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 Monday, May 14 - Sunday, May 20 @ Walsh Bay
Taking inspiration from events in the past 12 months such as the UK-based media scandals and the digital frenzy that surrounded the Kony2012 campaign, the 2012 Sydney Writers' Festival will get us all thinking, talking, and maybe even writing about the shifting boundaries between what's public and what's private. The event features writing workshops, readings, talks, and panels from prizewinning authors, poets, and biographers — as well as politicians, judges, and even a CIA interrogator.
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Issue 139. May 15-21, 2012. |
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 As a reviewer regarding an artwork, you weigh up a number of qualities, from the technical to the creative. You consider what the work is trying to achieve and how close it's gotten. But at the end of all that chin-stroking, a piece of art has to do just one of two simple things for me to see it as a success — it has to make me think or it has to make me feel.
Strange Interlude, Upstairs at Belvoir, does both, constantly. It has a vice-like grip around thinking and feeling. It's one of those 'if you only see one thing this year' cases, and our kudos go to the talented, young crew behind the production.
Elsewhere in the city, you'll find a stellar rendezvous at which to swap your clothes, an apocalyptic world where aerial artists survive, and the place where the Australian landscape and dreamscape mush.
Rima Sabina Aouf /// Editor |
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