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SUMMARY:Save the date! Western Port Writes
DESCRIPTION:Western Port Writes (WPW) is a biennial literary festival based in the Western Port region of the Mornington Peninsula\, held in Somers and surrounds. Designed to celebrate creativity and the art of the story\, it showcases established and emerging writers connected to our region and beyond. Our hugely enjoyable and successful inaugural festival was held in 2024. \nWe are delighted to announce that our 2026 Festival Program will be launched on Monday 10 August and tickets will go on sale. The program is chock full of brilliant writers\, commentators and presenters\, with something for readers and writers. \nThe festival begins with a special Opening Night event on Friday 9 October and continues over the weekend of 10-11 October. We’d love to see you there.
URL:https://cityofliterature.com.au/event/save-the-date-western-port-writes/
LOCATION:VIC
CATEGORIES:Festivals
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20261010T090000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20261010T100000
DTSTAMP:20260917T072543Z
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SUMMARY:Life without Limits with Donna Urquhart
DESCRIPTION:Join ultra-marathon runner and pain scientist\, Donna Urquhart\, and author and journalist Charisse Ede\, as they discuss what 1400km on the Antarctic ice taught Donna about overcoming pain and adversity. \nIn January 2024\, Donna set the world record for the longest run in a polar region by completing a 1402-kilometre ultramarathon in Antarctica. She had trained for nine months\, running on a treadmill in a refrigerated shipping container and also in an industrial wind tunnel. \nTo achieve the record\, Donna ran up to 60 kilometres each day across 28 days in the coldest\, windiest and driest desert on earth. Some days\, the temperature plummeted to –20 degrees Celsius and the winds reached a brutal 80 kilometres per hour.  \nDonna is a pain researcher and well-versed in the science of pain and how humans can cope with it. She is drawn to exploring the limits of human performance\, and she pushed herself to the extreme to discover what she was capable of\, gaining insights that now help her navigate everyday challenges. \nDonna and Charisse will discuss their book Life Without Limits: An Antarctic journey through pain and possibility (September 2026)\, where Donna has brought together her comprehensive toolkit for understanding and handling pain and adversity—whether physical\, emotional\, mental or social—showing that all of us can challenge our boundaries and thrive: at home\, work and everywhere in between.
URL:https://cityofliterature.com.au/event/life-without-limits-with-donna-urquhart/
LOCATION:Belgrave Community Hub\, 1616/1624 Burwood Highway\, Belgrave\, Victoria\, 3160\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Festivals
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20261010T090000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20261010T160000
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SUMMARY:Love Your Bookshop Day at The Little Bookroom!
DESCRIPTION:This October 10th come celebrate Love Your Bookshop Day\, as well as our 66th birthday and one year anniversary at East Bruswick Village! What a day to celebrate! \n  \nAs part of the celebrations\, we will have author appearances\, storytimes\, activities\, crafts\, and competitions throughout the day. Come on in to say hi\, browse our shelves\, and\, most importantly\, Love Your Bookshop! \n  \n10:30 am: Invisible Dogs Storytime + Draw your own dog with Kiah Thomas & Jake A. Minton \n  \n11:30 am: Eddie and Moo and the Garden of Presents Storytime + Craft with Jane Godwin & Anna Walker \n  \n12:30 pm: How To draw: School of Monsters with illustrator Chris Kennett \n  \n1:30 pm: Dear Humans\, We Stole Your Crayon Storytime + How to draw a UFO with Anna McGregor \n  \n2:30 pm -3:30 pm: Celebrity Staff! Your favourite local authors will be booksellers for the hour! Featuring Anna Battese\, Adrian Beck\, Maxine Beneba Clarke\, & Danielle Binks \n  \nAll day long we’ll have a Where’s Wally? Hunt with prizes to win! \n  \nWe’ll be open from 9am to 4pm as usual\, just filled to the brim with events and activities! \n  \nPLEASE RSVP for each event you’re planning to attend to help us get a sense of numbers to expect.
URL:https://cityofliterature.com.au/event/love-your-bookshop-day-at-the-little-bookroom/
LOCATION:The Little Bookroom\, 8 Village Ave\, BRUNSWICK EAST\, VIC\, 3057\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Bookshops,Children's Literature
ORGANIZER;CN="The Little Bookroom":MAILTO:orders@littlebookroom.com.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20261010T100000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20261010T160000
DTSTAMP:20260806T013242Z
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SUMMARY:Memoir as Catharsis
DESCRIPTION:This workshop is an introduction to the practice of writing therapy to help process difficult emotions like grief and trauma. \nThrough free writing exercises\, participants explore challenging life events in an emotionally safe and supportive way. The session has a strong focus on writing craft and skill acquisition to help soften the emotional sting of difficult subject matter\, freeing participants to make art from suffering\, to turn poison into power.  \nWhether writing for an audience\, or purely for personal purposes\, participants learn simple and tested techniques to bring writing to life and to give personal stories universal resonance. \nBy the end of the session\, participants embark on their long-form personal writing project with confidence and the tools to do so in a way that empowers them to reframe life events to promote healing\, acceptance and meaning.   \nCourse requirements: pen and paper or a fully charged device to participate in the writing exercises. \nYou Will Learn:\n\nHow to get unstuck and achieve a flow state with your writing practice\nHow to evoke all the senses so that writing conjures a multi-dimensional world\nHow to move from feeling like a puppet having strings pulled by life\, to become the puppet master and author of your own story\nHow to identify the elements of the personal journey that will make for compelling narrative non-fiction\nThe fundamentals of free writing as a tool to process life’s challenges\n\nAbout the Tutor:\nTim Baker is an award-winning journalist and a best-selling author. His latest book Patting The Shark documents his journey managing a stage 4 cancer diagnosis. Tim wrote Patting The Shark as part of a creative writing PhD scholarship from Griffith University. He is a former editor of Tracks\, Surfing Life and Slow Living magazines\, and a two-time winner of the Surfing Australia Hall of Fame Culture Award. His work has appeared in Rolling Stone\, the Sydney Morning Herald\, the Australian Financial Review\, the Sunday Age\, the Bulletin\, Inside Sport\, GQ\, and Text Journal.  \nNote: Memoir as Catharsis is based upon Tim’s own academic research into writing therapy as part of a creative writing PhD\, his lived experience as a cancer survivor who has used personal memoir as a potent source of catharsis and his lived experience as an author and journalist over 40 years.  \nThis workshop is not intended to replace personal psychotherapy or counselling\, but can be a helpful adjuvant practice to support the therapeutic process. 
URL:https://cityofliterature.com.au/event/memoir-as-catharsis/
LOCATION:The Wheeler Centre\, 176 Little Lonsdale Street\, Melbourne\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:The Wheeler Centre,Writers
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20261010T101500
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20261010T111500
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SUMMARY:What makes a good read? with Kate Mildenhall\, Claire Thomas\, Kirsty Manning and Jaclyn Crupi
DESCRIPTION:Hear Kate Mildenhall\, Claire Thomas\, Kirsty Manning plus author and moderator Jaclyn Crupi discuss exactly what makes a good read and all that goes into writing it. \nKate Mildenhall is an Australian author and teacher\, best known for her 2016 debut novel Skylarking. Her fourth novel\, The Hiding Place\, was published in October 2025. \nClaire Thomas is a writer from Naarm/Melbourne. Her first novel\, Fugitive Blue\, won the Dobbie Literary Award for women writers. Her latest novel\, On Not Climbing Mountains\, was published in April 2026. \nKirsty Manning is the bestselling author of The Paris Mystery\, The French Gift\, The Lost Jewels\, The Jade Lily and Murder in Paris. Her latest novel is Maisy Bell is Missing (August 2026)\, a Charlie James mystery. \nJaclyn Crupi is a book editor\, author\, event moderator\, awards judge and bookseller. Her latest book\, Planting for Native Birds\, Bees and Butterflies (July 2025)\, was shortlisted for an Indie Book Award and an Australian Book Industry Award. \n 
URL:https://cityofliterature.com.au/event/what-makes-a-good-read-with-kate-mildenhall-claire-thomas-kirsty-manning-and-jaclyn-crupi/
LOCATION:Belgrave Library\, Reynolds Lane\, Belgrave\, Victoria\, 3160\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Festivals
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20261010T113000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20261010T123000
DTSTAMP:20260911T024907Z
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SUMMARY:Dirt and Drama: the contrast of place and people in crime fiction
DESCRIPTION:Sit down for an hour with our crime fiction specialists: Chris Hammer\, Vikki Petraitis\, Sarah Bailey and moderator Kirstie Bedford\, as they examine and investigate the nitty-gritty of crime fiction. \nChris Hammer is an Australian journalist and writer of crime fiction. He is known for his best-selling Martin Scarsden series of novels. He has sold more than 1.5 million books around the world and won the prestigious UK Crime Writers Association John Creasy Award for best debut crime novel. \nVikki Petraitis is an Australian true crime author\, podcaster\, and educator known for her investigative works on crime and justice. Her latest book is The Vanishing of Vivienne Cameron: Forty Years Searching for the Phillip Island Murderer (January 2026). \nSarah Bailey’s debut novel\, ​The Dark Lake\, introduced readers to Detective Gemma Woodstock and has been published in over 15\nterritories worldwide. Her latest novel is Click (March 2026)\, “a taut crime thriller about a city on edge”. \nKirstie Bedford is a Melbourne-based editor\, travel writer and podcast host\, having started her career as a hard news journalist reporting live from courtrooms. Her debut psychological suspense\, White Lies\, will be published mid-2027.
URL:https://cityofliterature.com.au/event/dirt-and-drama-the-contrast-of-place-and-people-in-crime-fiction/
LOCATION:Belgrave Community Hub\, 1616/1624 Burwood Highway\, Belgrave\, Victoria\, 3160\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Festivals
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20261010T120000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20261010T133000
DTSTAMP:20260911T024904Z
CREATED:20260911T024845Z
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SUMMARY:Pick Up Your Pen: A Graphic Novel Workshop for Adults
DESCRIPTION:Join author\, illustrator and freelance artist Bilvy J Lee for a 90 minute workshop on everything graphic novels\, from digital drawing to writing the story to publishing. \nBilvy’s freelance work centres around emote art\, character illustrations and 2D vtubers. In his free time\, he writes and creates his own webnovels and webcomics\, and has an online store where he sells his own art and merchandise. He loves bright colours\, bold lineart\, smooth gradients\, and stories hinged upon their characters. His favourite genres are romance\, thriller\, and horror\, often those in a historical or pre-modern setting. \nImportant:  this workshop is for adults (18+) only.
URL:https://cityofliterature.com.au/event/pick-up-your-pen-a-graphic-novel-workshop-for-adults/
LOCATION:Belgrave Library\, Reynolds Lane\, Belgrave\, Victoria\, 3160\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Comics and Graphic Novels,Festivals
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20261010T124500
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20261010T134500
DTSTAMP:20260911T024857Z
CREATED:20260911T024857Z
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SUMMARY:A Woman's Place is In the Book! with Anne Freeman\, Ilsa Evans\, Kylie Ladd and Kylie Orr
DESCRIPTION:Join the brilliant authors & panellists Anne Freeman\, Ilsa Evans\, Kylie Ladd and moderator Kylie Orr for a fun\, refreshing\, tongue-in-cheek dive into women in modern fiction. \nAnne Freeman writes contemporary fiction about women who are stuck in life and the extraordinary ways they shake themselves loose. Her latest novel\, The Time After Now\, was published in June 2026. \nIlsa Evans is the author of sixteen books across several genres\, including the bestselling Broken (2007) and The Unusual Abduction of Avery Conifer (2021). Her latest book is Family Baggage (2023). \nKylie Ladd is a novelist\, psychologist and freelance writer. Her seven novels have been published in Australia and overseas. Her latest is The Mix-up (February 2025)\, “a beautifully told and thought-provoking novel”. \nKylie Orr writes dark\, twisty contemporary fiction that uncovers the hidden lives of everyday people\, and loves exploring themes that resonate deeply with women. Her latest novel is The Eleventh Floor (January 2024)
URL:https://cityofliterature.com.au/event/a-womans-place-is-in-the-book-with-anne-freeman-ilsa-evans-kylie-ladd-and-kylie-orr/
LOCATION:Belgrave Library\, Reynolds Lane\, Belgrave\, Victoria\, 3160\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Festivals
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20261010T140000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20261010T150000
DTSTAMP:20261001T003111Z
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SUMMARY:Sally Hepworth in conversation with Kerryn Mayne
DESCRIPTION:Spend an hour with best-selling author Sally Hepworth and crime fiction author\, Kerryn Mayne as they discuss Sally’s writing\, books (including newest release\, Mad Mabel) and more. \nSally Hepworth is the New York Times bestselling author of ten novels\, most recently Mad Mabel. Her novels have been called “darkly charming” and praised by authors Emily Giffin and Liane Moriarty as “totally absorbing” and “fiction at its finest”. Sally’s novels have sold millions of copies worldwide and been translated into over 30 languages. \nKerryn Mayne is an author and current police officer. Her first novel Lenny Marks Gets Away With Murder (2023) won the debut fiction award at the 2024 BAD Crime Sydney awards. Her latest book is Joy Moody Is Out Of Time (February 2024). \nPlease note: Due to popular demand\, the event has been moved to Cameo Cinemas in order to cater for a bigger audience. \n 
URL:https://cityofliterature.com.au/event/sally-hepworth-in-conversation-with-kerryn-mayne/
LOCATION:VIC
CATEGORIES:Festivals
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20261010T150000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20261010T160000
DTSTAMP:20260804T041608Z
CREATED:20260804T041429Z
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SUMMARY:The Paperback Book Club with Anna
DESCRIPTION:The Paperback hosts two book clubs a month\, one on the second Saturday of each month (led by Anna) and another on the fourth Thursday of each month (led by Georgie). \nThe book clubs are for adult readers. Each session runs for one hour. Light refreshments are provided. \nAll participants receive a 20% discount on the book of the month. \nWe offer two sessions of each meeting\, with a maximum of 12 people per session.
URL:https://cityofliterature.com.au/event/the-paperback-book-club-with-anna/2026-10-10/
LOCATION:Shop 4 / 24 Crossley St\, 24 Crossley street\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3001\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Bookshops
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20261010T151500
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20261010T161500
DTSTAMP:20261001T004056Z
CREATED:20260917T072130Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261001T004056Z
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SUMMARY:Hypothetically Speaking… with Garth Nix\, Karen Comer\, Jane Rawson\, and Rose Michael
DESCRIPTION:What if…?  Works of speculative fiction offer a window into worlds both strange and familiar. Instead of imitating normal life\, it explores alternate worlds\, hypothetical futures\, or altered rules of nature. The genre includes science fiction\, fantasy\, dystopian and utopian fiction\, alternate history and magical realism. It is  hugely popular\, especially at the moment\, which makes you wonder: what in our current world is pushing writers and readers toward imagined futures and alternate realities? \nDr Rose Michael\, herself a multi-published literary speculative fiction novelist\, leads an expert panel to consider the importance of asking “What if…?” She says: “I’m super looking forward to what is sure to be an insightful and intriguing conversation about what these authors think speculative fiction is (or could be. I think today\, particularly\, the affordances of the genre are particularly pertinent and timely as we face climate catastrophe and the rise of AI.” \nHosted by the 2026 Dandenong Ranges Literary Festival\, this speculative fiction panel consists of bestselling authors Garth Nix\, the talented Karen Comer\, and Jane Rawson. \nGarth Nix has had more than seven million copies of his books sold around the world\, which have appeared on multiple international bestseller lists and been translated into 42 languages. In 2025\, he was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for “services to literature”. \nKaren Comer is the author of award-winning young adult verse novel Grace Notes (2023) and middle-grade verse novel Sunshine on Vinegar Street (2023). Her latest book is Once Upon Tomorrow (April 2026)\, a YA verse novel on the future\, libraries\, climate change\, fairytales and family. \nJane Rawson is the author of Human/Nature: On life in a wild world (2025)\, A history of dreams (2022)\, From the wreck (2017) and A wrong turn at the Office of Unmade Lists (2013)\, just to name a few. She is the Managing Editor at Island magazine and co-edited Breathing space\, a collection of reflections and projections on nature in Tasmania. \nRose Michael is the author of The Asking Game (2007) and The Art of Navigation (2017). She has published speculative fiction in Island\, Griffith Review and Best Australian Stories\, and experiments towards her latest novel\, Else (September 2025)\, appeared in Meanjin and Science Write Now\, as well as international journals Antipodes and Speculative Nonfiction. \nPanelist Jane Rawson has this to say: \n“There is no genre (including literary fiction) that I love reading more than speculative fiction. This is the realm of ideas\, of imagination and – most importantly for me – of politics. This is where the big thinking happens\, where writers ask\, ‘what if society worked this way instead of that way’\, ‘what if we had to genuinely contend with the way we treat other creatures’\, ‘what if we had to live with the consequences of our actions’? Speculative fiction is the genre that can permanently shift the way you understand the world. And there is honestly no greater thrill than reading a book that splits your brain open and lets in a great big new idea.” \n 
URL:https://cityofliterature.com.au/event/hypothetically-speaking-with-garth-nix-karen-comer-jane-rawson-and-rose-michael/
LOCATION:Belgrave Library\, Reynolds Lane\, Belgrave\, Victoria\, 3160\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Festivals
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20261010T163000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20261010T173000
DTSTAMP:20260804T042145Z
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SUMMARY:The Paperback Book Club with Anna
DESCRIPTION:The Paperback hosts two book clubs a month\, one on the second Saturday of each month (led by Anna) and another on the fourth Thursday of each month (led by Georgie). \nThe book clubs are for adult readers. Each session runs for one hour. Light refreshments are provided. \nAll participants receive a 20% discount on the book of the month. \nWe offer two sessions of each meeting\, with a maximum of 12 people per session.
URL:https://cityofliterature.com.au/event/the-paperback-book-club-with-anna-2/2026-10-10/
LOCATION:Shop 4 / 24 Crossley St\, 24 Crossley street\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3001\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Bookshops
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20261010T163000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20261010T173000
DTSTAMP:20261001T004737Z
CREATED:20260917T074511Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261001T004737Z
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SUMMARY:From Page to Screen: Art of Storytelling with Kelly Lefever\, Shaun Grant and Tadji Ulrich
DESCRIPTION:Do you want to write for film or TV? Do you want to know how to fund\, create and direct a short film? What do writers need to consider when adapting a book to film? Join Kelly Lefever\, Shaun Grant and moderator Tadji Ulrich as they dive deep into the world of screenwriting at the 2026 Dandenong Ranges Literary Festival. This informative session will give you all the answers\, and a chance to ask an expert panel for advice. \nTadji Ulrich creates and directs short films. He is a multi-award-winning writer and director based in Naarm/Melbourne\, Australia. His 2025 short film\, The Wake\, won the Young Australian Filmmaker of the Year at the 2025 edition of the Byron Bay International Film Festival. His previous projects have won top prize at the youth section of Tropfest and the inaugural Emerging Filmmaker Award from North Bellarine Film Festival. \nKelly Lefever is a long-time writer for TV. She has written\, script produced\, and script edited over 650 hours of television and feature films. A multiple award winner and nominee\, she was awarded the Foxtel Fellowship in Recognition of an Outstanding and Significant Body of Work in 2024. \nShaun Grant has written and directed many films and TV episodes. He is a critically acclaimed\, multi-award-winning screenwriter whose work has premiered at the world’s most prestigious film festivals\, including Cannes\, Berlin\, Toronto and Sundance. In 2025\, he was the co-creator and sole writer of the Amazon Prime limited series\, The Narrow Road to the Deep North. He was also one of the writers on the film Penguin Bloom which starred Naomi Watts (King Kong\, Mulholland Drive)\, Andrew Lincoln (This Life\, The Walking Dead) and Jacki Weaver (Animal Kingdom\, Stork).  \nAfter the panel\, audiences are invited to stay on for a screen of Penguin Bloom\, the 2020 film based on the book of the same name by Cameron Bloom and Bradley Trevor Greive. The book and film are based on a true story of Sam and Cameron Bloom’s family and their interactions with an Australian magpie named “Penguin”. \n 
URL:https://cityofliterature.com.au/event/from-page-to-screen-art-of-storytelling-with-kelly-lefever-shaun-grant-and-tadji-ulrich/
LOCATION:Belgrave Community Hub\, 1616/1624 Burwood Highway\, Belgrave\, Victoria\, 3160\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Festivals
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20261010T180000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20261010T200000
DTSTAMP:20260908T211719Z
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SUMMARY:Song Weaving: Songwriting Workshop with Mo’Ju and Eliza Hull
DESCRIPTION:We launch on festival eve with a special songwriting masterclass with the fabulous Eliza Hull and Mo’Ju at the Newstead Red Sed. \nThis event is for ages 13-18y (Under 16y require an adult to be on site\, free companion tickets are available)  \nON SALE | Limited tickets | BOOK NOW
URL:https://cityofliterature.com.au/event/song-weaving-songwriting-workshop-with-moju-and-eliza-hull/
LOCATION:Newstead Arts Hub\, 8a Tivey Street\, Newstead\, Victoria\, 3462\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Festivals
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