Immersed Life - The Dowse Art Museum

We're please to announce Immersed Life, the final event in the 2011 Dialogues with Tomorrow series, featuring Playwright Angie Farrow and author David Young:

Immersed Life

4.00-5.30pm Saturday 24th September, 2011

The Dowse Art Museum

45 Laings Road, Lower Hutt

Waterways of all kinds are key to New Zealand¹s identity and economy. What are our relationships to the rivers and streams we share and imaginatively cherish? Playwright Angie Farrow and author David Young discuss these bonds, and how writing and the arts can deepen awareness and understanding of our fluvial geography, with a focus on the roles of citizens in keeping waterways healthy. The event is held as part of the 350 Day of Action at the Dowse Art Museum, and will include performances of extracts from Farrow¹s new play, The River.

Angie Farrow has won several national and international prizes for her plays including The Pen is a Mighty Sword International Playwriting Competition for Despatch, and an Outstanding Contribution to New Zealand Writing award for her community theatre play, Before the Birds. Her short plays have been performed in Australia, Singapore, India, Canada, and the USA in recent years. Angie has been involved in developing The Manawatu Festival of New Arts, The Manawatu Summer Shakespeare and the Visiting Artists Scheme. She is a Senior Lecturer teaching Drama and Creative Processes at Massey University, Palmerston North.

David Young is an independent author who has written about New Zealand rivers for more than 30 years. His books include Faces of the River, Woven by Water: histories from the Whanganui River, and Our Islands, Our Selves: a History of Conservation in New Zealand. His first novel, Coast, was published in 2011 (davidyoungwriter.com). In 2008 he was Fulbright-Creative New Zealand Writer-in-Residence at the University of Hawaii, researching traditions around freshwater in the Pacific. David has been a long-term trustee of WWF, president of the Professional Historians Association of New Zealand/Aotearoa and is a member of the Ngati Koata Spinyback Trust.

Immersed Life is a Now Future event in partnership with The Dowse Art Museum.

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