International Women's Day Event - Saturday March 9

An event featuring female writers will be held this Saturday at Azelia Ley Homestead, Manning Park in Hamilton Hill (close to Fremantle) as part of the celebrations for International Women's Day. I'll be there, in amongst the writers, some of whom will be giving talks, some holding stalls, and some, myself included, will be running workshops.

The event isn't just for women of course, and there are a wide range of activities planned that will be of interest to all.

The program is posted below:

  Nectar Fiesta Program

                                                                       10am - 4pm

9th March

2013

 Join us for a day of celebrating local women, networking, community building, writers, inspirations, stalls, music, dance, children’s entertainment,  great food and coffee.

v All Day- Ladybird Entertainment and Fairy Sandie with hoola hoops, face painting, skipping ropes and fairy magic.

v Azelia Ley Homestead Museum is open for a chance to visit the local history of Manning Park.  The museum will also have an amazing collection of vintage Pram’s on display, something not to miss!

v Massage Tent by the Challenger Institute of Technology Students by donation

 

Nectar Sand Sculpture by Tim Darby

Although he is more well know these days for his work in the sustainability area, Tim Darby actually started his career as a Sculpture. Lately he has enjoyed dabbling in this art form again working with sand, and has quickly become one of the best sand sculptures in WA. He is excited about being able to join in over the weekend of the Nectar festival to produce a work that reflects and celebrates women. Come and watch his work develop over the two days of Nectar and make sure you stay for the celebration when the sculpture is returned to a pile of sand!

Nectar Stalls

 

A wonderful group of women in small business, showcasing their wares, talents, and therapies.   Stalls include:-

 

v Xquisit, Mutima Beautiful baskets

v Loo Taylor, Anne’s Aprons and Baby Bibs

v Pasha Jewels, Hidden Pantry

v Delish Ice, Bon Pussy

v Australian Bush Flowers

v Anjel Ms, Big Bamboo Jewellry

v Village Café

v Nicci's Smalls,Kiki Design

v Delilah rose vintage.

 

Nectar Writers

Market Place - Azelia Ley Homestead Museum Verandah’s

1.     Liana Christensen

2.     Lucy Dougan

3.     Suzanne Covich

4.     Susan Midalia

5.     Tricia lee  

6.     Sarah Evans  

7.     Teena Raffa-Mulligan

8.     Vivienne Glance

A book stall featuring publications by local women writers including

Elanna Herbert (Frieda and the Cops), Rachael Petridis (Sundecked), and Vivienne Glance (A Simple Rain, The Softness of Water and The Cat in the Box), and others. Also the anthology Birdlife from publisher Lethologica Press. See http://www.lethologicapress.org

Workshop Space 

1.     10:00am  Pick a Woo Workshop  

Workshop 10:00am Do-It-Yourself-Publishing and the truth about Vanity Publishers.  How you can avoid the Vanity Trap and publish for profit and reach readers around the world.

Award winning local West Australian Author, Trade Publisher and founder of Do-It-Yourself-Publishing (Author Services Provider) Julie-Ann Harper has been involved in the publishing industry for over 16 years. Julie-Ann’s goal is to expose authors to the truth about self publishing and to avoid vanity publishing. Authors are then shown how to publish quality books, reach global audiences and maintain control and keep the profit with new publishing strategies.

Julie-Ann will give you a FREE 69 page e-book at the end of the workshop or you can just bring pad and pen to jot down some of the publishing pearls she will impart.  

2.     11:00am Iris Lavell

This workshop will take the form of an informal discussion and is aimed at people who are in the process of writing a book, or who are contemplating doing so. Participants are invited to bring either a small sample of their writing, a question, or simply their curiosity about how they might begin, or continue with something they have already started. The workshop will involve an exchange of ideas, information and understanding about the process of working on a large piece of writing whether it be a novel, a memoir, or a non-fiction manuscript.

3.      1:00pm Jaya

 In this body are gardens...

Seeds of inspiration for women who write (or want to)

Poet/storyteller Jaya Penelope will lead you through a series of reflections and exercises to open the doorways of your senses and uncover the stories and poems that nestle within the flesh of your body. A playful and safe space to discover the hidden treasures that seed your imagination as writer and woman. Pen and paper provided or bring your own...

4.     2:00pm Tricia lee

A Nectar Workshop In her Soul every woman is beautiful Come find your Sacred self

With Tricia Mary Lee

©     “Sacred Journalling”

©     Writing as part of your Sacred Feminine Journey

©     Your personal

©     “Wheel of Wisdom”

©     “Soul Gardening” and your Tree of Life

©     Creating Blessings for your self, your family, your community, …….. Our world.

Join Tricia on this Sacred Journey into the power of writing as a Sacred Healing Art.  Bring journal, pen, pastels and large paper.

5.     3:00pm Sarah Evans  -  MEMOIR: MINE THOSE MEMORIES TO FEED THE MUSE

PROGRAM IN THE RED TENT….
 

 

10am                          Opening by Dr Carmen Lawrence

10.30am - 11.30am    Inner Sky Kavisha Mazzella

 

Inner Sky is a singing and silent meditation practice that goes for an hour. We sing a chant and as the last note falls away we let the silence be and become one with that ..sitting together is silent meditation for a few minutes ,we then  start another song and so on . We explore the relationship between music and silence .We go higher and higher with the music and deeper and deeper with the silence within.

12pm - 2pm   Nectar Poets and Writers   -  readings from local writers

v 12:00pm  – 12:15pm          nandi chinna

v 12:20pm  – 12:35pm          Jaya

v 12:40pm  – 12:55pm          Jennifer Kornberger

v 1:00pm    – 1:15pm              Susan Midalia

v 1:20pm    – 1:35pm              Liana Christianson

v 1:40pm    – 1:55pm              Suzanne Covich

2.30pm

Performed by husband and wife duo West O’ the Moon.

Embodied, passionate, erudite, women from different cultures across millennia have sought to find unique ways of expressing their experience of life and their relationship with the divine through the medium of  poetry.

Weaving together story, poetry and music, West O’ The Moon will perform some of the jewels from this underground tradition, as well as the stories from the lives of the ordinary/extraordinary women who created these poems. Focusing on the medieval bhakti poets of India such as Lala, Mirabai and Mahadeviyakka, this performance also includes some ancient poets from Western traditions, such as Sappho and the Shulamnite from the Song of Songs .

Accompanying these poems is the music of Branan Dubh, trained in North Indian classical singing his haunting music has an ethereal quality that supports Jaya’s unfolding of the poetry

3.30pm Afrotonic and Tendera

DANCE, VOICE, HARMONIES…PURE ENGERGETIC

Sacred Space Lounge in the Red Tent

11am- 1pm NewBorn Mothers with Julia Jones http://www.newbornmothers.com.au/

1pm-3pm Death Café http://www.passionatelifeconsulting.com/the-passionate-life-project.html

3pm – 4pm Kim OMeara Stories from Rwanda, hear Kim’s amazing experience and new life path after an extraordinary trip to Rwanda.

4.00pm

Event Close
Thanks for your support
Donations for Nectar to Women can be made through
http://fremantlefoundation.com/nectar-for-women-supporting-generations-of-women/