Arts minister John Graham says the city’s readers and writers need a home - and the State Library is it.
Sydney Writers’ Festival is set to be granted a bigger year-round presence at Australia’s oldest library with the opening of a 350-seat auditorium at the State Library of NSW.
Butler-Bowden said she was interested in programming and a partnership with writers’ festivals that matched and grew the mission of the library. Melbourne’s Wheeler Centre runs its year-long program of events promoting stories, ideas, and writers out of the State Library of Victoria.Graham said he was not “trying to recreate the Wheeler Centre in Sydney, but it’s a step towards the role the Wheeler Centre plays where it’s a place of discussion, a place for writers”.
Sydney Writers’ Festival chief executive Brooke Webb, said she was excited to explore with the library what possibilities there might be to connect authors with audiences all year round. A curator for 20 years first at the Art Gallery of NSW and then at Sydney Living Museums, Butler-Bowden has spent the last four years trying to improve the walkability of cities. She was awarded a Churchill fellowship in 2017 to look at visitor accessibility to heritage sites in England and Scotland.
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