Upstairs @ 49 - Events and Launches


Conditions

This listing is subject to change without notice, though customers with existing bookings will be notified by email of any changes that affect them.

Cost

Book launches are free and open to the public. Literary events are $10/$7 conc. inc. GST unless otherwise marked.

Bookings

Bookings are essential, phone 02 9660 2333 or use the booking links on these pages. Gleeclub members please utilise your unlimited entry to events (one per paid event) but do let us know you are coming. Thank You.

Venue

All launches & events are held Upstairs @ 49 unless otherwise stated.

Gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Road, Glebe Sydney NSW

Free Event

Bill Leak

Un-Australian of The Year

Published by: Scribe

In conversation with Blogger and humourist, Jack the Insider

Monday, August 06, 2012 / 6.00 for 6.30pm

Venue: gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe

Cost: Free

RSVP: gleebooks - 9660 2333 or Secure Online Booking

Buy Un-Australian of The Year

Un-Australian of The Year

'Freedom of speech is the freedom to offend and that means the freedom to offend anyone.'

A new collection of the art and observations of cartoonist, painter and all-round contrarian—the incomparable Bill Leak.

The public has rarely held politicians and the practice of politics in such contempt. Luckily Bill Leak is here to guide us through the darkness. UnAustralian of the Year contains Leak's best editorial cartoons since 2007 and is a satirical history of an extraordinary period in Australian politics: from the enthusiastic popular mandate enjoyed by Kevin Rudd's Labor after the 2007 federal election to the brutal merry-go-round of party leaders culminating in the rancour and instability surrounding Julia Gillard's minority government.

In a series of reflections Leak writes with his customary directness and acerbic wit on a range of topics: his recent accident and recovery from brain damage; the blessings of manic-depression for the creative artist; the art of editorial cartooning and his commitment to free expression; portrait painting and the contemporary art scene.