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BIG Thoughts from the FRIGHTENED Well

The Brotherhood of the Wordless is comprised of fourteen South-East Queensland writers with autism and other disabilities that preclude speech or the muscle ability required to use keyboards or writing implements. Using the technique of facilitated communication, the Brotherhood works with trusted scribes to bring their powerful thoughts and words to life. The Brotherhood of the Wordless have published a book of collected writing, “Tapping on the Heart of the World", now in its third reprint. They have featured on ABC Radio National, the Brisbane Writers Festival, Queensland Poetry Festival, and members have preformed at the Woodford Folk Festival to a standing ovation.

Now the collaboration returns with its new show "BIG Thoughts from the FRIGHTENED Well" based on new texts and poems they have written over the past year directly exploring the writers responses to various sensory cues in their day to day environment as well as poetic meditations on some of their deepest fears and grandest fantasies.

Presented by State Library of Queensland, ouTsideRs aRT Inc and Brotherhood of the Wordless.

Speakers: Brotherhood of the Wordless
Where: slq Auditorium 1, level 2
Date: Sat 30 Apr, 2011. 4.00pm
Duration: 1:11:56 minutes
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Deepen the Conversation with Elma Kris and Peggy Misi (Bangarra Dance Company)

Exploring the creative process that is required to create a new work with a focus on Torres Strait Island culture, and the access of Torres Strait culture for audience members through contemporary and traditional dance forms.

Part of the Torres Strait Islands: A Celebration program.

Speakers: Elma Kris and Peggy Misi (Bangarra Dance Company)
Where: slq Auditorium 1, level 2
Date: Sat 2 Jul, 2011. 1.30pm
Duration: 1:27:03 minutes
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Classical Queensland

Recipient of the 2007 John Oxley Library Fellowship, music writer and researcher Dr. Martin Buzacott joins Queensland Symphony Orchestra’s first home-grown Chief Conductor Patrick Thomas and international pianist Pamela Page to share a wealth of stories, anecdotes and personal insights into Queensland’s classical music history.

Speakers: Martin Buzacott, Patrick Thomas & Pamela Page
Duration: 1:26:59 minutes
Date: 6 August 2008
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Introducing... Paul Grabowsky

Paul Grabowsky performs in front of and behind the piano, sharing tales of his stellar career and his experience as Artistic Director of the Queensland Music Festival.

Speaker:  Paul Grabowsky
Duration:  1 hr 5:30 minutes
Date:  13 June 2007
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John Bell

Listen as Australia’s leading exponent of Shakespeare John Bell privileges you with his personal insights and stories in an intriguing conversation with Queensland Theatre Company Artistic Director Michael Gow. These stalwarts of the stage discuss John’s remarkable impact on Australian theatre and their latest collaboration on Heiner Müller’s Shakespeare Commentary Anatomy Titus Fall of Rome. This conversation was presented in partnership the Queensland Theatre Company.

Speakers: John Bell and Michael Gow
Duration: 1:02:40 minutes
Date: 20 August 2008
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Michael Gow

Join Carol Burns in conversation with Michael Gow, Artistic Director of Queensland Theatre Company as he shares tales of his stellar career as a writer and director, his personal inspirations and influences as an artist, and some compelling insights into the world of creating stories through theatre.

Speakers: Michael Gow
Duration: 1:00:22 minutes
Date: 19 March 2008
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Robert Forster

Talented songwriters and consummate musicians Grant McLennan and Robert Forster have been compared to Lennon and McCartney and recognised as one of Queensland’s great cultural exports. Through the iconic Australian band The Go-Betweens and successful solo careers, McLennan and Forster’s music has shared a uniquely Queensland spirit with a global audience. Listen to Robert Forster in conversation with Andrew Stafford (author of ‘Pig City’) as he ponders the man, the stories and the legacy of the late Grant McLennan.

Speakers: Robert Forster and Andrew Stafford
Duration: 1:17:02 minutes
Date: 17 August 2008
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Sam Cutler

‘As the rotors created an ungodly racket above, I sat there crammed into the helicopter with the Stones, their management and various hangers-on. What the hell had happened? The free concert at Altamont was meant to be a peak in the career of the Rolling Stones. It was intended to be a celebration of not just the music, but the thriving peace and love counter-culture of the sixties. Rather it had descended into a bloody chaotic mess of violence, death and despair. And we were on the run.’

Sam Cutler has been at the centre of some of the most exciting developments in the music industry, and has worked with the two largest grossing live artists in the world, the Rolling Stones and the Grateful Dead. Listen as he shares his titillating stories, now captured in a behind-the-scenes tell-all rock memoir.

Speakers: Sam Cutler and Noel Mengel
Duration: 1:04:58 minutes
Date: 15 October 2008
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