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WEDNESDAY 16TH JUNE-SPECIAL PRESCHOOL PROGRAMME
FRIDAY 18TH JUNE-SPECIAL SCHOOLS' PROGRAMME
SATURDAY 19TH JUNE AND SUNDAY 20TH JUNE-PROGRAMME FOR ALL
Children must be accompanied by adults at all venues
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PRESENTERS    VENUES    TIMES   WEDNESDAY  AND  FRIDAY
Wednesday June 16
10.30-11.15am
PRESCHOOL STORYTIME
Come along and hear stories, rhymes and songs
in Italian, English and Spanish
TORQUAY LIBRARY
Surf City Plaza
Beach Road
Sponsor
GEELONG REGIONAL LIBRARIES
CORPORATION
Web Site
Friday June 18
11am
For Schools
VIVIANA GOLDING
Let's talk about languages
TORQUAY College
Main Gymnasium Auditorium
Sponsor
BARWON SW REGION
VIC.ED.
Web Site
Friday June 18
11am
For Schools
GROVEDALE SECONDARY SCHOOL
TEACHER SIMONE BAWDEN
PLAY
The Bamboo Princess
Ancient stories
Ending with audience participation
Main Gymnasium Auditorium
Sponsor
BARWON SW REGION
VIC.ED.
Web Site
Friday June 18
11am
GEORGE IVANOFF
The inspiration behind his Games' Quest book
Classroom
For Torquay School
Children
Web Site
Friday June 18
11am
For Schools
MICHELLE DABROWSKI
Performance poetry
Poetry Slam workshop
Cafe Studio
For Torquay School
Children
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PRESENTERS    VENUES    TIMES  SATURDAY   AND  SUNDAY
DOOR PRIZES
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY
DONATED BY RICHARD EVERIST
BEST SHOT-LOCAL PUBLISHERS
Web site
BOOK
A COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE GREAT OCEAN ROAD
VALUE $49.95
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY
SECONDHAND BOOK SALES
PROCEEDS TO
RURAL AUSTRALIANS FOR REFUGEES
Web site
DAY/TIME PRESENTATION ROOM KINDNESS ROOM COURAGE ROOM WILD BAY TREE CAFE
Saturday June 19
10.00 to 10.05am
OPENING BY CR. ROSE HODGE
Surf Coast Shire
10.05 to 11.15am
KEY NOTE SPEAKER
ARNOLD ZABLE
'A Writer's Journey'

11.15 to 11.30
Morning Tea
11.30 to 12.30
GUEST PANELISTS
Introduced by Martin Hooper
JUDE MCCUDDEN
CLAIRE HALLIDAY
CHAE PATERSON
DR. VIRGINIA LOWE
Sponsored by Australia Post
Talk
The Nuts and Bolts of English
HANS COLLA
11.45 to lunch time
Performance poetry workshop
JUDE MCCUDDEN
Interactive children's storyteller
CERIDWYN GORDON
Sponsored by Alcoa
12.30 to 1.30
Lunch
1.00 to 4.00
THE LIVING LIBRARY IS OPEN
CLICK TO ENTER
1.30 to 2.30
GUEST PANELISTS
Introduced by Nathan Hale
KJ SHEERIN
DR. BRYAN HUMPHREY
PETER CADDY
PETER KLEIN
Sponsored by Australia Post
Presenting Poetry and Culture from Italy
MARISA MANES
From His Book
"The Diatonic Accordion"
Displaying the art of accordion-playing and dancing
ROBERTO AND LUCIANA DE SANCTIS
Create a Kids’ Book
Workshop for adults who have
always wanted to write
and/or illustrate a picture book
Web Site
DR. VIRGINIA LOWE

2.45 to 3.15

With a brief story
Of dance origins
SERBIAN DANCE GROUP
"Shumadija"

Sponsors
DIVERSITAT
SERBIAN WEB SITE
Book Signing
By Pan Macmillan
and Torquay Books
PETER KLEIN'S CRIME NOVEL
"SILK CHASER"
Story telling-Defiance the Couta Boat
PETER CADDY
Sponsored by Alcoa
Web Site
Defiance the Couta Boat
3.15 to 3.45
Afternoon Tea
Drawing of the Door Prize
3.45 to 4.45
How do actors prepare their performances?
Pracitise your acting skills
In front of a camera
JOHN HENDERSON
Talk on travel and guide book writing
The complete Great Ocean Road book
RICHARD EVERIST
Travels by Email
JULIE DYER
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Saturday Evening
6.30pm
FESTIVAL DINNER
Fred Preston and Lisa Berry
From: THE TORQUAY THEATRE TROUPE
Will be performing
A rehearsed reading of a short play
By local writer Janet Brown called "you".
It will be directed by Michael Baker.
BOMBORAS 2/108 SURF COAST HIGHWAY
$25 per head-Two course-Choice of mains
BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL PH. 5264 7881
Short Short and Poetry
Competition Winners
Will be announced
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DOOR PRIZE
SUNDAY
DONATED BY RICHARD EVERIST
BEST SHOT-LOCAL PUBLISHERS
Web site
BOOK
A COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE GREAT OCEAN ROAD
VALUE $49.95
DAY/TIME PRESENTATION ROOM KINDNESS ROOM COURAGE ROOM WILD BAY TREE CAFE
Sunday
Morning Tea
10.00 to 11.00
Manual Demonstration
Women's Safety Program
Using the languages
of Esperanto and English
MARUMI SMITH and MIRANDA LUTZ
Morning Tea Gathering
With a talk on the latest
By Rosemary Featherston
Torquay Books
BOOK GROUPS OF TORQUAY
11.00 to 12.00
'From my Books'
DR SERGE LIBERMAN
Fine Lit
Web Site-Dr Serge Liberman
12.00 to 12.30
Lunch

12.30 to 1.15
'Poems From My Youth in Australia'
NATHANAEL O'REILLY
Visiting Assistant Professor
Of English
University of Texas at Tyler
1.00 to 4.00
THE LIVING LIBRARY IS OPEN
CLICK TO ENTER
1.15 to 2.00
From his Indonesian Musical
Shadows of the Rainforest
A play reading with songs
PHIL GRAY & COLAC STUDENTS
Sponsor
Barwon SW Region Vic Ed.
Web Site
Songwriter
Performer of classic
Australian Bush Poetry
JIM BROWN
2.00 to 2.30
Afternoon Tea

2.30 to 3.00
Author of 'Kumanjayis Country'
Doctor, Researcher, Writer.
Against Mixing Health
with Nuclear Poison
DR BILL WILLIAMS
Web Site-Dr Bill Williams

3.00 to 4.00
REFUGEE WEEK
INTRODUCTION BY
ANNE PHELAN

Kindness
Stories and Poems
From Refugees
Presented by the Torquay Branch of
Rural Australians for Refugees
Email Jan Hale
Web Site
4.00
Drawing of the Door Prize

("The views expressed in this Festival are those of the presenters
and do not necessarily represent the views of the Festival organisers")


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