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Pascall Prize Presentation
Saturday 22nd
May 2010
5.30pm to 7.00pm
Sydney Theatre
Company
Wharf 2, Hickson
Road Walsh Bay
FREE Entry
As part of the Sydney Writers’ Festival a lively debate
was
held on the hot
topic of
Don’t shoot me I’m only the critic!
The panel
was:
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Guy Griffin
- food and wine critic
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John McCallum
- theatre critic, 1995 Pascall Prize winner
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Julie Rigg
- film critic, 2003 Pascall Prize winner
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Alan Saunders
[MC] - ABC producer & presenter, 1992 Pascall Prize winner
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Gillian Serisier
– Sydney editor - (inside) Australian Design Review
Awarded each year for excellence in criticism in the Australian media, the 2010
Pascall Prize winner
was
announced after the debate.
We thank the judges for this years Pascall Prize - Kathy Cleland, Alison Croggon,
Damon Young, and convenor Adrian Read.
The evening sponsored by:
Sydney Writers’ Festival,
Madfish Wines, and
Paradise Beach Purveyors
Guy Griffin
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Guy
has been writing about food and wine for fifteen years. He was the restaurant
critic for Australian Gourmet Traveller, is a longstanding panel member of the
Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide and currently the restaurant critic for
the (Sydney) magazine, where he writes the monthly Hot column. He also
contributes to other local and international food and wine publications. Guy
believes the role of the restaurant critic is to defend the public from
mediocrity.
John McCallum
Theatre critic, THE AUSTRALIAN, Member of the Editorial Board of Currency House;
Member of the Board of Studies, NIDA. He is also Senior Lecturer School of
English, Media and Performing Arts at the University of New South Wales. His
research specialities are 20th Century and contemporary Australian theatre and
drama; comedy and humour studies.
Julie Rigg
Since
l988 Julie has worked as a critic and arts broadcaster for ABC Radio National,
specialising in film. In l990 she won the BP Arts Media Award. She served on the
executive of the Film Critics Circle of Australia for four years, and was
president for two. Julie has also served on FIPRESCI (International Critics
Federation) juries at the San Sebastian Film Festival (l990) and the Toronto
International Film festival (2002).
Julie
is presenter for ABC Radio National's MOVIE TIME program: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/movietime/about/default.htm#presenter
Alan Saunders (MC)
Alan
Saunders produces and presents THE PHILOSPHERS'S ZONE on ABC RADIO NATIONAL. He
has written about food and other topics for various publications including the
ABC's DELICIOUS magazine. He founded The Food Program and from 1997 to 2004, he
was the presenter of Radio National's THE COMFORT ZONE a weekly review of
architecture and design, landscape and food. In 2005 he was co-presenter of
Saturday Breakfast. Alan is in demand as a public speaker and has been a judge
for many food, architectural and design awards.
Gillian Serisier
Gillian is presently Sydney Editor of (inside) Australian Design Review, the
premier professional journal for interior architects and designers. It combines
national and international projects, presented with a bold visual style giving
readers valuable insights into current design developments, materials and
approaches as well as linking practice and the profession within broader
industry debates of the day.
www.australiandesignreview.com She also
contributes to the website
http://www.stateart.com.au
a fiendishly good resource, covering theatre, music, dance, design, books, film,
festivals and the visual arts, with a free email newsletter that is distributed
to 8,500 people in Australia and overseas. Its audience covers the spectrum
from utter arts die-hards to people who like an occasional culture fix. It puts
the bigger issues happening in the arts into context. The established and new
voices rub shoulders.
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