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Woolf and Wilde: A Queer Party / Performing arts & pop culture

With Karen from Finance, Creatrix Tiara, Selina Jenkins and 4 others

Has it really been four years since the last Woolf and Wilde party? Don’t worry, we haven’t changed a bit. Still weird, wilde and woolfy after all this time.

As the cherry on top of another fantastic Melbourne Fringe, we're inviting you, once again, to party with some of the festival’s brightest LGBTQ+ stars, including Creatrix Tiara, Selina Jenkins and…

5 Oct 2018

Upcoming event

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Stories from Home

Gabrielle Wang: A Ghost in My Suitcase / Young adult

With Gabrielle Wang

Ghosts, secrets, travel and adventure – Gabrielle Wang’s spooky, page-turning young adult novel A Ghost in My Suitcase is now a thrilling theatre production.

It’s the story of 13-year-old Celeste, who travels to China to visit her grandmother and uncovers a family secret there. Ultimately, Celeste must learn to make use of her strange, powerful gift as a ghost-hunter.

Alongside…

18 Aug 2018

Past event

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Alia Shawkat in Conversation / Film

With Alia Shawkat and Lorin Clarke

It's almost like that episode of Arrested Development when Maeby accompanies her father to an audition, and ends up becoming a film exec: Alia Shawkat is calling the shots.

Maeby Fünke, the droll teenage con-artist, was of course the role that made Shawkat famous. In the years since the original Arrested Development series wrapped, Shawkat has sought out offbeat roles…

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The Wheeler Centre Gala 2018: Words on Fire: Patricia Cornelius / Words & language

With Patricia Cornelius

For the 2018 Wheeler Centre Gala Night of Storytelling, we invited our speakers to probe a blazing, hot topic: the power of the written word and the loaded tenets of speech.

When do words inspire and when do they incite? When is speech free, and when is it hateful? Fighting words, funny words, insulting words and incendiary words – for…

Podcast episode

The Wheeler Centre

The Wheeler Centre Gala 2018: Words on Fire: Leah Purcell / Words & language

For the 2018 Wheeler Centre Gala Night of Storytelling, we invited our speakers to probe a blazing, hot topic: the power of the written word and the loaded tenets of speech.

When do words inspire and when do they incite? When is speech free, and when is it hateful? Fighting words, funny words, insulting words and incendiary words – for better or for worse, language moves us and it matters.

In this episode, actor, director and writer Leah Purcell tells us about eight words and slogans that 'lit my fire, fired me up and almost smothered it out'.

Leah Purcell, on stage at the Athenaeum Theatre — Photo: Jon Tjhia

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The Fifth Estate: Australia’s #MeToo / Sexism & feminism

With Sally Warhaft, George McEncroe, and Kate McClymont

How do headline-grabbing stories about powerful figures in the media affect the broader Australian culture?

The #MeToo movement began in the US – with the Harvey Weinstein revelations in October 2017 – and it quickly spread around the globe. In this discussion, we’ll look at how #MeToo is playing out here in Australia with two guests who approach the subject…

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