Greek Writers Festival

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Sun 2 Jun | 3:00pm | ΠΕΣ ΤΑ ΧΡΥΣΟΣΤΟΜΕ!: OPEN MIC (Greek language) Έχετε μια φαγούρα στην ψυχή σας,

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FESTIVAL PASS The Greek Writers Festival makes its’ debut at the Greek Centre from 31 May to 8 June

DAY PASS   The Greek Writers Festival makes its’ debut at the Greek Centre from 31 May to 8 Jun

Sat 8 Jun | 10:00am | WORKSHOP: WRITING THE LINE: THE PLAY OF IMAGE AND RHYTHM WITH TINA GIANNOUKOS

Sat 8 Jun | 4:15pm | SPEAK, POET!: OPEN MIC Do you have an itch in your soul, a fire in your heart o

 Sat 8 Jun | 5:30pm | BOOK LAUNCH: TOM PETSINIS, DIMITRIS TROADITIS Come celebrate with us as we––in

SUN 2 JUN | 6:00pm | INTERGENERATIONAL GREEK – ENGLISH POETRY READING Which “generation&

Sat 8 | 3:00pm | GARY FOLEY AND FOTIS KAPETOPOULOS IN CONVERSATION {EVENT POSTPONED} Unfortunately,

Sat 8 Jun | 1:45am | WRITING A LEGACY What is the legacy of memorialising the Greek migrant experien

Fri 7 Jun | 7:15pm | NEW COUNTRY / FIRST NATION An evening with acclaimed author and academic Tony B

Fri 7 Jun | 6:00pm | ANARCHY IN FITZROY: Π. Ο. (In)famous poet and anarchist Π. Ο. makes a lost worl

Fri 7 Jun | 8:30pm | ONE HUNDRED MONTHS, THIRD OF EAST: A WORK OF SOPRANO AND CONTRABASS BY NICK TSI

Sun 2 Jun | 10:00am | IS THERE A “GREEK AUSTRALIAN” LITERARY CANON? Greeks have been wri

Sun 2 Jun | 3:00pm  | THE OLD GREEKS: MOVIES AND THE MEMORY OF MIGRATION Greek language academic and

Sun 2 Jun | 4:45pm | TRANSLATION: LOST AND FOUND Author and translator Prof. Vrasidas Karalis discus

Sun 2 Jun | 11:15am | THE ART OF PERFORMANCE What is the relationship between writing and performing

Sat 1 Jun | 4:15pm | BILINGUALISM AND IDENTITY If literature is a vehicle through which we make sens

Sun 2 Jun | 5:30pm | LIKE IT IS: SPOKEN WORD Stories, poetry, rhythms, music – these things never sl

Sun 2 Jun | 1:45pm | PUBLISHING FROM THE MARGINS TO THE MAINSTREAM How do you accommodate marginal a

Sun 2 Jun | 11:15am | BARRICADES AND BARBED WIRE: WRITING ACTIVISM Poet and founder of the Black Art

Sun 2 Jun | 10:00am | FROM BONEGILA TO MARIBYRNONG  How do you write about geographic displacement a

Sat 1 Jun | 5:30pm | FORKED TONGUES: BILINGUAL READING II With over 200 different languages other th

Sat 1 Jun | 10:00am | THE ART OF POETRY That the word poem derives from the Greek word “poiema

Sat 1 Jun | 1:45pm | WORKSHOP: WRITING YOUNG ADULT FICTION WITH WILL KOSTAKIS Award-winning author W

Sat 1 Jun | 11:15am | THE WORD AND THE IMAGE Join poet and researcher Dr. Lucy Van as she speaks to

 Sun 2 Jun | 1:45pm | FROM THE EXISTENTIAL TO THE DIVINE This enlightening discussion with Prof. Vra

Sat 1 Jun |5:30pm | FORKED TONGUES: BILINGUAL READING I With over 200 different languages other than

Sat 1 Jun | 4:15pm | (RE)WRITING THE “MIGRANT WORKING CLASS” Join Miles Franklin nominat

Sat 1 Jun | 3:00pm | THE POLITICS OF LANGUAGE   How does literature from marginalised communiti

Sat 1 Jun | 1:45pm | HAUNTINGS: TRAUMA, THE UNCANNY, AND THE SUPERNATURAL   What is the link be

Sat 1 Jun | 11:15am | THE ART OF FICTION   How does an author conceive a novel and execute that

Sat 1 Jun | 10:00am | JOYFUL STRAINS Following on from his landmark 2010 anthology Joyful Strains: M

Fri 31 May | 6:30pm | OPENING NIGHT Growing Up Greek and Rebellious.  The inimitable Prof. Vrasidas

Sun 2 Jun | 4:15pm | THE SIREN CALL OF FOOTBALL Football is a fundamental of Australian culture and