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Nillumbik Partnership Event: Writing Your Self and Others as Characters
You may know yourself and the people in your life well, but how do you make yourself and others known to readers who never met you? How do you express people’s complexities, paradoxes and idiosyncrasies? How do you animate them and bring them to life on the pages of your memoir? In this workshop, you will learn how to take real life people and develop them into compelling characters and characterize them vividly for the readers. You will do all this through a mix of theory, discussion, examples from notable memoirs and writing exercises.-
Sophia Cai on curating and writing about art
Sophia Cai is a curator and arts writer based in Narrm/Melbourne, Australia. She currently teaches at the Victorian College of Arts, University of Melbourne and Monash Art Design & Architecture, Monash University, while also maintaining an independent curating and writing practice. Ahead of her workshop Writing About Art, Sophia spoke with Marketing and Communications Officer Sarah Giles…