Lunchbox/Soapbox is a simple idea; an old-fashioned Speakers’ Corner in the middle of the city, in the middle of the day.
At the Wheeler Centre we’re keen to showcase our writers as thinkers and as artists, as people with passions and peccadilloes. So we’ve come up with Lunchbox/Soapbox: a weekly space for them to sound off on a topic of their choice. Think of it as a 20-minute piece of polemic to give lunching CBD folk something to chew on.
The themes will be idiosyncratic: from pop-cultural analysis to high cultural criticism; from political grandstanding to personal mischief-making. But they’ll all be thought-provoking. Bring your lunch along to this bite-sized session.
Music critic Mikey Cahill pits modern lyricists against old masters as he tests the true quality of words in music.
Controversial author, therapist and social commentator Bettina Arndt polemicises on sex in long-term heterosexual rel...
Ken Haley leads us on a wheeled journey through the philosophical principle of mutual incomprehension.
In this Lunchbox/Soapbox, Verity Burgmann explores the productive outcomes of extremist challenges to authority.
