SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Adelaide International Women's Day Breakfast
Host - Senator the Hon Penny Wong
MC - Deb Tribe, 891 ABC Adelaide
Guest Speaker - Alice Pung
A hot breakfast will be served
Parking available at the Convention Centre
Car parking access from North Terrace after 6.00am
Friday 9th March 2012
Adelaide Convention Centre, North Terrace
06:15am for 07:00am start.
Individual ticket $50.00
Corporate table $850.00
*Tables seat 12 people
Contact: adelaidebreakfast@unwomen.org.au
Download the event brochure here.
Guest Speaker: Melbourne writer, lawyer and teacher, Alice Pung.
The author of Her Father’s Daughter and Unpolished Gem, and the editor of Growing up Asian in Australia, Alice has received enormous critical acclaim for her writing. Unpolished Gem won the 2007 Australian Newcomer of the Year award in the Australian Book Industry Awards and was shortlisted for several other awards, including the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards and The Age Book of the Year 2007. Unpolished Gem has been translated into other languages and is also published in the UK and US. Alice has had stories and articles published in Good Weekend, Meanjin, the Monthly, The Age, The Best Australian Stories and The Lifted Brow.
In 2008, Alice was the Asialink writer-in-residence at Peking University, and in 2009, she was the Australian representative at the Iowa International Writing Program. She has given guest lectures at Brown University, Vassar College, Peking University, and the Universities of Bologna, Milano and Pisa. In 2010, she was a judge for the Walkley Awards for Journalism, and the 2011 Australian representative to the US Department of State ‘Fall and Recovery’ writers’ tour of disaster and conflict sites of America. Alice is currently the Artist-in-Residence at Janet Clarke Hall, and Patron of the Alliance of Girls’ Schools Australasia.
Other Events in South Australia
UN Women Australia Adelaide Chapter - International Women's Day Event
Wednesday 7th March
UniSA City West campus,
50-55 North Terrace, Adelaide
Tickets: $25.00 - Alll proceeds go towards supporting UN Women Australia's Partners Improving Markets Program which is working to make marketplaces safe for women in Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu.
Download the event brochure here.
Purchase tickets online here: http://www.trybooking.com/19458
18:00pm - 18:30pm Book Launch Peace and Security: Implications for Women
18:30pm - 17:10pm Jane Hutcheon reflects on Women and the Arab Spring
19:10 - 20:00pm Refreshments (meet with Jane Hutcheon and the authors)
Contact: Anu Mundkur adelaide@unwomen.org.au
Guest Speaker: Jane Hutcheon
Jane Hutcheon is the presenter of a weekly interview program One Plus One and on the ABC’s news channel, ABC News 24, which launched in August 2010.
Prior to that, she was an international television correspondent for more than a decade based in China, the Middle East and Europe.
As a news presenter, Jane has been in the chair covering the unfolding of the Arab Spring and the fall of Hosni Mubarak, Japan’s Tsunami, Cyclone Yasi, the Christchurch Earthquake and the Norwegian mass shooting.
As a foreign correspondent, she’s covered events including the Hong Kong Handover (1997), Israeli-Palestinian conflict (2000), the aftermath of the Iraq invasion (2003-2005), Hurricane Katrina (2005), and the 2006 Israeli-Lebanon War.
Apart from her experience as a presenter and a correspondent, she has developed a reputation as an engaging and incisive interviewer, building One Plus One into a solid addition to the rolling news coverage on the ABC’s news channel. It was the first ABC News 24 program to be aired on ABC 1.
Recent interviewees have included: Anthony Warlow, John Pilger, Geoffrey Robertson QC, Edward de Bono, chef Rick Stein, ethicist Julian Savulescu and best-selling American author Annie Proulx.
Beyond her television work Jane is a published author (From Rice to Riches, 2003,2005) an experienced and authoritative moderator, panellist and public speaker.
International Women's Day Breakfast and Zonta Club of Port Lincoln Women of Achievement Awards
Date/Time: Saturday 3rd March 08:00am
Venue: Ravendale Community Sports Centre, Port Lincoln
Event Details: Guest speaker, Khadija Gbla Khadija is the 2011 Advantage SA Young South Australian of the Year for her work among the state’s refugee community. She was born in Sierra Leone and her family sought refuge in Australia in 2001 after enduring a thirteen-year civil war in their homeland. She strives to combine her African and Australian heritage and values in order to advocate acceptance and equality within the community. Khadija is a silent achiever; a young girl on the move. Among many other things, she is an active member of the “Youth Parliament” program in South Australia. She is studying Law and International Studies at Flinders University. Cost: $28.00 per person
Contact: Jane jane.analeey@bigpond.com
*This is a special fundraising event, with proceeds going towards the projects of UN Women Australia
International Women's Day Committee of SA Inc. International Women's Day Luncheon
Date/Time: Thursday 8th March, noon to 14:30
Venue: Adelaide Convention Centre
Event Details: IWD Committee Patron, the Honourable Robyn Layton QC, will give a Keynote Address, followed by a broad ranging Panel Discussion including time for audience participation. There will be more time for talking together and sharing experiences and ideas.
Contact: Toni Jupe 0415 622 251 iwdcommitteesa@bigpond.com
St Patrick's Technical College: International Women's Day Breakfast
Date/Time: Thursday 8th March 7:30am - 9:30am
Venue: St Patrick's Technical College
Event Details: Celebrating and promoting technical and trade careers for women. A breakfast event for female senior secondary students featuring guest speakers.
Contact: Patrick Kelly (08) 8209 3700
*This event is not open to the public.
Harvest Corner Information and Craft: Local Produce Tasting Day
Date/Time: Thursday 8th March 10:00am - 2:00pm
Venue: 29 Main Street, Minlaton, SA
Event Details: An opportunity to showcase and celebrate the superb produce made by local women at our cooperative, supporting ecomonic diversity in a predominently agricultural region.
Contact: Cathy Glazbrook (08) 8853 2600 Website: www.harvestcorner.com.au
