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The Great Aussie Road Trip: Heather Ewart in Conversation | NOW SOLD OUT.
Minerva Space
Award-winning journalist Heather Ewart hits the Back Roads to Ballarat to journey through her great Australian road trips.
Heather Ewart
Over a career spanning four decades, Heather Ewart has been senior political reporter and a foreign correspondent posted to London, Washington and Brussels. Raised on a farm in country Victoria, her adventures have come full circle to see her hosting ABC TV’s popular program Back Roads.
In Ewart’s new book, Back Roads: The Great Aussie Road Trip, the much-loved journalist shares hot tips from her travels around Australia. From ideas on where to go and when to go, what to pack and what to see – she covers it all.
For this in-conversation event, she will be in conversation with Emma Mary Hall at Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute to discuss the joyous moments of her road trips and share practical tips for discovering lesser-known parts of this beautiful country.
Presented in partnership with The Wheeler Centre
The Great Aussie Road Trip
Heather’s favourite road trips around Australia, revealing towns and communities outside the mainstream – and the colourful inhabitants whose grit and humour will uplift and inspire you.
Heather will be hosted by Emma Mary Hall
Emma Mary Hall is a theatre writer and performer, based in Ballarat.
Emma has written three award-winning solo works (We May Have to Choose, Ode to Man and World Problems), performing them nationally and overseas.
In early 2024, World Problems received a mainstage season at Melbourne Theatre Company, performed by Carly Sheppard, which toured to regional venues across Victoria.
Emma also manages the Rat Lab in the Ballarat Arts Incubator, a space for Ballarat artists needing space to develop their new theatre projects and/or local stories for live performance.
World Problems is published by Currency Press. Ode to Man is published by Playlab.
Presenting Partner.
Presented in partnership The Wheeler Centre
Cost/Bookings: $10 per person (plus bkg fee)
We will be able to cater for a limited number of walkin places on the night.
Bookseller.
This event takes place on Wadawurrung Country. Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute acknowledges the Wadawurrung People of the Kulin Nation as the first inhabitants and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we work, learn and create. Always Was, Always Will Be, Aboriginal Land.
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