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MCH Poetry reading program from August to November 2016

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Co-ordinators: Paul Hetherington, Kathy Kituai, Kerrie Nelson

The full program for the rest of 2016 is being finalised, but the following events are confirmed:

Held at at 7:30 pm

 

29th September 

Entry fee $10 or $5 concession

Refreshments provided

The intimate space at MCH is perfect for poetry and features Owen Bullock and Carmel Summers, who are both wonderful readers.

Carmel Summers is a Canberra author and poet.  Her poems and short stories have been published in Australian and international journals and she has been short listed for the Blake Poetry Prize and the Glen Phillips Poetry Prize.  She has a MA in Creative Writing, is a member of Limestone Poets, Bowerbird and the Tanka Huddles. Carmel facilitates creative writing workshops in Sydney and regional NSW.

Owen Bullock’s publications include poetry and fiction, including three books of haiku.  He edited Poetry NZ #45 and anthologies for the New Zealand Poetry Society.  Currently Owen is a PhD Candidate in Writing at the University of Canberra and is on the International Editorial Board for Axon: Creative Explorations (University of Canberra).  He won the Canberra Critics’ Circle Award for Poetry 2015.

 

14th October               The launch of Australia/Japan anthology Poems to Wear (editor Amelia Fielden) by Dr. Carol Hayes, Senior Lecturer. Book  & launch by P.S.Cottier of Colouring In : the Four Seasons of Four Poets responsive tanka (Genie Nakano & Neal Whitman, USA, and Gerry Jacobson & Amelia Fielden, Australia; musical accompaniment by Rupert Summerson).

 

27th October               Adrian Caesar, Paul Hetherington & another TBA

 

Of Foxes & Hen Houses

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Of Foxes and Hen Houses: The Story of Why Battery Cages are Still Legal in Australia

 

With all the publicity about how cruel it is to keep hens in battery cages, you may wonder why these cages are still legal? Come to this session and hear the current science on the welfare impacts of battery cages. Learn about Australia’s national standards for poultry and how these are developed. Become informed about the deficiencies in how Australia sets animal welfare standards, with a graphic poultry case study. Find out, too, about RSPCA Australia’s campaign to end battery cages and options to get involved.

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The highly expert speakers will be Dr Jed Goodfellow: a Senior Policy Officer at RSPCA Australia and a Lecturer in Animal Law at Macquarie University. Prior to undertaking his postgraduate research, Jed practised as a prosecutor for RSPCA South Australia, a solicitor for commercial law firm Clayton Utz, and worked as an inspector for RSPCA Queensland; and Dr Kate Hartcher:

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Scientific Officer for poultry at RSPCA Australia, involved in providing science-based information, advice and comment on welfare issues. Kate has an honours degree in Animal Science, and subsequently completed a PhD on the behaviour and welfare of free-range layer hens at the University of Sydney.

There will also be an opportunity for questions.

Wednesday 21 September at Manning Clark House.

The speakers will begin at 6pm. There will be light refreshments from 5.30pm and afterwards.

The session is free but bookings are essential on-line at http://of-foxes-and-hen-houses.eventbrite.com.au or by phone at 0427975500

Advance Australia Where?

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Manning Clark House will host a panel discussion on the future of this country. in 3 years in 10 years and in 50 years.

Should we live in a decent society as started last century , then continued in the forties, seventies and eighties? Or do we gurgle trickling down?

The title is “Advance Australia Where?”.

The discussion will be umpired by Genevieve Jacobs and will include:

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Richard Dennis (Australia Institute)

Alex White (UnionsACT)

Alex is the Secretary of UnionsACT, the peak council representing working people in Canberra. He was previously the Campaign Director for Environment Victoria, union services manager for Slater & Gordon Lawyers, and has worked in the disability sector. In 2012 Alex was an Organising Fellow for the Obama 2012 presidential campaign based in Boston, and before that was campaign coordinator and organiser for several unions. Alex is a director of ACTCOSS, and has been a director of Greenpeace Australia-Pacific and The Wilderness Society

Karen Middleton (Journalist)

The event starts at 6.00pm and each speaker has up to 15mins to paint the future of Sunny Australia followed by 45mins of discussion.

The event is on

Thursday 15th of September 2016, 6.00PM START

At

11 Tasmania Circle, Forrest

Admission is $15 Ordinary an $10 Members.

Seats are limited to 50 so please RSVP to avoid disappointment.

Please RSVP to info@manningclark.org.au or 02 6162 0908 (Marisa Gonzalez & Co Monday – Friday 9am – 6pm)

Nibbles and drinks will be served

Manning Clark House 2016 news update

News

Manning Clark House is back in running for 2016. All MCH work is now being done by Committee members.

We do have lots of great events planned or in the pipeline.

Dr Libby Çonnors spoke wonderfully well on the Aboriginal Frontier Wars on 22 April, at MCH

The Dymphna Clark Lecture held on 28 April with Drusilla Modjeska speaking on PNG colonial history was a great success.

There will also be poetry readings through the course of the year. Details of these events will be progressively released and promoted. See below

Committee members are working hard on fixing up our financial base and so many other aspects of MCH. The garden has been wonderfully transformed and the bedrooms spring cleaned.

As you’re possibly aware we have lost many of our financial sponsers over recent years. Your membership financial support is appreciated more than ever. All members contributions will be receipted.

Communication with MCH can be a bit difficult at times. If you have any difficulties you can try ringing Bas Clark on 03 9329 1696.

On financial matters contact Marisa Gonzalez, marisa@marisagonzalez.com.au

POETRY AT MANNING CLARK HOUSE

Our 2016 Poetry Co-ordinators, Al Hope, Paul Hetherington and Kathy Kituai are facilitating a wonderful program over the year. A number of events have already been pencilled in. Contact  lexope@gmail.com

OTHER EVENTS all very successful and well attended

Jen Crawford, Poetry Book launch,

Dawn Casey, Whitlam and indigenous peoples,

Linda Weste, Poetry Reading,

Dr Bidda Jones, Chief Scientist RSPCA,

Poetry Readings, Judith Crispin et al, .

FORTHCOMING EVENTS

Manning Clark Lecture, George Megalogenis, Wither Australia?, 6pm, 20 July, National Library, $20 and $10 for MCH members and low income earners.

Musical Afternoon of Opera, Fleur Millar, 3pm, 25 July, MCH, $20 and $10 for low income earners and MCH members. Refreshments provided.

Toby Fitch, Poetry Launch, 7.30pm, , 28 July, at MCH, $10 and $7 for low income earners  and MCH members. Refreshments provided.

Dr Andrew Glikson, The Climate Titanic and the Melting Icebergs, 6pm, 2 August, $10 and $7 for low income earners and MCH members. Refreshments provided.

Poetry Readings all at 7.30 at MCH, 25 August, 22 September, 14 October, 24 November,  $10 and $7 for low income earners and MCH members. Refreshments provided.

An Evening of Haiku and Tanks Poetry featuring Japanese Tanka poet, Noriko Tanaka. And with Dr Carole Hayes from the ANU launching bi-nation anthology, Poems to Wear. Music accompaniment provided by Rupert Summerson. 7.30, Friday, 14 October.

Refreshments and food provided. $20, $15 for MCH members, $10 for low income earners.

MCH CHRISTMAS PARTY all are welcome, 5pm, 15 December

 

OFFICE BEARERS

President                Bas Clark

Deputy President Paul Hetherington

Treasurer                Marisa Gonzalez

Secretary               Alana Mahon

Public Officer         Frank Bongiorno

COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Jen Webb, Ernst Willheim, Andrew Clark, Greer Versteeg, Vicken Babkenian, David Headon, Dionie McAlary, Geoff Lazarus

OTHER IMPORTANT PARTICIPANTS IN MCH

Ron Fraser, Brett Odgers, Kerrie Nelson, Al Hope.

House Infrastructure- Roland Clark, mb 0400 889 853

Website  Information- Marisa Gonzalez, 02 6162 0908 (Monday – Friday 9am – 5pm)

 

 

Juno Gemes exhibition

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JUNO GEMES – Spirit Maps

OPENING 4PM SUNDAY 16TH OF AUGUST, 2015

Visual advocacy has been the hallmark of Juno Gemes’ artistic practice for more than four decades. Her use of creative media to agitate for shared knowledge and cultural understanding has resulted in a body of photographs, film and ephemera that, although superficially disparate, are bound through the common threads of critique and compassion.

Gemes is an observer and a listener. Her images arise from careful conversation, from intuitive felt connections with her subjects and their stories.

This exhibition will bring together interweaving threads of Juno Gemes artistic journey, with two photographic series, a film, and a selection of artists notebooks.

A series of photogravure meditations reveal fresh nuances through repeated impressions of two of Gemes’ most effecting and memorable photographs. Countrymen is a timeless, iconic and lyrical image capturing a moment of pure connection, respect, and affection between three Lawmen. One with the land is a quiet family portrait, a celebration of the patience and poetry of traditional hunting and fishing, connection to country. Both of these images are the product of a privileged intimacy, Gemes and her camera silently witnessing the profoundly personal continuation of ancient culture in contemporary life.

Gemes recently collaborated with master photogravure printer Lothar Osterling at his 3rd St Studio in Brooklyn, NY, producing this group of images that reinterrogate the surfaces and resonances of the photographs.’ Charleyene Olgivie

Juno Gemes was born in Budapest, Hungary and arrived in Australia in 1949. She studied at Sydney University, worked in theatre and wrote for the International Times in London until 1971. She became involved in the Yellow House at Potts Point, Sydney and worked in Central Australia on the film Uluru (1978).

Her first solo exhibition, We Wait No More was in 1982. Gemes has spent 40 years documenting the social change of Australia, in particular the lives of Aboriginal Australians. The exhibition runs until 30th August, 2015.

Ken Stone’s ‘Aurora Borealis to Botany Bay’

G635P2P2_FrtPc_Parry_largeInvitation to Book Launch by Dr Jonathan King Excerpts read and performed by the author.
D r Ken stone was born in Taree in 1944 and spent his early childhood in central New South Wales where his father’s family produced wheat and wool. He spent the later part of his childhood on his grandparents’ dairy farm at Stroud in the Karuah Valley.
After completing teacher training at Bathurst, Stone taught in schools in western New South Wales and in Sydney for twelve years, before moving across to tertiary education and lecturing in Creative Arts for twenty five years. He still pursues his interest in drama, poetry and the visual arts and is an experienced performer of his work.
Aurora Borealis to Botany Bay draws upon Ken Stone’s interest in colonial history and knowledge of Georgian and Victorian society and design. This is his fifth book of poetry.
Copies currently available at The National Trust Online Bookshop. For postal orders email: kenkaruah.stone@gmail.com. For further information about the book visit the websites of Maitland Mercury and Gloucester Advocate.
Wednesday, 10th June, 2015 5:30 p.m. for 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Manning Clark House,
11 Tasmania Circle Forrest.  RSVP to info@manningclark.org.au or (02) 6295 1808
Light refreshments and drinks will be served.
Aurora Borealis to Botany Bay can be purchased for $30 at the launch.

Ken Stone’s epic, Aurora Borealis to Botany Bay, takes us to the icy Arctic with Sir Edward Parry on his heroic search for a northwest passage; then to Australia’s recently mapped hinterland where he consolidates an Australian Agricultural Company settlement, which comes close to failure.  In colonial Sydney, my ancestor, Anna Josepha King, and her contemporaries, including John Macarthur, Archdeacon Broughton and Governor Bourke, live again in a few crisp lines”. Dr Jonathan King, historian and author. 
“Fabulous research and living characters.” Les Murray, Poet.
“A large cast of characters, each appearing in a dazzling spotlight. I would love to hear some of this read” Paul Brunton, historian and senior curator, Mitchell Library. 

Flood, Fire and Drought, a new Anthology of poetry by Australian poets

May 28, 6:00pm to 7:00pm at Manning Clark House, 11 Tasmania Circle Forrest.

Poetry readings and launch of Flood, Fire and Drought, edited by Suzanne Edgar, Kathleen Kituai, Sandra Renew and Hazel Hall.  An anthology exploring the effect of weather events on the Australian landscape, showcasing the works of twenty-nine Australian poets with a foreword by Richard Denniss, Director of The Australia  Institute.  To be launched by award winning poet, writer and environmentalists Mark O’Çonnor.

Booklaunch of “The Poets’ Stairwell” by Alan Gould

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Taking his cue from his travels is 1977 with his colleague-poet Kevin Hart, Alan Gould has fashioned a playful and imaginative traveller’s tale.  It has humour, a roll-call of intriguing characters, a sustained meditation on the nature of poetic inspiration and growth, and is a comic-elegiac record of a friendship.

Alan hopes you can come to the Booklaunch of his ninth novel. The Poets’ Stairwell, by Dr Bronwen Levy of University of Queensland at Manning Clark House.

Thursday April 23rd at 5:30pm, Manning Clark House, 11 Tasmania Circle, Forrest. There will be wine and eatables, and copies of the book for sale.

RSVP: 02 62959433 or email Alan Gould tazyrik@bigpond.com.