Clunes Booktown Festival 2013
Plans are well on the way. A full program will be announced in 2013.
Clunes Booktown Festival 2012
Entry: Booktown Badge $5/2
The Booktown Badge provides entry to all workshops, talks, sessions and public buildings.
Clunes Booktown Festival is the biggest collection of rare, out-of-print, new, small-press publications, second hand and collectable books in Australia. Booktraders from around Australia gather in this historic village turning it into a European style Booktown. Discover antique books, nostalgia and treasures dotted across the shops and streets. A full list of all booktraders and bookshops, their stock and contact details. Sites are fully booked.
Clunes shuttle bus to get you from and to your car park.
Program
Friday 4 May 2012
Booktraders' Dinner -
Join booktraders, writers and guests at the opening night dinner. A great way to begin the Booktown weekend. Live music, camp fires, great company, local wines at bar prices. Limited places available to the general public @ $40 a seat. (includes Booktown Badge)
7pm, Clunes
Ticketed event. Sold Out.
Saturday & Sunday 5-6 May 2012
No bookings. Admission to all events to Booktown Badge holders, $5/2
Saturday |
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| Club Hotel | Children's Booktown | Wesley Bluestone Church | |
| 10 am
Workshop The Art of Reviewing Peter Rose, Australian Book Review |
10am
Craft workshop |
11 am
Rare and Precious Books Display Shane Carmody (State Library of Victoria) Also Meet the Publishers |
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| 11 am
Workshop Writing Poetry Ryan Van Winkle (Scotland) |
12 noon
Cartooning workshop with Sam Harmer |
12 noon
Workshop Collecting Books for Beginners John Arnold and Geoffrey Blainey |
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| 12.30 pm
Writing Self, Writing Family - memoir Anna Goldsworthy, Alice Pung Chair Sue Gillett (La Trobe University) |
1 pm
Rare and Precious Books Display Shane Carmody (State Library of Victoria) Also Meet the Publishers |
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| 1.30 pm
Behind the Shock Machine - Did Science Go too far? Gina Perry, Justin Oakley Chair Lynne Malcolm (Radio National) This session will be recorded for broadcast. |
2pm
Meet the author and find out why reading matters Hazel Edwards |
2 pm
Book Road Show Professional appraisal of your curious and precious books John Arnold ( Monash University) |
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| 3 00 pm
Patrick White's Centenary - why it matters Nicolas Jose, Michael Heyward, Peter Goldsworthy Chair Peter Rose (ABR) This session will be filmed for the National Year of Reading. |
3pm
Manga Workshop with Sam Harmer |
3 pm
Rare and Precious Books Display Shane Carmody (State Library of Victoria) Also Meet the Publishers |
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| 4.30 pm
Go Long, Not Short - with books and with infrastructure. Tim Fisher Chair Michael Williams |
The National Hotel
Saturday 2 pm
Poetry Reading
Ryan van Winkle, Eric Beech, Kerry Loughrey, Patrick McCauley, Peter Murk, berni m janssen
St Paul's Church Hall
Saturday 7.45
Clunes Bioscope Picture Show Presented by the Sons of the Desert Society. Explore Australia's connection to Laurel and Hardy. Piano accompaniment Glenn Amer. Limited seating,. Be early. drinks at bar prices.
Sunday |
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| Club Hotel | Children's Booktown | Wesley Bluestone Church |
| 10 am
Workshop Science Writing for a Broad Audience Gina Perry |
10 am
Making Music with Earl Leonard |
11 am
Rare and Precious Books Display Shane Carmody (State Library of Victoria) Also Meet the Publishers SPUNC |
| 11 am
Workshop A Word from the Publishers Zoe Dattner (Sleepers) |
12 noon
Meet the children's author John Nicholson talking about his books which describe the real world. and about the importance of reading to him. |
12 noon
Workshop Collecting Books for Beginners John Arnold and Stuart Kells |
| 12.30 pm
The Year of the Water Dragon - writing Asia, writing Australia Nicholas Jose, Alice Pung Chair Jenny Niven (Wheeler Centre) |
1 pm
Making Music with Earl Leonard |
1 pm
Rare and Precious Books Display Shane Carmody (State Library of Victoria) Also Meet the Publishers SPUNC |
| 1.30 pm
The Daughter, the Father and the Piano Anna Goldsworthy, Peter Goldsworthy Chair Michael Williams (Wheeler Centre) |
2pm
Manga Workshop with Sam Harmer |
2 pm
Book Road Show Professional appraisal of your curious and precious books John Arnold ( Monash University) |
| 3 pm
Gold - an Historical Perspective on Central Victoria Geoffrey Blainey in conversation with Andrew Reeves (Monash University) |
3 pm
Rare and Precious Books Display Shane Carmody (State Library of Victoria) Also Meet the Publishers SPUNC |
Children's Booktown The Clunes Library, Fraser St
Enter through the wardrobe to discover a library transformed into a wondrous story-telling world.
Story telling, craft activities, reading, music, cartooning, fun
Children's Booktown designer Clayton Edwards www.designandprops.com.au
Blossom the Clown facepainting and balloon art, Fraser Street.
Children's book illustration demonstrations.
Ann James from Books Illustrated. Union Bank Arts Centre, Studio.
Meet the children's publishers- Wilkins Farago, Clunes Library
Saturday 9.30 am - 4.00 pm
Sunday 9.30 - 3.00pm
Narnia forest supplied by HVP Plantations
Saturday |
Sunday |
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10am Craft workshop for children and parents |
10am Making Music with Earl Leonard Visit his web site www.earlleonard.com |
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| 12 noon
with Sam Harmer Visit his website www.harmercreative.com/illustration/illustration.htm |
12 noon
Meet the children's author John Nicholson talking about his books which describe the real world. and about the importance of reading to him. |
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2pm
Meet the children's author Hazel Edwards. Hazel talks about her books and why reading matters. Visit her website at www.hazeledwards.com.au |
1pm
Making Music with Earl Leonard |
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| 3 pm
Manga workshop with Sam Harmer |
2 pm
Manga workshop with Sam Harmer |
Cartooning workshop
Guest Writers
and Speakers- More information
Club Hotel, Fraser Street, Clunes - Saturday and Sunday
Rare and Precious Books from the State Library of Victoria Collection.
Shane Carmody and his team exhibit and discuss precious books from the State Library Collection. A unique opportunity to see 15th century illuminated manuscript, a book printed by William Caxton first English printer and dated 1490, The Voyage of governor Phillips, 1798 and an artists book with a very special connection to Clunes. For details and links
Wesley Bluestone Church , Saturday and Sunday 11 am, 1 pm and 3 pm.
Start Your Own Collection
Join a world authority John Arnold and Stuart Kells on the history of the book in Australia and learn how to establish and maintain a book collection of your own.
Wesley Bluestone Church Saturday and Sunday 12 noon.
Book Road Show
Book Roadshow - bring your curious and precious books to have them professionally appraised by John Arnold. Wesley Bluestone Church Saturday and Sunday 2 pm - 3 pm
Meet the Publishers
Publishers from Affirm Press, Sleepers, Wombat Books, Chifley Press and Green Olive Press will be at the SPUNC stand to chew the fat, talk about publishing in Australia, what publishers are looking for, how to set up a career in that industry and more. SPUNC is a representative body for small and independent Australian publishers.
Wesley Bluestone Church Saturday and Sunday 11am, 1pm and 3pm
Paper Sculptor Nicholas Jones
Melbourne based sculptor Nicholas Jones will be making sculptures out of books on the stage of the Town Hall. Sculptural pieces are for sale and he is happy to discuss his work .
Visit his website www.bibliopath.org/
Clunes Town Hall, all weekend
Punch and Judy
A traditional Punch and Judy Show by Professor Whatsit.
Christopher Van Der Caats is a Melbourne based artist who has made a study of the traditional Punch and Judy form and makes his own puppets which are available for sale.
Visit his website http://www.speckinspace.com/whatsit/index.html
Street Entertainment ongong throughout Booktown weekend includes
Creswick Brass Band - Saturday
Wesley College Big Band - Sunday
Visit their web site www.wesleycollege.net/Wesley-Life/The-Arts/Music.aspx
Eric the Red street performer
Visit his web site ericthered.com.au/
Shep Huntly, street performer
Lana Schwarcz Minute Exhibiton - Town Hall precinct
Giant Chess
Hay Bale Maze
Blossom the Clown face painting and balloon art
Australia Fair Grand Concert Street Organ
“Australia Fair” is a Belgian built travelling Concert Organ built in the workshops of Verbeeck’s Organ Works (Est 1884) in Antwerp. It is the only travelling Concert Organ in Australia and has entertained at all levels from local functions to “Yarralumla” – the residence of the Governor General of Australia.