Manning Clark House Weekend of Ideas 2010

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Fair suck of the sauce bottle: a celebration of Australian language

• Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st March
  
  This year's Weekend of Ideas is structured in two parts:
  
  Day 1: Saturday, March 20, 9.30am-4.30pm at the National Museum of Australia.
  Speakers will include:
  David Malouf – on his love of language
  Don Watson – on what has been happening to language
  Jeanie Bell – on Indigenous languages
  Susan Butler – from the Macquarie Dictionary on idiom, new words etc
  Roly Sussex – from the University of Queensland on regionalism, accent and idiom
  Julian Burnside – on the language of persuasion
  Bruce Moore – ANU, on language and identity
  Tickets: $20/$15
  Bookings: are absolutely essential – there are limited places on Saturday and the quality of the speakers suggests that Day 1 of the Weekend of Ideas will sell out.
  
  Day 2: Sunday, March 21 at Manning Clark House 11am-3pm
  Entry is FREE
  There will be a small stage where there will be interviews, readings, contributions from audience members, panels, and a game or two.
  Speakers include:
  Jeanie Bell – on the language of Fraser Island, and blackfella English
  Susan Butler
  Anson Cameron – novelist, columnist
  Lawrie Zion – writer, film-maker, critic, academic
  Jack Waterford – on dictionaries in particular and words in general
  Julian Burnside
  Genevieve Jacobs
  
  As well as other guests talking about:
  Great Australian expressions
  Rhyming slang
  Words from your native tongue that just don’t translate
  Favourite words
  Family words
  Neologisms
  Euphemisms
  Tautologies
  Badly misused words and phrases
  The language of the schoolyard
  The language of sms-ing
  
  Food/drinks available
  
  Watch this page for updates.
  
  Call for Volunteers: Gabrielle Hyslop and Geoff McPherson have done a great job organising the event, and have put together a support team which will have the show going like clockwork.
  If you would like to help in any way please feel free to call John Harms at MCH on 62951808 or drop a note to: director@manningclark.org.au.

Manning Clark House Contact Details

For bookings and information on Manning Clark House events and activities contact Manning Clark House by

telephone: +61 (02) 6295 9433
fax: +61 (02) 6295 6029
email: info@manningclark.org.au
post: PO Box 3096, Manuka, ACT 2603, Australia

or please drop in to see us at the Manning Clark House 11 Tasmania Circle, Forrest in Canberra.