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.
Thomas Keneally tells a story of racism, wartime politics, empire and the life and death of White Australia.
In a climate of panic about child protection and 'sexting', Nina Funnell considers who this panic serves and controls.
The leader of the federal opposition is too combative, conservative and selfish to rule, argues Susan Mitchell.
Emilie Zoey Baker defies slam poetry's critics, delivering an energetic celebration of the lively, versatile form.
