Literature Overview

COLLECTIVE DNA: WE ARE MADE OF STORIES, POETRY AND SONG

Some of us write a thing down, some of us talk a thing out, some of us sing it. Some of us hole up in our rooms, confide it to our journals, carve it into our desktops at high school, ink it on our skin when we’re old enough, strike a chord or beat our drum when a ‘thing’ needs saying. Some say it on canvas, some on the playing field, some on film. Some capture it in a photograph, a look, a gesture; and just about all of us have been caught – for better or worse – with ‘something’ to say on the dance floor!

We’ve all got stories, poems, songs and poses (and the photographs to prove it). We’ve all got something to say and our own way of saying it.

In the 2013 Castlemaine State Festival Literature Program, we’ve got stories you’ll recognise, poems you’ll understand, songs you’ll be humming and moves you’ll wish were your own. Oh yeah! We’ve got your literary giants and we’ve got slayers too; locals and internationals, newbie authors, dancers, doctors, puppeteers, journalists, critics, playwrights, lawyers, actors, poets, activists, comics and singers. And to top it off we’ve got a dedicated venue and a dedicated artist creating an integrated artwork! (Tim Craker … Google, friend, poke, tweet him … you know the drill.)

And we’ve got you …

Family.

Cate Kennedy, Romy Ash, Benjamin Law, Jeff Sparrow, Glenn Colquhoun, Lachlan Plain, Colleen Burke, Jayanthi Siva-Lecolley, Sabrina Zuber, Bhagya Murthy, Michael ‘Dan’ Mori, Cyril Wong, Jordie Albiston, Marco Galardi, Sara Lenzi, Elisabeth Campbell, Nathan Curnow, Ross Donlon, Rodney Croome, Alice Garner, Irris Makler, Michael Gurr, Barry Divola, Peggy Frew, Pete McCracken, Megan Spencer, Justin Heazlewood, Alice Pung, Matt Blackwood, Ginger Briggs, John Stanton, Maggie Rigby, Elsie Rigby, Karen McMullan, Bindi Cole

COLLECTIVE DNA – ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES.

CASTLEMAINE MARKET BUILDING,
44 Mostyn St Castlemaine
$20 / $15

Let Me Hear Your Body Talk Sun 17 6.30pm

Declaim to Fame Tue 19 7pm

Hairbrushes and Air Guitars Thu 21 7pm

Luke … I Am Your Father Fri 22 8pm

Everything You Need is Here Sat 16 6.30pm

Poetry Triage Sat 23 3.30pm

The Sound of our own Voices: Forum Sat 16 3.30pm