Four talks. One day. Is this AI’s Black Mirror Moment? –  Dr Karl Kruszelnicki ,Dr Micah Goldwater, Dr Jonathan Kummerfeld and Dr Anna Broinowski take us from hallucination in the algorithm to vulnerability in the human mind and unpack benefits and risks. Is It Fascism Yet? – Professor Jason Stanley, an American expert on…

There are one thousand stories up and down your street. There are nine thousand stories in your neighbourhood. This is the one about Noah Cork and the most important story he almost missed in pursuit of his dreams. Dark, gritty, hilarious and unexpected, Gravity Let Me Go is a novel…

Begin your festival weekend with an intimate morning of storytelling, culture, and connection at Festival Conversations. This special event brings together three remarkable literary voices whose work explores music, resilience, and the power of language to shape understanding. Dr (Aunty) Hope O’Chin, a Kabi-Kabi, Wakka-Wakka, Koa, and Gugu-Yalanji Elder, shares…

Close your festival weekend with an inspiring morning of words, music, and storytelling. Festival Conversations brings together three distinctive literary voices whose work spans memoir, culture, resilience, and creativity. Ed Le Brocq, musician, broadcaster, and author of five acclaimed books including Cadence and Danger Music, shares stories from a remarkable…

Australian Women in Music Awards (AWMA) celebrates and recognises the vast achievements and contribution of female and gender diverse artists and music practitioners across all genres of music and all areas of the Australian music industry. Featuring performances from some of Australia’s top female artists and musicians, a dynamic thought…

In modern Chinese history, composers were dislocated by war, exile, studies abroad, competing ideologies, and the Cultural Revolution, and expressed their cultural and ideological constructions of home, isolation, and war resistance, while being caught in intersecting webs of forces that compelled them through both coercion and affiliation. “Heaviness,” in this…