Hugh Mackay in Conversation
On 18 May 2021, social psychologist Hugh Mackay was in Ballarat to speak about the book he wrote during the lockdown of 2020 to demonstrate how crises often turn out to be the making of us.
Entitled The Kindness Revolution: How We can restore hope, rebuild trust and inspire optimism, this book calls us to dream of a more loving country – more inclusive, more compassionate, more creative, by living ‘as if’ Australia is already that country.
Hugh was in conversation with Assoc Prof Rick Chew, Director, Ballarat Arts Academy and Dr Lynne Reeder on Tuesday 18 May at 5.00pm in the Seminar Theatre, Ballarat Tech Park Central, 110 Lydiard St Sth.
This public event will featured an video adaptation of the song ‘What a Wonderful World’ performed by the Arts Academy students at the time of the same sex marriage debates. Our Arts Academy made this video ‘….to imagine the world through art, not as it is, but as it could be. A message of love and equality from the heart of Ballarat’.
What a Wonderful World, The Ballarat Arts Academy and The BallaRat Pack Orchestra - YouTube
