Gala Night of Storytelling: The Book that Changed Me
Expect the funny, provocative and profound.
Overview
Melbourne's home for passionate and intelligent talks, The Wheeler Centre, is hosting ten of Australia’s best thinkers and entertainers for a gala evening of storytelling on books that changed and shaped their thinking.
Stories can leave indelible impressions, and the Gala Night of Storytelling: Books that Changed Me will cover everything – from the musing to amusing, provocative to poignant – on those fate-changing moments of communion between writer and reader.
Perhaps it was Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex that convinced you that ‘one is not born, but rather becomes, a woman’. Or maybe Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment made you cancel plans to murder your local pawnbroker.
Whatever may have inspired has also led others to change — and this evening is a chance to hear from Australia’s best. Actor, musician and Koori elder Jack Charles with be joined by former Australian of the Year and founder of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre Kon Karapanagiotidis as well as singer songwriter Sarah Blasko and SBS’s Lee Lin Chin, who will be switching her regular World News broadcast for the evening talk.
Formative speakers also include Anna Funder, Russel Howcroft, Susan Carland, Tony Windsor, Graeme Simsion and Nakkiah Lui, so prepare for the profound. After all, there’s nothing quite like finishing a book that leaves you with a sense of wonder. Or better yet — hearing about your next best to read.
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