Winterwords 2025 is generously sponsored by Indigo Shire Council, Regional Arts Victoria and Tanswell’s Commercial Hotel.
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
Gold Coin
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
Gold Coin
Friday 22nd August
5:00pm Supper Room
Official Opening of Winterwords 2025: Drinks, nibbles, chats, and speechy things
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6:00pm Beechworth Books
Bookshopwords: Open night at Beechworth Books with soup and mulled wine
Free
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
Gold Coin
10:00am Library
Kidswords: A special Winterwords Storytime for the littlies
Free
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
Gold Coin
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
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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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