We invite you to join award-winning writer, director, cultural activist and Tasmanian Australian of the Year Scott Rankin to launch his Platform Paper, Cultural Justice and the Right to Thrive, the Quarterly Essay on the Performing Arts, published by Currency House.
In this talk, Scott, who is a powerful advocate for communities experiencing the effects of disadvantage, argues that culture is a human right and we must advocate for it with the full language of the law. Cultural Rights are as essential to our national wellbeing as health and education – if everyone is to have the right to thrive.
Big hART is Australia’s leading arts for social change organisation and the 2017 Telstra Charity and Tasmanian Business of the Year.
This is a free event and all are welcome.
Where: The Hobart Bookshop
When: Tuesday November 20th, 5.30pm
Also coming up …
We are very excited about Bob Brown and Paul Thomas‘ forthcoming book, Green Nomads: Wild Places. In celebration of the release, we are very pleased to host an evening with Bob and Paul at the Dechaineaux Theatre. The authors will present a slideshow and an informal talk, and will be available for book signings — and of course the books will be available for sale on the night!
This is a free event and all are welcome.
Where: The Dechaineaux Theatre, Centre for the Arts, Hunter Street Hobart
When: Friday November 30th, at 6pm
And in December …
We are delighted to welcome Emma McEwin back to Hobart to launch her new book, The Many Lives of Douglas Mawson, published by Australian Scholarly Press. The book will be launched by Associate Professor Elle Leane, author and Antarctic scholar.
In this book, Emma McEwin, Mawson’s great-granddaughter, reflects on her forebear’s public and private persona. Inspired by letters and portraits and other material traces of his legacy, she writes intimately about his effect on generations of his family and the making and unmaking of myths about him.
