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Wild at Heart

Joan Sutherland Theatre

9 Mar 2025

  • Talks and Ideas

Her story of reclamation and resilience is inspirational, never shying away from the unconventional. Deeply connected to nature and her sense of self, Gina Chick shares how she walks between worlds.

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A woman with a bird perched beside her head, set against a vibrant green background.

Kara Swisher’s X Files

5 Mar 2025

  • Talks and Ideas

The legendary journalist and popular podcaster shares her insights as Silicon Valley’s power players reshape the world as we know it. Respected and feared by everyone from Elon Musk to Mark Zuckerberg, Kara Swisher is an insider with incendiary intel.

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Kate Berlant

9 Mar 2025

  • Talks and Ideas
  • Comedy

Making her Australian debut, comedian and actress Kate Berlant premieres her brand-new hour of stand-up, hot on the heels of her acclaimed one-woman-show.

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Feminist Roast

Concert Hall

8 Mar 2025

  • Talks and Ideas

Back by popular demand, this satirical roast is (lovingly) telling feminism to pick herself up by her bootstraps and get on with her (revolutionary) job.

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A collage on a bright blue background. A hand holds a sign with exclamation marks on it. Behind this is a Greek statue of a woman wearing sunglasses.

All About Women

8 – 9 Mar 2025

  • Talks and Ideas

All About Women is the Sydney Opera House’s centerpiece talks festival about gender, justice, and equality, held annually in the week of International Women’s Day. For over a decade, the celebrated event has filled our venues with inspiring moments and buzzy, agenda-setting conversations.

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Festival Multipacks

  • Talks and Ideas

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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.

Write About Now with Jerico Mandybur

Centre for Creativity

10 Mar 2024

  • Workshops

In this introductory workshop, Jerico Mandybur will guide participants to inquire into their lived experience, their values, and the singular role they can play in building a better world.

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Two hands sewing together hearts.
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