Provocations #4: 'Hope' is the thing with feathers
- Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2022, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
- Location: The LAB, 63 Light Square/Wauwi, Adelaide
- Cost: General Admission $30; Student and Concession $15
When Pandora released the evils into the world, hope remained in the jar. Is hope another evil, or is it a fool’s game, or a necessity? Was it being withheld from us, or preserved for safe-keeping?
For Emily Dickinson, hope was ‘the thing with feathers – That perches in the soul.’ For Nietzsche, hope was ‘the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.’
Are we suffering from a global hope shortage? When all the news is bad news, where can we find it?
Join special guests writer, activist and former Greens senator Scott Ludlum; First Nations Chair of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Professor of Music Practice at Monash University Deborah Cheetham AO; and Chair of the Commission for the Human Future Arnagretta Hunter (with composer activist and Head of the School of Music at ANU Kim Cunio) for a lively evening of radical hope.
Local artists and provocateurs complete the program:
- Filmmaker, screenwriter and photographer Christopher Houghton
- Researcher, writer and performer Thomas Moran
- Linguist, writer and filmmaker Joshua Nash
- Director, creative producer and singer Cheryl Pickering
- Composer, pianist, writer and music critic Stephen Whittington
The JMCCCP Provocations series is kindly supported by the Hackett Foundation and is held in Adelaide’s “multi-functional, multi-genre immersive performance space”, The LAB.
Tickets available now: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/319159293037
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