An Evening with Isobelle Carmody: Comes the Night

Join us for an exciting night with Isobelle Carmody as she discusses her new YA fantasy book, Comes the Night, set in the near future, full of secrets, high stakes, peril, deceptions and dreamwalkers! She will be in conversation with talented producer and actress, Tara Morice.

As friends and colleagues who have collaborated on the adaptation of Greylands into a screenplay, they will explore how storytelling opens conversations around difficult subjects - never dictating what to think, but instead inviting reflection and dialogue. With Tara’s perspective as a producer and actress and Isobelle’s insight as a writer, this wide-ranging conversation will inspire and challenge audiences to see art as a force for change.

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About the book:
Will slipped on the left glove and twitched a finger to establish a link to the kite tronics. A shiver of electric energy ran through his hands as they synched to his nerves through the gloves.

Will lives with his father in a future domed Canberra where citizens are safe from extreme weather events, dangerous solar radiation and civil unrest. He does not question his carefully controlled existence until the recurrence of an old nightmare propels him on a dangerous quest.

Gradually Will discovers his dreams hold cryptic clues that lead him into a shadowy alternate dimension. Here he must grapple with dark forces that operate in both worlds, with the help of his best friend Ender, her brilliant but difficult twin sister Magda, and a mysterious gift from his uncle.

Isobelle Carmody is one of Australia's most highly acclaimed authors of fantasy. At fourteen, she began Obernewtyn, the first book in her much-loved Obernewtyn Chronicles, and she has since written many works in this genre. Her novel The Gathering won the 1993 Children's Literature Peace Prize and was joint winner of the 1994 CBCA Book of the Year Award. Greylands was joint winner of the 1997 Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction (Young Adult category), and was named a White Raven at the 1998 Bologna Children's Book Fair.

Isobelle's work for younger readers includes her two series, The Legend of Little Fur and The Kingdom of the Lost, the first book of which, The Red Wind, won the CBCA Book of the Year Award for Younger Readers in 2011. She has also written several picture books as well as collections of short stories for children, young adults and adults, and is currently working on Darkbane, the final book in The Legendsong series.

After living in Europe for more than a decade, these days Isobelle divides her time in Australia between her home on the Great Ocean Road in Victoria, and Brisbane, where she completed a PhD at the University of Queensland, and has been conducting postgraduate research.Acclaimed author Isobelle Carmody and talented producer and actress Tara Morice come together for a thought-provoking discussion on the power of art and its innate activism. As friends and colleagues who have collaborated on the adaptation of Greylands into a screenplay, they will explore how storytelling opens conversations around difficult subjects—never dictating what to think, but instead inviting reflection and dialogue. With Tara’s perspective as a producer and actress and Isobelle’s insight as a writer, this wide-ranging conversation will inspire and challenge audiences to see art as a force for change.

A graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Art, Tara Morice has worked extensively in theatre, film and television for over 30 years. Her first film out of NIDA was Baz Luhrmann's STRICTLY BALLROOM for which she was nominated for a British Academy of Film and Television Award (BAFTA), an Australian Film Institute Award (AFI) and a Film Critics Circle award for Best Actress. She has also appeared in PETER RABBIT 2: THE RUNAWAY, DANCE ACADEMY: THE MOVIE, ORANGES AND SUNSHINE, RAZZLE DAZZLE: A JOURNEY INTO DANCE, CANDY, HILDEGARDE, MOULIN ROUGE, HOTEL SORRENTO, METALSKIN, CARMEN and the Oscar nominated short MIRACLE FISH. Tara’s most recent credits are THE MOOGAI and Rebel Wilson’s musical comedy THE DEB.

Her television credits include the award-winning teen series DANCE ACADEMY as well as ANSWERED BY FIRE, MCLEOD'S DAUGHTERS, SALEM'S LOT, AFTER THE DELUGE, DOGWOMAN and PLAYSCHOOL. Tara can most recently be seen in Stan’s NUGGET IS DEAD. On stage, Tara has performed in many productions for the Sydney Theatre Company, Belvoir, Bell Shakespeare, Griffin, the Ensemble, the Queensland Theatre Company, Malthouse Theatre and the State Theatre of South Australia. She has been nominated for her work in musical theatre with a Victorian Green Room Award for THE
VENETIAN TWINS and a Helpmann Award for FAT SWAN.

Tara wrote and directed the documentary MY BIGGEST FAN, which premiered at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival and screened on SBS.

As a singer, Tara recorded TIME AFTER TIME with Mark Williams for the STRICTLY BALLROOM soundtrack and a new solo version for Baz Luhrmann's album SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY.