Tag: Avid Reader
Through a Different Lens: Opera shining a light on gender-based violence
Chrysalis Projects continues its successful Chrysalis4101 program with radical urban partnerships...
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Kate Ellis talks Sex, Lies, and Question Time
When Kate Ellis finished her book, Sex, Lies, and Question Time, at the end of 2020, she couldn’t...
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The Secret is out: Avid Reader is Australia’s Top Bookshop
We locals always knew Avid Reader is the best bookshop in Australia, if not the world, and now the...
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Another one bites the dust: ANZ the latest bank to close its West End branch
By April this year, three banks will have closed branches in West End in less than 12 months. The...
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Chrysalis Projects emerges as an alternative funding model for a post-Covid arts recovery
On Sunday 8 November, the first day of NAIDOC Week, Chrysalis Projects launched the first of its...
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Chrysalis: the revival of local art
What happens when you put two women in lockdown during a global pandemic? They get creative and...
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Wednesday is Indigenous Literacy Day
On Wednesday 2 September the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) celebrates Indigenous Literacy...
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“Peace Crimes” launched at West End’s House Conspiracy
In 2006, I travelled to Alice Springs to sit in on the trial of former West End resident Jim...
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Supporting West End Businesses – Avid Reader
Fiona Stager of Avid Reader told The Westender that the main impact of the covid-19 health...
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Who will you vote for in the Queensland Book of the Year awards?
Novels by West End favourites Krissy Kneen and Melissa Lucashenko are among the record number of...
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Maeve Lejeune’s passion for the Houses of West End.
Maeve Lejeune’s roots run deep into West End – it inspires, and is the subject for her...
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New book explores unsolved assassination that gripped Australia – @AKalagianBlunt
Author Ashley Kalagian Blunt launches her first book, My Name Is Revenge, at a public event...
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