The annual World Matters Literary Festival celebrates ideas that can make a difference to the world we live in. The 2011 theme is Missing Peace. The Festival is run by Eltham Bookshop in conjunction with Oxfam and the City of Nillumbik.
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War without end: a lament
A service and critical reflection of the past 10 years in Afghanastan organized by the Victorian Council of Churches, St Paul’s Cathedral and Pax Christi.
Vietnam play “Tunnel rat”
Neil Cole’s play The tunnel rat, based on stories from an Australian soldier who worked in Viet Cong tunnels during the Vietnam War, explores the nature of post traumatic stress on an individual and societal level. It will have a season at the Malthouse Theatre from October 25.
Art activate: Friends of the Earth Art Auction October 9, 2011
MAPW dinner: John Rodsted speaker
MAPW Victorian Branch holds a dinner for members and supporters on the second Tuesday of every second month. Our October guest speaker will be photographer and anti-cluster-bombs campaigner John Rodsted. John’s experience as a war photographer led him to take up the issue of cluster munitions.