How has our literature created and critiqued the identities that make this city thrive? What role does artistic practice play in challenging the foundations of our culture? Do we recognise what’s most powerful about creative ambition? How does art illuminate, problematise and create the complexities of Australian identity? What are the cultural histories from which the diverse Australia of today has emerged? What was in the news this week, or last week, or the week before, and what time has there been to give it some really good thought?
The good people at Neapoli Wine Bar invited me to curate a Sunday afternoon program in their beautiful space, and so the Sunday Salons were born, in collaboration with Ben Eltham and Tasneem Chopra OAM, presenting a series of speakers from creative and journalistic fields. The 2017 Winter Season ran from Sunday 7 May to Sunday 18 June. Each Salon was recorded.
