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Golden Plains Announces Keynote Speaker

News posted Tuesday, March 6 2012 at 12:00 PM.
Related: Meredith, Golden Plains.

Organisers of Golden Plains in Meredith, Victoria, have unveiled their keynote speaker for this weekend’s event.

Acclaimed Melbourne author and playwright Barry Dickins – a Premier’s Literary Award winner, who once spent three hours in the presence of Johnny Cash – will deliver a speech on, “Why Make Art”, to a zombiefied Supernatural Amphitheatre at 10am on day two (March 11).

Organiser Aunty Meredith: “He has agreed that ‘Why Make Art?’ is a good topic, and he’ll be doing something about that topic for about 15 minutes at 10am Sunday morning in the now-traditional spot. We asked him how he’d like to be introduced, and he said either ‘the world’s oldest English teacher’ or ‘inconquerable’.”

Meanwhile, the all-important forecast for this weekend predicts minimal rainfall on both days. Phew!

Acts performing include CHIC, Roky Erickson, Grammy winner Bon Iver™, Wild Flag, Real Estate, Urge Overkill, Black Lips and Total Control. Full line-up and set times here.

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Your Comments

anonymous said about 1 year ago:

I look forward to sleeping in and then going ''shit'' and running down the hill and catching the last 2 minutes and 47 seconds of this.

ghoti-max said about 1 year ago:

I look forward to laying around camp going: 'is that a band yet, or just the speaker?', 'who's the speaker this year?', 'you reckon it'd be any good', 'eeerggghhhhhh' and then missing it.

zombo said about 1 year ago:

yeah this is the guy who broke into Johnny Cash's house at 2am and watched him sleep until 5am.

dazmurray said about 1 year ago:

Ghoti - look for the parrot.

psymon said about 1 year ago:

zombo - nice one :-D

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