Sophie Cunningham – Still Shocking
Series
Where
When
Thursday, 24 Feb 2011, 12:45pm - 01:15pm
Event Status
Past event
People hate dealing with change. Alvin Toffler’s 1971 Future Shock outlined humanity’s failure to adapt. Does it still apply in a world where even the climate is changing?
Lunchbox/Soapbox is a simple idea: an old-fashioned Speakers’ Corner in the middle of the city, in the middle of the day.
At the Wheeler Centre we’re keen to showcase our writers as thinkers and as artists, as people with passions and peccadilloes. So we’ve come up with Lunchbox/Soapbox: a weekly space for them to sound off on a topic of their choice. Think of it as a 20-minute piece of polemic to give lunching CBD folk something to chew on.
The themes will be idiosyncratic: from pop-cultural analysis to high cultural criticism; from political grandstanding to personal mischief-making. But they’ll all be thought-provoking. Bring your lunch along to this bite-sized session.
Featuring
Featuring
Sophie Cunningham is a non-fiction writer and novelist with a passion for trees, walking and broader environmental issues. Sophie’s most recent books are This Devastating Fever (Ultimo Press) and Flipper and Finnegan –The True Story of How Tiny Jumpers Saved Little Penguins (Albert Street Books)... Read more
Watch, Listen, Read
Listen
Nazanin Boniadi: The 2023 Sydney Peace Prize Lecture
9 Dec 2023
Watch
Leigh Sales: Beyond the Headlines
7 Dec 2023
Read
Yearly Round-Up: Wheeler Centre Staff 2023 Favourites
7 Dec 2023
Watch
Nazanin Boniadi: The 2023 Sydney Peace Prize Lecture
4 Dec 2023
Listen
Leigh Sales at Montalto
4 Dec 2023
Read
Hot Desk Extract : Bellyheart
27 Nov 2023