Chedeng and Apple
Queer Screen’s Mardi Gras Film Festival CHEDENG AND APPLE Bristling with charm and irreverent humour, Chedeng and Apple is a Filipino Thelma and Louise style comedy. When Chedeng’s (Gloria Diaz) ailing...
View ArticleRewriting the Body
Sydney Writers’ Festival REWRITING THE BODY From Hollywood to Instagram, the myth of the ‘perfect body’ endures. But what role can fiction play in portraying those deemed outside the norm, be they...
View ArticleThe Reader’s Roundtable
Sydney Writers’ Festival THE READER’S ROUNDTABLE Known for its passionate and committed readers, the YA community is home to many bloggers, bookstagrammers, merch-makers and reviewers. Youth Curator...
View ArticleKindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories
Sydney Writers’ Festival KINDRED: 12 QUEER #LOVEOZYA STORIES Join some of Australia’s most exciting established and up-and-coming LGBTQIA+ writers for the launch of Kindred, a groundbreaking collection...
View ArticleRichard Glover: The Land Before Avocado
Sydney Writers’ Festival RICHARD GLOVER: THE LAND BEFORE AVOCADO The Land Before Avocado is Richard Glover’s uproarious and anti-nostalgic portrait of Australia in the 60s and 70s. Described by Annabel...
View ArticleOn History’s Page
Sydney Writers’ Festival ON HISTORY’S PAGE Despite being a country of strong First Nations and migrant cultures, the stories of these communities have often been left out of our history books and...
View ArticleTeenCon 2019
Sydney Writers’ Festival TEENCON 2019 Are you after the inside scoop on the most exciting YA releases? Then don’t miss TeenCon 2019. Hosted by authors Will Kostakis and Gabrielle Tozer, publishers will...
View ArticleTo All the Fandoms I’ve Loved Before
Sydney Writers’ Festival TO ALL THE FANDOMS I’VE LOVED BEFORE Some of the Festival’s finest authors share heartfelt and humorous love letters to the fandoms they have been a part of. Highlighting the...
View ArticleJordy Rosenberg: Confessions of the Fox
Sydney Writers’ Festival JORDY ROSENBERG: CONFESSIONS OF THE FOX Swashbuckling folk hero Jack Sheppard gets a postmodern makeover in Jordy Rosenberg’s Confessions of the Fox. The story swirls around a...
View ArticleClimate of Fear
Sydney Writers’ Festival CLIMATE OF FEAR With daily news headlines about climate change – whether it’s diminishing resources or melting icecaps – bleak scenarios that once existed only in fiction are...
View ArticleDY(STOP)IA: Youth Slam
Sydney Writers’ Festival DY(STOP)IA: YOUTH SLAM Realise the real lies! This spoken word theatre show sees four of Western Sydney’s best poets – Ali Al Haj, Aishah Ali, Pola Fanous and Rameen Hayat –...
View ArticleIn Deep Lit: YA
With over 400 of the world’s leading literary luminaries and public intellectuals coming together for the 2019 Sydney Writers’ Festival — and just three short weeks to get reading — honing that bedside...
View ArticleBetween the Lines with Jordy Rosenberg
“His Heart twist’d in its red socket deep in his chest. He knew it then: he would never see his home again. As bitter as his home was, it was his. Never again to hear the urchins tumbling down Neal...
View ArticleThe Reader’s Roundtable
Sydney Writers’ Festival THE READER’S ROUNDTABLE Known for its passionate and committed readers, the YA community is home to many bloggers, bookstagrammers, merch-makers and reviewers. Youth Curator...
View ArticleGhostbusters (1984)
GHOSTBUSTERS (1984) Starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis Who ya gonna call? When the University downsizes the parapsychology department, Doctors Venkman, Stantz and Spengler make the leap...
View ArticleMia and the White Lion (Mia et le lion blanc)
MIA AND THE WHITE LION (MIA ET LE LION BLANC) Ten year-old Mia has her life turned upside down when her family decides to leave their home in London to manage a lion farm in South Africa. When a...
View ArticleHaunted House Workshops
Bloodfest Kids Horror Film Festival and Riverside present HAUNTED HOUSE WORKSHOPS Join us for a spooktacularly spellbinding series of Haunted House workshops run by Bloodfest Kids Horror Film Festival...
View ArticleGoosebumps (2015)
GOOSEBUMPS (2015) Starring Jack Black “A frightfully fun flick for families.” – Twitchfilm.com Upset about moving from the big city to a small town, young Zach Cooper (Dylan Minnette) finds a silver...
View ArticleThe Conductor and the Clown
Riverside presents THE CONDUCTOR AND THE CLOWN Written, directed and performed by George Washingmachine and George Ellis “Music and comedy; a magic combination.” – The Australian A serious classical...
View ArticleLullaby: Sonic Cradle
Riverside presents Manasamitra LULLABY: SONIC CRADLE Join us for this unique musical experience and be transported into a magical, relaxed setting with soothing sounds and meditative light projections....
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