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Spring Fling 2024: Wild Abandon

A season of curiosity unleashed. 

Spring Fling returns for 2024 with wild abandon. This year, we’ve curated a lineup of change-makers, rule-breakers and singular storytellers to challenge your preconceptions and foster new ways of thinking.

Across the month of October, celebrate the vigour of spring by embracing curiosity and letting your imagination run free, as we transport you from urban spaces to wild places.  

 

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Upcoming Events

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The Wheeler Centre is pleased to partner with the Wilderness Society on this exhibition celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Environment Award for Children’s Literature.
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Special Event
Spring Fling

Exhibition: 30 Years of Nature Book Illustration

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Celebrate the launch of Next Chapter recipient Hasib Hourani’s debut poetry collection rock flight – a powerful account of Palestinian displacement and dispossession.
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Performance/Music
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Hasib Hourani: rock flight

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Bestselling children’s authors Sally Rippin and Anna Walker embrace their inner wild things at this special screening of Spike Jonze’s film adaptation of the classic picture book.
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Young Audiences

Where The Wild Things Are: Screening and Q&A

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Following her heartwarming and triumphant victory as winner of the inaugural season of Alone Australia, Gina Chick shares her extraordinary journey through the weeds of grief and the wilds of nature.
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In Conversation
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Gina Chick: We Are the Stars

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Three First Nations performers, Laniyuk, Nardi Simpson and Jazz Money reflect on connection, Country and resistance in a night of poetry, music and storytelling.
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First Nations
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Performance/Music
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Storytelling

Stories of Country

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Share a meal with Virginia Trioli and hear about her lifelong love of good food, good company and living life ‘with a side dish of joy’.
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In Conversation
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Regional Event
Spring Fling

Virginia Trioli at Montalto

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Emerging writers run wild at this Spring Fling edition of our popular Next Big Thing series.
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Storytelling

The Next Big Thing: Wild Abandon

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Renowned chef and Attica restaurateur Ben Shewry contemplates his culinary legacy and the inevitability of mortality with host Marieke Hardy.
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In Conversation
Live Podcast
Spring Fling

Ben Shewry is Going to Die

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Rick Morton exposes the fraud and damage wrecked by the Australian government’s Robodebt scheme.
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In Conversation
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Regional Event
Spring Fling

Rick Morton: Mean Streak

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Join Australian literary icon Tim Winton for a special event delving into his long-awaited propulsive new novel, Juice.
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In Conversation
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Tim Winton: Juice

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Welcome to the Shaun Micallef variety hour, where anything goes ... as long as it’s in praise of the latest addition to the Australian literary canon: Micallef’s new book Slivers, Shards and Skerricks
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Performance/Music
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Spring Fling

A Tribute to the Late(st) Shaun Micallef (book)

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