Public Address | Cafe | Hard News: Stella and the Fun Palaces

Russell Brown

Wed, 18 Feb 2015 07:52:32 +1300

Stella speaking at the recent #ChangeHow event. Contains swears.

Accompanying blog post.

Ian Dalziel

Tue, 10 Feb 2015 11:22:34 +1300

so if you know anyone Gap-Filler-ing and think they might like the idea...
I have emailed Coralie Winn with all the links and your message – I see many useful synergies betwixt the two projects – here's hoping...

Russell Brown

Tue, 10 Feb 2015 11:14:53 +1300

This is the best. You made a difference to someone, and that person is passing on that difference to other people, and lo, the world is a slightly better place.

And it's notable that the professionals did get it and wanted to know, as opposed to the angry Guardian commenters…

Russell Brown

Tue, 10 Feb 2015 11:12:53 +1300

I'm in no position to organise anything because I seem to be organising every bloody thing at the moment and I'm losing track (to the point where I only saved a terrible event scheduling typo just in time for print last night) but Public Address is always at the disposal…

Emma Hart

Tue, 10 Feb 2015 10:28:18 +1300

And he said he’d read the Guardian piece and it made him think differently about how he spoke to women in my position.

This is the best. You made a difference to someone, and that person is passing on that difference to other people, and lo, the world is a…

Brent Jackson

Tue, 10 Feb 2015 10:10:47 +1300

Awesome – it’s made my eyes leak (to coin a phrase – thanks Emma).

Stella Duffy

Tue, 10 Feb 2015 09:33:40 +1300

Ian, very Gap-Filler-ish!
We did contact them about Fun Palaces last year, but I think I got a gate-keeper ("we get lots of requests for gigs, we'll get back to you") as opposed to someone who realised we were offering (free! we're free!) the chance to light up the first…

Ian Dalziel

Tue, 10 Feb 2015 09:14:13 +1300

Fun Palaces...
...not a million miles removed from what Gap Filler is doing in Chhchch.

Russell Brown

Tue, 10 Feb 2015 08:07:56 +1300

And this just in on Stella's blog:

Just before Christmas I saw my consultant (ie, my consultant, the one who’d done my surgery a year ago, the one who’s always been lovely, not the two I’d seen last year, both young, both of whom prompted the first RR piece –…

Craig Ranapia

Mon, 09 Feb 2015 21:31:09 +1300

I've never met Stella, and probably never will but she's one of the smartest, most insightful and generally hilarious people I've ever come across. (She knows life is far too serious not to laugh at it all, a lot. Basic wisdom too many never get.) This, folks, is why the…

Tim Michie

Mon, 09 Feb 2015 20:58:04 +1300

The Anti-Hero, her first official Doctor Who novella published by Radom House (so appropriate).

Russell Brown

Mon, 09 Feb 2015 20:31:11 +1300

Love Stella’s writing – Saz Martín is very relatable, even when she’s being a complete numpty – but gutted I missed the Guardian piece! I’ve only been reading the paper nearly daily for a decade… Will rectify that.

I've linked to the original blog post in the text, but the…

TracyMac

Mon, 09 Feb 2015 20:02:34 +1300

Love Stella's writing – Saz Martín is very relatable, even when she's being a complete numpty – but gutted I missed the Guardian piece! I've only been reading the paper nearly daily for a decade... Will rectify that.

As for coming out in the mid-80s, and the more earnest elements…

Public Address

Mon, 09 Feb 2015 20:02:34 +1300

Discussion from blog post.