relation of Michael Jackson (he can even dance like him). In reality he’s “in the can for robbery”. When Alamein returns home after seven years, Boy is forced to confront the man he thought he remembered.

With Dylan Horrocks, Roger Langridge. Chaired by Paul Gravett. Great Hall 4.30pm – 5.30pm £10/£8/£7 conc.

DISCUSSION ENVIRONMENT

POETRY

51. DON WATSON ON THE BUSH

53. SOUTH COUNTRY: 21st Century Antipodean Voices (II)

With Don Watson in conversation with Tony Wheeler. Safra Theatre 4.30pm – 5.30pm £10/£8/£7 conc. Most Australians live in cities and cling to the coastal fringe, yet their cultural identity is more often than not drawn from the vast and varied inland of ‘the bush’. But what does this mean and how has it shaped the people living off the land and amongst the nation’s city-dwellers? Featuring Don Watson, one of Australia's most distinguished non-fiction writers and author of The Bush: Travels in the Heart of Australia.

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New Zealand writer and artist Roger Langridge (whose work includes The Muppet Show Comic Book) will be discussing the Australian and New Zealand comic scene with his compatriot cartoonist Dylan Horrocks, best known for his graphic novel Hicksville (1998). His long-awaited new graphic novel, Sam Zabel and the Magic Pen, features the main character stuck in creative block – until he finds an old comic book set on Mars...

Readers: Vincent O'Sullivan, Claire Potter, Omar Musa, Emma Jones. MC: Jaya Savige. Chapel 4.30pm – 5.30pm £10/£8/£7 conc. Australian and New Zealand poets gather to offer an Antipodean poetic envoi for this year’s festival. Sample the richness and diversity of Australian and New Zealand poetry in the 21st century. With Jaya Savige as MC, the line-up includes New Zealand poet laureate Vincent O’Sullivan and poets Emma Jones and Claire Potter and spoken word artist and writer, Omar Musa, all from Australia.

SUNDAY 31 MAY

DISCUSSION ART

DISCUSSION LITERATURE

54. AWAKENING, FOUR LIVES IN ART

56. RISKS, FAITH AND FRIENDSHIP: Steve Toltz in conversation

With June Mendoza AO OBE, Eileen Chanin. Chaired by Geraldine Doogue AO. Council Room 4.30pm – 5.30pm £10/£8/£7 conc. Awakening, Four Lives in Art by Eileen Chanin and Steven Miller chronicles four women in the arts during the 20th century: Louise Hanson-Dyer, who laid the foundations of the modern early music revival; Mary Cecil Allen, whose books on contemporary art became standard texts; Clarice Zander, curator and the first press officer for the Royal Academy; and sculptor Dora Ohlfsen. The panel will discuss the artistic legacy left by these figures and reflect on their own creative endeavours.

With Steve Toltz, Alex Clark. Safra Theatre 6pm – 7pm £10/£8/£7 conc. Following his critically acclaimed first novel A Fraction of the Whole, about three generations of the eccentric Dean family, Steve Toltz will join the festival for a special event to discuss his follow-up novel Quicksand which offers its reader a gruelling yet illuminating depiction of physical disability and a subversive portrait of 21st-century society in all its hypocrisy and absurdity. In conversation with the Man Booker Prize finalist will be literary critic Alex Clark.

FESTIVAL BOOKSHOP: At the heart of any literature festival is the bookshop! Books written by Festival authors, and a wider selection of books from and about Australia and New Zealand, will be available on sale from the Lower Ground Bookshop (Thursday) and Chapters (Main Festival weekend).

FILM

55. PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK: The 40th Anniversary Lucas Theatre 5.45pm – 7.40pm £10/£9/£8 conc. In the 40 years since its release, Peter Weir’s adaptation of Joan Lindsay’s 1967 novel, Picnic at Hanging Rock, has lost none of its haunting, unsettling power. Set on St. Valentine’s Day in 1900, it tells the story of the disappearance of several schoolgirls and a teacher on a picnic to the distinctive geological landmark. The unsolved mystery is the basis for a narrative whose underlying themes are death, femininity, adolescent love and emerging sexuality.

In partnership with Stanfords.

CAFÉ: Make the most of your visit to the Festival and enjoy food, snacks, coffees and Australian beer on-site at the Somerset Cafe on the First Floor of the King’s College building.

TUCK SHOP: The Festival will include a tuck shop stocked full of your favourite snacks from Australia and New Zealand, including Jaffas, Minties, TimTams and Pineapple Lumps! A selection of fine wine and beer from Australia and New Zealand will be on sale at the Festival too.

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SPECIAL EVENTS at the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery

In partnership with the Australia & New Zealand Festival, these cultural highlights are free to attend on a first come, first served basis.

THURSDAY 28 MAY A GREEN THOUGHT: Anne Middleton and Edward Barker Rebecca Hossack Charlotte Street Gallery, 28 Charlotte Street, London W1T 2NA 6.30pm Anne Middleton exhibition on view (same venue) 5 – 30 May 2015 An evening of flower-themed poetry readings performed against the backdrop of Anne Middleton’s solo exhibition of floral paintings, held in association with the Chelsea Fringe Festival. Featured poets will include Edward Barker and a selection of Australian writers to celebrate the Australia & New Zealand Festival.

21 APRIL–30 MAY ASKIN (RIC) MORRISON: Photographs of the Burrup Peninsula An exhibition of work by Victoria-based photographer Askin (Ric) Morrison, focusing on the troubled relationship between the man-made and the natural in Western Australia’s Burrup Peninsula. The selection of photographs includes salt-pan stretches, rock formations, flora and fauna, urban fringes and industrial development. The latter sits poignantly alongside powerful images of Aboriginal rock art. The Burrup Peninsula is caught in a battle of competing visions, which you can learn more about in Rebecca Hossack’s lecture.

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MONDAY 18 MAY BURRUP PENINSULA LECTURE 6.30pm

Imagine that Stonehenge was being crushed by machinery everyday to create tarmac. For Western Australia, this travesty is a reality. The Burrup Peninsula is home to a sacred songline of roughly one million petroglyphs, including the first artistic representations of a human face. This once pristine landscape is being irrevocably destroyed at the hands of mining corporations and resource giants. Rebecca Hossack, an active campaigner for the preservation of the peninsula, will be speaking about its plight. Since visiting the area in 2013, she has established close working ties with the local community and the global initiative ‘Stand up for the Burrup.’

18 MAY–3 JUNE MERVYN STREET AND MONA CHUGUNA An exhibition of work from Fitzroy Crossing’s Mervyn Street, a Gooniyandi man and former Chairman of Mangkaja Arts, and the late Mona Chuguna. Mona’s son, David, and Mervyn are travelling to London for the exhibition and will speak at the Festival.

Visitor information Unless otherwise stated, all events and exhibitions are held at: Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery 2a Conway Street London W1T 6BA 020 7436 4899

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POST Festival Events

THURSDAY 18 JUNE

TALK

JULIA GILLARD: The Inaugural Mackworth Lecture Institute of Directors, 116 Pall Mall, London 6.30pm – 8pm (7pm start; with Q&A)

SUNDAY 14 JUNE

A rare opportunity to hear Australia’s first female Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, discuss what it means – and what it takes – to be a leader in contemporary politics. The occasion marks the launch of the Institute of Directors’ Mackworth Lecture, named in honour of the Institute’s first female President, Lady Margaret Mackworth, appointed in 1926.

FILM

CHARLIE’S COUNTRY (with Q&A) Hackney Picturehouse 8pm £11.60/£10.60 Buy tickets from the Hackney Picturehouse website. Living on a remote Aboriginal reservation, where the government is increasing its stranglehold over traditional ways, the ageing Charlie (David Gulpilil) decides to head into the bush to live the old way. The third film in this informal trilogy, Charlie’s Country is deeply passionate, inflected with blackfella humour, and filled with anger at the treatment of an ancient culture. Followed by a Q&A with director Rolf de Heer. Presented by Origins Festival of First Nations in association with the Australia & New Zealand Festival in London

A passionate advocate of rights for women and a successful businesswoman in her own right, Lady Mackworth stands as a truly unique figure in the history of the IoD. The lecture is designed to celebrate her memory and take forward the issues of equality and leadership, to which she devoted her entire life. Following the lecture Julia Gillard will be signing copies of her memoir, My Story. This event is by invitation only and priority will be given to ANZ Festival Members and guests of the IoD. To register your interest please email: members@ausnzfestival.com Hosted by the Institute of Directors

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24–25 JUNE

FRIDAY 31 JULY

FILM

BEAUTIFUL ONE DAY

LI CUNXIN IN CONVERSATION

ILBIJERRI Theatre Company Purcell Room, Southbank Centre 7.45pm (75 mins, no interval). Buy tickets from the Southbank Centre website.

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Palm Island, 2004. An Aboriginal man dies in police custody. Members of the Palm Island community make a direct challenge to police power and the police station is torched. Eleven years later, the people of Palm Island continue to demand real justice, and all the while life continues. Coarse language, adult themes, suggestions of violence, suggested audience over 14 years old. Presented by Origins Festival of First Nations and Southbank Centre in association with the Australia & New Zealand Festival in London

At the age of 11, Li was selected by Madame Mao’s cultural advisors to attend the Beijing Dance Academy. In 1979, he joined Houston Ballet as an exchange student and went on to achieve the rank of Principal in 1982, going on to win multiple awards and accolades. He moved to Melbourne in 1995 with his wife, dancer Mary McKendry, to join The Australian Ballet as a Principal Artist. He retired from dancing in 1999, at the age of 38, but maintained his strong ties to the ballet community. Li has since worked in the finance industry and sat on the boards of the Bionics Institute and The Australian Ballet until his appointment as the Artistic Director of Queensland Ballet in July 2012. He was named Queensland’s Australian of the Year 2014. Li and the Queensland Ballet will be making their London Coliseum debut with La Sylphide from 4 – 8 August 2015. On the eve of its opening Li will discuss his best-selling autobiography, Mao’s Last Dancer, which has received numerous awards since its publication in 2003 and was adapted as a feature film in 2009.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS FESTIVAL TEAM: Jon Slack; Festival Director, Vivienne Wordley, Executive Director; Hannah Barker, Programme Co-ordinator; Taressa Brennan-Dow, Publicist; Chris Lloyd, programming; Erin Bishop, Intern; Hugo Cavalier, Film Crew; Hannah Falvey, Production Co-ordinator; Daniel Fletcher, Volunteer Co-ordinator; Ben Gilbey, Designer; Rian Hughes, Designer; Victoria Hunt, Programme Editor; Marie Glandier, Intern; Svenja Goldhausen, Intern; Katie Haworth, Website Editor; Alex Ivett, Website Editor; Andrew Kuchanny, Film Crew; Aidan Lesser, Production Manager; Neil Mitchell, Film Co-ordinator; Greg Peacock, Fundraiser; Doug Wallace, Marketing; Kitty Wright, Membership Manager. The team is supported by a cast of amazing volunteers. ADVISORY GROUP: Tania Bearsley; Carmen Callil; Samantha Cohen; Sarah Cooke; Clare Drysdale; Stella Duffy; Ceilidh Dunphy; Ian Henderson; Lisa Highton; Rebecca Hossack; Ros Kelly AO; Kathy Lette; Sarah Lutyens; Buzz McCarthy; Paula Morris; Noel Murphy; Alessandra Pretto; Cathi Taylor; Colleen Toomey; Trish Wadley TRUSTEES: John Dauth, AO LVO; Simon Johnson; Dame Judith Mayhew-Jonas, DBE; Bill Samuel MANAGEMENT BOARD: Nicola Downer, AM; Bill Samuel; Jon Slack; Lady Alexandra Smith; Ken Smith (Chair); Mary Strang; Vivienne Wordley BLOGGERS: Erin Bassett; Anna Bowden; Laura Christopher; John Lang; Jennifer Meredith; Holly Ringland; Daniel Sage; Sarah Sleath; Patsy Trench; Ivor Wells; Anna Woods WE WISH TO THANK… Adam Townsend, APRA; Adrian Todd Zuniga, Literary Death Match; Allen Slack; Angus Forbes; Anna Frame, Canongate; Annette Brook, Royal Society of Literature; Belinda Cook, Mangkaja; Belinda Jones, Creative NZ; Ben Ball, Penguin Australia; Bruce Wolpe; Catherine Batterby, Australian Business; Catherine Taylor, English PEN; Christian May, Institute of Directors; Claire Potter; Clémence Godard, Bird on the Wire; Dalma Slack; Dan Lewis, Stanfords; David Montero, Stanfords; David Sheldon, British Museum; David Woodward, Koch Media; Dennis Muirhead; Ed Byrne, King’s College London;

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King’s College London is the Principal Academic Partner of the Australia & New Zealand Festival of Literature & Arts. In particular the Festival acknowledges the support of the College’s Menzies Centre for Australian Studies. King’s is ranked in the top 20 universities worldwide* and is based in the heart of London. We oﬀer world-class teaching and cutting-edge research. The Faculty of Arts & Humanities at King’s is one of the most prestigious of its kind, ranked ﬁfth in the UK and 29th in the world with most departments also ranking regularly in the top 10 nationally. * QS World University Rankings 2014

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