Archive Programme

2010-03-05   19:30 GB
The Eighth Annual Literary Festival Opening
2010-03-05   18:00 GB    Dario Castagno
Traipsing through Tuscany with Travel Writer Dario Castagno
2010-03-06   17:00 GB   John Erni, Lucetta Kam, Zhou Dan
Framing Queer Asia: Cultural and Legal Perspectives
2010-03-06   16:00 CR   Hyejin Kim
Writing Contemporary Historical Fiction
2010-03-06   15:00 GB   Asne Seirestad
The Human Side of Catastrophes: Afghanistan, Chechnya, Iraq and Serbia.
2010-03-06   14:00 CR   Yuan Tsung Chen
Return to the Middle Kingdom: The Story of One Family, Three Revolutionaries and the Birth of Modern China.
2010-03-06   11:00 GB   Ken Smith
Fate! Luck! Chance! Amy Tan, Stewart Wallace and the Making of The Bonesetter’s Daughter Opera
2010-03-06   12:00 CR   Lars Bukdahl, RiittaJalonen, ÅsneSeirestad and Sjón
Northern Lights: Nordic Literature, Smørrebrød& Aquavit
2010-03-06   13:00 GB   David Grossman
Conflict, Confrontation & Drama: David Grossman on modern Israel
2010-03-06   10:00 CR   Sarah Brennan
The Tale of Temujin - A Tale of Tigers, Terror and Tantrums!
2010-03-07   13:00 CR   Alexis Wright
The Changing World of the Novel in the Australian Literary Landscape
2010-03-07   14:00 GB   Amy Sommers
CHINA’S LITERARY LEGACY: Outsiders Looking In - Forgotten Memoirs
2010-03-07   15:00 GB   Robert Dessaix
Meet Robert Dessaix: Award winning novelist, essayist, interviewer,translator, broadcaster, biographer, travel writer and more....
2010-03-07   15:00    Paul French
The Down and Dirty Secrets of Seedy Shanghai and Perverted Peking
2010-03-07   17:00 GB   Junot Diaz
Oscar Wao and the Eternal Quest for Home
2010-03-07   16:00 CR   Bi Feiyu
Writing the Female Psyche
2010-03-07   10:00 CR   Sarah Brennan
How To Write a Riveting Story
2010-03-07   11:00 GB   Riitta Jalonen
Make It Up: Creating Teenage Fiction
2010-03-07   12:00 CR   Kristen Bair O’Keeffe
“Hi, My Name Is___”: Shameless Self-Promotion & The Art of Social Networking for Authors
2010-03-10   19:00 GB   Lars Bukdahl and Sjon
Meet Danish and Icelandic Writers Lars &Sjón
2010-03-11   12:30 CR   Sarah Brennan
Publish Your Own Children’s Picture Book: From Brilliant Idea to Final Product
2010-03-11   18:00 GB   David Leffman and Garry Marchant
Road Scribes: Tales from the Asian Road
2010-03-13   15:00 GB   Tess Johnston
From Berlin to Shanghai in Half a Century
2010-03-13   14:00 CR   Emily Perkins
Not Her Real Name
2010-03-13   13:00 GB   Charles Emmerson
The Future History of the Arctic
2010-03-13   16:00 CR   Rachel Kushner
Telex from Cuba
2010-03-13   10:00 CR   Margaret Read MacDonald
Story Play! World Folktales Alive!
2010-03-13   11:00 GB   Andrew Field
Shanghai’s Dancing World: Cabaret Culture and Urban Politics, 1919-1954
2010-03-13   12:00 CR   Alan Titley
Beyond the Knacker’s Yard: An irish Writer Reads
2010-03-13   17:00 GB   Su Tong
Inspiration, Memory and Childhood
2010-03-14   12:00    Alice Pung
Unpolished Gem: Giving Voice to the Migrant Story
2010-03-14   11:00    Graham Freudenberg
Churchill and Australia: 2009 Walkley Award winner
2010-03-14   09:30    Schatz & Blackrose
The Book: Visual storytelling & bookmaking workshop (children)
2010-03-14   13:00    Ramachandra Guha
Why Mahatma Gandhi Matters – To India, and To The World.
2010-03-14   14:00    Jose Dalisay
Why You’ve Probably Never Heard of Me (and other Filipino Writers)
2010-03-14   15:00    Les Murray
A reading by Australia’s leading poet
2010-03-14   17:00    John Authers, Mure Dickie, James Kynge, Richard McGregor
The Second Annual Great FT Debate: China will be a Superpower by 2020
2010-03-16   18:00 CR
Rena Krasno Memorial Reading
2010-03-17   12:30 CR   Francesca Marciano
Writing for the Silver Screen
2010-03-17   18:00 GB
POETS ALIVE! A St Patrick’s Day celebration with Irish Poets & lots of Guinness
2010-03-19   12:30 CR   Shamini Flint Kristin Bair O’Keeffe
The Many Roads to Being Published
2010-03-19   18:00 GB   Scott Turow
Legal Mystery
2010-03-20   10:00 CR   Shamini Flint
Panda Packs Her Bags
2010-03-20   11:00 GB   Christoph Valentien
Shanghai’s New Botanic Garden
2010-03-20   12:00 CR   Francesca Marciano
East Africa, Afghanistan and Southern Italy – what do they have in common?
2010-03-20   13:00 GB   Linda Jaivin
A Most Immoral Afternoon with Linda Jaivin
2010-03-20   15:00    Fred Wah
Messing Around with Mr In-Between
2010-03-20   14:00    Mandla Langa
Colours of the Chameleon: Writing to Suit the Times
2010-03-20   17:00    Nury Vittachi and Shamini Flint
Asian Crime Gang: Meet the FengShui Detective and Inspector Singh
2010-03-20   16:00    Mo Zhi Hong
The Year of the Shanghai Shark
2010-03-21   10:00 CR   Nury Vittachi
Mr Jam Returns!
2010-03-21   11:00 GB   Terry Bennett
The History of Photography in China, 1842-1860
2010-03-21   12:00 CR   Morris Gleitzman
Kids! Morris Gleitzman Tells All.
2010-03-21   13:00 GB   Louis de Bernière
Language of Words, Language of Music
2010-03-21   14:00 CR   Tash Aw
A Post-Colonial View of Colonial Asia
2010-03-21   15:00 GB   James Palmer
The Bloody White Baron
2010-03-21   16:00 CR   Andre Brink
South African Fiction After Apartheid
2010-03-21   17:00 GB   Peter Hessler
Country Driving: Journey from Farm to Factory

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