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Date/Time
Date(s) - 27/02/2021 - 04/03/2021
9:30 am - 6:00 pm
Location
Pioneer Womens Memorial Gardens
Categories
Since we packed up the Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden in March 2020, our world has been transformed by a pandemic that rages across continents and demographics, wreaking havoc on our health, economies and confidence. The ground shifted beneath us as we scrambled to comprehend this silent, invisible, potentially deadly new foe, to develop strategies to combat it and comprehend its implications. In a world already struggling with polarised politics, divided communities and the existential threat of climate change, being forced to confront a health crisis of this magnitude felt exhausting, unconscionable, unbelievable. For some, unsurvivable.
We are on unstable ground.
Adelaide Writers’ Week was the last literary festival to squeak in before the Great Lockdown of 2020. We will be the first to return live in 2021. It won’t quite be business as usual – most notably, our international guests aren’t able to be with us in person so will instead join us via digital livestream. COVID safety protocols will also be implemented across the site, including a requirement for all attendees to scan into the Garden, so we encourage you to arrive early for your preferred events. But we are thrilled, relieved and inspired that we will be able to come together to ask the big questions — what just happened? What happens next? If it only happened on Zoom, did it really happen at all? — and immerse ourselves in the healing power of literature.
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