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Bonds of Love and Family
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Sun 26 Oct 1:30 PM
Liangis Theatre | National Portrait Gallery
Wheelchair
General Admission
60 Mins
October
Family (whether we chose or are born with them) bind us together through the good and bad times. But what happens when these bonds are too tight? Or the quests we share to survive illness and heartbreak are too great? Madeleine Gray (Chosen Family), Katherine Brabon (Cure) and Lucy Nelson (Wait Here) have all written about the beautiful but desperate relationships that can form, particularly between women, and how they can create and dismantle sense of self. This one is for lovers of exciting new literary fiction. Moderated by Lucy Nelson.
Katherine Brabon is the award-winning author of the novels The Memory Artist, The Shut Ins, Body Friend and most recently, Cure. Her work has received the Vogel’s Literary Award, a NSW Premier’s Literary Award and the David Harold Tribe Fiction Award. Her third novel, Body Friend, was shortlisted for the Stella Prize, the ALS Gold Medal and the University of Queensland Fiction Book Award. She lives in Naarm/Melbourne.
Madeleine Gray is a writer and critic from Sydney. She has written arts criticism for SRB, Overland, Meanjin, The Saturday Paper, The Monthly etc. In 2019 she was a CA-SRB Emerging Critic, and in 2021 she was a finalist for the Walkley Pascall Prize for Arts Criticism, a finalist for the Woollahra Digital Literary Non-fiction award, and a recipient of a Neilma Sidney Literary Travel grant. Madeleine has a PhD in feminist literary theory from the University of Manchester, an MSt in English from the University of Oxford and a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Art History from the University of Sydney. She is the author of Green Dot.
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Katherine Brabon is the award-winning author of the novels The Memory Artist, The Shut Ins, Body Friend and most recently, Cure. Her work has received the Vogel’s Literary Award, a NSW Premier’s Literary Award and the David Harold Tribe Fiction Award. Her third novel, Body Friend, was shortlisted for the Stella Prize, the ALS Gold Medal and the University of Queensland Fiction Book Award. She lives in Naarm/Melbourne.
Madeleine Gray is a writer and critic from Sydney. She has written arts criticism for SRB, Overland, Meanjin, The Saturday Paper, The Monthly etc. In 2019 she was a CA-SRB Emerging Critic, and in 2021 she was a finalist for the Walkley Pascall Prize for Arts Criticism, a finalist for the Woollahra Digital Literary Non-fiction award, and a recipient of a Neilma Sidney Literary Travel grant. Madeleine has a PhD in feminist literary theory from the University of Manchester, an MSt in English from the University of Oxford and a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Art History from the University of Sydney. She is the author of Green Dot.
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Concession Tickets apply for children under the age of 16, full-time students, Commonwealth Health Care Card holders, Commonwealth Seniors Card Holders and Commonwealth Pensioner Concession Card holders. Please have your eligible card with you at the venue.