Dear friends
I\’m delighted to announce a residency at the Hotel Hollywood starting this Wednesday and running every Wednesday in November. The first one is hot, so I do hope you can make it. We\’ll have special guests both musical and discursive – open conversations will be held on several of the twistiest topics of the moment. Some of the guests confirmed at this point are listed below. Other details are still being finalised; as they come to hand I\’ll put them up here.
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Musically, Eug and I will for the first time play our full current repertoire, launching a couple of gorgeous new songs you may not have heard (and you know they just keep getting bigger). I\’ll also be joined onstage for short interludes by some of my other favourite musical collaborators, including Aria-award-winning Justin Brandis and scintillating piano-boy Phil \”it\’s a verb\” Roberts. There\’ll be moments of madness, the sound of magic, a dash of glamour, plenty of food for thought, and a rockin\’ good time for all.
As of week 2 the talk starts 8pm, followed at about 9 by an hour or so of lusciously apocalyptic music.
Oh, and it\’s free :)
1 Nov – Girlie Night: what is a woman?
*Margaret Mayhew is an activist, performer and academic currently doing a PhD in gender studies at Sydney Uni. She\’s heaps of fun.
*Joanna Nichol is the Inclusion Officer for Sydney City Council. She suspended a PhD on disability issues at Oxford to take the job, and keeps threatening to go back.
*Harry Stevens transitioned to womanhood in his early sixties, changing his name to Kate and living as a woman for three years. He has recently transitioned back to manhood and looks back on the whole process as a journey.
8 Nov – Open Mike Gripe Night: what\’s your most pressing issue?
Got a gripe, a favourite rant or a lyrical lament you wanna let loose? Tonight\’s the night; saddle up and let fly, or come and watch the fun. Featuring performance poets and, I suspect, the really mad.
15 Nov – Good Faith Night: better ways
Greens Senator Kerry Nettle is an activist and a parliamentarian in one extraordinary package. Our conversation is likely to range from what makes the Greens different to how to keep the faith in dark times and how to make change happen around you.
22 Nov – Power Night: harm minimisation
Clare Pascoe is one of Australia\’s most distinguished clergy abuse activists, working to change church procedures in response to abuse claims and observing the phenomenon across different faiths and denominations to draw some fascinating conclusions about people, culture, context, faith and power.
29 Nov – Media Night: the new media ownership laws.
Trevor Davies, editor of the South Sydney Herald and longtime activist, Labor stalwart and South Sydney shitstirrer, will talk to us about the new cross media ownership laws, the changes to our information landscape they are likely to cause, and what to do about it.
