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Play the Girl

Drama Theatre

10 Mar 2024

  • Talks and Ideas

Join Clementine Ford and Libby O’Donovan OAM, for a funny, warm, heartfelt show that reminds us that it’s not marriage that will save you. It’s you. With talk, music, costumes, and a little bit of witchy magic for good measure.

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A collage of a young girl wearing a cap surrounded by coloured stars.

Mothers in the Margins

Yallamundi Rooms

10 Mar 2024

  • Talks and Ideas

It is, we are told, one of the most rewarding things a human being can do, but motherhood can look a whole lot different when you’re raising your kid on your own. Join this panel of single mothers as they ask why society makes one of the greatest jobs in the world so damned hard.

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A collage looking through a window at a mother and a baby silhouette.

Follow the Leader

Yallamundi Rooms

10 Mar 2024

  • Talks and Ideas

There’s no doubting the need to allow girls and women to be leaders. But rarely does mainstream feminism emphasise the need to learn how to follow. Join these dynamic activists, writers and speakers of colour and learn about an agenda that might feel very different from your own.

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A collage with three sets of legs climbing up stairs.

Hot Gossip

Drama Theatre

10 Mar 2024

  • Talks and Ideas

Often dismissed us as a trivial vice (“women’s talk”), in the past few years, gossip has flexed its muscle through political movements like #metoo and public takedowns. A deep dive into a very “shallow” topic to unravel the layers of gossip's power and even value.

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A collage of mouths saying WTF, OMG and WOAH!

Who Gets to Be Bad?

Studio

10 Mar 2024

  • Talks and Ideas

Sure, complex female characters have hit it big lately - but are only white girls allowed to be fabulous failures? Join this incredible panel as they put social expectations in the bin and embrace their inner bad.

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A collage of a black women with curly black hair hair looking stylish with yellow sunglasses, large hoop earring and a martini.

The Stories We Need Now

Yallamundi Rooms

10 Mar 2024

  • Talks and Ideas

In a world disillusioned by division and an inability to bring about positive change, it is artists, writers, storytellers, and creatives who can resonate beyond politics and chart a path to a better world.

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A pink balloon with a sad face on it has a post it note saying 'hope' pinned into it.

Slowing Down Fast Fashion

Utzon Room

10 Mar 2024

  • Talks and Ideas

When we get dressed every morning, it's hard to think about the political reality of jeggings and cotton t-shirts. Activist Aja Barber demystifies the structural inequality embedded in the global fashion industry, and shows us how we can make it better.

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A collage of a pile of discarded clothes surrounded by Instagram likes.

Anne Enright

Utzon Room

10 Mar 2024

  • Talks and Ideas

The Booker Prize-winning author Anne Enright’s latest novel, The Wren, The Wren, considers the legacy of terrible cruelty within one family. How to live with betrayal and loneliness, yet still love those close to you?

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A collage featuring a yellow bird, a pen and a scrap of paper with a face on of a mature white woman.

Why So Sad, Girl

Studio

10 Mar 2024

  • Talks and Ideas

The ‘Sad Girl Novel’ has officially hit market saturation. Why has the last six years of contemporary fiction been so gripped by this trope - and can the sad girl ever get happy?

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A collage of images featuring two crying eyes, a pile of books and a wilting flower.

Conversations with Mandela

Utzon Room

13 Jul 2024

  • Talks and Ideas
  • Comedy

Master storyteller Rob Redenbach recounts his journey from Australian nightclub security to working in South Africa with the bodyguard team of Nelson Mandela.

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