The Australian Storytelling Telling
(Victoria) banner will be flying.
I’ll be at the Festival alongside Jim
Haynes, Bill Kerns and Greg Jenkins
Jim Haynes has a new book out, The Best
Australian Yarns and other true stories. Jim’s collection is a great compliment
to the work of Bill Wannan, Graham Seal and the Oxford Companion of Australian Folklore. For those of
you interested in the Australian oral tradition, the book is chock full of tall
stories from the bush, racetrack, shearing shed, railways and show business,
Aboriginal stories and humour, diggers yarns, ghosts, monsters, Yowies …
I’d love to meet any storytellers at these
events. Particularly the Pat Glover Award – participation is what keeps it
going! Jim’s book is dedicated to the memory of Pat who passed away in 2005 – ‘the
Port Fairy
This is the program but do check when you
get there.
Saturday
12.00 - 1.15 Tellable Tales (Lecture
Hall)
2.30 Jim Haynes Book Launch St Pat's Hall
Sunday
12.00 True Blue/: Are stories better in
rhyme, prose or song? Jim, Jackie and Bill (I think St Pat's Hall)
2.00 - 3.00 Workshop Lecture Hall
3.00 Pat Glover Story Award. Lecture Hall
Jackie Kerin HERE
Port Fairy Folk Music Festival HERE
