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21st October 2024

Bruce Pascoe at the True Story Festival

Off a Duck's Back with Bruce Pascoe and Margaret Throsby


Event details:

7:00pm – 8:00pm, Saturday 16 November 2024.

True Story Festival, Coledale Hall, Coledale NSW.


What does it take to disrupt Australia’s history and stand by your views when they are attacked? The answer is: a lot. After the controversy surrounding his bestselling book Dark Emu, First Nations writer Bruce Pascoe was bruised but unbowed. Black Duck, a Year at Yumburra is his personal account of his healing on his farm (where he somehow also found time to write a novel, Imperial Harvest). In a candid conversation, he tells Margaret Throsby what it took to rebuild a life, a marriage, and how custodianship of land renewed his sense of purpose.


Tickets can be purchased via the festival's booking site, as a full day pass or as a single event ticket. Link here


Image credit: True Story Festival

Text credit: True Story Festival