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Q&A with Marnie Karmelita
The Festival's Creative Director Marnie Karmelita gives her top tips for making the most of your 2020 Festival.
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Writer events I'm looking forward to – Cherie Jacobson
Cherie Jacobson, Director of Katherine Mansfield House & Garden, tells us her picks for the 2020 Writers Programme.
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This Reading Life: Alison Whittaker
Poet, essayist and legal scholar Alison Whittaker's latest book Blakwork defies easy categorization. A mix of memoir, reportage, fiction, satire and critique it reflects Alison's interrogation of feminism, class, social justice and the erasure of Aboriginal people. Alison will be in conversation with Anahera Gildea to discuss poetry, advocacy and Australia on Sunday 14 March.
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This Reading Life: Chiké Frankie Edozien
Chiké Frankie Edozien is a Nigerian-American writer and professor of journalism at New York University. His 2017 memoir Lives of Great Men: Living and Loving as an African Gay Man won the Lambda Literary Award in the Gay Memoir/Biography category at the 30th Lambda Literary Awards in 2018. Chiké will be in conversation with Victor Rodger on Thursday 27 February at Renouf Foyer, Michael Fowler Centre.
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My Art Inspiration: Lucy Marinkovich
Choreographer and dancer Lucy-Margaux Marinkovich directs Strasbourg 1518, which runs 12-15 March at Circa Theatre as part of the Festival. Here she writes about the thinking behind the piece she's produced with her partner, the musician and writer Lucien Johnson; medieval dancing plagues, dance marathons, the role of the body in protests, and the uniquely human compulsion to respond to the world through art.
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Q&A with the makers of Dimanche
ARTicle catches up with Julie Tenret, Sicaire Durieux and Sandrine Heyraud, the three creators of Dimanche.
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This Reading Life: Rebecca Priestley
Wellington writer and associate professor at Victoria University of Wellington Rebecca Priestley shares her literary inclinations with ARTicle.
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This Reading Life: Rajorshi Chakraborti
Novelist, essayist and short-story writer Rajorshi Chakraborti shares his literary inclinations with ARTicle.
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Your 2020 Festival Playlist
Simon Sweetman's 2020 Festival contemporary music playlist.
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