Sunday, March 09, 2014
Saturday, March 08, 2014
Thursday, March 06, 2014
2014 FAC Print Award NOW OPEN
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About The Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award supported by Little Creatures Brewing The Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award is Australia's premier showcase of prints and artists' books. Now in its 39th year, the Award and exhibition continues to push the boundaries of printmaking while showcasing the best practitioners in the field. $15,000 - First Prize with work aquired for City of Fremantle Art Collection, WA's largest municipal collection. $5000 - Second Prize. Exhibition runs Sat 20 Sept - Sun 16 Nov Entries now open. Deadline 23 May 5pm APPLY NOW |
QPF poetry events/workshops
COUPLET presented by the Reader-in-Residence
Australian Poetry Slam champion and storyteller Chris Huet aka CJ Bowerbird (Canberra) + acclaimed Melbourne poet Peter Bakowski reading from his latest collection 'Personal Weather'. For more info,check in here.
When: Fri 7th March
Time: 5:30 - 6:30pm
Where: Brisbane Square Library
On The Run: A Whispers Reading Event
Stories speak to us; they whisper, cajole, and, on occasion, shout out to be heard. Join Queensland Writers Centre to celebrate Queensland voices in a special event with Stella Prize longlist authors Melissa Lucashenko and Kristina Olsson, and more.
Relax in The Library Café, and celebrate the unique stories and voices that define Queensland.
When: Sat 8th March
Time: 3- 5pm
Where: Library Cafe, State Library of Queensland
Australian Poetry Slam champion and storyteller Chris Huet aka CJ Bowerbird (Canberra) + acclaimed Melbourne poet Peter Bakowski reading from his latest collection 'Personal Weather'. For more info,check in here.
When: Fri 7th March
Time: 5:30 - 6:30pm
Where: Brisbane Square Library
On The Run: A Whispers Reading Event
Stories speak to us; they whisper, cajole, and, on occasion, shout out to be heard. Join Queensland Writers Centre to celebrate Queensland voices in a special event with Stella Prize longlist authors Melissa Lucashenko and Kristina Olsson, and more.
Relax in The Library Café, and celebrate the unique stories and voices that define Queensland.
When: Sat 8th March
Time: 3- 5pm
Where: Library Cafe, State Library of Queensland
Knitters needed for Penguins
The Penguin Foundation has a global callout for knitters to make pullovers for penguins in rehab.
Penguins caught in oil spills need the little jumpers to keep warm and to stop them from trying to clean the toxic oil off with their beaks.
Knitter Lyn Blom is the receptionist at Phillip Island Nature Parks in Victoria and has knitted many penguin jumpers over the years.
The Penguin Foundation is based at Phillip Island, which is known for having a large penguin colony.
Lyn Blom says it's not just major oil spills that cause problems for local penguins.
"Fishermen might clean out a container or something while they're at sea," says Lyn.
"It's a continuing problem," she says. "We get probably about 20 birds a year."
One advantage of knitting a penguin sweater is that they are small.
"They're very quick," says Lyn.
While the Penguin Foundation's website says it has a 'good supply' of the little jumpers, the organisation also uses them in educational programs as well as selling them as a fundraising measure.
In 2011 the foundation raised money for a new Phillip Island Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre which can house up to 1500 penguins in the event of a major oil spill.
You can download more information about how to knit for penguins, including the knitting pattern and where to send the finished product.
Wednesday, March 05, 2014
Tuesday, March 04, 2014
American Life in Poetry: Column 466 BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE
Li-Young Lee is an important American poet of Chinese parentage who lives in Chicago. Much of his poetry is marked by unabashed tenderness, and this poem is a good example of that.
I Ask My Mother to Sing
She begins, and my grandmother joins her.
Mother and daughter sing like young girls.
If my father were alive, he would play
his accordion and sway like a boat.
I’ve never been in Peking, or the Summer Palace,
nor stood on the great Stone Boat to watch
the rain begin on Kuen Ming Lake, the picnickers
running away in the grass.
But I love to hear it sung;
how the waterlilies fill with rain until
they overturn, spilling water into water,
then rock back, and fill with more.
Both women have begun to cry.
But neither stops her song.
American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation (www.poetryfoundation.org), publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Poem copyright ©1986 by Li-Young Lee, whose most recent book of poems is Behind My Eyes, BOA Editions, Ltd., 2009. Poem reprinted by permission of Li-Young Lee and the publisher. Introduction copyright © 2014 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction's author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006. We do not accept unsolicited manuscripts.
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Monday, March 03, 2014
Sunday, March 02, 2014
Mitchell Library petition
Hello,
A library without books just isn't a library at all. Yet such a fate could befall the Mitchell Library, if the government goes through with a planned $25 million "revitalisation."
Not only is the library's staff being cut. The government is proposing to convert the Mitchell Reading Room into a public space equipped with WiFi but with no books to speak of.
Australian citizens have a right to know exactly what the government's plans for the State Library of NSW are. It is imperative to call on the Chief Librarian of the State Library of NSW to convene a public meeting so people can get answers to their questions about the fate of one of Australia's most valuable and loved national institutions.
I just signed a petition to save the Mitchell Library. Will you sign too? Here's a link to the petition:
Thank you.
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