Write around the Murray Festival
Albury City Council (3 other projects)
Library and Information Services - Award Winner Division B
Write around the Murray is a literary and story based festival managed by AlburyCity libraries staff, in conjunction with a community committee. The festival has operated for 4 years, with the most recent festival occurring from 8 - 12 September 2010. The festival is marketed as a celebration of writing, illustrating & storytelling and in 2010 incorporated 50 events, 30 presenters over 5 jam-packed days, with the Albury LibraryMuseum as the festival hub. Audience numbers grew by 40% in 2010, with 3300 attendees over the five days.
Events included a schools program with Melina Marchetta, Journalist Chris Masters as keynote speaker, forums on the future of journalism and publishing, short story competitions, book sale, literary pub crawl, demonstrations of book-making and e-books, writing and illustration workshops, indigenous storytelling, a literary lunch, a festival bookclub, poetry performances, literary woodfire oven event and the Spatial Stories public art and storytelling project.
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Cultural Officer
Carina Clement ()
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Award Category
Library and Information Services – Division B
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Poets David Gilbey, Emilie Zoey Baker and Derek Motion are immersed in the Write around the Murray Book of the Festival 'the world beneath' by Cate…
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Aboriginal storyteller Leonie McIntosh with West Albury Primary School students at the launch of Write around the Murray 2010.
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The crowd in reflective mood during a reading by performance poet Emilie Zoey Baker, as part of the Writers on Stage event during the Write aorund the…
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Chef and author Jackie Passmore wows the children with her delicious food cooked at Albury's Community wood fired oven, as part of the Write around the…
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