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NEWS
11 am October 31, 2021
Launch of Community Art Library. at MIRA as part of ArtsFest
Cup day weekend, 2021.
Art show. The BookNest prize at the 2021 Marysvllle Art Show was awarded to Alexandra-based author and illustrator Bev Aisbett for her painting All the Little Souls. A gallery of her work is at
https://www.bevaisbettartofanxiety.com/bevs-gallery.html
In between lockdowns: 2021
Community Art Library. BookNest received a donation of several hundred art books for a community browsing collection in MIRA. BookNest is contributing to the costs of building shelving, a task that was undertaken by a group, led by Bon Macnamara, at the Men's Shed.
Planned 2021
Local writers. A series of afternoon and evening events with recently published local writers. Plans on hold due to pandemic restrictions.
April 30, 2021, 6pm to 8pm at MIRA
Second local writers event. A Different Kind of Seeing. Marie Younan and Jill Sanguinetti.
April 10, 2021. 1pm to 3pm MIRA.
Book launch of The Other Side of the World, by Anne Richey who talked about
her book and the process of publishing. This was the first of our local writers events.
Anne's book is available from MIRA or Kindle edition from Amazon.
January 26, 2021.
Third anniversary - low key due to Covid restrictions.
January 2021. Donation to Indigenous Literacy Foundation.
November 21, 2020.
Re-opened, operating primarily on outside tables, once restrictions were relaxed
and travel from Melbourne permitted.
November, 2020
Covid-safe plan developed.
November 2020
Donations to Marysville and Buxton Primary Schools and Marysville Kindergarten
to support reading and writing activities.
June 27-28, 2020.
Re-opened for weekends in school holidays with a very successful first weekend, but bad weather prevented us opening on the following weekend, and then came the Melbourne lockdown.
March 21, 2020.
BookNest shop closed in response to Covid19 pandemic.
February 2020. Donation to Indigenous Literacy Foundation.
November 23, 2019
Reading our writing. At MIRA. Nine participants from our writing workshops read pieces of their work. Click here for program.
November 11, 2019
Seven steps to writing young adult and children's stories. The last of our writing workshops. Presented by award-winning author Elizabeth Fensham, author of nine novels for children and young adults.
November 2-6, 2019
Marysville Art Show. The Marysville BookNest sponsored a prize which was won by Monbulk artist Dianne Bloemhoff for the painting "Spring Welcome".
October 2019
Donations to Marysville and Buxton Primary Schools and Marysville Kindergarten to support reading activities.
October 2019
BookNest was again a sponsor of the Jazz and Blues weekend.
August 20, 2019
Writing about things that matter. Our fourth writing workshop, with Israeli-Australian author Lee Kofman.
June 25, 2019
Writing poetry. Our third writing workshop with poet, educator and performer Emilie Zoey Baker.
April 30, 2019
Short story writing. Our second workshop, with novelist and short-story writer Cate Kennedy.
February 26, 2019
Writing a life. This was the first of our writing workshops, on writing memoirs, led by writer and human-rights advocate Arnold Zable. The series of five writing workshops is funded with generous support from the Marysville and Triangle Community foundation.
November 28, 2018.
BookNest provide refreshments for Murrindindi Mobile Library
On the Couch event at MIRA
November 1-5, 2018
Marysville Art Show. The Marysville BookNest sponsored a prize which was won by Yarra Valley artist Jerry Osadczuk for his painting, 'Soft Landing'. Again, with more people in town for the art show, we had a good weekend for sales.
October 19-21, 2018
The 4th annual Jazz and Blues weekend was held in October and the Marysville BookNest was bronze sponsor of this weekend. Despite a wet start on the Saturday we had an excellent weekend of sales.
January 26, 2018
BookNest opened in replica of old police station.
Bob at Men's Shed, working on frame for bookshelves to hold community art library
Program for Reading Our Writing 2019
7.00pm Refreshments by Lilli
7.15pm Welcome MC - Jackie Mansourian
1) Eileen Slack - Poetry Rampaging Nature and A different drum
2) Raelene Bartlett - Memoir Her Nanna
3) Roger Gibson - Poetry
4) Lucy Franklin – Memoir Black Saturday
5) Elaine O’Shannessy – Poetry The Night-time Builders
Tayla Ann - Performance of her own songs
6) Beth Page – Poetry Came the Snow
7) Katherine McKintosh - Memoir
8) Jill Sanguinetti - Poetry
9) Bob McNamara – Short-story My Paris Haircut