WEDNESDAY 26 JUNE 2024 | INSTORE EVENT
6.00pm for a 6.30pm start | 60 mins
Join us for the Great Book Swap and help us raise money for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation with host Dr Anita Heiss.
*Ten dollars from each ticket goes directly to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation*
ABOUT THE EVENT
Bring a book and swap it for another book while making a donation to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation. This is a perfect opportunity to refresh your library whilst helping raise literacy levels for Indigenous Australians.
Feel free to bring more than one book to exchange on the night. All your swap-donations will go to ILF, making a difference to literacy for First Nations people.
ABOUT THE HOST
Dr Anita Heiss is an internationally published, award-winning author of 23 books; non-fiction, historical fiction, commercial women’s fiction and children’s novels. She is a proud member of the Wiradyuri Nation of central New South Wales, an Ambassador for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation and the GO Foundation, and Professor of Communications at the University of Queensland. Anita is a board member of the National Justice Project and Circa Contemporary Circus. As an artist in residence at La Boite Theatre, she adapted her novel Tiddas for the stage and it premiered at the 2022 Brisbane Festival.
Her novel, Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray about the Great Flood of Gundagai, won the 2022 NSW Premier’s Indigenous Writer’s Prize and was shortlisted for the 2021 ARA Historical Novel Prize and the 2022 ABIA Awards. Anita’s first children’s picture book is Bidhi Galing (Big Rain) about the Great Flood of Gundagai. Anita enjoys running, eating chocolate and being a creative disruptor.
