Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Tuesday 22 February
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
How better to launch our series on Australian literary legends than with the incomparable Nobel Laureate?
Unlike many of his contemporaries White has remained a household name but how widely is he still read?
Featuring
David Marr
David Marr is the author of Patrick White: A Life, Panic, The High Price of Heaven and Dark Victory (with Marian Wilkinson). He has written for the Sydney Morning Herald, the Age, the Saturday Paper, the Guardian and the Monthly, and been editor of the National Times, a reporter for Four Corners and presenter of ABC TV’s Media Watch.
He is the author of five bestselling Quarterly Essays in addition to the latest, Quarterly Essay 65, The White Queen: One Nation and the Politics of Race.
Stephen Armstrong
Stephen Armstrong is a creative producer and programmer specialising in new work commissions and interdisciplinary and inter-cultural collaborations. He is currently Creative Director of the inaugural Asia TOPA: Asia-Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts.
Stephen graduated in English Literature and History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Melbourne, and completed the Executive Program for Non-Profit Leaders at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.
He has worked as an Artistic Associate or Executive Producer for many of Australia’s leading performing arts companies including: Malthouse Theatre, Sydney Theatre Company, Queensland Theatre Company, Chamber Made Opera and Handspan Theatre. Stephen is currently a board director of Next Wave Festival. Previous directorships include Chunky Move and NIDA. He has been a councillor of the Australia Council for the Arts and chaired both the New Media Arts Fund and the Theatre Board.
Stephen has been the grateful recipient of the Myer Group Arts Award, the George Fairfax Fellowship, the 2005 Green Room Award for Outstanding Contribution to Theatre and was awarded the 2008 Kenneth Myer Medallion for Outstanding Achievement in the Performing Arts.
David Musgrave
David Musgrave’s poetry and short stories have won or been shortlisted for several awards including the Newcastle, Somerset, Bruce Dawe, Broadway and Henry Lawson prizes.
In 2005, he founded the publishing house Puncher & Wattmann, which publishes poetry and literary fiction. Glissando: A Melodrama (Sleepers, 2010) is his first novel.
Kerry Walker
Kerry Walker has enjoyed an extensive career in film, theatre and television.
One of Australia’s most sought after performers, Kerry’s most recent theatre credits include Life Without Me, The Man From Mukinupin, Hypocrite, The Madwoman of Chaillot, The Wiredancer’s Waltz and A Hard God. Her film credits include The Home Song Stories, The Piano, Moulin Rouge, Australia, Bliss, Looking for Alibrandi, Holy Smoke and The Dish.
Her numerous small screen credits include Dirt Game, The Hollowmen, Come In Spinner, The Leaving of Liverpool, Grass Roots, Stepfather of the Bride, Kick, Jessica, Vietnam, The Last Crop and GP. Most recently, Kerry has been shooting back to back with the Gale Edwards directed feature A Heartbeat Away, the television drama Killing Time and ABC TV’s Rake.
She has also served on the boards of Belvoir Street Theatre and Company B. Her numerous awards and nominations include Best Actress Green Room Award for Pack Of Lies and Knuckledusters; an Australian Artist’s Creative Fellowship and an AM (Member of the General Division of the Order of Australia) for Service to the Performing Arts (1994).