Talkin' 'bout my generation...

By Tracy

I just came across this gem on the site for the 2009 This is Not Art Festival. Having recently styled myself a "radical egalitarian" (!), I'm amused to find that (yet again) some are more equal than others.

"The National Young Writers' Festival is Australia's premier event for emerging writers, publishers, performers and trouble-makers. Far from the seas of white hair, book signings and celebrity author worship you might expect, the NYWF is a DIY, hands-on conversation between equals."

(I never knew hair colour could be so intimidating! Rules out both Andy Warhol and my own dear John.)

It's enough to bring down your grey hairs in sorrow to the grave, as they say in that (old, so old) book of Genesis.

PS I'm all for youth -- or anyone else -- defining a space for themselves. But the ageism (hair-ism?) seems to contradict the claim to egalitarianism here.