What's on in Braidwood this weekend for the Two Fires Festival
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FRIDAY 15th MAY
5:30 pm Local Writers’ Evening at Miss Ruby’s Bookshop
SATURDAY 16th MAY
9.30 Opening Ceremony Ryrie Park
10.00 Dhurga Rock Unveiling by Jack Waterford AM
Ryrie Park Speeches--Local and Aboriginal Dance
11.30 Judith Wright Memorial Address--Linda Burney MP St.Bedes
Hall (Suggested Lunch in Ryrie Park)
1.30 Plumwood Mountain Ecopoets--Michael Farrell St. Bede's Hall Susan Hawthorne --Anne Elvey
2.30 ‘Message from Mungo’ Documentary and talk with Director Andrew Pike AM
(Ronin Films) St.Bedes Hall
4.00 A Fresh Look at James Lovelock’s Gaia Theory of the Living Earth--Greg Sugden St.Bedes Hall
5.00 ‘Deadly Friends’ Art Show Opening - Prof.Margo Neale Altenburg & Co
7.00 Musical Performance--Stephen Rosenberg at National Theatre
7.45 Aboriginal Song,Dance and Language Performance National Theatre Noel Butler and friends.
8.45 Screening--Jimmy Little Memorial Concert, Opera House 2012--Frances Peters Little Live National Theatre
SUNDAY 17th MAY
Sunrise Ceremony - Ryrie Park
9.00 Poets’ Breakfast --Open Mike Royal Mail Hotel
10.30 Talk by Jackie French--‘Let the Land Speak’, St.Bedes Hall. How the land can tell you what tomorrow’s weather will be,and next Summer’s,and what to sow and grow.
11.15 Talk by Bruce Pascoe--‘Dark Emu’ St.Bedes Hall Black Seeds:Agriculture or Accident?
12.00 Official Opening and Celebration of Judith Wright Gardens Judith Wright Gardens, Planting and Soup Kitchen and Braidwood Community Gardens Flood Creek, (Suggested Lunch at Community Garden) end of Garvey Street
2.30 Uncle Max Dulumunmun Harrison--in Interview St. Bede’s Hall with Maria
Bakas--for Braidwood Museum
3.30 Closing Ceremony Ryrie Park