Walking tour with Christos Tsiolkas

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<P>Christos will take us on a walk through sacred spaces in our city, to reflect on places of serenity – past and present, individual and collective – that are often overlooked in the rush of contemporary urban living. The walk begins at a specific site of worship for Christos, the Forum cinema, one of the places at which he first developed his love of cinema and ends outside an old pub in Franklin Street, itself representative of a version of sacred memory.<BR> <BR>Christos Tsiolkas is a Melbourne based prize-winning writer of novels, short stories, essays, plays and scripts. His novels include Loaded, The Jesus Man, Dead Europe, The Slap and Barracuda. He has co-authored the dialogue Jump Cuts: An Autobiography, with Sasha Soldatow. His short story collection, Merciless Gods, was published last year. Many of Christos’s work has been adapted to both stage and screen as well as having been translated in over twenty languages. Over the last fifteen years he has often collaborated with photographer, Zoe Ali, on projects that examine migration, asylum, exile, longing and faith, including a project called A New Jerusalem that documented sites of worship and communion in the city of Melbourne.</P>

Outside Forum Theatre Melbourne

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