The art of corrupting youth
Anyone within a bull’s roar of the Fremantle Children’s Literature Centre on Wednesday December 3 should not miss the opportunity to hear Matt Ottley give the 2008 Fremantle Leslie Rees Lecture.
With the intriguing title The Art of Corrupting Youth – Beethoven, Zusak and Ottley, the lecture from the CBCA Picture Book of the Year winner promises to be provocative and, as always with Matt, highly entertaining. The controversy of his win is still raw, so Matt will have plenty to say about ‘corruption’.
Beethoven? Well, Matt’s musical credentials are well established and will be part of the evening’s presentation, as will his artwork. Apparently Eroica was decribed as ‘musical anarchy’ when first performed. Zusak? That other CBCA winner (2003 Book of the Year), The Messenger, has been called ‘immoral’. So Requiem for a Beast is in good company. The evening is dedicated to the significance of quality and challenging youth literature.
The Leslie Rees Lecture series honours a Western Australian author who won the first CBCA Award in 1946 for The Story of Karrawingi the Emu.
2008 Fremantle Leslie Rees Lecture
Where: Fremantle Children’s Literature Centre, Old Prison Hospital, corner Knutsford Street and Hampton Road, Fremantle
When: Wednesday December 3. Drinks at 7pm; lecture 7.30pm
Cost: Free
RSVP (essential) by November 28. Telephone 08 9430 6869 or email: freoclc@iinet.net.au
