Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Thursday 13 February
12:45 PM - 1:15 PM
Oral historian Siobhaán McHugh talks us through the primal and intimate nature of soundscapes, sharing her favourite ‘driveway moments’ in a presentation that showcases the power of audio storytelling.
Lunchbox/Soapbox
We love exploring ideas at the Wheeler Centre, and encouraging others to do the same. That’s why every Thursday lunchtime we hand the microphone over to the great thinkers, dreamers and orators of our time.
With a dazzling range of passionate speakers and unusual topics, our soapbox provides a platform for the eclectic, topical and enlightening stories you won’t hear elsewhere. This is the most memorable lunch break you’ll have all week.
If you’re in need of sustenance of body as well as mind, the MOAT lunch cart will be serving delicious $15 lunchboxes in the Performance Space from 12.20pm.
Featuring
Siobhan McHugh
Siobhán McHugh is a documentary-maker, oral historian, and writer, whose work has won prestigious awards, including the NSW Premier’s Prize for non-fiction and a gold medal at the New York Radio Festival.
Her social histories of the Snowy Mountains Scheme (The Snowy – The People Behind the Power) and Australian women’s role in the Vietnam war (Minefields and Miniskirts) began life as audio interviews, crafted into radio documentary.
Siobhaán’s passion is the affective power of audio storytelling. She has made over 60 radio documentaries for ABC, RTE and SBS and was keynote speaker at the International Radio Festival, Iran (2010). She is founding editor of the first scholarly journal of radio documentary studies, RadioDoc Review, and Senior Lecturer in Journalism at the University of Wollongong.
Her latest documentary, Eat Pray Mourn (ABC 2013) is a collaboration with an anthropologist that explores themes of violence, power and magical thinking in contemporary Indonesia.