The Byron Shire Echo – Issue 35.06 – July 22, 2020

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Running from 3–7 August, the programs feature some of Australia’s most entertaining writers and thinkers streamed on-demand into classrooms.

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BYRON WRITERS FESTIVAL, FREE ONLINE PROGRAMS FOR SCHOOLS

The Secondary Schools program invites students to explore their unique writing style, and voice, with Christos Tsiolkas (The Slap, Damascus), discover the stories behind the songs with musician and writer Clare Bowditch (Your Own Kind of Girl) and be inspired by former Socceroos captain Craig Foster (Fighting for Hakeem), who is now an Ambassador for Human Rights and Refugees with Amnesty Australia. The program also includes engaging sessions with former Triple J presenter, comedian, and writer Matt Okine (Being Black ‘N Chicken, and Chips), teen novelist Vivian Pham (The Coconut Children), award-winning writer and poet Ellen van Neerven (Comfort Food, Throat) and LGBTIQ rights activist, writer and Executive Director at change.org, Sally Rugg (How Powerful We Are). These topical, enthralling conversations are exclusive to Byron Writers Festival and are facilitated by authors Sunil Badami, Zacharey Jane, Benjamin Law, Maeve Marsden, and Story Factory Executive Director, Cath Keenan.

Primary School students will be inspired and entertained by best-selling author of funny books for kids, Tristan Bancks (Nit Boy, and the Tom Weekly Series), beloved children’s author, Byron Writers Festival is thrilled to announce that their everFelice Arena (The Boy and the Spy, Fearless Fredric and A Great popular, annual Schools Programs have moved online, and are Escape), celebrated climate-change trilogy author Deborah free to Primary and Secondary schools across the Northern Rivers, Abela (Grimsdon, New City and Final Storm), award-winning marking what would have been the Festival’s 24th annual gathering. children’s author, poet and NSW Aboriginal Woman of the Year, Kirli Saunders (The Incredible Freedom Machines, and Kindred) and author and illustrator Dub Leffler (Once This week’s sun and moon in There was a Boy and Sorry Day the dramatic, charismatic sign with Coral Vass).

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LIBRA: With many folk sensitive and edgy, relationships could morph into situationships this week. If it’s personal, you might have to write your own rules, in which case go with the intuitive side of the scales, because logic mightn’t find a landing pad. If work related, keep it professional.

ARIES: Casual conversations could turn deep and meaningful – and heated – in a heartbeat this week, but with red-tempered Mars in your feisty sign for the rest of the year, best not jump to judgment straight away. Things may not be what they seem, or the way they look. TAURUS: You might feel fired up to take action, but with everyone talking at once over each other and nobody listening, this week recommends stepping away from the fray and playing your own game – dummy spits and timewasting energy-drainers are just another recipe for exhaustion. Right now, it’s one week at a time.

SCORPIO: If delays are driving you wild, be advised that this week’s all about timing. So make the calls, do the research, gather the intel, clear the decks, and most importantly practice the fine art of patience. Prepping won’t be wasted energy, even if you need to make adjustments later on.

GEMINI: If you don’t get the answers you want this week, and you mightn’t, making hasty or rash decisions isn’t going to help. Better to hit pause, sketch possible future scenarios, along with the different approaches you might adopt. It’s a good week to ponder Gemini Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche’s definition of enlightenment: Taking It Easy.

SAGITTARIUS: Remember the two ears/one mouth ratio? Excellent, because this week’s for listening. The more you’re able to zip the lip, the further your learning curve. Keep communications short. And sweet. People don’t have the airspace right now for extended replays. And it’s not the time to dump big bucks on anything either.

CANCER: Is it even possible to see this week’s shifting scenario without projecting hopes and fears onto it? So much misinformation, so many mixed messages and inconvenient truths. Call a friend if necessary, to bounce ideas around, but you will need to step up and be boss – at least of your own mental processes.

CAPRICORN: If this week doesn’t play out according to the Capricorn rule book – not unlikely during this collective colonic – just keep in mind that the second half of 2020 is a crucial period for visionary community-building, not making decisions from fear-based expediency. Forget trying to convince others, lead by example.

LEO: Happy birthday majesties, in this fiercest of years. The Ministry of Fun mandate applies: Don’t do it unless it’s fun. If you must do it, make it fun. This is your opportunity for a creativity refresh, so give yourself some you-time to tap into what you truly, deeply, madly most want for the coming twelve months.

AQUARIUS: The boundaries between fact and feeling, bias and belief could be currently hard to locate this week in your own mind, let alone the rest of society. If you’re making sweeping statements, have credible stats to back them up – though even those may be open to question. And accept getting used to living with conflicting realities.

VIRGO: Important this week not to lapse into tunnel vision. Sides of people you’ve never seen before are likely to emerge, along with the question: Are you able to accept their full spectrum of light and shade? Your planet guide, Mercury, in forward motion again next week makes it easier to see possibilities in current roadblocks.

PISCES: Yes, others might be demanding, argumentative and opiniated right now, but engaging is only likely to prove an exercise in frustration. The best use of this week’s planetary percolations? Dusting off some of those neglected skills, and remembering not to interrupt people when it’s their turn to talk.

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Byron Writers Festival 2020 Schools Program – free, online, on-demand into classrooms. Available 3–7 August, 2020. Registration and more info at: (Primary Schools) www.byronwritersfestival. com/primary-schools/. (Secondary Schools) www.byronwritersfestival. com/secondary-schools/. Supported by Southern Cross University. Byron Writers Festival 2020 public online program will be announced next week. www.byronwritersfestival.com

FREE COMEDY AT THE BIG GIG The Ballina Big Gig is back in business with comedians Greg Sullivan and Mandy Nolan getting up to deliver the laughs after lockdown. Comedy is something that fits neatly within Covid-19 guidelines – you do it seated and there’s rarely, if ever, any dancing! Greg Sullivan is the feature this month. Since beginning his comedic career in 1995 he has performed at the famous Improv in Los Angeles, appeared on numerous TV shows and embodied a vast range of roles for Triple M Brisbane, spanning an incredible 14 years. He is joined by Mandy Nolan as the host – giving the lowdown on life after lockdown! Last month there was some confusion, with a bogus emailing informing patrons that the gig was cancelled. This meant that half the audience missed out! The show is definitely on! And now, with extra numbers in socially distanced settings we ask that patrons register online so we can account for numbers. If you can’t make it – then you need to let the club know. The maximum number of patrons allowed in the space is 150. Thursday 30 July at 8pm. To register go online at www.ballinarsl.com.au

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT

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1. Rackety, loud and false – but totally unexpected! (3,2,1,6) 8. C is for cabriolet (4,3) 9. A time becomes weary of clothes (7) 11. Crazy, Fitzgerald – but sweet! (7) 12. Bird with vegetable turned around central bistros! (7) 13. Fashion, with Eastern direction slowly disappears (5) 14. Remove the blokes – they’re custom officers! (9) 16. Fascist march to turn fat English lap-dogs back (9) 19. Pictured between hung and quartered? (5) 21. Replacement tyre left around; tear shed (7) 23. Realms I traverse for figurative painting (7) 24. Pacific islanders without French included a big old bird (7) 25. Small measure in class may be explosive (7) 26. Clumsy nest situated in America (6,6)

1. Without warning, in a flash (3,2,1,6) 8. Vehicle with the top down (4,3) 9. Garments, dresses (7) 11. Hazelnut spread (7) 12. Small falcon (7) 13. Turns pale, vanishes (5) 14. Customs officers (9) 16. Nazi march mode (9) 19. Depicted, portrayed (5) 21. Refurbished tyre (7) 23. Art style eschewing fantasies (7) 24. Citizens of the Eastern Pacific (7) 25. Hand-held bomb (7) 26. Part of North America (6,6)

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1. Connived in crime (7) 2. Sites, particular places (7) 3. The heavens (9) 4. Marine raptor (5) 5. Hates, abhors (7) 6. Part of the aural apparatus (7) 7. Numerical approximations (5,7) DOWN 10. Private telephone connection 1. Lincoln off the grog – journalist (6,6) helped (7) 15. Patent, usually from writing (9) 2. Places to look at, state directions (7) 17. Type of sofa or foot stool (7) 3. Steadier, intended report – 18. Refined, well presented (7) heavens! (9) 4. Quiet old ship, but it can be lethal 19. Most beloved (7) 20. Beasts, fauna (7) at sea (5) 22. Administered medicine (5) 5. Loathes and reverses international contests (7) 6. Expensive, peculiar said Spooner, discussing is auditory apparatus (7) Last week’s solution N343 7. Fat people – rough calculations B A R B E C U E S T O P P E R (5,7) U I S P E W I E L I G H T S O U T L E G U P 10. Private method of L I A N T E H O communication – anaesthetist I N D E B T F L A T T E R S after mum! (6,6) S L I A E 15. Imitate conservative trademark (9) H E C T I C O N E S I D E D L S S G T E 17. Preminger chap – a Turk (7) B R O U H A H A R A N D O M 18. Refined English support worker (7) O U E T A B I A S E D 19. The priciest is the most adored (7) M E D I C A R E B N O I U S P I 20. A new one – backslam! Beasts! (7) A R I E L D O N A T I O N S 22. Execute small journalist – S N I A U I I O T H E E C O N O M I C P L A N remedied! (5)

Session Times: Thu 23 Jul - Wed 29 Jul PALACE RETRO SCREENINGS SUNSET BOULEVARD 110 min (PG) Mon: 6:45PM THE BLUES BROTHERS 133 min (M) Fri: 6:45PM THE KING OF STATEN ISLAND 137 min (MA15+) NFT Daily: 10:50AM, 12:45, 3:45, 6:50PM HOUSE OF CARDIN 97 min (G) NFT Daily: 10:30AM, 2:00, 4:15, 6:30PM THE BURNT ORANGE HERESY 98 min (MA15+) NFT Daily: 1:50, 4:20, 6:45PM

THE VIGIL 60 min (CTC) NFT Daily: 4:40, 7:15PM A WHITE, WHITE DAY 109 min (M) Daily: 11:15AM, 6:45PM BELLBIRD 96 min (M) Daily: 11:15AM DARK WATERS 127 min (M) Daily except Fri, Mon: 3:45, 7:00PM Fri, Mon: 3:45PM LOVE SARAH 98 min (M) Daily: 2:30PM RED SHOES & THE SEVEN DWARFS 88 min (G) Daily: 10:15AM

ROMANTIC ROAD 80 min (PG) Daily: 12:30PM SHIRLEY 107 min (M) Daily: 2:00PM SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 99 min (PG) Daily: 10:50AM, 1:20PM THE CURRENT WAR 102 min (M) Daily: 11:30AM THE INVISIBLE MAN 124 min (MA15+) Daily: 4:30PM THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD 119 min (PG) Daily: 1:45, 4:30, 7:15PM

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