BWF presents...
Sasha Sagan in conversation with Michaela Kalowski
Sasha Sagan + Michaela Kalowski
Online Event
#Performances
#About the event
This is an online event, streamed live on the Brisbane Writers Festival YouTube page or by clicking on the video below. It was originally filmed and broadcast at 8pm, Friday the 5th of June, 2020.
BWF is thrilled to start presenting incredible conversations online in 2020. We hope they bring joy and comfort as we all navigate through this time of reshaping our world, now and post Covid-19. Humanity is in the thick of it right now and we all need stories, ideas and rituals for finding beauty, wonder and awe in daily life. Our inner landscapes have been challenged with isolation and uncertainty. And so for our first conversation of 2020 we are so proud to present Sasha Sagan, author of For Small Creatures Such as We.
Daughter of Ann Druyan and Carl Sagan, Sasha grew up immersed in the belief that the natural world and vast cosmos are full of beauty. When Sasha became a mother, she began her own search for meaningful rituals and looked into the already well established rituals of people all over the planet. This conversation will be on her reflections for finding wonder.
Please join us for a beautiful evening of conversation, presented by Michaela Kalowski as we all delve into the vastness of humanity’s ever present need for connection and wonder.
If you have any feedback or comments on this event please send them through to me at Rachel.Fry@bwf.org.au.
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#Buy the book
You can buy the book from our friends at the SLQ bookshop using the link below.
#Support BWF
Brisbane Writers Festival is a non-profit organisation delivering one of Australia's largest annual literary festivals. Throughout 2020, we are delivering free online events for you, our dedicated patrons, while continuing to pay the incredible artists we host.
You can support BWF in bringing you these events through a tax-deductible donation (over $2). Brisbane Writers Festival is a registered charity.
#Artists
Sasha Sagan
Sasha Sagan is a writer whose work had appeared in The Cut, O, the Oprah Magazine, Lit Hub, and beyond. Her first book 'For Small Creatures Such As We' explores how science has informed rituals and celebrations, drawing inspiration from the work of her parents, Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan.
Michaela Kalowski
Michaela Kalowski is an interviewer, moderator and curator for writers and ideas festivals. In 2022 she's curator of International Author events for Brisbane Writers Festival and curator of ABC RN's on-air writers festival, Big Weekend of Books. She's conducted radio interviews for ABC RN's The Music Show, Big Ideas and The Bookshelf, ABC Classic and has presented programs across ABC radio. Recent interviews include Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell, Trent Dalton and Robert Jones Jr.
