Words & Ideas: a Curtin Celebration
Schools Day: Thur 23 Feb featuring: Kirsty Murray, Duncan Ball and Elizabeth Knox
Main Programme: Fri 24-Sun 26 Feb
Curtin Workshop Series: Mon 27 Feb-Wed 1 March
Join us for a feast of reading, writing, ideas and debate. Be moved by a stellar line-up to discuss, analyse and celebrate writing and current thinking, including: Elizabeth Knox, Justin Cartwright, Patrick Gale, Chris Cleave, Tarun Tejpal, Alvin Pang, Richard Lloyd Parry, Mark Kingwell, Kate Grenville, Frank Moorhouse, Sue Woolfe, Ian Lowe, Robert Manne, Delia Falconer, Hsu-Ming Teo, Robert Drewe, Emily Maguire, Gregory Day, Bem Le Hunte, Carrie Tiffany - and too many more to mention here!
The complete events listing, including full details of Writers' Week, will be released in December 2005. The printed programme lift out will be in the Saturday 4 February edition of The West Australian.
Download the Words and Ideas Reading List for 2006 (PDF 1,564kB)
Thur 23 Feb-Wed 1 March
The Festival Village, Perth Concert Hall
Schools Day: Thur 23 Feb featuring: Kirsty Murray, Duncan Ball and more
Main Programme: Fri 24-Sun 26 Feb
Curtin Workshop Series: Mon 27 Feb-Wed 1 Mar
Supported By
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
Special Thanks to
The University Club of Western Australia
Duxton Hotel
Random House Australia
Fraser's Restaurant
Fremantle Arts Centre Press
HarperCollins Publishers Australia
Mrs Annie & Mr Brett Fogarty
Words & Ideas: a Curtin Celebration includes:
Writers' Week 23 Feb-1 March
Thur 23 Feb-Wed 1 March
The Festival Village, Perth Concert Hall
Schools Day: Thur 23 Feb featuring: Kirsty Murray, Duncan Ball and more
Main Programme: Fri 24-Sun 26 Feb
Curtin Workshop Series: Mon 27 Feb-Wed 1 Mar
Words & Ideas: a Curtin Celebration Events
Meet the Artists with Caroline Baum
Join well-known journalist and broadcaster Caroline Baum for a series of fascinating conversations with artists, writers, directors and performers about what inspires them.
Frank Moorhouse: Freedom Sacrificed
Frank Moorhouse, one of Australia’s leading writers, asks whether freedom of expression is possible in a national security regime where fear of terrorism leads to restrictive anti-terror laws that curtail free speech and civil liberties.
Crayon in the Brain: Machining Happiness in the Time of Homer
Join some of your favourite chefs and food writers as they tantalise you with culinary tales.
Join best-selling author of Bushworld and New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd for an evening exploring the mysteries and muddles of sexual combat as she discusses her new book Are Men Necessary?
Literary Lunch: Bem Le Hunte (Australia)
Bem Le Hunte’s lyrical debut The Seduction of Silence – the remarkable story of an Indian family’s spiritual and emotional journey – was published to international critical acclaim.
Literary Lunch: Kate Grenville (Australia)
One of our greatest literary talents, an Australian bestseller and winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction for The Idea of Perfection, Kate Grenville delights with the background to her new novel The Secret River.
The Fourth Estate (UK/Australia/India)
Ian Lowe: The Road to disaster?
Richard Lloyd Parry, Tarun Tejpal: From the Danger Zone
Robert Manne: From Left to Right and Back Again
Culinary Conversations: Stefano Manfredi (Australia)
One of Sydney’s most celebrated chefs, Stefano Manfredi has influenced the way we eat through his renowned The Restaurant Manfredi and bel mondo.
Culinary Conversations: Joanna Savill (Australia)
Best known as co-host of SBS TV’s The Food Lover’s Guide to Australia, Joanna Savill is a journalist and an award-winning television presenter and producer.