Featured events
Annabel Crabb in conversation with Virginia Trioli
Melbourne Athenaeum, 188 Collins St, Melbourne CBD
We are thrilled to be hosting the celebration of the Quarterly Essay 75 at the Melbourne Athenaeum with Annabel Crabb. As the author of the QE 75, Crabb’s essay on politics, work and gender deploys political observation, workplace research and her c…
Speaking Frankly: Clare Bowditch on Your Own Kind of Girl in conversation with Dr Susan Carland
The Melbourne Athenaeum, 188 Collins St, Melbourne VIC 3000
In her new, no-holds-barred memoir, Your Own Kind of Girl, ARIA Award-winning singer and actress Clare Bowditch confronts her inner critic. The book reveals a childhood punctuated by grief, anxiety and compulsion and tells how these forces shaped Cl…
Book launch: Christos Tsiolkas on Damascus
Church of All Nations, 180 Palmerston St, Carlton VIC 3053
We are delighted to be launching Christos Tsiolkas' stunning new novel Damascus, with a discussion of the themes that have always obsessed Tsiolkas as a writer: the ways in which nations, societies, communities, families and individuals are united a…
Archie Roach on Tell Me Why
Melbourne Athenaeum, 188 Collins St, Melbourne CBD
Join us as we celebrate this intimate, moving and often shocking memoir from legendary singer-songwriter and storyteller Archie Roach. His story is an extraordinary odyssey through love and heartbreak, family and community, survival and renewal , an…
