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Collins Ballarat: In Conversation with John Safran

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Collins Ballarat: In Conversation with John Safran


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4:00pm - 5:30pm, 26th October 2024


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22 Lydiard St, Ballarat, VIC 3350


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We are delighted to be hosting John Safran as he celebrates the launch of his latest book 'Squat' where he 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. 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.

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