Sydney Writers Festival - Live & Local - Livestreaming - Redcliffe

Next date: Thursday, 23 May 2024 | 10:00 AM to 08:30 PM

Join us for Live & Local 2024, streamed live by Sydney Writers’ Festival and delivered locally to Redcliffe Library; presented in partnership with Redcliffe Writers Group.

The Sydney Writers’ Festival will live-stream a selection of its headline events from Sydney to Redcliffe Library on Thursday 23, Friday 24, Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 May 2024.

Prepare to be invigorated and engaged by conversations, debates and discussions featuring some of the world’s finest writers and thinkers. Audiences can also participate in live Q&A sessions at each event, sending questions straight to the Sydney stage. Live captions available for all sessions.

Free event. Bookings essential. Book multiple or individual days and attend your choice of sessions. Enjoy talks from local authors during session breaks.

SWF - Thursday 23 May 2024 session information and booking:

• 10:00-11:00AM Julia Baird: Bright Shining [AUSLAN interpreted] 
• 12:00–1:00PM Viet Thanh Nguyen: A Man of Two Faces
• 2:00–3:00PM Suzie Miller: Prima Facie
• 4:00–5:00PM Julian Borger: I Seek a Kind Person
• 6:00–7:00PM Fantastical Worlds

Local author sessions:

• 3:15PM – Jenny Woolsey (Author, Speaker, Disability advocate)
• 5:15PM – Jane Smith (Author, Editor & Librarian, writes fiction and non-fiction for all ages)

SWF - Friday 24 May 2024 session information and booking:

• 10:00-11:00AM A.C. Grayling 'Meaning of Life in a Technological Age'
• 12:00–1:00PM The War on Journalists
• 2:00–3:00PM Abdulrazak Gurnah: Afterlives 
• 4:00–5:00PM Feminist Firebrands
• 6:00–7:00PM 5km From the Frontline 
• 7:30–9PM Queerstories

Local author sessions:

• 11:15AM – Dr. Indrani Ganguly (writer, traveller, author of Historical Fiction)
• 3:15PM – Noel Mealey (author of Australian Historical Crime Fiction)
• 5:15PM – Hawkeye Publishing

SWF - Saturday 25 May 2024 Session information and booking:

• 10:00–11:00AM  Celeste Ng: Our Missing Hearts
  
• 12:00–1:00PM Trent Dalton: From Eli to Lola [AUSLAN interpreted] 
• 2:00–3:00PM Storytellers: Leigh Sales and Lisa Millar
• 4:00–5:00PM Katy Hassell: The Story of Art Without Men
• 5:30–6:30PM Sad Girl? Bad Girl? Mad Girl?
• 7:30–8:30PM Sebastian Barry: Old God’s Time

Local author sessions:

• 11:15AM – Philip Bradbury (author of 22 books and magazines, helps turn roadblocks into starting blocks)
• 3:15PM – Jodie Lane (author of Science, Fantasy, dark comedy, and time travel)
• 6:45PM – Vicki Thomas (author of books including The Brisbane Line)

SWF - Sunday 26 May 2024 session Information and booking:

• 10:00–11:00AM Barrie Cassidy and Friends: State of the Nation
• 11:30AM–12:30PM Play Like a Girl
• 1:30–2:30PM David Wengrow: The Dawn of Everything
• 3:30–4:30PM Dark Technologies: Exposing the Technology of Modern Warfare
• 5:30–6:30PM Closing Address: Kate Manne on the Future of Misogyny 

Local author session:

• 2:45PM – Wendy Saini

Click here(PDF, 6MB) for full program of events.

 

When

Location

Redcliffe Library, 476 Oxley Avenue, Redcliffe, 4020, View map