#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
These fascinating books are an invitation to rethink how we perceive history, situating the brevity of a human lifetime within the vast cycles of nature. Humbled by the resilience and unpredictable might of natural forces, these authors consider what we might learn from the past and how this might shape the future.
#Artists
Dave Witty
Dave Witty is an Australian writer raised in the United Kingdom. He is the recipient of the 2021 Rosina Joy Buckman Award in The Nature Conservancy Nature Writing Prize, and his work appears in publications including Island, Griffith Review and Meanjin. What the Trees See is his first book.
Fiona McMillan-Webster
Fiona McMillan-Webster is an award-winning science writer with a Bachelor of Science in physics and a PhD in biophysics. Her writing has been published by National Geographic, Forbes, COSMOS magazine, Australian Geographic and has also been included in several anthologies of The Best Australian Science Writing. Her first book, The Age of Seeds, was shortlisted for the 2023 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Prize and went on to win the People’s Choice Prize.













