Talya Rubin performance: Sunday 26th June

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Happily Ever After is pleased to announce that Talya Rubin will present readings from her work in the John Paynter Gallery on Sunday 26th June, the last day of the exhibition! Please join us at 11am, midday and 1pm for Talya's brief performances.


Talya Rubin is a Montreal born, Sydney based poet, playwright and performer. Her poetry won the national Bronwen Wallace Award in Canada for the most promising writer under the age of 35. She has toured with her original solo plays, Ariadne’s Thread, The Girl With No Hands and Of The Causes of Wonderful Things to festivals in Adelaide, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Montreal, Prague and Toronto including Brisbane Festival’s Under The Radar,  LiveWorks, Performance Space, Sydney and Arts House, Melbourne. TheAdelaide Advertiser wrote of her work: “The writing is out of this world, as sweet as honey and just as intense 5/5.” ABC Radio National commissioned Talya to adapt and perform Ariadne’s Thread as a radio drama, broadcast nationwide and The Girl With No Hands was nominated for a MECCA (Montreal English Critics Circle Award) for best new text. Most recently, Talya was short listed for the Winston Collins/Descant prize for Best Canadian poem of 2011. As writer in residence with Hunter Writers Centre at the Lockup Cultural Centre, Talya will be working on a collection of poetry about place and displacement, exile and belonging