Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Monday 10 July
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Location
The Toff in Town
Level 2, Curtin House, 252 Swanston Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Modern love is a minefield, and trust us … the last thing you want to do is turn to Yahoo Answers for advice. When you have a romantic problem, it’s best to ventilate it, get it out in the open, let that conundrum breathe! With this in mind, we present the return of Take It From Me – a forum for strangers to dissect your love life and dish out ill-informed and context-free advice.
Anonymously submit your romantic quandaries and quagmires and our panellists will puzzle over your problem before setting you on the path to happily ever after. Did you first hold hands and cuddle during a screening of The Commitments – only to realise they were merely the frightened actions of a commitment-phobe? Are you searching for the best way to slide out of your crush’s DMs and into something more ‘comfortable’? Our advisers will bring their wealth of experience from mostly irrelevant fields, and nut out some solutions to your dilemma.
Those who are smugly and insufferably coupled-up can come along, too! What better date night activity than smirking into each other’s eyes while listening to the woes of the lovelorn?
This event will be Auslan interpreted.
Presented in partnership with The Toff in Town.
Featuring
Jess McGuire
Jess McGuire is a writer and broadcaster based in central west NSW, and hosts breakfast radio each weekday morning on on ABC Western Plains. She previously appeared regularly as a reviewer and cultural commentator ...
Sami Shah
Sami Shah is a multi-award winning comedian, writer, and journalist. Sami is a lecturer in journalism at the University of Melbourne's Centre for Advancing Journalism, and is the Ambassador-at-Large for PEN Melbourne.
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Maureen Matthews
Maureen Matthews grew up an English Vicar’s daughter. At 23, she was diagnosed with the degenerative eye disease Retinitis Pigmentosa, and is now legally blind. In 1996, Maureen opened Bliss for Women, Melbourne’s only adult store and bookshop for women. Next year, bliss4women.com turns 20.
For a decade, Maureen has written for Melbourne's Sunday Age. In her popular column, About Last Night, Maureen responds to a wide range of questions about sex and relationships.
Zoë Coombs Marr
Zoë is a performer, writer, artist and comedian. She grew up in Grafton, where she and her best friend staged a musical instead of going to schoolies week. In 2006 she won the National Poetry Slam Championships under ...