Introducing my new/old vintage Olivetti Lettera 32 typewriter c1963.
It is an absolutely beautiful machine.
In this time of AI and high tech everything, with screens everywhere, using old crafts and tools can be exhilarating, refreshing and subversive.
I am hoping great inspiration rises from this elegant little machine.
Watch this space.
While 2022 is now just a memory and we are jumping into 2023 with great hope that it invigorates us all, here's a sweet recent memory from the Anglesea One Act Play Festival on the Surfcoast a few months ago. I am not used to seeing photos of me that are larger than life, but must acknowledge my appreciation for the kind tribute. (Photo by Daniela Rodriguez)
It was so wonderful to be back at the theatre. Let's have more of it in 2023. To all my theatre creative friends and audience members... chookas and enjoy your shows.
Saturday 30 July
3-5pm
Update: Sold Out!!
| Cost— | |
| Members | $18 |
| Non-members | $21 |
Join award-winning author and playwright, Janet Brown for a two-hour workshop exploring works of art currently on display as inspiration for a creative writing exercise in the Gallery―a playful opportunity to extend your creativity and imagination.
Janet Brown has a Master of Arts in Creative Writing and extensive experience as a writing teacher and mentor. Brown’s work is widely published and several of her plays have been staged by various theatre companies in Melbourne, Sydney and have toured in regional Victoria.
This Saturday 30 July, local award-winning author and playwright, Janet Brown will be hosting a creative writing workshop at Geelong Gallery.
You will have the opportunity to explore works of art currently on display as inspiration for a creative writing exercise. Join Janet for a playful opportunity to extend your creativity and imagination.
Book your tickets via the link in below.
https://www.geelonggallery.org.au/whats-on/events/adult-workshop-creative-writing
Image: Louise Weaver ‘Dark Spring’ 2015, synthetic polymer emulsion on canvas, Geelong Gallery, John Norman Mann Bequest Fund, 2019 © Courtesy of the artist. Photographer: Andrew Curtis
During Covid I have loved going to Paris on Mondays!
It's actually an online live-drawing zoom initiative created by talented and generous Chloe Briggs, at a time when faces are part of what we missed.
Event by Geelong Regional Libraries
https://facebook.com/events/s/in-person-janet-brown-playwrig/420645482987521/
Absolutely delighted to announce that 'A Hole in the Ground,' co-written with my friend, Joanne Ryan, is now published by Australian Plays. This is the sixth play I have had published, and it was actually my very first play. Jo and I wrote it collaboratively. The script was developed with dramaturg Peter Matheson and the MTC, directed by David Myles and staged in 2004 at La Mama Carlton Courthouse and Wyndham Cultural Centre.
The project had an interesting genesis - it grew out of our experiences working with our community on the Werribee No Toxic Dump campaign in the late 1990s. Campaigning actually changes people, changes community and society, and that is what our play explores. I kept on writing plays and books, and Jo moved into politics - she is the Federal Member for Lalor. It was such a wonderful experience collaborating on this project. We are so pleased to see it now published.
'Dancing Into Freedom' - on the shelves at Readings, St Kilda
When Heidi Giersch asked me to write her memoir with her, I jumped at the opportunity. We are so pleased to announce 'Dancing Into Freedom' has just been published by award winning Ginninderra Press, and is now available.
Heidi’s unique story of growing up in East Berlin,
behind the Iron Curtain and in the shadow of the Berlin Wall, begins the moment she was chosen to go to
ballet school at ten years of age. Eventually
she performed with major East German dance companies. She shared with me her heartfelt recollections of family, life and her career in
East Germany. Facing the challenges of the Cold War in that communist society, every person was under the surveillance of the Stasi regime which infiltrated all aspects of social and private life.
Heidi's life changed forever in 1980 when she ran away after the final Sydney performance of the prestigious Komische Oper Berlin Ballet Company's Australian tour. Following her defection, she made her home in Melbourne where she still lives today.
