This year's
Philip Parsons Memorial Lecture will be given by Sydney Festival Artistic Director, Fergus Linehan on Sunday,
21st October, 2pm at Belvoir St Upstairs Theatre. Linehan's talk, titled Filling Theatres Honourably, will chart a course through the world of programming festivals. Tickets cost $15 and are available from the Belvoir St Theatre box office on 9699 3444.
Why can't we all get along? As part of the
Sydney PEN Voices series,
Christos Tsiolkas
will analyse the concept of tolerance in a public lecture and
conversation with journalist David Marr on
14 November at The
Australian Hall, Sydney. For more information and to book tickets to
the event, visit
www.pen.org.au.