As part of Midsumma 2012, Hares & Hyenas is celebrating its 20th anniversary with 20 events! You can purchase tickets for separate events or get a season pass for them all!
Hares & Hyenas’ 20th Birthday Season of Word is Out. Twenty readings, events and performances to celebrate the 20 years of queer literary culture developed by Hares & Hyenas. It features writers, artists and performers from its entire history, and a range of new writers from across the country and an international guest. Featuring a range of book launches, readings and performances, highlights include the return of landmark and long running events from the past including Rapid Fire, Novel Conversations and Julie Peters’ I Dream Therefore I Am, alongside more recent additions Bi & Poly, Word is Out Poetry Slam, the Deaf and Disaibility event Quippings, and new events around themes of Melbourne, life stories, youth, Aboriginal authors, trans* and gender diverse, sex writing, slash fiction, multimedia and two nights devoted to works in progress.
Special performance nights include programming by bryan Andy, Bumpy Favel, Kath Duncan, Urszula Dawkins, Jules Wilkinson, Crusader Hillis and Rowland Thomson. Guests include Joan Nestle, Kim Westwood, Andrea Goldsmith, Christos Tsiolkas, Geoffrey Knight, Steve Dow, Kelly Gardiner, Benn Bennett, Noel Tovey, Jack Charles, Moira Finucane, Jackie Smith, Sally Goldner, Maude Davey and Sophie Cunningham.
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