Dr Hubble is Australia’s favourite bubble man. He loves bubbles and can make them do amazing things. He manipulates simple soap bubbles to create miraculous moments of wonder. Dr Hubble will show you bubbles you have never seen before: the square bubble, the octagon bubble, the chimney and the explode-a-bubble. This is a fun, funny and slightly educational show with subtle storytelling and a message of sustainability woven through it. You’ll have to see it to believe it.
Event Type: Free
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Global Conversations: Eva Hoffman in conversation with Alex Skovron
MJBW and JQ present the latest in our series of Global Conversations. Join internationally acclaimed author and academic Eva Hoffman and Melbourne poet, writer and book editor Alex Skovron.
Eva has written an important new essay for Jewish Quarterly about the remarkable but almost forgotten Polish Jewish poet Zuzanna Ginczanka (Gincburg), who was murdered by the Nazis in January 1945, aged just 27. The discussion – while focusing on Ginczanka, her life and her poetic legacy – will also explore some broader issues raised by the subject, as well as touching on other aspects of Hoffman’s work and concerns.
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MJBW 2021 Summer Reading Guide — featuring Elissa Goldstein, Bram Presser and Tali Lavi
What happened around this time last year when three Jewish literary tragics entered a room to talk books? Melbourne Jewish Book Week’s bookish version of Margaret and David was a roaring success. Who knew an evening of book recommendations could be so entertaining? Expect even more this year as our passionate book aficionados – Tali, Bram and Elissa – preview some of the biggest forthcoming books, discuss their recent reads and tell us what books they’re looking forward to reading over summer. -
Global Conversations: Reading the World Through Writing
Originally from New York, Lauren Elkin lived in Paris for over twenty years and now lives in London. Her most recent book No. 91/92: A Parisian Bus Diary reflects on an earlier Paris. In this conversation with critic, writer and programmer for MJBW, Tali Lavi, Lauren will talk about reading the world through writing, and her recent contribution to The Jewish Quarterly, an exploration of the work of the indomitable Vivian Gornick. -
Lily Brett in conversation with Michaela Kalowski
In this conversation, Lily Brett talks with Michaela Kalowski about ‘Old Seems to be Other People’ — and reflects on the need to move, to live and to have fun while you still can.
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Global Conversations: The Art of Translation in the State of Israel Today
Presented in partnership with The Jewish Quarterly. Featuring award-winning Israeli author and journalist Nir Baram and Man Booker International prize-winning translator Jessica Cohen in conversation with The Jewish Quarterly editor Jonathan Pearlman, ‘The Art of Translation in the State of Israel Today’ will provide insights into Baram’s piece in the forthcoming issue of JQ, life in Israel since the Oslo Accords and the art of translating different voices.
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MJBW Winter Book Club: ‘The Believer’ by Sarah Krasnostein
Sarah Krasnostein — multi-award winning author of The Trauma Cleaner — will be interviewed by journalist Meredith Lake about Sarah’s latest publication, The Believer, and her explorations into the fascinating and labyrinthine realm of belief.
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New Populism and Old Hatreds
Join Melbourne Jewish Book Week and world-renowned historian Simon Schama, a high-profile contributor to the new issue of The Jewish Quarterly with the editor Jonathan Pearlman – to explore why the stoking of ancient hatreds is so potent right now.
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Kosher Soul and the Cooking Gene: How Award-Winning Writer Michael Twitty Explores Identity and History Through Food
Elissa Goldstein will be in conversation with Michael Twitty, a riveting storyteller and a 21st-century multi-hyphenate talent. Michael is a culinary historian and educator with a focus on African, African-American and Jewish cuisines; a Judaic studies teacher; and a historical interpreter who specialises in the foodways of enslaved people, which profoundly influenced contemporary America.
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MJBW Summer Bookclub: ‘The Watermill’ by Arnold Zable
The conversation between Arnold Zable and Tali Lavi offered readers an insight into The Watermill, a quartet of true stories of displacement, of survival and and of resistance, and how Zable sheds a ray of light in the darkest of places.