Nearly a month before it kicks off, the inaugural Queenscliff Literary Festival (QLF) Trivia Night fundraiser is already a huge success, with tickets all but sold out this week.
Held at the Queenscliff Town Hall on Saturday, July 20, the event will raise money for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation, an award-winning not-for-profit working to address the educational disadvantages faced by many Indigenous Australian children.
Celebrity host Brian Nankervis, writer/producer/co-host of SBS’s RocKwiz and presenter of ABC Radio’s The Friday Revue, will bring his inimitable style of wit and charm to the night.
QLF president Pauline Nunan said the festival committee was thrilled tickets had sold so quickly.
“It’s really great because it’s such a good purpose for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation,” Ms Nunan said.
“So we’re thrilled to bits. Brian Nankervis is probably the main attraction really, I think that’s probably what’s made people really interested But it’ll be a good night for a good cause.”
Ms Nunan said supporting the Indigenous Literacy Foundation was a chance for the festival to build on the work it did each year with its Schools Program in the Borough of Queenscliffe.
“Each year in May we bring authors and illustrators to speak and do little workshops with all the kids in the schools and the kindergartens,” she said.
“We’ve been doing that for some years and so I guess this is a way to expand that a little bit and to be able to give Indigenous kids more of an opportunity.
“The Indigenous Literacy Foundation provides books for Indigenous kids in remote communities where they haven’t got so much access to books. They support preschool early literacy skills with story times and things like that, and also helping Indigenous people write their own stories.”
Ms Nunan thanked the Queenscliff community for the many prizes donated to the trivia night.
“We’ve been going around asking for businesses to give us prizes for the Trivia Night and people have just been fantastic, it’s been a brilliant response,” she said.
