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Festival Highlights

Highlight Event

Richard Flanagan: You Win Some, You Lose Some

Sat 7 Sep, 8pm
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Booker-winning novelist Richard Flanagan reflects on his vast oeuvre, musing on the pieces that sang – and the ones that didn’t.

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Highlight Event

Nocturnal: Blak & Bright x MWF

Fri 6 Sep, 7pm
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MWF19 and Blak & Bright Festival takes over Melbourne Museum for a special one-off Nocturnal event.

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Highlight Event

Dear Prudence: Live

Sun 8 Sep, 11.30am
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Host of the hugely popular American podcast Dear Prudence, Daniel Mallory Ortberg sifts through the complex quandaries of our hearts with Clementine Ford.

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Highlight Event

Helen Clark: Women, Equality, Power

Sun 8 Sep, 4pm
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The selected speeches of inspirational Helen Clark provide a call to action for other women in positions of power. She talks to Lisa Millar.

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