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The Fringe Festival
Writing The Fringe Festival 2008
STAGES, SCREENS AND STREETS
Brought to you by
BURN Writers Collective
Writing doesn't just exist in the machine of big publishing. Writing is an organic thing; alive in our cities and communities and on our streets. Writing happens in street presses and in the burgeoning forays of small collectives and magazines. It happens in graffiti. In digital art. It happens on screens, in blogs and forums and personalised sites. It happens live in theatre, at stand up comedy clubs and on our nightclub stages where lyricism cuts a fleshy swathe. The BURN Collective understands that writing is not just the next great or 'not so great' novel, the latest trend, or the push of the moment. Writing is bought and sold but it is also something we already own, the language of communication and expression exists on all kinds of streets and stages and screens. And we're here to really celebrate it.
Writing The Fringe Festival 2008 will bring together some of south east Queensland's most gifted and innovative wordsmiths working across a variety of platforms and media. The Sling Restaurant Lounge Cocktail Bar in West End will erupt in a feast of literary showcases featuring knock your socks off readings, five minute micro plays, interactive panel sessions, open mics, multi-media performances, acoustic sessions, stand up comedy and launches.
Program highlights include 'So You Think You Can Write?' and interactive panel where UQP's most famous writers will battle for literary supremacy with some of Brissy's freshest literary lights on an audience vote. Three open mic sessions where ticket holders are encouraged to read micro fictions on the themes of 'Teen Angst, 'Bad Sex', and 'I can't believe it's Published! The worst line I've ever read!' Other sessions include 'Desperate & Dateless: We were Never Invited to the Formal' where young queer writers share the pain of coming out in high school and 'Hot Bitches' the sexiest most irreverent collection of women writers in Queensland. Featuring some of Brissy's most revered and loved writers, Matthew Condon, John Birmingham, Rebecca Sparrow, Alasdair Duncan, Will Elliott, Pascale Burton, and Melissa Luckashenko and some the states most vibrant new talents, Writing The Fringe Festival 2008 promises to be this year's hottest literary ticket.
DOWNLOAD The Fringe Festival Program- Stages, Screens and Streets
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Sling Restaurant Lounge Cocktail Bar 153 Boundary Street West End Nominated for Australian Bar of the Year in 2007 Sling Restaurant Lounge and Cocktail Bar is one of Brisbane's finest and funkiest hangs. Boasting a list of cocktails that clocks in at 250 Sling prides itself on the art of drink making. Sling is the first bar in Brisbane to incorporate molecular mixology a process of changing a drink's structure at the molecular level to create new and exciting flavour profiles. Don't be surprised to see the bartenders here wielding blow torches as well as smiles. The venue boasts a lush Balinese inspired open courtyard which will act as centre stage for Writing The Fringe Festival 2008. Enjoy a succulent tappas menu, a fire branded cocktail and all the Fringe has to offer from 4pm Thursday to Sunday September 18th to 21st.
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The Brisbane Writers Festival acknowledges the assistance of the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, the Department of Employment,
Economic Development and Innovation and the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.