On the Couch with Beck Lister…part chat show, part therapy.
Sunday May 5th
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Wesley Anne, 250 High Street, Northcote
With Guests: Joel Bray - Koori Performance Maker; Sue Thomson - Filmmaker and Cate Kennedy - Author
Tickets on sale now: Full $27 Conc: $22 (plus OzTix booking fee)
Guests:
Sue Thomson: Sue is an award-winning filmmaker who is deeply passionate about human rights and equality. Sue wrote, directed & produced, The Coming Back Out Ball, the award-winning closing night film at MIFF 2018, now streaming on NETFLIX. Her last film UNDER COVER, about women over 50 experiencing homelessness is narrated by Margot Robbie and available on ABC iview. Right now, Sue is working on her latest documentary CARELESS, which is about the crisis in our aged care system.
Joel Bray: Joel is a proud Wiradjuri man whose practice springs from his cultural heritage. His works are intimate encounters in unorthodox spaces, in which audience-members are invited in as co-storytellers to explore the experiences of fair-skinned Aboriginal people, and the experiences of contemporary gay men in an increasingly digital and isolated world. His body becomes the intersection site of those songlines- Indigenous heritage, skin-colour and queer sexuality.
Cate Kennedy: Cate is the author of the highly acclaimed novel The World Beneath, which won the People’s Choice Award in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards in 2010. She is an award-winning short-story writer whose work has been published widely.
Her first collection, Dark Roots, was shortlisted for the Steele Rudd Award in the Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards and for the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal, and is currently a text on the VCE Literature syllabus. Other books included Sing, and Don’t Cry, and the poetry collections Joyflight, Signs of Other Fires and The Taste of River Water, which won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry in 2011 and Like a House on Fire (Scribe, 2012), which won the Queensland Literary Award and was shortlisted for the inaugural Stella Prize, and is also on the Victorian school syllabus, as a Year 12 English text.
Cate lives in Castlemaine, Victoria, with her daughter.
