Come celebrate Post Pressed’s release of Mountains Belong to the People Who Love Them: Slow Journeys in South Korea and Eastern Australia by Lesley Synge. Poetry with a difference!

 

Queensland Writers Centre (QWC)

Level 2 State Library of Queensland

Thursday 25 August at 6pm

Refreshments provided

Car Park at Stanley Place flat rate $15

 

Please join us. We’ll finish at 7.15pm.

A trivia afternoon with a difference

 

Friends, readers and book groups ….   For the 4th year in a row you are invited to participate in a highly successful and enjoyable book trivia quiz.  All questions are from the real and fictitious world of wonderful books.  There will be lots of prizes up for grabs.

 

WHEN   …. Sunday 28th August at 2 pm

 

WHERE ….  CWA House, 89-95 Gregory Terrace Brisbane

                      (opposite Brisbane Girls Grammar school)

                       Free and easy parking

17 April - 14 August

William Robinson: The Transfigured Landscape 

presents an unprecedented opportunity to view significant artworks by one of the nation's most cherished living artists. Presented across QUT's premier visual art institutions, The William Robinson Gallery and QUT Art Museum, this exhibition coincides with the artist's 75th birthday and is both a celebration of this important milestone as well as tribute to Robinson's unique perspective on the Australian landscape.

ROMANCE isn’t dead, says Queensland author of Wedding Etiquette For Ferals, Peta-Jo.

“But it certainly could use the kiss of life.”  

The newspaper subeditor turned her hand to romance when she fell in love with creative writing.

Wedding Etiquette For Ferals will be launched at the Queensland Brides Wedding and Honeymoon Expo and is available on Amazon.com from April 2011.

  

 

By Julian Wagner

Having conquered the colossal demands of Verdi’s Aida in October 2010,  Opera Queensland promise even more musical greatness in the New Year as the iconic opera company celebrates its’ 30th year with an eclectic 2011 ‘Truly, Madly, Deeply’ season of sublime drama.  

Many of us celebrate our 30th year with as much joy as a 21st birthday, being assured that we are still young (perhaps more mature) yet still with an unquenchable zest for life. In a similar vein, Opera Queensland’s 30th anniversary will ensure that audiences in the coming year will all be part of a celebration! 

A DOUBLE BILL BY POST AND VERSION 1.0
At Belvoir St Downstairs Theatre from 25 November - 19 December 2010

An exciting pairing of two of the most innovative Australian performance groups, version 1.0 and post, will to lead to a riotous night at Belvoir St Downstairs Theatre this summer as two teams of extreme economic 'non-experts' try to get to the bottom of the Global Financial Crisis.

PART 1: EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS IN ONE HOUR BY POST
DEVISERS/ PERFORMERS: ZOE COOMBS MARR, MISH GRIGOR & NATALIE ROSE

PART 2: THE MARKET IS NOT FUNCTIONING PROPERLY BY VERSION 1.0
DIRECTED BY: DAVID WILLIAMS PERFORMERS: JANE PHEGAN & KYM VERCOE
VIDEO ARTIST: SEAN BACON SOUND ARTIST: PAUL PRESTIPINO
PRODUCED BY: VERSION 1.0

Music & Lyrics by David Nehls Book by Betsy Kelso

Welcome to “Armadillo Acres”, the most exclusive trailer park in North Florida, where having your baby kidnapped isn’t half as tragic as a getting a bad perm.

Jeannie is an agoraphobic couch-potato addicted to Oprah and Dr Phil. Her husband Norbert, frustrated with a wife who won’t venture further than the front step of their trailer, has taken to haunting the local strip club and become obsessed with exotic dancer Pippi. But Pippi’s got a past and it turns up in the form of Duke, her magic-marker-sniffing bikie ex-boyfriend who’s determined to win her back. So trailer neighbours Betty, Lin and Pickles team up to save the day.

presented by Fragment31
From Tuesday 16 – Saturday 20 November at Arts House, Meat Market

“Shame is a rusty edge that Deneuve sits on as she pages through lecture notes in her Monday office” Anne Carson

Arts House presents the premiere of Irony Is Not Enough: essay on my life as Catherine Deneuve, a new work from Fragment31 based on the writing of Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson.

A writer imagines herself, as a lecturer, imagining herself as Catherine Deneuve, contemplating an intimate relationship with a female student, and the frailty of desire – how would it be done, if she were Catherine Deneuve.

'PUTTING IT BACK TOGETHER & GETTING IT ON THE ROAD: AUSTRALIAN THEATRE IN THE 21ST CENTURY'

The 2010 Philip Parsons Memorial Lecture (Sunday 28 November, 2pm, Belvoir St Upstairs Theatre), will look at the past, present and future of Australian theatre. It will be presented by lecturer, theatre critic and author John McCallum.

Australian theatre now has all the tools in place to move on but it is stuck in the last century.  Many of the old restrictions and divisions have been broken down, the talent and new techniques are in place, but it's not on the road yet.  John McCallum will ask, is part of the problem the audience? This lecture is intended to encourage discussion and debate - members of the public are welcome to attend.