Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Thursday 17 November
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
As part of Encounters with Music, a series presented by the ACO and the Wheeler Centre, beloved Australian author Helen Garner joins Fenella Kernebone for an intimate and wide-ranging discussion about the role of music in her life and work.
Helen Garner’s body of work, which includes Monkey Grip, The Children’s Bach and This House of Grief, has earned a legion of dedicated fans at home and abroad across her 45-year career. In 2019, Garner’s impact on the country’s literary culture was recognised with the Australian Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature. In a picturesque setting at ACO’s new Walsh Bay home Pier 2/3, Garner will unpack her deep and lifelong love of music and reveal some of the pieces that have accompanied her life and inspired her writing.
This event is presented in partnership with the Australian Chamber Orchestra.
Explore the other conversations in the Encounters with Music series featuring Larissa Behrendt, Bill Henson and Leigh Sales.
Featuring
Helen Garner
Helen Garner writes novels, stories, screenplays and works of non-fiction. In 2006 she received the inaugural Melbourne Prize for Literature, and in 2016 she won the prestigious Windham–Campbell Literature Prize for non-fiction ...
Fenella Kernebone
Fenella Kernebone is the host of ABC TV’s new weekly half hour arts show, Art Nation.
In conjunction with the ABC’s new Arts Gateway, Art Nation follows on from the ABC’s previous arts show, Sunday Arts, which Fenella began working on as a presenter and producer in 2006.
Fenella continues to report on current significant art trends and interviews local and international filmmakers and artists. Feature interviews include; Geoffrey Rush, Phillip Glass, Laurie Anderson, Michael Nyman and Ang Lee amongst others.
Fenella’s passion for the arts started over a decade ago after she volunteered at the local community radio 2SER at the age of seventeen. At twenty-one Fenella won a competition to be a Triple J presenter as part of the youth arts festival Noise. Soon afterwards Fenella was selected to host the youth arts program, Artery (1999-2004) interviewing hundreds of performers, actors, artists, filmmakers and musicians. In 2003 Fenella launched a new show on Triple J called The Sound Lab, which she continues to host every Sunday night.
Fenella moved into television in 2004 as one of the hosts of The Movie Show on SBS TV. Reviewing hundreds of films each year, Fenella also reported from the Toronto and Berlin International Film Festivals and interviewed scores of filmmakers and actors such as Heath Ledger, Johnny Depp, Tilda Swinton and Keanu Reeves.
In addition to her television and radio commitments, Fenella has also presented awards at the Lexus IF Awards, MC’d the Melbourne Leg of Tropfest, hosted Q & A sessions at the Art Gallery of NSW as part of their Art After Hours series, hosted The APRA Classical Music Award as well as providing her services as a judge at film festivals and art competitions. She also has written for various magazines including film reviews for Limelight and has extensive voice over experience.