PROGRAM
PROGRAM
Tickets are now on sale for Greek Writers Festival.
Please see program below and click to purchase tickets or reserve your place.
| Date | Start | Title | Tickets | Venue | Panel |
| Festival Pass | $59 Please note: Workshops are not included |
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| Day Pass | $29 Please note: Workshops are not included |
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| 31/5 | 6.30pm | Festival Opening: Welcome to Country and Director’s Introduction Growing Up Greek and Rebellious | Buy Tickets | A | Vrasidas Karalis (Chair), |
| 1/6 | 10:00am | Joyful Strains | Buy Tickets | A | Kent MacCarter (Chair), |
| 1/6 | 11:15am | The Art of Fiction | Buy Tickets | A | Vrasidas Karalis (Chair), |
| 1/6 | 12:30pm | Lunch | |||
| 1/6 | 1:45pm | Hauntings: Trauma, the Uncanny, and the Supernatural | Buy Tickets | A | Hariklia Heristanidis (Chair), |
| 1/6 | 3:00pm | The Politics of Language | Buy Tickets | A | Lucy Van (Chair),
Π. Ο. |
| 1/6 | 4:15pm | (Re)writing the “Migrant Working Class” | Buy Tickets | A | Michael Mohammed Ahmad |
| 1/6 | 5:30pm | Forked Tongues: Bilingual Reading I | Buy Tickets | A | Dimitris Troaditis (MC) |
| 1/6 | 10:00am | The Art of Poetry | Buy Tickets | B | Lucy Van (Chair), |
| 1/6 | 11:15am | The Word and the Image | Free (book) | B | Lucy Van (Chair) |
| 1/6 | 12:30pm | Lunch | B | ||
| 1/6 | 1:45pm | Workshop: Writing Young Adult Fiction with Will Kostakis | Buy Tickets | B | Will Kostakis |
| 1/6 | 4:15pm | Bilingualism and Identity | Buy Tickets | B | Tina Giannoukos (Chair) |
| 1/6 | 5:30pm | Forked Tongues: Bilingual Reading II | Buy Tickets | B | Π.Ο. (MC) |
| 2/6 | 10:00am | From Bonegila to Maribyrnong | Buy Tickets | A | Lucy Van (Chair) |
| 2/6 | 11:15am | Barricades and Barbed Wire: Writing Activism | Buy Tickets | A | Alex Kostas (Chair) |
| 2/6 | 12.30pm | Lunch | |||
| 2/6 | 1:45pm | Publishing from the Margins to the Mainstream | Buy Tickets | A | Kent MacCarter (Chair) |
| 2/6 | 3:00pm | The Old Greeks: Movies and the Memory of Migration | Buy Tickets | A | Anna Chatzinikolaou (Chair) |
| 2/6 | 4:15pm | The Siren Call of Football | Buy Tickets | A | Jim Pavlidis (Chair) |
| 2/6 | 5:30pm | Like It Is: Spoken Word | Buy Tickets | B | (MC) TBA |
| 2/6 | 10:00am | Is there a “Greek Australian” literary canon? | Free (book) | B | Dean Kalimniou (Chair) |
| 2/6 | 11:15am | The Art of Performance | Buy Tickets | B | Santo Cazzati (Chair) |
| 2/6 | 12:30pm | Lunch | |||
| 2/6 | 1:45pm | From the Existence to the Divine | Buy Tickets | B | Vrasidas Karalis (Chair) |
| 2/6 | 3:00pm | Πες τα Χρυσόστομε! Open Mic (Greek Language) | Free (book) | B | Dimitris Troaditis (MC) |
| 2/6 | 4:45pm | Translation: Lost and Found | Free (book) | B | Vrasidas Karalis (Chair) |
| 2/6 | 6:00pm | Intergenerational Greek-English poetry reading | Free (book) | A | Vrasidas Karalis (MC) |
| 7/6 | 6:00pm | Anarchy in Fitzroy: Π. Ο. | Buy Tickets | A | Π. Ο. |
| 7/6 | 7:15pm | New Country/First Nation | Buy Tickets | A | Tony Birch |
| 7/6 | 8:30pm | One Hundred Months, Third of East: A Work for Soprano and Contrabass | Buy Tickets | A | Nick Tsiavos |
| 8/6 | 1:45pm | Writing a Legacy | Buy Tickets | A | Anna Chatzinikolaou (Chair) |
| 8/6 | 3:00pm | POSTPONED!
Gary Foley and Fotis Kapetopoulos in conversation |
Buy Tickets | A | Gary Foley
Fotis Kapetopoulos |
| 8/6 | 4:15pm | Speak, poet!: Open Mic | Free (book) | A | Dimitris Troaditis (MC) |
| 8/6 | 5:30pm | Book Launch: Tom Petsinis’ Steles / Dimitris Troaditis’ Λοξές Ματιές | Free (book) | A | Dr. Thanasis Spilias (Presenter)
George Mouratidis (Eng. Presenter) Dean Kalimniou (Greek Presenter) |
| 8/6 | 10:00am | Workshop: Writing the Line: the play of image and rhythm | Buy Tickets | B | Tina Giannoukos (10 places) |
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