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• Floriade at the NGA: Floortalk series
  16 September - 7 October 2008
  National Gallery of Australia curators provide insightful talks on the works of art in the national collection that relate to flora.
  nga.gov.au/Floriade

 

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  Explorations in digital media: communion, community and communication
  Sunday 12 October 11 am - 4 pm
  A daylong forum of artists exploring new-media practice and its role in building connections and community. Participants include Lucas Ihlein, Sarah Jane Pell, Wade Marynowsky and Anne Walton
  nga.gov.au/Fullscreen/08

 

• The Barbara Blackman Temenos Foundation Lecture 2008
  Thursday 20 November | 6pm
  Speaker: Paul Stiles
  

  Paul Stiles grew up in Boston, Massachusetts.  He attended Harvard College on a US Navy scholarship, graduating with honours in Government.  After four years as a naval officer, he went to Wall Street, where he worked on a bond trading desk for Merrill Lynch, then the largest securities firm in the world.  This became the subject of his first book, Riding the Bull, a cautionary tale about the increasingly market-driven nature of American life.  After working in several entrepreneurial start-up companies, he followed up with a second book, Is the American Dream Killing You? which catalogued the damage that unbridled market forces had done to American society over the past half-century.  After finishing the manuscript he emigrated with his family to Spain.  He is currently working on a third book about the nature of the market and its spiritual implications.  Paul Stiles is also, by coincidence, a writer for Lonely Planet travel guides in Melbourne.  He recently contributed to the forthcoming Lonely Planet Guide to Morocco, in which he covered the area from Tangier to Algeria.
  Free | James O Fairfax Theatre | Bookings essential
  

 

 

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