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The Goodes O’Loughlin Foundation Inaugural Oration delivered by Adam Goodes

Studio

9 Apr 2024

  • Talks and Ideas
  • Experiences
  • First Nations

The Goodes O’Loughlin Foundation Inaugural Oration delivered by Adam Goodes - Empowering through Indigenous Leadership, Ownership and Excellence

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Reimagining Spaces for Learning

Centre for Creativity

20 May 2024

  • Talks and Ideas
  • Talks and Ideas
  • Workshops

Join the SOH BUILD team in a night of conversation with a futurist, an architect and artists to explore design and creating new spaces, both physical and virtual, to encourage deep engagement with learning.

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An Evening with Dolly Alderton

Concert Hall

5 – 7 Nov 2024

  • Talks and Ideas

Spend a heartwarming evening in the company of award-winning podcaster, author, screenwriter, and journalist Dolly Alderton as she celebrates her latest book, Good Material.

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Miriam Margolyes: Oh Miriam! Live

Concert Hall

30 Mar 2024

  • Talks and Ideas

Celebrated British-Australian TV and film star and raconteur, Miriam Margolyes, brings her new live stage show to Australia. Reliably outrageous and always entertaining, join Miriam in conversation for a riotous evening as full of life and surprises as the actor herself.

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Édouard Louis

Utzon Room

13 Mar 2024

  • Talks and Ideas
  • Talks and Ideas

Join Édouard Louis in his first appearance in Sydney and discover how a young gay man from the working class French provinces transformed both himself and the contemporary conversation in France and all over Europe about class, power and inequality.

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An Evening with Rebel Wilson

Concert Hall

9 May 2024

  • Talks and Ideas

From the scene-stealing star of Pitch Perfect and Bridesmaids, get ready for an emotional rollercoaster with a refreshingly candid, funny, and inspiring conversation about her unconventional journey to Hollywood success, and self love.

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Festival Multipacks

  • Talks and Ideas

See more of All About Women and save with a Festival Multipack in 2025.

Our Bodies

Concert Hall

10 Mar 2024

  • Talks and Ideas

It’s a source of both strength and vulnerability, of pleasure and pain, of empowerment and trauma; And a contested site of political control. Join these trailblazing thinkers for this agenda-setting conversation about the body. Who controls it, who judges it, and what it tells us about ourselves.

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A collage of a hang controlling a wooden puppet with pink strings.

Wifedom with Anna Funder

Drama Theatre

10 Mar 2024

  • Talks and Ideas

Few writers captured the mechanics of tyrannical power better than George Orwell. That is, until Anna Funder came along. Hear how she exposed the great literary hero’s own ‘Orwellian’ erasure of his wife Eileen O’Shaughnessy, and how the tyranny of ‘wifedom’ persists today.

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A collage featuring a shadow of a woman cast over a piles of books on feminism.

The Beauty Trap

Studio

10 Mar 2024

  • Talks and Ideas

Join us as we put dramatic changes to the beauty and wellness industry under the microscope and examine how social media has revolutionised the way products are marketed and sold, and why we created the “girlboss” in the first place, only to tear her down.

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A collage with a lady doing her makeup, lipstick and a blue eyeshadow.
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