FEDERAL Minister for the Arts Paul Fletcher and ASIC’s Bruce Meagher join journalists Amy Remeikis, Mark Kenny and UC’s Virginia Haussegger to debate Cassius’s proportion “The fault is not in our stars, but in ourselves”, from “Julius Caesar”.
It follows the first in the series of “Bell Debates” in Sydney in September, and this one will be held live and also live streamed from the National Portrait Gallery for audiences virtually on a “pay what you feel” basis.
The idea is to bring together Australians to debate direct quotations from Shakespeare to celebrate the company’s 30th anniversary year, addressing and tackling ideas from his plays in the context of the modern world.
For the Canberra event, two teams of three will debate for and against the quotation, providing a forum to demonstrate the relevance of Shakespeare’s ideas. The event will be moderated by Bell Shakespeare board member Lachlan Edwards and hosted by artistic director Peter Evans.
The Sydney debate in September around the quotations “We have seen better days” from “As You like it”, saw a victory for Benjamin Law’s negative team.
The final debate in the series will take place in Melbourne on a date to be determined.
“Bell Debate”, Canberra, National Portrait Gallery, 7.30pm, November 12, registrations here.
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![Teacher Vanessa Jones has been living in Higgins since 2001, and while she loves the area, she says she is “fed up” with the neglectful ACT government.
The Higgins shops have been completely abandoned, says Vanessa, preventing the opportunity for residents to have a community-centred space to socialise.
They only received bins nine months ago, she says, and requests for a water station and repairs to the bus station have gone unanswered.
“It’s very, very slow,” says Vanessa.
“I asked for the zebra crossing on Fullagar [Crescent] to be repainted, and we had to wait about six or nine months.
“That’s just such a long time… we pay a lot of rates.”
Vanessa says assistance from the government only seems to go to communities with time-rich and assertive communities, leaving places such as Higgins, where the majority of households have both adults working full-time and English may not be the first language of the family, at an automatic disadvantage.
“If you’ve got two people working, paying a mortgage, raising two or three kids, they don’t have the time,” says Vanessa.
Vanessa says the lack of attention quieter places such as Higgins is receiving is starting to look a lot like favouritism.
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