The renowned chef-owner of Melbourne’s Attica comes to Montalto to serve up insights into his innovative approach to dining over a delicious two-course menu. Ben Shewry’s newest book, Uses For ...

Bestselling children’s authors Sally Rippin and Anna Walker embrace their inner wild things at this special screening of Spike Jonze’s film adaptation of the classic picture book. From the scary to ...

Emerging writers run wild at this Spring Fling edition of our popular Next Big Thing series. Join us on the rooftop garden terrace of narrm ngarrgu Library and hear from some of Australia’s brightest ...

Sally Goldner is an educator, speaker, MC and occasional performer. Her involvement in Victoria’s queer community has spanned more than twenty years. She has worked as executive director and treasurer ...

Alison Whittaker is a Gomeroi multitasker. Between 2017–2018, she was a Fulbright scholar at Harvard Law School, where she was named the Dean’s Scholar in Race, Gender and Criminal Law. Alison is a ...

Peter Bartlett is partner at Minter Ellison Lawyers. He is one of Australia’s leading media and communications law experts. Peter’s areas of expertise include regulatory compliance, breach of ...

Diana is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Australian Muslim Women’s Centre for Human Rights. She joined the organisation in October 2019 as an international human rights lawyer with experience ...

John Armstrong is a scholar, writer and speaker on art and culture. Associate Professor John Armstrong was born in Glasgow and educated at Oxford, Birkbeck and UCL. In 1997, after completing a PhD in ...

Sue Giles has been artistic director of children’s contemporary arts company Polyglot Theatre since 2000. With the company she has created participatory works ranging from large-scale play spaces to ...

Liao Yiwu is a Chinese poet, novelist and screenwriter currently living in exile in Germany because of government suppression of his work in China. He is the author of the epic poem ‘Massacre’, the ...

Dr Elizabeth Tynan is a science writer and academic at the James Cook University (JCU) Graduate Research School in Queensland, Australia. A former journalist, she completed a PhD on aspects of British ...

Louise Thurtell has worked in publishing for nearly 30 years – starting out at Harper Collins before moving to Transworld, Random House and Allen & Unwin. Louise will never forget sitting down to read ...