2024 Bookclubs
All The Missing Children with Zahid Gamieldien
WHEN: TUESDAY, AUGUST 20TH 2024 @ 6:45PM (FOR 7PM START)
WHERE: ART BAU GALLERY
1 MITCHELL RD, BROOKVALE
COST:
$30 (includes drinks and refreshments)
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Ilene, a working class mother, is struggling to survive and desperate to reconnect with her children, Jack and Lonnie, in the aftermath of a near fatal tragedy.
But her children vanish, setting off a chain reaction within the community.
Suspended detective Omar helps out with the investigation, uncovering disquieting clues, but he keeps getting pulled away by a dangerous cold case.
Benji, a recovering addict, finds peace by breeding lorikeets and caring for his mother, only to have his clean life upended by a stranger’s menacing threat.
Nera, a city lawyer grieving on a country farm, wants to find out who killed one of her animals and is faced with increasingly strange and unsettling answers.
In this gripping tale of human frailty and the otherworldly, each of the characters must confront the mystery of what really happened to Jack and Lonnie.
Man made with Tracey Spicer
WHEN: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17th, 2024 @ 6:45PM (FOR 7PM START)
WHERE: ART BAU GALLERY
1 MITCHELL RD, BROOKVALE
COST:
$30 (includes drinks and refreshments)
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Walkley Award-winning journalist Tracey Spicer exposes the next frontier of feminism. Man-Made aims to open readers’ eyes to a transformative technological shift in society and give them the tools to make positive change.
Winner, 2023 Australian Business Book Awards, Social Responsibility
Longlisted for the 2023 Walkley Book Award
‘Mum, I want a robot slave.’
Broadcaster Tracey Spicer had an epiphany when her young son uttered these six words. Suddenly, her life’s work fighting inequality seemed futile. What’s the point in agitating to change the present, if bigotry is being embedded into our futures?
And so began a quest to uncover who was responsible and hold them to account. Who is the ultimate villain? Big Tech, whose titans refuse to spend money to fix the problem? The world’s politicians, who lack the will to legislate? Or should we all be walking into a hall of mirrors and taking a good, hard look at ourselves…?
This is a deeply researched, illuminating and gripping ride into an uncertain future, culminating in a resounding call to action that will shake the tech sector to its foundations.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Tracey Spicer is a multiple Walkley Award winning author, journalist and broadcaster who has anchored national programs for ABC TV and radio, Network Ten and Sky News.
The inaugural national convenor of Women in Media, Tracey is one of the most sought-after keynote speakers and emcees in the region.
In 2019 she was named the NSW Premier’s Woman of the Year, accepted the Sydney Peace Prize alongside Tarana Burke for the `Me Too’ movement, and won the national award for Excellence in Women’s Leadership through Women & Leadership Australia.
In 2018, Tracey was chosen as one of the Australian Financial Review’s 100 Women of Influence, winning the Social Enterprise and Not-For-Profit category. She was also named Agenda Setter of the Year by the website Women’s Agenda.
For her 30 years of media and charity work, Tracey has been awarded the Order of Australia.
The Medicinal Garden with Caroline Parker
WHEN: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22ND, 2024 @ 6:45PM (FOR 7PM START)
WHERE: ART BAU GALLERY
1 MITCHELL RD, BROOKVALE
COST:
$30 (includes drinks and refreshments)
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Grow your garden and herbal first-aid kit with herbs, flowers and foraged weeds. Medicinal herbs aren’t just for traditional medicinal preparations, they are also a wonderful way to complement a healthy diet. The Medicinal Garden is a brilliant guide to revitalising your health by soothing your mind, body and green thumb. From edible treats to therapeutic remedies, unearth the healing potential of plants both wild and cultivated. Featuring forty herb profiles and seven medicinal weeds ideal for foraging, learn how to set up and maintain a planted or potted garden for a healthful life. Discover the healing power of your very own medicinal garden with edible recipes for cakes, biscuits, salads, soups, teas and many more. The book features easy, natural remedies for your skin, gut, muscles, heart and mind with recipes for oils, tinctures, compresses, steams and washes for health and healing.
ABOUT CAROLINE Parker (BHSc Western Herbal Medicine) is a herbalist, farmer, forager and facilitator. She grows herbs and flowers for her business, The Cottage Herbalist, where she sells her award-winning, certified organic and wildcrafted tea blends. When she isn’t in her studio hand-blending and packing orders she is sowing seeds, picking flowers, prepping garden beds, shovelling compost and tearing around on the ride-on mower.
Hamish Stuart and Friends
WHEN: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19th, 2024 @ 6:45PM (FOR 7PM START)
WHERE: ART BAU GALLERY
1 MITCHELL RD, BROOKVALE
COST:
$30 (includes drinks and refreshments)
ABOUT
The Listening Station – MUSO edition.
Expand your heart and your knowledge with live music.
Hamish Stuart, jazz drummer, plays a set of classic standards with fellow jazz musicians. During the interval Frankie will interview Hamish for his vast knowledge of Jazz and making music through collaboration.
ABOUT HAMISH STUART
There aren’t many styles drummer Hamish Stuart hasn’t mastered, and the list of musicians he’s played with and who are now his fans is even longer. With his first solo album “someone else’s child’ Hamish proves he has a gift for composition as well.
As Australia’s much loved and respected ‘rhythm king’ Hamish calls upon an extraordinary family of world class musicians to help out for his first appearance at The Listening Station- Muso edition.
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