At the moment, there is little time for tirades, sound offs, rants and having a whinge at the world. I am a volunteer for the Melbourne Writers Festival which this year happens from 19-29 August.
Since Thursday, three shifts a day of somewhere between ten and twenty people have been sticking labels on envelopes and putting programmes in envelopes and placing envelopes in boxes in a room a long way up the stairs of the Malthouse Theatre and then carrying them down at 4pm each afternoon to the people from Australia Post. By the time we are finished (which won't be until early next week) it is estimated that almost 10,000 programs will have been sent out. If you are not on the mailing list, just go to the Festival website and leave your name and address. I won't get to see lots of the things that I want to see but high on my list of priorites are Shane Maloney, Alexander McCall Smith, and the Koorie Cultural Centre presentation of By Us and About Us. As you can see, I love a little bit of crime! Hope to see you there. You might like to leave some comments on what you intend to see and afterwards comment on what you enjoyed.
