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سيشارك الشاعر يحيى السماوي بقراءات شعرية، ضمن فعاليات الملتقى الفكري العالمي السادس الذي سيعقد في مدينة ملبورن الاسترالية.
والمتلقى تجمع فكري ضخم يحضره عدد كبير من المفكرين من انحاء العالم لمناقشة قضايا فكرية راهنة، وتقام على هامشه عدد من الندوات والفعاليات والامسيات الشعرية التي يحضرها كبار الشعراء عادة. وفي ما يلي نص الاعلان:
Diamond Valley Oxfam, Montsalvat and
ELTHAMbookshop
Present
The 6th Annual
World Matters 2010 Writers - Disturbing the Peace
Oct 27 & 30 -31
Venue: Montsalvat, Hillcrest Avenue, Eltham
Wednesday 27th October
7.00pm-8.30pm Entry $10.00
Here on Earth: A Sustainable Future
Tim Flannery argues that we are now equipped as never before to explore our true relationship with the planet on which our biological, economic and cultural futures depend. Here on Earth is not just a dazzling account of life on our planet. It will change the way you live. Come prepared for an in depth discussion.
Saturday 30th October
Session 1
11.00am: Welcome Note by Morag Fraser, Chair, World Matters 2010
11.15 – 12. 45pm
Blood on My Hands
The extraordinary story of Dr Craig Jurisevic’s experiences with the International Medical Corps during the Kosovo conflict and later at the front line with the Kosovo Liberation Army. Maria Tumarkin, author of Traumascape, Courage and Otherland, will be in conversation with Craig as he unfolds the anguished choices he had to make in the face of the savagery unleashed in this brutal war.
Chair: Dr Bill Williams, Medical Association for Prevention of War
12.45pm – 1.45pm
BBQ Lunch $15 .00 (for vegetarians, too) Bookings with The Meeting Pool, Montsalvat
Session 2
1.45pm – 3.30pm
Pacific Solution
When we engage with the stories of the people, held under the Pacific Solution, and acknowledge our common humanity can we justify what we have done? Julian Burnside and Arnold Zable in conversation with Susan Metcalfe, author of Pacific Solution, discuss offshore processing and our attitudes towards asylum seekers.
Supported by Montmorency Asylum Seeker Support Group.
Session 3
3.45pm – 5.00pm
Prosper or Perish
Growing Australia’s population poses economic, social and environmental challenges. Contributors to Griffith Review 29, Peter Mares, Rachel Buchanan and David Sornig, discuss how visionary planning can help find a balance between growth, diversity and sustainability in a shrinking world.
Chair: Erica Sontheimer
Session 4
5.15pm – 6.45pm
Fear Factor Terror Incognito
Short stories from a unique India – Australia collaboration anthology will be discussed by Sussane Gervays, Andrew YM Kwong, Jeremy Fisher and Devika Brendon .The stories are a protest against the phenomenon of modern terror. They do not offer solutions. Instead, they lead readers along the hidden paths of an unfamiliar psychology to make their own discoveries. Contributors include Tom Keneally, Yasmine Gooneratne and David Malouf.
Chair: Sharon Rundle
Sunday 31st October
Session 5
10.00am – 11.30am
Country Songs
Ros Moriarty (Listening to Country), John Bradley (Singing Saltwater
Country), Margaret Somerville (Singing the Coast) provide eloquent and moving accounts of indigenous lives lived to the rhythms of nature.
Chair: Morag Fraser
Supported by Nillumbik Reconciliation Group
Session 6
11.45am – 1.00pm
Swimming in the Streets: The Beginnings of Planning for Sea Level Rise
Tim Bonyhady, Director, Centre for Climate Law and Policy, Climate Change Institute, ANU, in conversation with Morag Fraser, discusses his essay in Adapting to Climate Change and the need for technological innovation as well as behavioural and attitudinal change
Supported by Nillumbik Climate Action Now
1.00pm – 1.45pm
Picnic Lunch $10.00 (Pre-Book with Meeting Pool, Montsalvat)
Session 7
1.45pm – 3.00pm
Step by Step
Titi Amaral and Jude Conway present an audio visual narrative of East Timor Women’s brave stories of resistance and survival from the anthology Step by Step
Chair: Stephen Lavender, Diamond Valley Oxfam
Supported by East Timor Women Australia. Exhibition and sales of East Timor textiles in the Resident Artist’s Gallery.
Session 8
3. 15pm – 4. 45pm
Transit Lounge Across Cultures
Ouyang Yu, The English Class , Roger Averill , Keeping Faith, Jane Carswell
Under the Huang Jia Tree: Two Journeys in China through story and memoir, transit lounge us across cultures of China, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea.
Chair: Peter Rose, editor Australian Book Review-TBC
Session 9
5.00pm- 6.00pm
Poetry in Many Tongues
Poets in Many Tongues, Yahia al-Samawy , Friendly Street Poets
Robyn Rowland (Melb Poets)
Chair: Julia Wakefield
6. 30pm – 7.30pm
Duende – Jazz Finale by Jo Chindamo and Trio $15.00 tickets
This concert is a musical journey through the human condition: love (in all it's incarnations), joy, sorrow, elation, despair, longing, melancholy, excitement, and even death, find their expression in these songs. Sedately introspective. Book early.
Books and cds will be available for sale and signing - a 10% discount for purchase of 5 books or more. Reading the books beforehand will ensure a lively and informed discussion during q and a.
Prepaid bookings for World Matters are essential at
ELTHAMbookshop at 970 Main Road, Eltham
هذا البريد الإلكتروني محمي من المتطفلين و برامج التطفل، تحتاج إلى تفعيل جافا سكريبت لتتمكن من مشاهدته
or 9439 8700
Entry:
October 27
Here on Earth: A Sustainable Future with Tim Flannery $10.00
October 30 - 31
Festival Pass: $45.00
Early Bird Bookings: $35.00 (bookings by October 20th)
Students: $25.00
Each session: $7.00
Gold coin donation for tea and coffee (available at every session)
Duende Concert with Jo Chindamo Trio: $15.00
October 31. 6.30pm – 7.30pm
The Meeting Pool at Montsalvat offers the World Matters audience a very special menu to sustain you through the two days.
Bookings for breakfast, lunch and dinner must be made with Andrew by October 27th at 94312681
هذا البريد الإلكتروني محمي من المتطفلين و برامج التطفل، تحتاج إلى تفعيل جافا سكريبت لتتمكن من مشاهدته
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