Featured events

Book Launch: New Animal
The Collective, 139 Elgin Street, Carlton
Join us for the celebration of artist and novelist Ella Baxter’s New Animal.
New Animal is a stunning, heartbreakingly funny debut novel from a brilliant new literary voice. It’s not easy getting close to people. Amelia’s meeting a lot of men but …

Kevin Rudd in conversation
Cinema NOVA, Lygon Street Court, Carlton
We are delighted to be hosting a conversation between former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Radio National’s ‘Big Ideas’ presenter Paul Barclay to discuss the future intersects of politics, democracy, and the media in Australia.
For some time, Aust…

Stan Grant in conversation
Online
Please note: This is an online event.
We are honoured to have Stan Grant, one of our foremost observers and chroniclers of the world in crisis discuss his new book With the Falling of the Dusk.
Weaving his personal experiences of reporting from t…

Book Launch: Lapsed
The Collective, 139 Elgin Street, Carlton
We are to host an evening with Monica Dux and Jacinta Parsons to celebrate the launch of Monica Dux’s Lapsed.
With wry humour and razor-sharp observations, Lapsed is the story of one woman’s attempt to exorcise her religious upbringing, and to ans…