The feeling of being out of place never abates. We discover that humans use exclusion as a form of power and survival early on in life, but there’s always the ever-present hope that with taxes, impotence and hair loss we’ll no longer have the need for...
Relief is perhaps the worst sensation one can experience. In the moment it seems like the best possible thing to feel, but that’s what makes it so dangerous. It’s a temporary thing that seems endless. It’s essentially a hard drug without the reliability of an...
Workin' 9 to 5! It's strange to think that was ever economically viable. 10) Totalitarianism's Long Dark Shadow Over China 4th December What: The Embassy of Canada and The National Endowment for Democracy invite you to the seventeenth annual Seymour Martin Lipset Lecture on Democracy in the World. The lecture...
Lean in. 10) LP Giobbi's House Hymns 29th November What: LP Giobbi is a producer-DJ-music director-synth warrior goddess born draped in sequins and cloaked in fog at a seance in the mountains of Oregon. Experience her unique sound in this livestreamed performance. Why: We don’t generally believe in the occult, but if...
Declaring one’s independence is a formative thing. Becoming an adult isn’t dictated by the ability to legally purchase liquor nor by the ATO’s awareness of your existence. It’s a realisation of the self and the willingness to cut whatever ties that have afforded you comfort in...
Introspect. Then drink. 10) Atlas Obscura: Dino 101 28th November What: Attention dinosaur nerds and science stans! Join Dustin Growick, host of the YouTube channel The Dinosaur Show, and leader of Atlas Obscura's Dinos and Dunes in the Colorado Desert trip, and Kristina Gustovich, middle school teacher, geologist, improviser, and...
You're not dead yet. But that doesn't mean you can't lock your doors and windows, draw your curtains, lie in the darkness and pretend. 10) Louis Tomlinson Home Tour 2.0 23rd November What: Experience One Direction alumnus Louis Tomlinson live at home with this One Night Only show of the...
It’s so easy to lean in to a small moment and believe it will last forever. And the problem with this is that the moments that seem to be the most enduring aren’t the ones of passion or romance, it’s the s*** ones. The toilet overflowing...
Finding a comfortable rhythm in which to live involves no small amount of trial and error. You have to incorporate things like money and relationships, or the complete lack-thereof, and pick precisely the right way to poison yourself to make the slow march towards death that...
Finger your brain. 10) Life on Venus? Or Much Ado About Nothing? 19th November What: Several weeks ago, a team of astronomers reported the detection of phosphine on Venus. If this stinky, toxic, perhaps biogenic gas does exist on Venus as reported, we stand to learn something profound. If clever...