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A Festival of Travel Writing (Melbourne, Australia)

 

Grab your passport to the Melbourne Festival of Travel Writing and get on board for a weekend of new ways to talk about travel. Meet Lonely Planet writers, try your hand at a travel writing or photography workshop, and more!

 

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Rock out in Melbourne

 

Love live music? Nightlife? Don't miss suzywatusi's Bluelist featuring five hot tips for making the most of rockin' Melbourne.

 

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A Taste of Travel with Lonely Planet at Good Food & Wine

 

If you're in Melbourne or Sydney this June, why not stop by the Good Food and Wine show and meet up with the Lonely Planet crew!

 

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Bootcamp For Aspiring Writers

Calling all emerging and aspiring writers who want to test their endurance, strengthen their resolve and are willing to do the hard yards (as well as those in need of a strategically placed boot). The Age Melbourne Writers' Festival 2007 has assembled an A-grade line up of industry professionals who are guaranteed to motivate and inspire you.

One of our Commissioning Editors, Rebecca Chau, author of the new Perth guidebook, and publishing veteran of 9 years will have red pen at the ready as part of the editors’ team.

If you need to free up your pen, intensify your writing regimen, tighten up your text or work on your tone then sign up for the event. Details are:

The Whole Shebang: Bootcamp for aspiring writers
Date: Fri 24 August
Time: 10am - 5pm
Venue: Merlyn Theatre, CUB Malthouse, 113 Sturt Street, South Melbourne 3006
For Bookings and tickets contact:
T: +61 3 9685 5111
F: +61 3 9685 5112

Check out more on Melbourne Writers' Festival 2007

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Tourism’s Power To Save and Destroy The Earth!

The most out-of-the-way places Western travellers want to visit are often in third world countries that are actively despoiling their environment. Tony Wheeler will lead a discussion about tourism’s power to both save and destroy the earth at The Age Melbourne Writers' Festival.

If you’d like to join in the debate, event details are as follows:

Bad Lands: A Tourist on the Axis of Evil
Date: Friday 31 August
Time: 6.30 - 7.30pm
Venue: Beckett Theatre, CUB Malthouse, 113 Sturt Street, South Melbourne 3006
For Bookings and tickets contact CUB Malthouse:
T: +61 3 9685 5111
F: +61 3 9685 5112

For further details check out the The Age Melbourne Writers' Festival 2007. More on Tony Wheeler's new book, Bad Lands, A Tourist on the Axis of Evil.

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