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The Wheeler Centre: Squatting with John Safran

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Event

The Wheeler Centre: Squatting with John Safran


Time & date

6:30pm - 7:30pm, 24th October 2024


Location

The Wheeler Centre View map

176 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000


Tickets

Bookings Essential

$64.00 Full + Book $55.00 Concession + Book $55.00 Under 30 + Book $29.00 Full $20.00 Concession $20.00 Under 30

About

John Safran recounts his time squatting in a celebrity’s abandoned mansion

On the page and on the small screen, John Safran is known for pushing boundaries – his own, other people’s and society’s – to examine big questions about life and belief from an utterly original perspective.  

The writer and filmmaker’s new book, Squat, recounts his stranger-than-fiction experience travelling to Los Angeles and squatting at a well-known celebrity’s mansion (identity to be revealed). With the celebrity’s promotion of Hitler as a kick-off point, Safran explores threads of Jewishness, identity and belonging – topics that couldn’t hit closer to home. 

In conversation with host Mahmood Fazal, Safran will delve into the absurdity and profundity of squatting amidst luxury.

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Squat
Australia's most intrepid Jew finds out just how precarious identity can be.
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