{"id":914,"date":"2022-11-23T00:13:36","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T00:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?p=914"},"modified":"2022-11-24T09:42:27","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T09:42:27","slug":"book-launch-and-exhibition-bash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?p=914","title":{"rendered":"Book launch and exhibition bash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/covers\/big\/9780646856988\/9404\/rompitaj-labirintoj.jpg\" width=\"169\" height=\"239\" \/>I&#8217;ll be part of the launch team for <a href=\"https:\/\/kitkelen.com\">Kit Kelen<\/a>&#8216;s new\u00a0bilingual (Esperanto\/English) poetry collection and painting exhibition November 27th at the Shop Gallery in Glebe, 112 Glebe Point Road at 2pm.<\/p>\n<p><em> Rompitaj Labirintoj \/\u00a0Bung Mazes<\/em>\u00a0brings word and image together, in an abstract meditation on the situation of refugees in the world today.<\/p>\n<p>A bung maze is what the asylum seeker must negotiate in order to find a new home in an unknown place. These pictures and poems offer a largely abstract meditation on the situation of the refugee.<\/p>\n<p>The book will be launched in English by <a href=\"https:\/\/shawjonathan.com\">Jonathan Shaw<\/a><br \/>\nand in Esperanto by <a href=\"https:\/\/esperanto.org.au\/\">Jonathan Cooper<\/a><br \/>\nReadings by the author in Esperanto and English<br \/>\nM\/C for the event &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/physicaltv.com.au\">Richard James Allen<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My job is to conduct a roaming\/creative conversation throughout (you&#8217;ll have to come along to see what kinds of surprise questions I will be coming up with to keep things interesting!). \u00a0Kit and friends will be making music to accompany the proceedings. I don&#8217;t plan on singing at this stage but you never know.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be part of the launch team for Kit Kelen&#8216;s new\u00a0bilingual (Esperanto\/English) poetry collection and painting exhibition November 27th at the Shop Gallery in Glebe, 112 Glebe Point Road at 2pm. Rompitaj Labirintoj \/\u00a0Bung Mazes\u00a0brings word and image together, in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?p=914\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-book-launch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":916,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions\/916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}