Ekphrasis – Booranga Writers Tree Conversations Workshop at Wagga Gallery

Title	Ekphrasis – Tree Conversations
Date/time	14 March, 2 – 4pm
Cost/bookings	Free event, bookings required
Location	Art Workshop  Wagga Art Gallery
Blurb	Join the creation of responses to Tree Conversations: networking with the wood wide web with the assistance of the Booranga Writers Centre. Workshop will be facilitated by David Gilbey.  David Gilbey’s first full poetry collection was Death and the Motorway (Interactive Press, 2008). Selections of his poems were included in Under the Rainbow (fourW press, 1996) and the noise of exchange: Twelve Australian Poets (ASM Poetry, Macao, 2011). Some of his haibun have been collected in Downunder Japan and Forty Stories (2012 & 2010, Fine Line Press, NZ). David is a founder of Wagga Wagga Writers Writers, current President of Booranga Writers’ Centre and editor of fourW: new writing. He is Adjunct Senior Lecturer in English at Charles Sturt University. Three times he has been a Visiting Professor of English at Miyagi Gakuin Women’s University, in Sendai, Japan and has been a regular broadcaster/reviewer on ABC Riverina.

Title	Ekphrasis – Tree Conversations Performance
Date/time	Wednesday 1 April, 6pm - 7pm
Cost/bookings	Free event – no bookings required
Location	Wagga Wagga Art Gallery
Blurb	Responses to Tree Conversations: Wood Wide Web from members of Booranga Writers Centre inspired by the exhibition.

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