2025 PROGRAM
Gallipoli and the Making of Australia
DATE:
Saturday 29th March
LOCATION:
Darley Smith Building
COST:
$22
How does a country define itself? Australia has defined Gallipoli and Anzac Day as our pre-eminent national narrative, and the Gallipoli legend is a unifying symbol of Australian values and identity. How has Gallipoli’s powerful and vital story evolved into what it means today? How and why did we create a foundational myth around Gallipoli?
What makes it distinctive? How do we instil the values we hold as part of the ‘Anzac spirit’ into the next generations and the new generations of Australians? Broadcaster, writer, lawyer and research professor Steve Vizard’s latest book, Nation, Memory, Myth—Gallipoli and the Australian Imaginary, will be published in April.
Host: Tracey Kirkland
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY
The Manly Writers' Festival acknowledges and thanks the original storytellers on the lands on which our events take place, the Gameraygal people of the Eora Nation. We acknowledge and respect their continuing connection and culture, and we pay our respects to ancestors and Elders, past and present, as well as emerging leaders.