Upcoming events
Writers @ Stanton: Anna Goldsworthy
Join author Anna Goldsworthy as she explores the concept of what it means for humanity in the age of AI in the latest Quarterly Essay, The God We Made.
AI may be our most persuasive God yet. At the same time, it forces a confrontation with what it means to be human: bodies, fragility, memory. It raises questions about human connection, leisure and learning, and brings new existential and ethical risks.
In this important and timely essay, Anna Goldsworthy explores the implications of AI for art, culture and the self.
Date: Thursday 18 June
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: Stanton Library, Level 1 234 Miller St North Sydney, NSW, 2060
Price: This is a free event.
The Shortest History of Australia
Join historian Mark McKenna for a compelling exploration of his latest book, The Shortest History of Australia. In this powerful and deeply humane history, McKenna offers a new version of our national story: a modern Australia permeated by First Nations history; a multicultural society with an island mindset; a continent of epic beauty and extreme natural events; a country obsessed by war abroad but blind to its founding war at home; and a thriving nation-state still to realise its political independence.
McKenna’s wise and humane history reveals the surprising in the familiar, reframing the past so we can see the present more clearly.
Hosted by writer and journalist, Jack Latimore (Birpai-Thungutti).
Free event. Suitable for ages 15 and up.
Date: Sunday 21 June
Time: 2:00pm
Venue: Glen Eira Town Hall - Auditorium Corner Glen Eira and Hawthorn Roads, Caulfield, VIC, 3162
Price: This is a free event
Anna Goldsworthy in conversation with John Birmingham
Join us at Avid Reader Bookshop for Anna Goldsworthy in conversation with John Birmingham, to discuss Anna's new Quarterly Essay, The God We Made.
Quarterly Essay 102, Anna Goldsworthy explores the implications of AI for art, culture and the self – how it forces a confrontation with what it means to be human, raising questions about human connection, learning and how we live our lives; and bringing new existential and ethical risks.
Date: Tuesday 23 June
Time: 6:30pm
Venue: Avid Reader Bookshop, 193 Boundary Street, West End QLD, 4101
Price: Instore ticket $15.00 | Ticket & Essay $39.99
Outspoken Maleny – a conversation with Kate Holden
In The Ruin of Magic, award-winning writer Kate Holden meditates on her instinctive yearning for a long-ago Europe against the natural belonging she feels to the Australian landscape, and asks, What is a home? The strongest shelter or the most lethal trap? A museum of ourselves or a showcase of fashions?
Kate Holden is the author of The Winter Road, winner of the 2021 Walkley Book Award and the 2022 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Douglas Stewart Prize for Nonfiction, as well as the two memoirs, In My Skin and The Romantic.
We are delighted to welcome her back to Maleny.
Kate Holden will be in conversation with Steven Lang.
Date: Wednesday 24 June
Time: 6:00pm
Venue: Maleny Community Centre, 23 Maple St, Maleny, QLD, 4552
Price: Student $20.00 | Standard $30.00
