World Matters 2010 Writers - Disturbing the Peace @ Montsalvat Oct 27 and 30-31 Oct

Diamond Valley Oxfam, Montsalvat, ELTHAMbookshop

Present

The 6^th Annual

World Matters 2010 Writers - Disturbing the Peace

Oct 27  and 30 -31

Venue: The Barn, Montsalvat, Hillcrest Avenue , Eltham   

 The Great Hall, Montsalvat

Wednesday 27^th October

7.00pm-8.30pm     Entry $10.00

Here on Earth : A Sustainable Future

Tim Flannery  argues that we are now equipped as never before to explore our true relationship with the planet on which our biological, economic and cultural futures depend. Tim’s new book Here on Earth is not just a dazzling account of life on our planet. It will change the way you live. Come prepared for an in depth discussion. 

Saturday 30^th October

 Session 1

11.00am : Welcome Note by Morag Fraser, Chair, World Matters 2010

10. 15 –  12. 45pm

Blood on My Hands

The extraordinary story of  Dr Craig Jurisevic’s experiences with the International Medical Corps during the Kosovo conflict and later at the front line with the Kosovo Liberation Army. Maria Tumarkin, author of Traumascape, Courage and Otherland, will be in conversation with Craig as he unfolds the anguished choices he had to make in the face of the savagery unleashed in this brutal war.

Chair: Dr Bill Williams,  Medical Association for Prevention of War

12.45pm – 1.45pm   

BBQ Lunch    $15 .00 (for vegetarians, too) The Meeting Pool, Montsalvat

Session 2

 1.45pm – 3.30pm

The Pacific Solution

When we engage with the stories of the people, held under the Pacific Solution, and acknowledge our common humanity can we justify what we have done? Julian Burnside and Arnold Zable  in conversation with Susan Metcalfe, author of The Pacific Solution, discuss offshore processing and our attitudes towards asylum seekers.

Supported by Montmorency Asylum Seeker Support Group.

Session 3

 3.45pm – 5.00pm

Prosper or Perish

Growing Australia ’s population poses economic, social and environmental challenges. Contributors to Griffith REVIEW 29: Prosper or Perish, Peter Mares, Rachel Buchanan and David Sornig,  discuss how visionary planning can help find a balance between growth, diversity and sustainability in a shrinking world.

Chair: Erica Sontheimer 

Session 4

5.15pm – 6.45pm

Fear Factor Terror Incognito

           Picture of Sharon Rundle & authors

from here

Short stories from a unique anthology born out of a  Indian sub continent – Australia collaboration will be discussed by  Sussanne Gervay, Meenakshi Bharat, Jeremy Fisher and  Devika Brendon. The stories are a protest against the phenomenon of modern terror. "They do not offer solutions. Instead, they lead readers  along the hidden paths of an unfamiliar psychology to make their own discoveries." Contributors include Tom Keneally, Yasmine Gooneratne, Salman Rushdie and David Malouf

Sunday 31^st October

Session 5

10.00am – 11.30am

Country Songs

Ros Moriarty (Listening to Country), John Bradley (Singing Saltwater
Country), Margaret Somerville (Singing the Coast) provide eloquent and moving accounts of indigenous lives lived to the rhythms of nature.

Chair: Morag Fraser

Supported by Nillumbik Reconciliation Group

Session 6

11.45am – 1.00pm

Swimming in the Streets: The Beginnings of Planning for Sea Level Rise

Tim Bonyhady, Director, Centre for Climate Law and Policy, Climate Change Institute, ANU,  in conversation with Morag Fraser, discusses his essay in Adapting to Climate Change and the need for technological innovation as well as behavioural and attitudinal change

Supported by Nillumbik Climate Action Now

1.00pm – 1.45pm

 Picnic Lunch    $10.00  The Meeting Pool, Montsalvat

Session 7

1.45pm – 3.00pm

Step by Step

Titi Amaral and Jude Conway present an audio visual narrative of East Timor Women’s brave stories of resistance and survival from the anthology Step by Step

Chair: Stephen Lavender, Diamond Valley Oxfam

Supported by East Timor Women Australia . Exhibition and sales of East Timor textiles in the Resident Artist’s Gallery.

Session 8

3. 15pm – 4. 45pm

Transit Lounge Across Cultures

Ouyang Yu, The English Class, Roger Averill , Keeping Faith, Jane Carswell
Under the Huang Jiao Tree:Two Journeys in China through story and memoir, transit lounge us across cultures of China , New Zealand and Papua New Guinea .

Chair: tbc

Session 9

5.00pm- 6.00pm

Poetry in Many Tongues

Donna Williams, Weirdos Like Me, Sandy Jeffs, Wings of Angels,Yahia al-Samawy, Two Banks With No Bridge, Ouyang Yu, Robyn Rowland, Seasons of Doubt and Burning read their poems that bear testimony to Dylan Thomas’s exhortation “Do not go gently into the night…”

Chair: Julia Wakefield

6. 30pm – 7.30pm

Duende – Jazz Finale by Joe Chindamo     $15.00 tickets

This concert is a musical journey through the human condition: love (in all it's incarnations), joy, sorrow, elation, despair, longing, melancholy, excitement, and even death, find their expression in these songs. Sedately introspective.  Book early. 

Books and CDs will be available for sale and signing.  

A 10% discount for purchase of 5 books or more.  

Reading the books beforehand will ensure a lively and informed discussion during q and a. 

Prepaid bookings for World Matters are essential at  ELTHAMbookshop

at 970 Main Road , Eltham elthambookshop@bigpond.com or 9439 8700 

Entry:

October 27

Here on Earth: A Sustainable Future with Tim Flannery  $10.00

October 30 - 31

  Festival Pass : $45.00 ( Does not include Tim Flannery event)

Early Bird Bookings: $35.00 (bookings by October 20^th)

Students: $25.00

Each session: $7.00 (unless otherwise stated)

Tea, coffee, juice and a light snack: $2.50 (available at every session) 

Duende Concert with Jo Chindamo Trio:  $15.00

October 31.     6.30pm – 7.30pm

The Meeting Pool at Montsalvat offers the World Matters audience a very special menu to sustain you through the two days.

Bookings for breakfast, lunch and dinner must be made  with Andrew by October 27^th  at 94312681 catering@montsalvat.com.au

elthambookshop@bigpond.com

970 Main Road Eltham

9439 8700