Meuse Press has released an e-anthology titled “From This Broken Hill” – an unique combination of writing from some of the country’s top writers (past & present) combined with a dazzling array of photography.
A place of near mythic proportions, this city deep in the outback. A mine that put the money into Melbourne. Arts hub while simultaneously isolated by distance.
But in some ways Broken Hill was the experiment that became multicultural Australia – it had the country’s first mosque, many communities continue to thrive within its boundaries. The rough heart of Unionism still stands strong. People escape to this city, others escape a childhood there. It has its horrors and highlights, once there you’ll never forget.
Read an excerpt from a Napoleon Bonaparte set in the city, read the view back from leading poet Rae Desmond Jones who grew up there and wonder at the mining waste turned into a thing of beauty surrounded by red soil.
Edited by Barbara De Franceschi, Marvis Sofield and Les Wicks.
Supported by Broken Hill Regional Writers’ Centre, Broken Hill City Council, Countrylink & ArtsNSW
Available at
http://brokenhill.tripod.com/BrokenHill.htm
INVITATION TO ART EXHIBITION
WITH POETRY ACCOMPANIMENT
OPENING (Free): Tuesday 9 February, 6–8pm
16 paintings and etchings by Jacqueline Balassa, together with poems by Norm Neill responding to the artworks.
Robin Gibson Gallery, 278 Liverpool St, Darlinghurst (near Darley St).
Exhibition open Tuesday–Saturday (11am–6pm) until Wednesday, 3 March. Selected artworks and poems should be on www.robingibson.net (click “Exhibitions”)
Live poets @ Don Bank
When: the 4th Wednesday of every month, 7:30pm
Where: the Don Bank Museum, 6 Napier St, North Sydney
Cost: $7 entry includes supper and drinks
Email: dannylivepoets@yahoo.com.au
Phone: Danny Gardner (02) 9896 6956
Mobile: (0422) 263-373
24 Feb: Guest poet: Sheryl Persson
24th March: Mark Tredennick & Tatiana Bonch
28th April: Live Poets is 20!
Open section: anyone is welcome to recite, sing, tell a story or play
an instrument.
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Leigh Rigozzi exhibition is on Thursday 25 February, 6pm Tin sheds Gallery, Sydney Uni,
He’s an up-and-coming person in the art world, has been featured on the ABC and in the Herald and has had a residency in Paris. He’s currently a tutor at Sydney College of the Arts.
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Tim Miller's Year of Sundown exhibition - 365 Days, 365 Paintings. Here's a utube link to a video of the images, for your enjoyment - and to send onto anyone you think may be interested.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4jFsumvwUA
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Poetry workshops at the New South Wales Writers Centre
FIRST LINE ® FIRST DRAFT ® FINAL POEM
With Brook Emery (10EMER3) at NSW Writers’ Centre, Callan Park, Rozelle.
Sunday 7 March, 10am – 4pm
Full Price: $140 / NSWWC members 30% discount: $100 / Concession: $85
PLAN TO BE PUBLISHED
with Les Wicks
Saturday 5 & 12 June
NSW Writers’ Centre PO Box 1056, Rozelle NSW 2039
Phone (02) 9555 9757 Fax (02) 9818 1327
Email: workshops@nswwriterscentre.org.au
Office hours: Monday to Saturday, 9am-5pm
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