ARTS + CULTURE THE JOURNEY OF A BOOK Kids and adults alike will love creating a one of a kind book from pulp to print, completing a different step each week at MOTAT’s fun and exciting weekend experience, ‘The Journey of a Book’. A series of hands-on workshops and crafty demonstrations throughout August will give visitors the chance to construct their own personalised book in its different stages including making paper, using a printing press and then binding all the pages together to create a final masterpiece that will be sure to impress. Finally, in its final week, watch as things get taken to the next level MOTAT-style in an exhilarating live event where we’ll swap print rollers for MOTAT’s own steam rollers and create a massive mega print! ‘The Journey of a Book’ is free with your entry to MOTAT and will run 10am - 4.00pm every Saturday and Sunday. In conjunction with Lopdell House, there will also be handmade books and printing on display. With a new and stimulating activity on offer each weekend, come and join in the fun! DATES: Every Saturday and Sunday from 4-26 August. LOCATION: MOTAT, Great North Road and Meola Road, Western Springs. COSTS: You can enjoy ‘The Journey of a Book’ free with normal admission costs to MOTAT.
PLAYING AT TAPAC THEATRE 23 August – 8 September Beautiful Losers is a drama/comedy based on the crazed and inspired relationship between writer Jack Kerouac and con artist, car thief Neal Cassady and their journeys through America in the 1940s and 1950s. In their pursuit of the ultimate high, Jack and Neal leave New York City for Mexico, accompanied by a soundtrack of cool jazz, conversation, amphetamines and booze. On arrival in Mexico they are thrust into the world of William Burroughs and his partner Joan – what happens next is a combination of high times, low deeds and cruel tragedy – almost unbelievable but terribly true. When Jack Kerouac’s seminal novel ‘On the Road’ in 1957 is published it propels Jack to the giddy heights of literary fame and seriously challenges his beautiful relationship with Neal.
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Beautiful Losers is a sweeping story of fame and its consequences. It is the story of the man who created the Beat Generation and the beginnings of the 1960s Counter Culture. An edge of your seat experience, exploding with words, laughter, music and madness. If there was ever an excuse to steal a car, drive all night and howl at the moon - Beautiful Losers is it. PN
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