A total of 14 enrichment classes will be run over the two days covering interests in writing, drama, art, chemistry, forensic science, speed reading, study skills and a special class in wild ways of learning at the zoo. The Queen and the Duke will also visit CSU facilities in Canberra at the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture on Monday 27 March . Brisbane poet Sam Wagan Watson will arrive in Wagga Wagga this weekend as the first visiting writer in residence at the Booranga Writers' Centre for 2000. While staying in the cottage on the Charles Sturt University Wagga Campus from March 20 to April 2, Watson will tour the region presenting readings of his works and hosting writing workshops. He will visit Griffith, Albury, Tumbarumba and Young to conduct sessions with writers' groups, finishing with two forums for the Wagga Wagga Writers Writers on 31 March and 1 April.
New members are welcome.
For details contact Booranga on 6933 2688. CSU staff and students have been donating to the appeal via regular payroll deductions, collection tins around the campus and through a host of raffles, morning teas and events run over the past six months. Volunteers from the University are also assisting the Lee Kernaghan Pass the hat around concert at the Wagga Music Bowl on Saturday 18 March . An Australian Wallabies national team jersey autographed by the Rugby World Cup winners has been donated to aid the Radiotherapy appeal, as thanks for a global show of support from CSU science students who carved a giant wallaby into a field near Old Junee during the World Cup series last October. The play initially written as a Murrumbidgee River cruise show was not able to set sail as originally planned, due to logistical problems with staging the event on a boat.