Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Tuesday 29 May
4:30 PM - 5:15 PM
No matter how compelling a novel or a film might be, if you have to study it, there’s always the risk you’ll end up hating it. Not any more! A gift to VCE students, their teachers (and of course life-long learners) Texts in the City is a weekly exploration of the classic texts – both old and new – that appear on the VCE English reading lists.
For our brand new season of Texts in the City, we’ve asked schools to nominate which texts on the curriculum they’d most like to see discussed. By presenting speakers who are intimately familiar with each chosen work, as a writer, reviewer, publisher or performer, we’ll offer new perspectives on these classic books, creating the chance to take the obligation out of – and put the joy back into – reading for the VCE.
Sessions run at the student-friendly timeslot of 4.30pm – 5.15pm and are subsequently hosted on the Wheeler Centre website.
This week, we look at Hannie Rayson’s Two Brothers.
Featuring
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.
Ruby Murray
Ruby J Murray is a writer and researcher whose work appears regularly in Australian magazines, journals and newspapers. Her first novel, Running Dogs, is out now through Scribe.
Ruby is a regular moderator and host at public events and writers festivals including the Melbourne Writers Festival, the Emerging Writers Festival, The Ubud Writers and Readers Festival and the Melbourne Free University.