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The Ritual of Reading in Bed with Rosanna Stevens

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(1 of 1) Rosanna Stevens shot by Lee Grant

The Ritual of Reading in Bed with Rosanna Stevens

Hotel Hotel Projects, Performance

The ‘Ritual of Reading in Bed’ is a series of short and sweet Sunday night readings by writers and performers held inside Creative Room 105. For this event, audiences delved into the messy world of trying too hard, climate change, and entertaining dying relatives with local Canberra writer Rosanna Stevens. Rosanna’s reading was hilariously honest, unapologetically intense, welcoming and conclusive about how we live fully when we learn all things must end.

Daily Rituals

Anthropologically speaking, rituals connect us to a culture, a sub-culture, maybe even a cult. We have always been curious observers of the repetitive and sometimes strange routines people practise in private. This fascination with human behaviour is the catalyst for a creative project and ongoing study of all the weird and wonderful rituals people do every day. For the project we have created a series of short films directed by U-P and Alyssa McClelland that re-enact the bizarre rituals of others inside the rooms of Hotel Hotel. We’ve also written articles, catalogued everyday rituals across cultures, studied tools and implements connected to rituals and have invited photographers to document their own rituals.

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