In conversation

Who Gets to be Smart

Web sales for this event have closed, but tickets will be available to purchase at the door. 

 

An important update about our event with Bri Lee. 

With the ongoing restrictions in NSW, Bri will be unable to travel down, so instead she will be beamed into the Town Hall via Zoom, with Heather Rose present in person to conduct the interview. Bri will be sending down signed bookplates, and there will be also be a Q&A. This is a model that has been successfully employed around the place, for example at the Sydney Writers’ Festival, and we think it will still be a great event — thanks in advance for your support of this adventure. (But we also recognise that this is a significant change to the event, and will be happy to organise a refund if this format doesn’t suit you. Ticketholders have been contacted by email.)

In 2018 Bri Lee’s brilliant young friend Damian is named a Rhodes Scholar, an apex of academic achievement. When she goes to visit him and takes a tour of Oxford and Rhodes House, she begins questioning her belief in a system she has previously revered, as she learns the truth behind what Virginia Woolf described almost a century earlier as the ‘stream of gold and silver’ that flows through elite institutions and dictates decisions about who deserves to be educated there. The question that forms in her mind drives the following two years of conversations and investigations: who gets to be smart?

Bri (via Zoom) will be in conversation with Heather Rose, author of Bruny.

Join them at the Hobart Town Hall, 50 Macquarie St, Hobart.

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