Programme: August 17-19
Friday August 17, 2018
Welcome to Country and Welcome to Words in Winter
Welcome to Country by a Dja Dja Wurrung elder and official opening of the festival by Mayor of Hepburn Shire, Cr John Cottrell.
Find out more »A writer’s journey: The humanising power of story
Arnold Zable will explore the inspirations, literary influences, sources of ideas, and practical lessons learnt in confronting the empty page.
Find out more »Saturday August 18, 2018
The Art of Story – a workshop with Arnold Zable
Explore the evolving structure of a story, and how to break the various blocks that can come up in the process.
Find out more »The Exhibition of the Open Door
Local Abstract Artist, Claire Clifton takes us on an exploration of those literal and metaphorical thresholds we cross throughout our lives. Abstract art meets philosophy with a touch of Bach.
Find out more »Like a House on Fire and other stories: The insider scoop!
Author Cate Kennedy’s short story collections are currently on the VCE English syllabus. In this session she will be giving an insider scoop on the stories, their themes, how she wrote them, and how to craft your own short stories for assessment.
Find out more »The Oasis: Screenplay Reading
Talented local actors join screenwriter Josephine Winter for a rehearsed read-through of The Oasis, a time-hopping science fiction drama set on the Nullarbor plain.
Find out more »Pompey Elliott at War: In His Own Words with Ross McMullin
Award-winning historian Ross McMullin talks on his latest book about one of Australia’s most famous and controversial military leaders.
Find out more »Tree of Change: Workshop with Selena Smith
Utilising luggage tags ; Brown for change & blue for chance participants will write their reflections and hang them upon trees creating a social statement as an installation that will be collated at a later date for posterity.
Find out more »Can a Book Change the World? David Holmgren & Cate Kennedy
Join leading writer and permaculture co-originator David Holmgren as he explores the power of ecological writing in our transition to a carbon-positive, low-energy future
Find out more »Lost Worlds: Barry Hill + Richard Zachariah
Acclaimed authors Barry Hill (Reason & Lovelessness) and Richard Zachariah (This Vanished Land) illuminate different perspectives in their passions regarding the settlement of Australia and its historical predicaments.
Find out more »Wine, Stories and Open Mic with Cate Kennedy
Cate Kennedy will kick off this event with some stories, a few poems, and a song or two to inspire any one game enough to step up to the mic.
Find out more »Slow Grains: Small is Beautiful.
Come listen to the stories of Australia's pioneers in artisanal, small scale baking, from growers to millers, bakers, activists and researchers.
Find out more »Marieke Hardy in conversation with Mika Pediaditis
Change and personal reflection: Both are essential in life. But what does it feel like for someone in the public eye?
Find out more »Anything But Words, Another Language
Petrus Spronk will complement the beautiful music of the Mana Moto Duo, consisting of Justine Walsh on vocals, electric guitar and loops and Adam Menegazzo on electric violin and loops, with images from his extensive travels abroad.
Find out more »Sunday August 19, 2018
Waste-free Mushroom Cultivation
Nick Ritar will show you some low-tech mushroom cultivation methods from he and Kirsten Bradley's soon to be released book Milkwood - Real skills for down-to-earth living.
Find out more »U3A Stories
Be entertained by members of U3A Hepburn’s writing circle who will share their short, fascinating, historic and humorous stories about change and chance.
Find out more »The Book is not Dead
Michael Webster, distinguished publisher, explains why written books remain a vital part of our culture as sales continue to boom.
Find out more »Rural Crime Thrillers
Award winning local crime writer Sandi Wallace shares her insights on chance, actions, reactions and consequences in contemporary crime fiction.
Find out more »Taking Poetry Beyond the Page: A Workshop with Amanda Anastasi
Join the convener of La Mama Poetica, Amanda Anastasi, in this his workshop that will equip you with practical ways on how to overcome nerves and read in a way that captures an audience, as well as give you advice on where to start in the world of spoken word.
Find out more »Inside RetroSuburbia: the making of a book
Join David Holmgren, permaculture co-originator, and his project team in open discussion about the remarkable journey to create his new book RetroSuburbia: the downshifter’s guide to a resilient future.
Find out more »Fact to Fiction: Shokoofeh Azar + Dee White
Two authors from very different worlds, Shokoofeh Azar and Dee White, talk about how they have successfully taken real life events and woven them into books that have been hailed as enchanting and engrossing.
Find out more »Milkwood: Seaweed, Tomato, Bees, Mushrooms & The Wild
Join Kirsten Bradley & Nick Ritar of Milkwood Permaculture as they read from their upcoming book Milkwood – Real skills for down-to-earth living.
Find out more »Table read of Captain Cook Discovers Celebrity Island
Follow Captain Cook on his fateful final journey as told by 6 actors channelling diarists Charles and Fanny Burney, Boswell, Elizabeth Cook and Omai the Tahitian.
Find out more »Sow My Body: Music with Anthony Petrucci
Sow My Body: Local musician Anthony Petrucci performs sparse folk / land music / heart songs.
Find out more »Snow on Snow – Harpsichord, Voice and Flute Concert
Harpsichordist and early music icon Ann Morgan has put together a unique programme of classical works centered around the theme of winter. She will be joined by soprano Vivien Hamilton and Alison Catanach playing baroque flute.
Find out more »Word Out Loud: with Joanne Tsakoumagos
Poetry, Prose, Stories and Songs: A warm casual gathering and reading of those words that have most comforted or inspired us in times of change.
Find out more »Words in Winter is an annual literary and arts festival held in August each year in the Hepburn Shire and surrounding districts.
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