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Telling Tales

Reality Bites: A Night of Coming-of-Age Stories

Alice Atkinson, Kelly Gardiner, Ada Horsfall, Will Kostakis, Jes Layton, Alice Pung, Astrid Raab

Bookings open

2 Jun

World of Words

A Lifetime of Advocacy: An Evening with Dame Graça Machel

Graça Machel, Kudzai Kanhutu

Booked out

6 Jun

Melbourne City Reads

Tony Cohen: Half Deaf, Completely Mad

Grace Cummings, Martin Frawley, Dave Graney, Mick Harvey, Billy Miller, Astrid Munday, Charlie Owen, Kim Salmon, Leah Senior, Chris Thompson

Booked out

8 Jun

Books and Ideas at Montalto

Kate Legge at Montalto

Kate Legge, Elizabeth McCarthy

Bookings open

16 Jun

The Next Big Thing

The Next Big Thing: 2023 Emerging Writers’ Festival

Pip Finkemeyer, Grace Yee, Dan Hogan, Aisling Smith, Elfy Scott, Tara Grace

Bookings open

19 Jun

Art on the Fringe: Forty Years of Melbourne Fringe

Moira Finucane, Sammy J, Vidya Rajan, Richard Watts

Bookings open

20 Jun

Exploring the Path to Clean Energy with Alan Finkel [Ballarat]

Alan Finkel, Prue Bentley

Bookings open

21 Jun

Wheeler Kids

Real Pigeons Live Mystery: When Doves Crime [Kyneton]

Andrew McDonald, Janet McLeod, Ben Wood

Bookings open

24 Jun
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Craig Foster: The Republic Question

1 Jun 2023

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What's on in June: Resident Organisation Round Up

1 Jun 2023

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Reality bites back

30 May 2023

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A coming-of-age reading guide

29 May 2023

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Finding the Heart of the Nation: Thomas Mayo in conversation with Catherine Liddle

27 May 2023

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Hot Desk Extract : Quantum Entanglement

26 May 2023
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