Ideas from the Fringe
How’s that grey matter of yours? You might want to start limbering up with some light Sudoku or maybe a crossword or two, because the Fringe Ideas Festival is coming up on May 19-21 and you’re going to want your brain fighting fit.
Not just challenging discussions with fascinating people, Fringe Ideas celebrates thoughts beyond the norm. These events might be a little bit cheeky, a little bit sexy, a little bit rude – and a whole lot of thought-provoking fun.
Fringe Ideas is a partnership between The Edge and the Ideas Festival. Check it out:
Fringe Ideas: Future Sex
When: 8.30pm, Friday May 20, 2011
Where: The Edge Auditorium
Tickets: $20 per person
Bookings: Click here
Armed with one-liners on one-nighters, we pitch team against team to broach the topic of sex. Has the internet adjusted our template for ‘normal’? Is the gay marriage debate just the next step in a mainstreaming of difference that started generations ago? If so, what should be next? Join triple j’s Tom Ballard and Alex Dyson, sex therapist Bettina Arndt, academic Alan McKee, artist David ‘Ghostboy’ Stavanger, film maker Phoebe Hart and facilitator John Birmingham in what will be forever remembered as ‘The Great Mass-Debate’. Click here for more info.
Fringe Ideas: Future Body
When: 6.00pm Saturday May 21, 2011
Where: The Edge Auditorium, The Edge, State Library of Queensland
Cost: Free, bookings required
Bookings: Click here
Seriously, what if humans could live forever? Cell immortality is the specialty of Australia’s Nobel Prize winner, Elizabeth Blackburn, whose research is explored in Immortality, a documentary by film-maker Sonya Pemberton. Join Sonya and Stefan Hajkowicz from the CSIRO, author and doctor Charlotte Nash-Stewart and architect Christian Duell in conversation with Kaitlyn Sawrey from Triple J’s Hack as our mortal experts consider the implications of immortality. What would be the impacts on our education systems, population density, resource management, justice system and environmental sustainability if we could live forever? Click here for more info.
Documentary Screening: My Happiness
When: 5:30pm Friday May 20, 2011
Where: The Edge Auditorium
Cost: Free, bookings required
Bookings: Click here
Have you ever wondered what makes some people just so happy? We put the call out for young film-makers to tell us about happiness in their communities. The six most intriguing entrants won the opportunity to work with producer, Helen Wright, to develop their pitch into an eight minute documentary. The finished product, the My Happiness documentary, premieres at the Ideas Festival. Join us as we take a look at stories of happiness in all its forms from right across Queensland. Click here for more info.
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