In Canberra 7th March WOMEN WATER WORDS – Performance Talk Art

Poetry Performance Talk Art - Celebrate International Women’s Day with Canberra & Region poets and performers Nicola Bowery, Hanna Cormick, Kathy Kituai, Jenni Martiniello, Lizz Murphy, Chrissie Shaw. Exhibition by Irma Trickett.

Opening address to be announced. Full program available from website soon.

Venue: BELCONNEN ARTS CENTRE
Address: 118 Emu Bank, Belconnen ACT
Date: Sunday March 7,
Time: 10 am-6 pm
Registration 9.30 am
Please book on 02 6173 3300
Cost $25/$15 Unwaged (Half day rate available)
Website: www.belconnenartscentre.com.au

Celebrate International Women’s Day -

Opening address
- The Value of Tears - Ariel Salleh activist and author. Editor of Eco-Sufficiency & Global Justice: Women Writing Political Ecology (Spinifex 2009).
- Poetry - Themes: Mothering Words - Nicola Bowery, Women’s Weave - Jennifer Kemarre Martiniello, Undercurrent - Kathy Kituai, The Unseen River - Lizz Murphy

Performance
Flow: An exploration of allowing water to inhabit your work - Hanna Cormick
The Keeper: A Gothic Tale of Light and Dark - Chrissie Shaw
Afternoon parallel sessions/workshops

Conversations, stories, mini writing and performance-based workshops facilitated by guest performers: Impulse (Hanna Cormick), Songlines (Jennifer Martiniello) , In Not So Many Words (Kathy Kituai), Wild Words (Lizz Murphy), Stories from the Stage (Chrissie Shaw), What is Embodied Debt? (Ariel Salleh)

Please book on 02 6173 3300. Cost $25/$15 Concession (Half day $15)
Lunch is BYO or at nearby cafés.
Women, Words and Water is supported by ACT Writers Centre, Daltons Books and Spinifex Press. For more information on International Women’s Day 2010 please see www.internationalwomensday.com

Lizz Murphy (Hon Coordinator)
PO Binalong NSW Australia 2584
Ph/Fax 61 (0)2 6227 4393 Mobile 0428 237 882
Email lizzmurphy@tadaust.org.au

Lizz Murphy has published ten books: five collections of poetry including the chapbook Walk the Wildly (2009 RRP $5 from www.picaropress.com), Stop Your Cryin (Island Press 2004 RRP $15) and Two Lips Went Shopping (Spinifex Press 2000 RRP $19.95); five anthologies and community publications including Wee Girls: Women Writing from an Irish Perspective (editor, Spinifex Press 1996, 2000 RRP $24.95) and the social history The Pearly Griffin (with Sarah St Vincent Welch, DHCS ACT, 2007, FREE).