Odyssey Literary Festival
Phases / Futures
2024 program schedule
Phases/Futures
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Phases/Futures ⬯
Running on October 25 from 12:00 pm – 8:30 pm, events on the main stage at The Capitol will run in three parts:
Phase I: Emergence – childhood, adolescence, and stories with pictures
Phase II: Rites of passage – the drawn-out coming of age and re-writing ‘happily ever after’
Phase III: The approach – poetry performances and speculative futures
Schedule
Main stage events
12:45 pm
Introduction
2:40 pm
Break
4:55 pm
Break
5:30 pm
Introduction
Venue doors open
12:00 pm
Welcome to Country
12:30 pm
Phases/Futures: festival introduction
12:40 pm
Phase I: Emergence
Colour between the lines: the magic of graphic storytelling
12:50 pm
Read through the chaos: why teen lit matters
1:50 pm
Phase II: Rites of Passage
Introduction
3:00 pm
See the inbetweeners: the rise of New Adult fiction
3:05 pm
In conversation: Yannick Thoraval’s The Marriage Gap Year
4:05 pm
Phase III: The Approach
Talk to the body: poetry in motion
5:35 pm
Imagine tomorrow: facing our fears through speculative fiction
6:25 pm
Festival close
7:15 pm
All day events (Salon and Foyer)
Exhibits and installations
Audience anthology
Palace of culture: a tribute to Ania Walwicz
Interactive events
This chicken life: celebrating Fiona Scott-Norman
Phases/Futures: verse by verse
Imagine tomorrow: how will it end?