Tuesday, 25 September 2007
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Indus |
The Left Bank Lounge |
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Feature Events |
10.00 AM - 4.00 PM
Stories on Cloth - Full-Day Batik Workshop - SOLD OUT
Kubu Roda, Jalan Bisma #3 | | |
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Evening Events |
| 7.00 PM - 8.00 PM | An Evening of Stories on Cloth with Ibu Uswatun Hasanah
Accomplished batik and performance artist, Uswatun Hasanah from Kerek, Java, will present this evening storytelling event on the mythology and meaning of the Kerek batik motifs with music and song by the Kerek batik artists. This is a free event sponsored by Threads of Life. Rumah Roda. Jl Kajeng 24, Ubud |
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Wednesday, 26 September 2007
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Indus |
The Left Bank Lounge |
| 7.00 PM - 8.30 PM | | |
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Feature Events |
9.30 AM - 3.30 PM
Finding the Stories Within - Yoga and Writing Workshop. SOLD OUT
Ibah | | | 10.00 AM - 1.00 PM
A Passage to Indonesia Masterclass with Janet DeNeefe and Joanna Savill
The Mansion | | |
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5.00 PM - 7.00 PM
Gala Festival Opening. SOLD OUT
Ubud Palace
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Book Launch |
| 7.00 PM - 8.30 PM | The Centhini Story– The Javanese Journey of Life
Java‘s great epic poem, the Centhini, encompasses art, music, divination, erotic knowledge, religious speculation and mysticism. Celebrating the launch of the first English translation of the poem, entitled The Centhini Story, this event will feature performances by Balinese dancer Nyoman Sura and Jogjakarta rapper Marzuki (aka Kill the DJ) with a lively introduction to the Centhini by Elizabeth Inandiak. These performances will be followed by the launch of the Centhini Story by editor, Kesty Pringgoharjono with canapes and refreshments courtesy of Lotus Cafe. Lotus Stage, Puri Saraswati. Jl. Raya Ubud. |
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Thursday, 27 September 2007
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Indus |
The Left Bank Lounge |
| 9.00 AM - 9.30 AM | Welcome Dance followed by an introduction by the Festival Director, Janet De Neefe. | | | 9.45 AM - 10.45 AM | In-Conversation with Hamid Basyaib
As current Program Director of the Freedom Institute and one of Indonesia’s leading Muslim intellectuals, Hamid Basyaib speaks with courage and determination for a radical re-examination of Islamic precepts, including the issues of Islamic law, an Islamic state and personal freedom. Join Hamid for a fascinating in-conversation with Debra Yatim. This session is sponsored by HiVOS. | A Crowded House
Love them or loathe them, we all have families. Given the universality of family, there is something reassuring in reading about what goes on in other people’s relationships. From the dysfunctional to the endearing, from the tragic to the romantic, families and relationships provide an inexhaustible seam of literary ore. Featuring: Patrick Gale, Jo Dutton, Somaya Ramadan. Mod: Rosemary Sayer | | 11.00 AM - 12.00 PM | Explaining the Unseen
In creating explanations for the inexplicable we have, for millennia, told stories of magic, dragons, ghosts and other mythical creatures. Writers from both east and west discuss how they see, and write, the unseen. A meditation on the nature of reality. Featuring: Azhar Abidi, Reine Arcache Melvin, Jill Dawson. Mod: Irina Dunn | Searching the Past
Madeleine Thien’s latest novel, Certainty, is an intricately woven portrayal of multiple generations of family dealing with the realities of war and its aftermath. Tan Twan Eng's The Gift Of Rain is a novel about agonisingly divided loyalties and unbearable loss. Both writers will discuss human courage and the nature of enduring love. Mod: Joanna Savill | | 12.15 PM - 1.15 PM | Reporting the Clash of Civilisations
Since the turn of the century, the media across much of Asia has been focused on the threat of terrorism. Lately, this has become a broader concern about religious extremism. But in the headlong rush to write the catchy story about advancing Shariah law or retreating tolerance, does the media miss the nuances? Are we being guided to the truth? Or, are we being misled for the sake of a story that instills fear? Featuring: Debra Yatim, Michael Vatikiotis, John Zubrzycki. Mod: Stephen Fitzpatrick | Meet the Poets: What is THIS Thing Called, Love?
What’s a festival without a session on love and poetry? From heart stabbing angst to light-footed irony — with a bit of unbridled passion thrown in for good measure — these poets discuss the way they deal with love and life, through the written word. Featuring: Miles Merrill, Rosa Herliany, Hagar Peeters. Mod: Alan Close
| | 1.30 PM - 2.30 PM | The Historical Niskala
Two Balinese writers — a poet and an expert on Balinese’s witchcraft texts — discuss the role of the unseen in the literary works of ancient Balinese. Featuring: I Ketut Sumarta and I Gusti Ngurah Harta. Mod: Wayan Juniartha This session is sponsored by HiVOS. | Reality Bites
Out of the blue, a writer hears a true story that’s so good that everything else has to be dropped to write it. Three novelists discuss the true stories that set their imaginations on fire. Featuring: Kirsty Murray, Marele Day, Jill Dawson. Mod: Rosemary Sayer | | 2.45 PM - 4.00 PM | Stars Rise In The East
Is there such a thing as “Asian literature” or are such stories just Western tales in an eastern setting? If the law of averages suggests that the next Stephen King, Danielle Steele or JK Rowling will come from the east, how will we find them? Featuring: Xu Xi, Madeleine Thien, Nicholas Jose. Mod: Nury Vittachi | A Kingdom Lost, A Story Found
Ever heard of the Indian Prince who lost it all in the Australian outback? A real life riches-to-rags story told evocatively by award-winning journalist John Zubrzycki. What drew him to the tale of The Last Nizam, how did it impact the fall of Hyderabad and the end of India's great princely state? Get ready for a history lesson like no other in this compelling conversation. Mod: Deepika Shetty | | 4.15 PM - 5.15 PM | LAUNCH PARTY – ASIA PACIFIC NEW WRITING PARTNERSHIP
Co-hosted by Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha and Griffith University. Celebrate the launch of an innovative international collaboration of writers, universities and others supporting new writing from Asia. Meet Board members Malou Jacob, Director of the Manila-based Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Centre; Nury Vittachi of the Asia Literary Review; and keynote speaker Chris Merrill, Director of the Iowa International Writing Program. Supported by ANU’s International Centre of Excellence in Asia-Pacific Studies. Free Entry. | Facts and Friction
To what extent do writers have a responsibility to the 'facts' when writing historical fiction? Writers of the genre discuss some of the motivations and challenges involved in recreating historical figures or creating fictional characters within historical events. Featuring: Azhar Abidi, Cok Sawitri and Rana Dasgupta. Mod: Ian Britain | | 5.30 PM - 6.30 PM | | |
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Feature Events |
9.00 AM - 12.00 PM
Literary Translation Workshop by John H. McGlynn from the Lontar Foundation - SOLD OUT
Indrakila | | | 9.00 AM - 12.00 PM
Turn Your Life Into A Book with Nury Vittachi - SOLD OUT
Ananda | | | 9.30 AM - 12.30 PM
Wayang Puppet-Making Workshop
Meet at Casa Luna | | | 1.00 PM - 5.00 PM
Write a Play in a Day with Peter Matheson
Indrakila | | |
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11.30 AM - 2.00 PM
Literary Lunch
Alila Ubud
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Book Launch |
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| | 5.30 PM - 6.30 PM | A Terrible Beauty - on Being in Bali by Ray Harding
Renowned Australian playwright, Ray Harding, explores the life choices of young people exposed to Americanised culture. What was said of the Ancient Romans can be said of current Americanisation: ‘They created a desolation and called it peace.’ Through Balinese mythology, artmaking, geography and recent history, the play reveals that ignorance is not bliss. A Terrible Beauty helps us look at and debate such propositions. Published by Charles Sturt University Press. Lamak. Jl. Monkey Forest. |
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Evening Events |
| 7.00 PM - 9.00 PM | Wilds Dogs and Princesses
Join us for a magical evening of theatrical performance featuring excerpts from Tusiata Avia’s Wild Dogs Under My Skirts, Ann Lee’s Hang Li Poh: Melakan Princess and Ray Harding’s A Terrible Beauty, performed by Kelompok Satu Kosong Delapan. Dinner also available. Outdoors under the stars at The Yoga Barn. Grilled Tub Bbq from 6pm. Rp. 75,000 [incl. one glass of wine or other beverage]. Jl. Hanoman, Ubud. If you would like to book for dinner, please call 970922. | | 9.00 PM - 11.00 PM | The ‘Better Read Than Dead’ Poetry Slam
Get ready for the 2007 annual Poetry Slam with a line up of poetic heroes and hot new talent in a wickedly funny and unforgettable evening of wild words, hip-hop and riveting poetry. Come and see our finest poets and the stars of tomorrow in one of the Festival’s most entertaining events. All poets welcome. Sign up at the door from 8:30pm. Featuring: Miriam Barr, Miles Merrill, Angelo Suarez and Wiratmadinata. Hosted by: Hal Judge. Bebek Bengil [Dirty Duck] Restaurant. Jl. Hanoman, Ubud. | | 10.00 PM - 1.00 AM | The Festival Club
The Literatti with Miriam Barr and Andra.
Get ready for a serve of poetry minestrone in a show that juxtaposes the serious with the satirical in a fusion of poetic, visual and musical displays of contemporary word. Miriam Barr and Andra are one third of Auckland's premier performance poetry group, The Literatti. Grab a taste of what Auckland has been talking about since their standing room only debut in 2006 and be prepared.
The Festival Club is open to all writers and performers! If you would like to sign up to perform at the Festival Club, just call or sms Hal Judge on 0813 3790 4080. You will need to send him your name plus the day and time you would like to perform [must be before 11:30pm]. Free entry. |
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Friday, 28 September 2007
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Indus |
The Left Bank Lounge |
| 9.00 AM - 10.00 AM | A Sense of Place
Penang, Tasmania, Hong Kong and a remote farm in Cornwall... Four novelists reflect on their relationship to the settings they write about and the challenges of understanding and describing those places close to their heart. Featuring: Richard Flanagan, Patrick Gale, Tan Twan Eng, Muhammad Cohen. Mod: Rosemary Sayer
| The Unseen Muses
Some of Bali’s most prominent writers explore the influences of the niskala (unseen realms, creatures, energies, esoteric teachings) on their creative process. Featuring: Ketut Sumarta and Ida Wayan Oka Granoka. Mod: Wayan Juniartha | | 10.15 AM - 11.30 AM | Storytelling and Folktales
Storytelling predates written language; it is the origin of literature. How do present-day writers use age-old traditions in their writing, or employ the techniques of the told tale? Featuring: Rana Dasgupta, Rosario Cruz Lucero, Sema Kaygusuz, Peter Goldsworthy. Mod: Sarah Armstrong | Meet the Poets: The Isle of Gold
Join poets from Lampung, Aceh and Riau for a journey of words through Sumatra — once known as the Isle of Gold, home to powerful kingdoms, tigers, elephants and the world’s largest and most pungent flower. Featuring: Isbedy Stiawan, Debra Yatim, Marhalim Zaini. Mod: Irina Dunn This session is sponosred by HiVOS. | | 11.45 AM - 12.45 PM | In-Conversation with Kiran Desai
Kiran Desai says her subject for The Inheritance of Loss is ancient: the immigrant experience as it transforms over generations. Join her in conversation as she shares her personal life experiences and recent transformation as an award-winning novelist with Nury Vittachi. | | | 1.00 PM - 2.15 PM | Making Sense of Violence
How does one reconcile the mundane acts of everyday life with acts of daily violence and horror? Writers who struggle to make sense of humanity in times of overwhelming calamity discuss how to capture the enormity of these events in fiction. Featuring: Giannina Braschi, Manuka Wijesinghe, Ahmad Tohari. Mod: Michael Vatikiotis | Through the Looking Glass
Writers from Singapore, Australia, the Philippines and New Zealand discuss the role of children’s literature in shaping the next generation. What are the new ‘morals of the story’ in the 21st century? Can children’s books help to build bridges between cultures in this globalised world? Featuring: Kirsty Murray, Ed Maranan, Jin Pyn. Mod: Irina Dunn | | 2.30 PM - 3.30 PM | On the Outside Looking In
How much do we have to know or experience of another country or culture before we can write about it convincingly? What are the responsibilities of writing about a place that is not your own? Featuring: Peter Goldsworthy, Xu Xi, Ann Lee. Mod: Ian Britain | Asia, She Wrote
What are the risks and responsibilities of women writers in Asia? What inspires them? Who do they write for? Is the international reaction to their writing similar or different to that from readers at home? Featuring: Catherine Lim, Lee Hye-Kyung, Debra Yatim. Mod: Deepika Shetty | | 3.45 PM - 5.00 PM | Alternative Modernities
Are the dominant international cities of the 20th century — London, Paris, New York — waning? Will the 21st century belong to the fertile chaos of the Asian metropolis? Writers discuss an alternative version of modernity. Featuring: Rana Dasgupta, Shashi Tharoor, Cyril Wong. Mod: Nury Vittachi
| Meet the Poets: Brave New Words
Writers who have sought out new paths with their poetry read from their work and discuss the role of the avant garde in times of chaos, the Arabic poetry movement of qasidat al—nathr and the ways modern science can inspire literature. Featuring: Iman Mersal, Malte Persson, Giannina Braschi. Mod: Tess O’Dwyer | | 5.30 PM - 6.30 PM | | |
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Feature Events |
9.00 AM - 12.00 PM
Writing Across Media with Deepika Shetty - SOLD OUT
Ananda | | | 1.30 PM - 4.30 PM
Writing Poetry with Hal Judge - SOLD OUT
Indrakila | | | 1.30 PM - 4.30 PM
Getting Started in Non-Fiction with Rosemary Sayer
Ananda | | |
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9.30 AM - 11.00 AM
Book Club Morning Tea with Madeleine Thien [Canada]
Three Monkeys Cafe, Jl. Monkey Forest
| 11.30 AM - 2.00 PM
Literary Lunch
Chedi Club
| 6.30 PM - 8.30 PM
Amandari Cocktail Evening - SOLD OUT
Amandari
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Book Launch |
| 5.30 PM - 6.30 PM | Hong Kong On Air by Muhammad Cohen
As the Hong Kong handover boom fizzles into the Asian economic bust, a young American couple\'s marriage and careers unravel in a web of television news, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. Relive 1997 at the launch of Muhammad Cohen’s debut novel. Published by Blacksmith Books. Tutmak. Jl. Dewi Sita |
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Evening Events |
| 8.30 PM - 10.30 PM | Ganesha Bookshop Presents Fusion Performance Evening
A captivating collection of the Festival’s wildest and most exotic poets create a fusion of words from here, there and everywhere. Featuring: Miles Merrill, Hagar Peeters, Nanoq de Kansas, Warih Wisatsana, Cok Sawitri, Wiratmadinata, Marhalim Zaini, Isbedy Stiawan and Angelo Suarez. Gaya Fusion Gallery. Jl. Raya Sayan, Ubud. [In English and Indonesian] | | 10.00 PM - 1.00 AM | Festival Club
Unwind after dark at the Casa Luna Festival Club. Brush shoulders with the literatti-glitterati in our intimate late night venue where anything goes… and does. Sip on a chilled triple-strength cocktail, gossip about your favourite writer or smoulder on a settee and look fabulous. And, in between, there will be music, dancing, quizzes, readings, comedy and overt displays of literary shenanigans. The schedule changes each night, so check the program.
The Festival Club is open to all writers and performers! If you would like to sign up to perform at the Festival Club, just call or sms Hal Judge on 0813 3790 4080. You will need to send him your name plus the day and time you would like to perform [must be before 11:30pm].
Open nightly 10pm til 1pm. Thursday 27 – Saturday 29 September.
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Saturday, 29 September 2007
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Indus |
The Left Bank Lounge |
| 9.00 AM - 10.00 AM | In-Conversation with Shashi Tharoor
Named a ‘Global Leader for Tomorrow’ and winner of several journalism and literary awards, join Shashi Tharoor in conversation as he leads us into his literary world with Stephen Fitzpatrick. | A Stranger at Home
Four writers discuss the migrant’s voice and what it’s like to feel a stranger at home. They talk about the losses, changes and conflicts inherent in long-distance journeys and relocations, and the ongoing process of reconciling two homes and two voices. Featuring: Adib Khan, Kiran Desai, Iman Mersal, Reine Arcache Melvin. Mod: Ian Britain | | 10.15 AM - 11.15 AM | Censorship, Seen and Unseen
There may be less overt censorship in the region, but there seems to be more self-censorship driven by fears and insecurity in the wake of the war on terror. Can we be frank about religious belief now, are we less critical (of governments, particularly) in our more security-conscious environment? Do we dampen criticism of measures ‘created for our own security’? If the journalist has become more cautious, does the creative writer have more space to speak truth to power? Featuring: Richard Flanagan, Ngurah Harta, Kam Raslan. Mod: Michael Vatikiotis | Breaking the Ice
Three writers from different cultures and with different styles read their work and discuss the opportunities and challenges of being a young and emerging author in the early years of the 21st century. Featuring: Tara June Winch, Azhar Abidi, Ratih Kumala, Tan Twan Eng. Mod: Rosemary Sayer | | 11.30 AM - 12.45 PM | The Fallacy of Post-Colonial Fiction
“There’s nothing post about colonialism. Merely a shift in the modus operandi,” says Adib Khan in A Spiral Road. Is post-colonial fiction a construct of western publishers and the literary community? Does it deny writers their history and nationality in order to position their work purely in relation to their colonised past? Writers discuss time, placement and history. Featuring: Rosario Cruz Lucero, Adib Khan, Somaya Ramadan. Mod: Deepika Shetty | Meet the Poets: Crossing the Line
Hear four of the festival’s most dynamic performance poets as they discuss the line between performance/live art and poetry, and how to cross it. These poetry recitals will use drama, volume, sound effects and music to create wild, tongue twisting aural adventures. Featuring: Tusiata Avia, Angelo Suarez, Wiratmadinata, Miles Merrill. Mod: Rosemary Sayer | | 1.00 PM - 2.00 PM | Writers on the Edge
Whether through migration, colonisation, or personal circumstance, many people live as part of a minority culture in the broader context of their countries, cities, towns or neighbourhoods. Does their place on the periphery inevitably inform their writing or is it irrelevant? Featuring: Tara June Winch, Jo Dutton, Madeline Thien. Mod: Irina Dunn | The Art of Satire
Satirists take the sometimes flat and dull events of the everyday and turn them into something irresistible. If good satire is a highly refined literary instrument capable of reflecting the darker side of life in an accessible way, how do writers find their satirical voice? Featuring: Kam Raslan, Manuka Wijesinghe, Isman Hidayat Suryaman. Mod: Nury Vittachi
| | 2.00 PM - 3.00 PM | | | | 2.15 PM - 3.30 PM | In-Conversation with Christopher Merrills
Join Christopher Merrill as he discusses his diverse literary interests - from soccer to Orthodox monasticism. The Director of the International Writing Program at The University of Iowa, Chris will also muse on the craft of inspiration and whether writing can be taught. | Medicine and the Muse
Join doctor-poets, Peter Goldsworthy and Iain Bamforth, as they discuss the historical and cultural links between medicine and literature, whether their medical careers have influenced and inspired their writing and how they find the time to write while juggling such demanding jobs. Mod: Irina Dunn
| | 3.45 PM - 5.00 PM | Mother Tongue
Not since the Tower of Babel has there been such an opportunity for people of different languages to share stories in one tongue. But does this impose a cultural hegemony? Writers discuss the strengths and limitations of English as the ‘global language’ for literature. Featuring: Ed Maranan, Laksmi Pamuntjak, Abe Barreto Soares. Mod: Tess O’Dwyer | Being Foreign in Bali
What happens to people who cannot resist Bali's magnetism? Ian Britain talks about his biography of the expatriate painter Donald Friend, who lived in Bali in the 1970s; Made Wijaya, an Australian cross-cultural wizard, talks about the practice of being a stranger in paradise; and Diana Darling reads from her novel in progress about collisions of private experience in the conquest of Bali through tourism. Featuring: Ian Britain, Made Wijaya, Diana Darling. Mod: Wayan Juniartha | | 5.30 PM - 6.30 PM | | |
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Feature Events |
8.30 AM - 1.30 PM
Casa Luna Market Tour & Cooking Class
Meet at Casa Luna | | | 9.00 AM - 12.00 PM
Character Building with Marele Day - SOLD OUT
Ananda | | | 9.00 AM - 12.00 PM
Life on the Road... Travel Writing with Adam Skolnick - SOLD OUT
Indrakila | | | 1.30 PM - 4.30 PM
Developing Place and Character with Jill Dawson
Indrakila | | | 1.30 PM - 4.30 PM
Writing ‘Reality’ with Xu Xi
Ananda | | |
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9.30 AM - 11.00 AM
Book Club Morning Tea with Patrick Gale [UK]
Three Monkeys Cafe, Jl. Monkey Forest
| 11.30 AM - 2.00 PM
Literary Lunch
Maya Ubud Resort
| 6.30 PM - 8.30 PM
A Sweet Obsession: Wine Tasting & Readings
Casa Luna Restaurant
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Book Launch |
| 2.00 PM - 3.00 PM | Book Launch
Family Business: A Case Study of Nyonya Meneer, One of Indonesia’s Most Successful Traditional Medicine Companies by Asih Sumardono and Mark Hanusz The saying, ‘The first generation builds the company, the second grows the company, and the third destroys it’, is true in many countries, but especially in Indonesia where the country’s business conglomerates are notoriously secretive. In Family Business, an insider opens the company\'s doors and allows the public some rare insights. Filled with anecdotes and court cases, advertising campaigns and newspaper clippings, Family Business is an Indonesian success story and case study detailing what to do – and importantly what not to do – in a family business. It should be required reading for entrepreneurs all over the globe. Published by Equinox. Ibah.Jl. Raya Ubud. | | 5.30 PM - 6.30 PM | TERRA: A Bilingual Anthology This unique and timely anthology in English and Bahasa Indonesia brings together an enticing selection of the Austronesian region’s iconic and emerging voices. The anthology — a joint publication of the NT Writers' Centre in Darwin, Australia and KataKita in Jakarta — features the best prose and poetry from over 40 guest writers featured at the WordStorm, NT Writers' Festival from 2004-2006. Dragonfly. Jl. Dewi Sita. |
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| 7.00 PM - 10.30 PM | An Evening Under the Stars
Ubud’s very versatile Soccerfield, will host a wild evening of music and dance. Food and drink also available for sale. Presented by Djarum. Ubud Soccerfield. Jl. Monkey Forest, Ubud. | | 8.30 PM - 10.30 PM | Writers Cabaret
Writers are often multi-talented creatures, harbouring secret skills and quirky pasts. The Jazz Café will play host to an unpredictable evening featuring five Festival writers who will sing, shimmy and shake to the beat of their written words. And what’s a cabaret without a jingle of Bollywood? So throw back a few fancy cocktails and let your locks down to music, mayhem, dance… and the unexpected. Featuring: Cyril Wong, Manuka Wijesinghe, Angelo Suarez, Isman Hidayat Suryaman, Shashi Tharoor. Hosted by Nury Vittachi. Jazz Café. Jl. Sukma, Ubud. | | 10.00 PM - 1.00 AM | The Festival Club The Love Quiz
Join our trivia night hosts and love goddesses - as they test your love intellect on the world’s most erotic literature. Organise a team and pit your wits against our in-house celebrity love squad. The Festival Club is open to all writers and performers! If you would like to sign up to perform at the Festival Club, just call or sms Hal Judge on 0813 3790 4080. You will need to send him your name plus the day and time you would like to perform [must be before 11:30pm]. |
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Sunday, 30 September 2007
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Indus |
The Left Bank Lounge |
| 9.00 AM - 10.00 AM | The Mahabharata in Modern Times
"What is found here, may be found elsewhere. What is not found here, will not be found elsewhere." The Mahabharata is more than a story of kings, sages, demons and gods: it is one of the world’s grandest visions of the relationship of the individual to society and the world and the workings of karma. Shashi Tharoor and Agastya discuss how this great Indian epic continues to inspire contemporary Hindu writers. Featuring: Shashi Tharoor and Ida Bagus Agastya. Mod: Panji Tisna This session is sponsored by the Prince Claus Fund. | Criminal Intent
Is our fascination for crime writing a reflection of our darker instincts? Are we spellbound by those who exist beyond the law? What attracts writers to the genre? How difficult is it to find a niche, a voice in this literary field? Featuring: Nury Vittachi, Marele Day, Kathy Reichs. Mod: Jennifer Cooke | | 10.15 AM - 11.30 AM | The Temper of the Times
How do society and politics affect literary fiction and can literary fiction exert any influence on society and politics? Three authors discuss whether their works are designed to inspire change and action or are ’just’ a reflection of the temper of the times. Featuring: Rosario Cruz Lucero, Richard Flanagan, Catherine Lim. Mod: Irina Dunn
| From Page to Stage
What does it take to make a script leap from page to stage? What voices connect across cultures and why? Three bold and powerful playwrights from New Zealand, the Philippines and Malaysia take centre stage to give voice to their words, and discuss principles of playwriting and the challenges of finding their poetic voice along the way. Featuring: Ann Lee, Tusiata Avia, Malou Jacob, Ray Harding. Mod: Peter Matheson | | 11.45 AM - 12.45 PM | In-Conversation with Patrick Gale
Prolific writer, Patrick Gale shares tales from his extraordinary life, from working as a singing waiter while completing his first novel on the back of an order pad, to becoming a successful, multi-published author. Interviewed by Jennifer Cooke. | Mysticism in Modern Bali
Two Balinese writers talk about the ways contemporary Balinese deal with the unseen in their daily life. Featuring: I Gusti Ngurah Harta and Cok Sawitri. Mod: Wayan Juniartha | | 1.00 PM - 2.00 PM | To See Ourselves as Others See Us
Translating literature from one language to another can mean subtle changes in meaning as the sounds and associations of the original language are lost. What techniques and strategies do writers use when drawing on literary materials in one language for use in another? How much ‘art’ is allowed? How much is necessary in the translation process? Featuring: Alexander Deriev, John McGlynn, Nicholas Jose, Somaya Ramadan. Mod: Pam Allen | Meet the Poets: Pamphlet Poetry
Is poetry as effective as other artistic forms in challenging governments and society, questioning the status quo and empowering the disenfranchised? Poets from Singapore, East Timor, Australia and the Philippines discuss poetry as a means of social activism. Featuring: Ed Maranan, Cyril Wong, Abe Barreto Soares. Mod: Jane Camens | | 2.00 PM - 3.00 PM | | | | 2.15 PM - 3.30 PM | The Unspeakable
The extremely holy, the extremely horrible, the politically extreme. Who determines what is unspeakable? What motivates writers to broach topics that are ‘unspeakable’ and what happens to them when they do? Featuring: Sema Kaygusuz, Hamid Basyaib, Regina Derieva, Reine Arcache Melvin. Mod: Nicholas Jose | Meeting Place
Come and cross cultures in this intimate conversation with three writers from Egypt, South Korea and Indonesia. What are the ties that bind, what influences their work, their love, life and relationships? Hear some of their best kept secrets. Featuring: Somaya Ramadan, Rosa Herliany, Lee Hye-Kyung. Mod: Janet De Neefe
| | 3.45 PM - 4.45 PM | A Life Less Ordinary
A rigidly conventional English background, physical disability, and eight years of medical school have given these three, very different, writers different challenges. They talk about how they faced them in becoming successful writers. Featuring: Ratna Indraswari Ibrahim, Patrick Gale, Peter Goldsworthy. Mod: Joanna Savill | | | 3.45 PM - 5.00 PM | | Something to Say
Are all columnists naturally opinionated, headstrong and prone to provoke? We bring three very different columnists together into one room to discuss this topic. Sit back and watch the sparks fly with a glass of complimentary firey arak. Featuring: Made Wijaya, Shashi Tharoor, Julia Suryakusuma. Mod: Nury Vittachi
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Feature Events |
9.00 AM - 12.00 PM
Language of Offerings: Discover How to Communicate with the Gods
Indus Downstairs | | | 9.00 AM - 12.00 PM
Position, Position! The Place and Process of Editing with Shelley Kenigsberg
Ananda | | | 9.00 AM - 12.00 PM
Writing for Children with Kirsty Murray
Indrakila | | |
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9.30 AM - 11.00 AM
Book Club Morning Tea with Rana Dasgupta [India]
Three Monkeys Cafe, Jl. Monkey Forest
| 11.30 AM - 2.00 PM
Literary Lunch
The Viceroy
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| 2.00 PM - 3.00 PM | Book Launch
Tentang Tuhan dan Hal-Hal yang Tak Selesai oleh Goenawan Mohamad
On God and Other Unfinished Things by Laksmi Pamuntjak
Inspired by Roestam Effendi’s 1925 poetry collection, Pertjikan Permenungan (Scraps of Thought), some of Goenawan’s ‘scraps’ are variations of the themes in his weekly thought piece in the newsmagazine Tempo, while others are new. The book has been translated into English by Laksmi Pamuntjak under the title On God and Other Unfinished Things. Published by Kata Kita. | | 5.30 PM - 6.30 PM | Book Launch
Singapore Ground Zero - and other stories by Michael Vatikiotis
Vatikiotis’s stories, set mostly in Muslim Southeast Asia, after September 11, 2001, highlight how Muslim society and Islam have been misunderstood and distorted. We see Ground Zero through the eyes of an Indonesian student; witness a dramatic change in a Singapore civil servant, hear the confessions of an Indonesian security agent, and explore the Malay Muslim insurgency on the borders of Thailand and Malaysia. Published by Talisman Press. Terazzo. Jl. Suweta |
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Evening Events |
| 8.00 PM - 11.00 PM | Closing Night Celebrations
Fun and frivolity are yours! An evening of music and dance to celebrate the closing of the 2007 Ubud Writers & Readers Festival. Join us for an enchanting evening under the stars at Antonio Blancos. Jl. Raya Campuhan.
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Tuesday, 2 October 2007
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Indus |
The Left Bank Lounge |
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| Workshops |
Feature Events |
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6.30 PM - 9.30 PM
Literary Dinner
Sofitel Hotel, Seminyak
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