When
SundayApril 2
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Where
University of Newcastle NUspace X301
Level 3
Cnr Hunter & Auckland St
Newcastle NSW 2300
ACCESSIBILITY
Tickets
FreeShards of the Suburbs
Bronwyn Rennex’s Life With Birds and Beth Spencer’s The Age of Fibs disrupt linear narration in favour of the fleeting and fragmentary. The child of a Vietnam veteran, Bronwyn pieces together her teenage life in North Ryde, revisiting family disavowals with adult sensitivity. Beth also evokes suburban pasts in a series of microfictions and memoir, debunking myths sold to girls and women in the 1970s, exemplified by Fibs bras.
They’ll speak to Jodi Vial about evoking the past and reimagining the memoir form.
The Speakers
Beth Spencer
Bronwyn Rennex’s Life With Birds and Beth Spencer’s The Age of Fibs disrupt linear narration in favour of the fleeting and fragmentary. The child of a Vietnam veteran, Bronwyn pieces…
Bronwyn Rennex
Bronwyn Rennex’s Life With Birds and Beth Spencer’s The Age of Fibs disrupt linear narration in favour of the fleeting and fragmentary. The child of a Vietnam veteran, Bronwyn pieces…
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