Join Walkley Award winners Monique Schafter and John Donegan at the Dubbo Festival!
This year for the first time the Walkley Foundation are taking part in the Dubbo Festival!
Festival Event:
Join Walkley Award winner John Donegan for a floor talk on this latest Nikon-Walkley Press Photo Exhibition.
After starting a cadetship at the Herald and Weekly Times in 1985, Donegan has worked in Melbourne, London, Jerusalem, Darwin and is now a Sydney based freelancer. Currently a member of the Walkley Advisory Board, Donegan has served as Picture Editor of the Herald Sun, and The Sunday Age newspapers, and as a staff photographer for Fairfax and News Ltd at different times.
In recent years Donegan has worked for various organisations applying new techniques for publishing images and multi-media journalism on digital devices.
Where: Dubbo Regional Theatre & Convention Centre, Darling Street Dubbo
When: Saturday 8th September
Contact: paige.williams@cockatoofilm.com
The exhibition will run from September 7-23 at the Dubbo Regional Theatre and Convention Centre.
Festival Event:
Join Walkley Award winner Monique Schafter, as she talks to local journalist Kim V. Goldsmith about her experiences as one of Australia’s foremost journalists.
Where: Dubbo Regional Theatre & Convention Centre, Darling Street Dubbo
When: Saturday 8th September
Contact: paige.williams@cockatoofilm.com
Monique Schafter is a Walkley Award winning storyteller who co-hosted the ABC’s groundbreaking current affairs program Hungry Beast. Monique currently works on the ABC’s nightly prime time current affairs program 7:30, and writes a weekly column for Australia’s highest circulating LGBT newspaper Star Observer. Monique recently co-directed a short documentary series Trans Boys following the lives of three female to male transgender men in Sydney.
