“When we forget that we are embedded in the natural world, we also forget that what we do to our surroundings, we are doing to ourselves,” David Suzuki.
David Suzuki is a world-renowned scientist, broadcaster, author, activist and co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation. He has devoted his life to raising awareness about our connections with and responsibilities to the environment. Join us to celebrate his life-long contribution and honour his insistence that the world’s elders still have much useful work to do.
David will be appearing via Zoom from his home in Canada.
David Suzuki is known as the host of CBC science and natural history television series, The Nature of Things, and was the recipient of the Canadian Academy of Cinema and Television’s 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2021 BC Reconciliation Award, the UNESCO’s Kalinga Prize for Science, the 2009 Right Livelihood Award, and UNEP’s Global 500. He is a professor at the University of British Columbia and holds 30 honorary degrees from universities in Canada, the United States and Australia. His written work includes more than 55 books.
Ashley Hay is a Brisbane-based award-winning novelist and essayist. Ashley worked as the former editor of the Griffith Review between 2018 and 2022, curating, commissioning and creating 16 editions of Australia’s leading quarterly of great writing and new ideas.
This is event is proudly sponsored by Megalong Restaurant at Lot 101.
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