Read the book then attend the event where a panel discusses the book selected for each year. The Great Festival Read is Soft Serve by George Kemp. This session is followed by an in-conversation session with the author George Kemp.
Session Details:
9:30am – 10:30am – Great Festival Read Panel
Great Festival Read Panellists:
Tanya Willey, Captain of Eglinton Rural Fire Service
Jonathan Hosking, local high school teacher and LGBTQIA advocate
Samuel Whiteman, curator, archivist and collections coordinator at Ms Traills House
Lisa Lantry, counsellor, group worker and trainer
10:45am – 11:45am – George Kemp in conversation with Jen Barry
Set in a regional McDonald’s, as bushfires close in, three twentysomethings and their dead friend’s mum all face a reckoning. Charming and poignant, full of wit and heart, Soft Serve is a gem of a novel about small-town lives and the search for genuine sustenance in a fast-food world.
George Kemp is an award-winning writer and a CSU-Bathurst Alumni.
His plays are performed everywhere from Toowoomba to Tokyo to Texas. He has also had a successful career as an actor for Sydney Theatre Company. He is a passionate mentor of writers and actors and is Producer of New Writing & Artist Development at Australian Theatre for Young People. Soft Serve is his debut novel.
Event and Ticket Details
BMEC Members
Single session: $8
Day Pass: $50 (all events in the selected day)
Festival Pass: $130 (all events in the Festival programme)
Non-Members
Single session: $10
Day Pass: $60 (all events in the selected day)
Festival Pass: $160
*A $3 booking fee applies, BMEC Members do not pay this fee.
