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- Satima Flavell
- I am a writer, editor, reviewer and dance teacher based in Perth, Western Australia. You might enjoy my books - The Dagger of Dresnia, the first book of the Talismans Trilogy, is available at all good online book shops as is Book two, The Cloak of Challiver. Book three, The Seer of Syland, is in preparation. I trained in piano and singing at the NSW Conservatorium of Music. I also trained in dance (Scully-Borovansky, WAAPA) and drama (NIDA). Since 1987 I have been writing reviews of performances in all genres for a variety of publications, including Music Maker, ArtsWest, Dance Australia, The Australian and others. Now semi-retired, I still write occasionally for the ArtsHub website, and I still teach dance at Trinity School for Seniors, an outreach program of the Uniting Church in Perth.
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Monday, 2 March 2015
Around in circles I go
Monday, March 02, 2015 | 
Posted by
Satima Flavell
I’ve vowed not to undertake any new editing jobs
for the next few months. I am too easily seduced into doing more and more
things and winding up a nervous wreck.The past month has been incredibly busy, particularly on the reviewing front. We've had the Perth Fringe Festival, the Perth Festival proper and the Writers Festival – all within a few weeks, with overlaps! I was a bit greedy and took on a lot of reviewing – but who could resist, especially with the Writers Festival, which was chock-a-block with talks and panels from an impossible number of fine authors.
My colleague Ilsa Sharp and I managed
a fair spread of the Writers Festival between us, but seeing as there were
generally four things on offer in each timeslot, there was no way we could
cover everything! You can read the results of our endeavours on Artshub. Just
follow the links.
Day
one: in which we encountered love, biography, and Man Booker Prize-winner
DBC Pierre.
Day
two: in which we focused on writing for young adults, gender and fiction,
the quest for inspiration and the value of creativity.
Day
three part one: in which the spotlight fell on diverse matters including tales of history and survival, language and human rights
Day
three part two, where we found matters pertaining to politics,
personalities - and roses.
In the Festival proper, I saw only Mozart
Dances and Cut the Sky, both very fine shows indeed. But I got a bit carried
away by the Fringe. The amazing ladies of Divalicious, Penny Shaw and Fiona Cooper-Smyth, were in fine fettle. They are versatile opera singers par excellence, with a fabuous flair for comedy and glamour. Actress and all-round showie Penny
Smith showed her wit and wisdom in an enormously entertaining take on Pride and
Prejudice, and a fine parade of comics had us in stitches, night after night. You
can read the reviews on Artshub – just Google!
What's more, I have signed up for French and Italian classes this term as well as continuing my various keep-fit and dance commitments, so this will be a busy year, if I don't collapse in the meantime. You can see why I haven't been blogging - or writing book three of The Talismans. Back to the workspace, Satima!
What's more, I have signed up for French and Italian classes this term as well as continuing my various keep-fit and dance commitments, so this will be a busy year, if I don't collapse in the meantime. You can see why I haven't been blogging - or writing book three of The Talismans. Back to the workspace, Satima!
Pic courtesy of https://myfinalchanceforlife.wordpress.com/
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