keeping up appearances

i will be doing a reading this sunday as part of BEYOND BORDERS: Creative Strategies for Global Harmony, organised by the asia and pacific writers network. so if you're around melbourne and you're looking for something to do, here are the details -

sunday 6 & monday november 2005, trades hall bar, 54 victoria st (cnr of lygon st), carlton south.
day ticket pre-sale: $35/$30. concession price available for victorian writers centre and PEN members.
door price: $40/$35.
session tickets: $12/$10.
session tickets can be purchased on the day at the door, subject to availability. a session is either a thematically linked reading and discussion, or the reading in the evening.

my session details:
Sunday 6 nov, 2pm: who goes there? strangers, borders and fear.
readings by tom cho, javant biarujia and shalini akhil that cross borders of genre, culture, identity and fear.
discussion: at a time when the world is closing down its national borders, boundaries of culture, identity, etc are more fluid, open... at the intersections of boundaries/borders, new forms, practices, theories...
chandani lokuge, mohit prasad (fiji) and goenawan mohamad (indonesia) in discussion with peter mares.