Winterwords 2025

Sunday 17th August

2:00pm Tanswell’s Upstairs

Winternudes Creation Event: An immersive life-drawing session to create word-driven art inspired by ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’

Wednesday 20th August

4:00pm Supper room

Artchat: Valerie Cross and Darren John Pope discuss Exploring Myths and Archetypes in Art

5:00pm Memorial Hall

Official Opening of Artwords and Winternudes Exhibitions: Drinks, nibbles and a wander through the artwork

Thursday 21st August

3:30pm Supper Room

Poetrywords 1: Your Own Voice – a workshop with poets Frank Prem and Dr Rox Bodsworth

7:30pm Memorial Hall

Playwords: Beechworth Theatre Company presents a rehearsed reading of ‘The Apothecary’ by Judi Moncur

Friday 22nd August

5:00pm Supper Room

Official Opening of Winterwords 2025: Drinks, nibbles, chats, and speechy things

Gold Coin

6:00pm Beechworth Books

Bookshopwords: Open night at Beechworth Books with soup and mulled wine

7.30pm Tanswell’s Upstairs

Poetrywords 2: An evening with Melbourne performance poets TT.O. and Sandy Caldow

Saturday 23rd August

8:00am Beechworth Bakery

Breakfastwords: Meeting, Reading, Sharing, Eating! All readers, writers, and listeners invited

10:00am Library

Kidswords: A special Winterwords Storytime for the littlies

10:00am Supper Room

Collagewords: What’s in a Word? A collage mixed media workshop that’s all about words

12:00pm Supper Room

Novelwords 1: Liz Foster chats about her book ‘The Good Woman’s Guide to Making Better Choices’.

1:30pm Supper Room

Monologuewords: Jenni Munday examines the intricacies of writing and performing monologues

3:00pm Supper Room

Crimewords: Margaret Hickey chats with Troy Hunter about YA crime and the adults who read it!

4:30pm Beechworth RSL

Philosophywords: Drink and Think! A fun, interactive, session of philosophical banter

7:30pm Memorial Hall

The Passion of Saint Nicholas: A hilarious and heart-breaking cabaret about siblings, following your dreams and the friction of divergent paths. Written and performed by Geraldine Quinn

Sunday 24th August

9:00am The Singing Tree Yoga Studio

Yogawords: Explore traditional Sanskrit mantras in this workshop with Valerie Crosse

11:00am Supper Room

Adapting a True Story: The challenges of writing about real events and real people.A workshop with Geraldine Quinn

12:45pm Supper Room

Novelwords 2: Siobhan O’Brien chats about her historical novel ‘All the Golden Light’

2:00pm Supper Room

Feministwords: Feminist reconstruction of mythological tales. A workshop with Roxanne Bodsworth

4:00pm Quercus Oregon Hall

Songwords:  Learn two joyful and uplifting harmony songs with community singing leader Leanne Murphy

5:00pm Quercus Oregon Hall

SongShedwords:  A performance of harmony singing by Yackandandah choir SongShed, led by Chris McGorlick & Leanne Murphy

6:35pm Bridge Road Brewers

Afterwords: Book your own table at Bridge Road Brewers and join our celebration to mark the end of Winterwords

Thursday – Sunday 23rd – 24th August

10am to 3pm daily @ Memorial Hall

Artwords and Winternudes: Experience the talent of the artists of Beechworth and beyond with these two very special, word-driven, visual arts exhibitions


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