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Events Ubud Writers & Readers Festival Friend of a Friend discounts are available here
Events Ubud Writers & Readers Festival Friend of a Friend discounts are available here
If you have an interest in spending a day or two enjoying great food, inspired conversations and powerful storytelling situated in one of the most enchanting locations in Indonesia, then there is an event coming up that I think you will enjoy.
The 2009 Ubud Writers & Readers Festival program is gathering momentum, and a rich array of panel sessions, book launches, glamorous cocktail parties, street parades, literary lunches and poetry readings are merging together to create yet another magical event.
With the theme of Suka Duka: loosely translated as 'Compassion and Solidarity' leading the way, some of the finest writers from 23 countries will converge to discuss the great themes of our time: religion, identity, the legacy of colonial brutality and the postcolonial voice, human rights, race and identity, exile, gender, censorship, literary expression and the state.
The inaugural keynote address, sponsored by the Australia-Indonesia Institute, from Nobel Laureate and Booker Prize winning novelist JM Coetzee, will kick off 4 days of panel sessions, debates, readings and in-conversations with the world's greatest exponents of their craft. Hear Wole Soyinka, the first African to receive a Nobel Prize for literature, discuss his lifetime of work and humanitarianism, meet Fatima Bhutto, the outspoken poet, journalist and novelist from Pakistan, be dazzled by the brilliant women poets of Not A Muse, explore  Lloyd Jones' heart-wrenching empathy in the Bougainville-set military fable, Mr Pip, discover the unpredictable and eccentric Dany Laferriere, and solve Mohammed Hanif’s A Case of Exploding Mangoes.
Expand your horizons with our incredible group of African writers, from Nigeria, Kenya, Zimbabwe and Egypt.
The festival will pay special tribute to the Asian experience, and are gathering emerging and established writers from the region including Seno Gumira Ajidarma,  Tom Cho, Ng Yi Sheng, Amir Muhammad, NH Dini, Shamini Flint, Wena Poon, Woon Tai Ho, Asitha Ameresekere and Dede Oetomo.
And of course, in the great tradition of Ubud, writers will also be at play, with a program packed full of performance, playreadings, music and song, film, humour and, of course, food.
With many of the writers harbouring a deep passion for cooking, the festival program is a moving feast of literary events set in Ubud’s most spectacular hotels, restaurants and private homes. Master Chefs of Prose and Poetry will showcase our award-winning authors, poets and playwrights and their favourite recipes including dishes from Burma to Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka to Pakistan. Family secrets and stories will be shared or rather, revealed, on the edge of the rice-fields in a three-course global extravaganza.
For more information, tickets and special 'friend of a friend' discounts, simply click the link below.
http://www.ticket-tribe.com/unlock/dewagede-o001
The 2009 Ubud Writers & Readers Festival program is gathering momentum, and a rich array of panel sessions, book launches, glamorous cocktail parties, street parades, literary lunches and poetry readings are merging together to create yet another magical event.
Friend of a Friend discounts are available here
http://www.ticket-tribe.com/unlock/dewagede-o001With the theme of Suka Duka: loosely translated as 'Compassion and Solidarity' leading the way, some of the finest writers from 23 countries will converge to discuss the great themes of our time: religion, identity, the legacy of colonial brutality and the postcolonial voice, human rights, race and identity, exile, gender, censorship, literary expression and the state.
The inaugural keynote address, sponsored by the Australia-Indonesia Institute, from Nobel Laureate and Booker Prize winning novelist JM Coetzee, will kick off 4 days of panel sessions, debates, readings and in-conversations with the world's greatest exponents of their craft. Hear Wole Soyinka, the first African to receive a Nobel Prize for literature, discuss his lifetime of work and humanitarianism, meet Fatima Bhutto, the outspoken poet, journalist and novelist from Pakistan, be dazzled by the brilliant women poets of Not A Muse, explore  Lloyd Jones' heart-wrenching empathy in the Bougainville-set military fable, Mr Pip, discover the unpredictable and eccentric Dany Laferriere, and solve Mohammed Hanif’s A Case of Exploding Mangoes.
Expand your horizons with our incredible group of African writers, from Nigeria, Kenya, Zimbabwe and Egypt.
The festival will pay special tribute to the Asian experience, and are gathering emerging and established writers from the region including Seno Gumira Ajidarma,  Tom Cho, Ng Yi Sheng, Amir Muhammad, NH Dini, Shamini Flint, Wena Poon, Woon Tai Ho, Asitha Ameresekere and Dede Oetomo.
And of course, in the great tradition of Ubud, writers will also be at play, with a program packed full of performance, playreadings, music and song, film, humour and, of course, food.
With many of the writers harbouring a deep passion for cooking, the festival program is a moving feast of literary events set in Ubud’s most spectacular hotels, restaurants and private homes. Master Chefs of Prose and Poetry will showcase our award-winning authors, poets and playwrights and their favourite recipes including dishes from Burma to Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka to Pakistan. Family secrets and stories will be shared or rather, revealed, on the edge of the rice-fields in a three-course global extravaganza.
For more information, tickets and special 'friend of a friend' discounts, simply click the link below.
http://www.ticket-tribe.com/unlock/dewagede-o001