Liz Bastian CEO of Varuna Writers House enjoys Monkey Baa Theatre’s ‘I Am Jack’

CEO of Varuna The Writers’ House, Lis Bastian and her fabulous family drove from the Blue Mountains to see Monkey Baa Theatre’s ‘I Am Jack’  at The Seymour Theatre Sydney.

The boys said that ‘it was great’ – they loved it.

Author and librarian Lindy Batchelor joined us and she loved JACK too.

Fabulous morning with a fabulous show.

‘I Am Jack’ is endorsed by The Alannah & Madeline Foundation – charity performance 7 p.m. 4 the November bookings admin@monkeybaa.com.au

 Website: www.varuna.com.au

Gabrielle Wang, Dianne Bates, Michael Panckridge, Phil Kettle, Meredith Costain, Paul Collins & more -feast with books ~ Keeping Books Alive 26th Nov

It’s going to be a fabulous day with authors, from award winning to best sellers author – everything from books for boys to No to bullying to fantasy to reading for the future.

Keeping Books Alive day is supporting Young Australian Art & Writers as well with awards at the dinner.

There’re books signings, prizes, meet and greet with authors, storytelling and dinner with some of Australia’s loved authors – Gabrielle Wang, Dianne Bates, Michael Salmon, Phil Kettle, Meredith Costain, Paul Collins, Michael Panckridge …. and it’s intimate and fabulous.

It’s subsidized for the day at $110 which includes dinner, talks, cocktails and canapes in the beautiful RACV Melbourne. Near the railway station.

I’m in Melbourne to receive the Australian Family Therapists Award for ‘Always Jack’ and will be speaking on a panel at 10.45 at the Keeping Books ALIVE Conference.

Presented by the Australian Children’s Literary Board.

Booking: Rob Leonard rob@ozkids.com.au

ph: 03 5282 8950

Say hello to me if you can make it.

Love to see you there. 

Susanne

The Alannah & Madeline Foundation’s Charity Performance of ‘I AM JACK’ 7 p.m. 4th November

The Alannah & Madeline Foundation keeps children safe from violence and is successful against school bullying.

The Alannah & Madeline Foundation endorses ‘I Am Jack’ as significant in creating safe schools – NO TO SCHOOL BULLYING!

The brilliant Monkey Baa Theatre will be performing “I AM  JACK’ 7 p.m. 4th November at the Seymour – tickets $30 with all proceeds going to The Alannah & Madeline Foundation.

I’ll be there – please say hello to me – and to the actors. Tim McGarry the iconic JACK is mingling.

Bookings: – admin@monkeybaa.com.au

Love from Susanne

Yianni Johns, Scott Levi on ABC Central Coast & Always Jack

Yianni Johns is the ABC Radio Central Coast,  Arts presenter, an artist and a fellow Australia Day Ambassador  which we both LOVE!

We had fun this afternoon in the fishbowl in Erina – the glass window is exposed to shoppers and passer-bys – so everyone sees you.  Scott Levi is a great interviewer and has a great banter with Yianni.

Chatted about MonkeyBaa Theatre’s ‘I AM JACK’ at the Seymour and invited everyone across Australia to support the charity performance of ‘I Am Jack’ for The Alannah & Madeline Foundation, keeping children safe from violence – 7 p.m. 4th November at Seymour janelle@monkeybaa.com.au.

As Breast Cancer Month comes to a close, it was fitting to talk about ‘Always Jack’ which is endorsed by the Cancer Council – making it safe for kids, parents and community to talk about cancer and celebrate life.

Elohim ~ hope for our children with Susi Prescott’s ‘The Poet, The Teacher and The Traveller’ ~

Elohim means God of Israel, a small Christian school sitting precariously in the dust of the shanty slums towns on the outskirts of Arequippa Peru.

Susi Prescott, an Australian teacher, writer, mother, went in search of meaning, leaving Australia when her marriage broke down after 30 years. 

Enduring harsh conditions, she taught in the SOS orphanages in Nepal, volunteered for Abana a small charity establishing a school in Rwanda. No water, electricity, working in mud huts, Susi taught, sang, brought hope to the children… and then she embarked on the greatest journey of her life.  Elohim.

The children of the Peruvian shanty towns live without sanitation, limited water, no education, on piles of garbage and rocks, in a world of abuse, alcoholism and violence.

Susi  found her calling – working with these children, offering hope and education in this little shanty school.

Elohim’s founder Rose Gil Huaman was born to desperate poverty, her mother illiterate, her father a brutal alcoholic, her home a stone hut with no water of sanitation. She has dedicated her life to giving hope to the children of the dust through creating a haven, a school, called Elohim.

Patricia Roberts Billig an Arequipenan poet also dedicated her life to the children and people offering spirtuality and learning.

I was honoured to launch Susi Prescott’s book ‘The Poet, The Teacher and The Traveller’ in Sydney – about these 3 remarkable women and Elohim.

Rosa the teacher, Patricia Roberts Billig the poet and Susi Prescott the teacher.

My beautiful children – Jamie and his young wife Nadia – asked for gifts of money  for their engagement. They sent this money to Elohim which was struggling to remain open. They have begun their life with the gift of charity. I am so proud of them.

I am so proud to know Susi Prescott.

Published by the University ~ Centro de Edicionesm Editorial de la Universidad Nacional de San Agustin de Arequippa Peru.