Kathy Prokhovnik – Seeking Sydney
Friday 28th March starting 6:00 pm for 6:30 pm
In conversation with Jane Messer
Where did Sydney come from? What do we know about the shoulders we stand on? Seeking Sydney is a ten-episode podcast that looks at the people and events that have shaped modern Sydney. With themes of protest and preservation (Indigenous rights, the union movement, the environment, social justice, housing, planning), and displaced people (Indigenous people, convicts, voluntary and involuntary migrants, people displaced by ‘slum clearance’), it uses interviews and extensive research to make Sydney’s landscapes and landmarks places of connection.
Seeking Sydney is written and directed by Kathy Prokhovnik. Featuring interviews with Grace Karskens, Julie Gibson, Diane Minnis, Wendy Bacon, Gary Dunne, Bette Mifsud, Ben Ewald, Naomi Parry Duncan, Paul Irish, Matthew Doyle, John Richardson, Lucy Taksa, Joss Bell, Felicity Castagna, Deborah Lennis, Steven Penning, Jing Han. Hosted by Bronwyn Mehan at Spineless Wonders. Sound design: Martin Gallagher, Echidna Audio. Publicity: Zoe Hercus. Artwork: Bettina Kaiser.
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Kathy Prokhovnik writes fiction (long form, short stories, microfiction) and nonfiction. Her podcast series, Seeking Sydney, started life as a social history of Sydney from east to west. She is currently finalising her second novel, Safety in the Home. Early drafts of this novel gained her a fellowship at the Perth KSP Writers’ Centre and a Newcastle Lighthouse Arts residency. Awards for her short stories include the Newcastle Short Story Award, the Society of Women Writers National Writing Competition and the Margaret River Press Short Story competition. She has been published in anthologies and online and print journals.
Jane Messer has worked with arts organisations as a writing teacher, assessor, educational advisor, festival panel chair and workshop leader. Her creative projects and consultancies have included recent projects with Varuna National Writers’ House, Australian Society of Authors, Westwords, Creative Australia (peer assessor), and the Sydney Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine (Course Advisory Committee).