Key Information
When
18th July 2024
4pm - 5pm
Where
The Cairns Institute - Ground Floor, 105 McGregor Road, Smithfield, QLD 4878
Cost
Free
Audience
Public and Community
Contact
For further information, please email Nicole.crowe@jcu.edu.au
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Please join us for the Cairns launch celebration of the Roderick Centre for Australian Literature and Creative writing. The first-of-its-kind in north Queensland, the Centre has been made possible by a generous bequest from the late Colin and Margaret Roderick.
Event programme:
- Welcome to Country
- Welcome from the Centre Director
- Centre Vision
- Poetry reading by Yvette Holt, Chair of the First Nations Australia Writers Network
- Deadly Poets Project - Vicki Saunders, Research fellow with the Jawun Research Centre (formerly the Centre for Indigenous Health Equity) Central Queensland University
- Reading by Paul E. Hardisty as part of the launch of his new book, 'In Hot Water: The Battle for the Great Barrier Reef' published by Affirm Press
Register for the event here