Boone Shepherd; The Silhouette and the Sacrifice.
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Thu 1 Nov 2018 at 6:30pmReadings Kids — 315 Lygon St, Carlton VIC 3053
Free event.
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Jumbuck's Misadventure.
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DATE AND TIMEThu. 25 October 2018
11:00 am – 12:30 pm AEDT
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LOCATIONCollingwood Children's Farm Inc.
18 Saint Heliers Street 
Abbotsford, VIC 3067 
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​In National Childrens Week Sally Nowlan launches her book "Jumbuck's Misadventure"
This beautifully illustrated story for young readers is about a clever pet sheep whose curiosity gets him into trouble when he opens the farm gate. 
Jumbuck is accidentally loaded onto a live export ship headed to the Middle East...and has to work out how to survive this dreadful situation.
It's a story with a happy ending and a powerful message - 'Be kind to all animals.'
Come to the Farm Barn to meet the author, have your book signed - and even pat the farm sheep.

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Uncover what you need to break through in your story. Whether it’s the next chapter, the next act, the next sentence or an entirely new idea, award-winning author Nicole Hayes will offer strategies and processes to help you move your story forward. Nicole will take you through a combination of writing tips, guided exercises, one-on-one advice, workshopping and 'wild writing' within a group of like-minded fellow writers.
Nicole Hayes is an award winning author and media professional with expertise in the areas of literature, writing, gender and sport. She is one-sixth of the ground breaking all-female AFL podcast, The Outer Sanctum, winner of the 2018 Best Coverage of AFLW media award. She is a regular guest on public and commercial media networks. Her books include award-winning fiction for Young Adults and non-fiction for children and adults.
Please note: Cost $10 plus GST and booking fee, tickets are non-refundable
Malvern Library
1255 High Street, Malvern
Phone: 8290 1366
Email: libraryevents@stonnington.vic.gov.au

DATE AND TIMESun. 18 November 2018
10:15 am – 12:45 pm AEDT
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LOCATIONMalvern Library
1255 High Street 
Malvern, VIC 3144 
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Come and explore your story of identity and migration through zines!
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What is a zine? 
Zines (pronounced "zeen") are small self-published books. Zines are made by artists, writers, makers, readers, zookeepers, teachers, farmers, hoarders, thinkers, eaters, wishers, people who do and don't wear plaid, musicians, foodies... and everybody else...

This is a Seat at the Table project to improve emotional health and wellbeing in young people from refugee and asylum seekers backgrounds (it doesn't matter what visa you have, how long you've been here or if you 1st/2nd generation).

- free sessions
- come to as many as you can: one or all!
- food provided
- ages 18-25 (if you're outside of this age range message us to see if you can still come)

For more information visit:
http://healthwest.org.au/projects/a-seat-at-the-table/pilot/
Or call: 0416 102 186

DATE AND TIMEWed. 17 October 2018 (then 24th then 31st)
5:30 pm – 7:30 pm AEDT
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Select a different dateSelect a different date            Wed, 17 Oct. (5:30 pm)             Wed, 24 Oct. (5:30 pm)             Wed, 31 Oct. (5:30 pm)    LOCATIONVisy Cares Hub
80B Harvester Road 
Sunshine, VIC 3020 
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The Hobsons Bay masterclass in October is booked out.
Luckily, there's another masterclass in November in Stonnington!

​Ebony McKenna leads this intensive workshop on self-publishing. Learn about cover design, formatting for eBook
or print and basic book promotion and marketing. Strictly for people aged 15+ years with a completed manuscript.
Ebony McKenna has self-published seven young adult novels, including 'The Girl & the Ghost', which won the 2018 Romantic Book of the Year. Ebony created the Edit Your Own reference books, and her super-helpful Get Your Book Into Australian Libraries is helping authors achieve exactly that.
Please note: Cost $10 plus GST and booking fee, tickets are non-refundable
Toorak/South Yarra Library
340 Toorak Road, South Yarra
Phone: 8290 8000
Email: libraryevents@stonnington.vic.gov.au

​DATE AND TIMESun. 18 November 2018
10:15 am – 1:15 pm AEDT
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LOCATIONToorak/South Yarra Library
340 Toorak Road 
South Yarra, VIC 3141 
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REFUND POLICYNo Refunds

DATE AND TIMESun. 21 October 2018
11:00 am – 12:30 pm AEDT
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LOCATIONMister Close
246 Bourke Street 
#Shop 13, Midtown Plaza 
Melbourne, VIC 3000 
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November Thursday Middle Grade Book Club - The Doldrums


DATE AND TIMEThu. 8 November 2018
4:30 pm – 5:00 pm AEDT
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LOCATIONThe Younger Sun
26 Murray Street 
Yarraville, VIC 3013 
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Join us for the launch of three beautiful bi-lingual children’s books – new editions of the much-loved My Two Blankets, by Irena Kobald, with illustrations by Freya Blackwood.
The editions are Farsi/English, Dari/English and Arabic/English and were created by nine multi-lingual members of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, in workshops with a professional translator.
Professor Joe Lo Bianco, Melbourne’s global authority on bilingual education will launch the book, along with the author and the translators. 
Please join us to celebrate this unique project and the contribution people seeking asylum can make to the Australian community.
Tickets are free, but make sure you register as they are limited!
Full details here.

The new bi-lingual editions of My Two Blankets are a collaboration between the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) in Melbourne, publisher Hardie Grant Egmont and the author, with the generous support of the Readings Foundation.

This launch also celebrates National Unity Week.
Proceeds from the sale of these editions will go towards further literacy projects supporting people seeking asylum. The bi-lingual editions are available from all good bookstores and online at www.readings.com.au'
DATE AND TIMEThu. 25 October 2018
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm AEDT
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LOCATIONReadings Carlton
309 Lygon Street 
Carlton, VIC 3053 
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Gender and Relatability in Digital Culture: Managing Affect, Intimacy and Value.
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This book explores the practices and the politics of relatable femininity in intimate digital social spaces. Examining a GIF-based digital culture on Tumblr, the author considers how young women produce relatability through humorous, generalisable representations of embarrassment, frustration, and resilience in everyday situations. Relatability is examined as an affective relation that offers the feeling of sameness and female friendship amongst young women. However, this relation is based on young women’s ability to competently negotiate the ‘feeling rules’ that govern youthful femininity. Such classed and racialised feeling rules require young women to perfect the performance of normalcy: they must mix self-deprecation with positivity; they must be relatably flawed but not actual ‘failures’. Situated in debates about postfeminism, self-representation and digital identity, this book connects understandings of digital visual culture to gender, race, and class, and neoliberal imperatives to perform the ‘right feelings’.
The book will be launched by Professor JaneMaree Maher (Centre for Women’s Studies and Gender Research, Monash University)
Gender and Relatability in Digital Culture will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines including gender studies, cultural studies, sociology, and media studies.
Akane Kanai is a lecturer in the School of Media, Film and Journalism at Monash University, Australia.
DATE AND TIMEMon. 15 October 2018
6:00 pm – 7:30 pm AEDT
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LOCATIONThe Moat
176 Little Lonsdale Street 
Melbourne, VIC 3000 
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​Come along to the launch of Matt Davies’ fantastic new young adult novel This thing of darkness. A local Niddrie author, Matt’s first book explores the power of understanding and forgiveness even when the pain is unbearable and the crime unspeakable.
Light refreshments and drinks will be served.
Books will be available for purchase.
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DATE AND TIMEFri. 9 November 2018
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm 
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LOCATIONNiddrie Library
483 Keilor Road 
Niddrie, VIC 3042 
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