writers' week 2013

I was very happy to be able to attend some of Adelaide Writers' Week again this year. Held outdoors in some of Adelaide's beautiful park-lands, it's free! to attend & lots of fun. Although I have to say this year's weather wasn't quite as wonderful as last year.

Anyway, we managed to attend talks on two different days & listened to some authors we already loved, as well as discovering some new (to us) ones. Kathryn & I also waited in two really long lines to get books signed.

Isobelle Carmody & Kerry Greenwood have been favourites of mine for a long time & they were very worth listening to (Kerry's talk was hilarious). I also really enjoyed hearing Justine Larbalestier & Vikki Wakefield (on a panel with Isobelle), Karen Lord (although I missed part of her talk due to one of the aforementioned lines), Scott Westerfeld & Toni Jordan. It was also nice to see Sean Willams again (talking with Scott Westerfeld), as his talk with Garth Nix was one of my favourites last year.

& Kathryn's posts 1 | 2 (I also must thank her for having found the links for all the authors already, so I could just copy them :)  )

also 2012 | in film

writers' week 2012

In early March, we attended Adelaide Writers' Week (part of the Adelaide Festival), held in the Pioneer Women's Memorial Gardens. The weather was beautiful, pretty much all the talks we listened to were really interesting & we came home with a pile of new books.

We also shot a roll of film while we were there - a post on that coming soon.

You can also see Kathryn's posts on her blog - she has written/will be writing more about what we saw, I'm mostly sticking to pictures :)

first photo + book photo by Kathryn (that's her in the first mosaic)
all others by me

medieval...

a few photos from the Tanderra Medieval Festival...

oh, & I did have a costume, photos to come...

{ luminarium }

A couple of weeks ago, we (Dad, Mum, Kathryn, Amy & I) headed to Adelaide for Writer's Week, which is part of the Adelaide Festival - & on at the same time was the Adelaide Fringe. One of the attractions at the Fringe was Amococo, a luminarium.

A luminarium is a sculpture people enter to be moved to a sense of wonder at the beauty of light and colour. It is an inflatable walk-in sculpture on a monumental scale, typically measuring from 800 to 1000m2. They are easy to erect and can be configured to adapt to different sites.

The experience was quite awesome - we were in there for about an hour & probably could have stayed all day. Once you've bought your ticket, you remove your shoes & are let into the first chamber - sort of like an airlock - where you are given a brief history Amococo (it was constructed totally by hand). Once you enter the main part of the structure, you are free to wander along the tunnels, stopping in 'pocket' alcoves or in central chambers where the ceiling is higher.

Some of the alcoves have air vents, either letting in fresh air, or blowing cool air. Writer's Week was great & we went to a few other exhibitions that were interesting, but I think Amococo was my favourite - I wish I could visit it again.

All photos by me.
Luminarium description from the Architects of Air website