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From Friday 26 October 2018, the third chapter of Confluence: Festival of India in Australia will touch down in Perth to commence its six week journey across five cities. Once again, the festival will travel across the nation leaving in it's trails a colourful and collaborative tapestry of arts and culture. Showcasing the very best of Indian culture in both a contemporary and classical context, Confluence will showcase a diverse spectrum of arts including dance, theatre, music, literature, and well being practices. Secure your place at one of the festivals many instalments and join us on a journey as we take you to Incredible India right here in Australia. As a special addition to Confluence 2018, we are excited to collaborate with OzAsia Festival to bring some of India's greatest literary minds to Australia through Jaipur Literature Festival in Adelaide. Be sure to make your way to OzAsia Festival to sample the largest and most highly attended literary show on earth. |
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BOLLYWOOD WORKSHOP A runaway success in previous Confluence editions, the 2018 chapter will be even more pulsating with the sheer joy and electric energy of Bollywood dances inspiring participants and onlookers to take a leap out of their comfort zones! Gilles has trained in France in folk, modern jazz, ballet and contemporary dance styles. Having worked in India since 1994, Gilles has also travelled the globe teaching the Bollywood dance styles to people hailing from all walks of life ! Perth Oct 26 - Courtyard, St. George’s Cathedral, Perth Melbourne Oct 28 - Immigration Museum, Melbourne Bundaberg Nov 3 - Buss Park, Bundaberg |
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LITERATURE The ‘greatest literature show on Earth’ comes to Adelaide as part of OZASIA FESTIVAL |
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 | | William Dalrymple is a bestselling author of In Xanadu, City of Djinns, From the Holy Mountain, White Mughals, The Last Mughal, Nine Lives, and most recently, Return of a King: An Indian Army in Afghanistan. He has won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award, the French Prix d’Astrolabe, the Wolfson Prize for History, the Scottish Book of the Year Award, and has, prior to the shortlisting of Return of a King, been longlisted three timHis latest book is Kohinoor, co-written with Anita Anand. Dalrymple is one of the founders and a co-director of the ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival.es for the Samuel Johnson Prize. | | |
| |  | | Shobhaa De has monitored and written extensively on India’s socio-cultural-political contours for over four decades. Her twenty books include several bestsellers like ‘Starry Nights’ , ‘Spouse’, ‘Superstar India’ and now , her latest, ‘Seventy.... and to hell with it!” She is a prolific writer, columnist, blogger, social commentator and opinion shaper with a vast Twitter following of close to 3 million. It is often said that one tweet from her can – and does – shake up Parliament. Her feisty, irreverent style has made her a powerful icon, widely respected for her fearless and independent opinions. | | |
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 | | Anna Funder’s books Stasiland and All That I Am are international bestsellers and have won many prestigious awards including the UK’s Samuel Johnson Prize for best non-fiction published in English and the Miles Franklin Prize. They are published in over 25 countries. | | |
| |  | | Balli Kaur Jaswal’s writing has appeared in the Sunday Express, Cosmopolitan, The New York Times, Harpers Bazaar and Best Australian Short Stories. Jaswal was the recipient of the Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist Award for her debut novel Inheritance. Her second novel, Sugarbread, was shortlisted for the Epigram Books Fiction Prize and the Singapore Literature Prize. | | |
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