Saturday 12 August
4-9 pm
Morison Centre, Radford College

This year’s Dirrum Dirrum Festival is one you don’t want to miss. Based around the theme of Sonder, we will hear from a range of people about the stories and experiences that have made them who they are.

Tickets can be purchased here.

Speakers include:

• Welcome to Country by Ngambri Elder Aunty Dr Matilda House-Williams
• Author and Filmmaker Brenda Matthews. Brenda’s film The Last Daughter is available to watch on Netflix. Brenda will share her powerful story of love, loss, and re-connection
• Author of best-selling books Boy Swallows Universe and Love Stories Trent Dalton (appearing via video)
• Former CEO of ACT Palliative Care Tracey Gillard (appearing via video)
• Activist nun Sister Brigid Arthur (appearing via video)
• Pilot and storyteller Nathan Parker
• Performer and social worker Gretel Burgess
• Olympic gold medallist rower, doctor and youth advocate Dr Scott Brennan OAM

Stalls include:

Dymocks Belconnen, Julie Oakley, clothes from Hau Nia Timor and student designers, Stepping Stone social enterprise café and many more student-led stalls.

Live music includes:

• Will and Annie
• Murrigeejar Mob
• Illiterate
• Unexplained Absence
• Everything Rhymes with Oranges

Sonder: The realisation that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own - populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness - an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.