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Wednesday August 13


Time

Session

Venue
6:00pm

Wednesday
Aug 13
ideas debate 2003 – it’s time for new ideas
Is it? What about all the good old ideas lying around - are they of no use? Can only new ideas save us? Is it time? Adjudicator Phillip Adams has the bell. National and international ideas guests Angela Ward, Graham Molitor, Ian Lowe, Jacqui Katona, Esther Charlesworth and Tariq Ali take their positions and argue it out.

In 2003 the Ideas debate will be held at City Hall. The Ideas debate, the opening event of the four-day festival, is open to all. You can book for this special free Ideas event by calling 07 3403 8888. Doors open at 5.30pm.

speaker bios: - Phillip Adams - Tariq Ali - Esther Charlesworth - Jacqui Katona - Ian Lowe - Graham TT Molitor - Angela Ward
City Hall Auditorium
1800 Seats

Free

90 min session

Thursday August 14


Time

Session

Venue
10:00am

Thursday
Aug 14
welcome to country – welcome to Ideas 2003
Turbine Hall

Free
10:00am

Thursday
Aug 14
Ideas Bazaar
Take a wander in and around the Powerhouse to check out installations, exhibitions and demonstrations. Brilliant and bizarre ideas, people’s passions and projects bought together for four days in the Ideas Bazaar.
Throughout Brisbane Powerhouse and surrounds

Free

All day
10:00am

Thursday
Aug 14
Kids Ideas
Activities to drop into and/or Kids Ideas workshops starting on the hour every hour.
Kids Ideas Tent

Free

until 2pm
10:30am

Thursday
Aug 14
great ideas from history
Some moments change who we are and how we live. The Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts presents the works of great orators, thinkers and doers. These speeches changed our world.
Spark Bar

Free
11:00am

Thursday
Aug 14
what happened to a ‘tolerant’ Australia?
Farmer, living treasure broadcaster and editor of ‘The Retreat from Tolerance: A snapshot of Australian Society’ Phillip Adams takes a break from interviewing others and puts his views on the Howard years, tolerance and what will happen next.

NB: Due to arising international diplomatic commitments, Jose Ramos–Horta has cancelled his appearance at this year’s festival.

speaker bios: - Phillip Adams
Powerhouse Theatre
400 Seats

Free
Auslan

70 min session
11:30am

Thursday
Aug 14
will we prosper?
What is a prosperous society? Can conflicting aspirations ever be reconciled? Poverty free futures commentator Ivana Milojevic, homelessness and quality of life researcher Barbara Adkins and Director of the Social Justice Project Julian Disney present their ideas about prosperity.

speaker bios: - Barbara Adkins - Julian Disney - Ivana Milojevic
Visy Theatre
200 Seats

Free

70 min session
12:00pm

Thursday
Aug 14
ideas engine room
The big ideas brainstorm. Share your ideas and creative genius. Discuss, debate and add to the ideas of the day. Drop in to the engine room, bring your ideas.
Rehearsal Room

Free

until 7pm
1:00pm

Thursday
Aug 14
survival or self harm
Tony McMichael founder of the London Centre of Globalisation, Environmental Change and Health outlines the massive change coming our way. Climate change, disease, epidemics, your health. Environmental philosopher William Grey considers the arising ethical dilemmas. Introduced by Ian Lowe.

speaker bios: - Ian Lowe - Tony McMichael
Powerhouse Theatre
400 Seats

Free

70 min session
1:30pm

Thursday
Aug 14
who will pay?
Director of Philanthropy Australia Elizabeth Cham argues that venture capital investment in community is essential and is growing. She knows where the money is.

speaker bios: - Elizabeth Cham
Visy Theatre
200 Seats

Free

60 min session
3:30pm

Thursday
Aug 14
who owns what – and why …
Patent attorney and molecular biologist Ewen C Wynne has patented vaccines, human cells, new species and new machines. He joins Deacons Partner Phillip Hourigan to discuss intellectual property, the creative and commercial nature of ideas, and what we really own.

speaker bios: - Ewen C. Wynne
Visy Theatre
200 Seats

Free

60 min session
5:00pm

Thursday
Aug 14
ideas soapbox
Take to the box with your ideas: good, bad and bizarre …
Spark Bar

Free
5:45pm

Thursday
Aug 14
optimism - Australia Talks Back Live
Are you optimistic about the world you live in? Or does the future fill you with concern? Sandy McCutcheon brings together Ziauddin Sardar, Tony McMichael and John Howkins to discuss knowledge, politics, disease and the shape of the future.

speaker bios: - John Howkins - Tony McMichael - Ziauddin Sardar
Visy Theatre
200 Seats

Free

75 min session
6:00pm

Thursday
Aug 14
happiness, joy and reality
Tibetan Buddhist nun and subject of award-winning documentary 'Chasing Buddha', the Venerable Robina Courtin spends much of her time with prisoners on death row. She speaks frankly, lives as though there is no tomorrow, and has big ideas about transformation, solutions and your aspirations.

speaker bios: - Robina Courtin
Powerhouse Theatre
400 Seats

$15
Auslan

70 min session
8:00pm

Thursday
Aug 14
into the lair of the relativist
Is all truth relative? British philosopher Stephen Law, and advocate of new philosophies for change Mary Zournazi discuss how we think, the tyranny of logical thinking and the new role of philosophy.

speaker bios: - Stephen Law - Mary Zournazi
Visy Theatre
200 Seats

Free

70 min session
8:30pm

Thursday
Aug 14
timing is everything
What will dominate the next millennium? Life sciences, meta-materials, a new atomic age, the new space age. Graham Molitor the American founder of emerging issue analysis has been predicting mega trends for 30 years. Political scientist and futurist Sohail Inayatullah does not always agree.

speaker bios: - Sohail Inayatullah - Graham TT Molitor
Powerhouse Theatre
400 Seats

$25

70 min session
9:00pm

Thursday
Aug 14
late night ideas - black humor
Actor, director and comedian Lafe Charlton joins Indigenous scholar and soon to be doctor of aboriginal humour, Lillian Holt to talk about what’s so funny and why.

Late Night Ideas is followed by live music by Simbora in the Spark Bar, until even later.

speaker bios: - Lillian Holt
Spark Bar

Free

Friday August 15


Time

Session

Venue
10:00am

Friday
Aug 15
Ideas Bazaar
Take a wander in and around the Powerhouse to check out installations, exhibitions and demonstrations. Brilliant and bizarre ideas, people’s passions and projects bought together for four days in the Ideas Bazaar.
Throughout Brisbane Powerhouse and surrounds

Free

All day
10:00am

Friday
Aug 15
Kids Ideas
Activities to drop into and/or Kids Ideas workshops starting on the hour every hour.
Kids Ideas Tent

Free

until 2pm
10:00am

Friday
Aug 15
living in a box
Is there a new architecture for cities and communities of the world? Should we trust architects with the job? Sean Godsell’s housing solutions include shipping containers and park benches. Is it shelter or an extraordinary gimmick?

speaker bios: - Sean Godsell
Visy Theatre
200 Seats

Free

60 min session
10:30am

Friday
Aug 15
the CS Energy Generations Ahead forum
Work, family, business, leadership and lifestyle. It’s all changing fast. Futurist Sohail Inayatullah joins Eco Futures director Molly Harriss Olson and former president of the International Council on Social Welfare Julian Disney, to present views on how this and future generations will live.

speaker bios: - Julian Disney - Molly Harriss Olson - Sohail Inayatullah
Powerhouse Theatre
400 Seats

Free

90 min session
12:00pm

Friday
Aug 15
ideas engine room
The big ideas brainstorm. Drop in to the engine room to discuss, debate and add to the ideas of the day.
Rehearsal Room

Free

until 7pm
12:00pm

Friday
Aug 15
misinformation
How does information move and what information moves us? Professional networker Kimberly Palmer knows the power of gossip, she joins activist Camille Barbagallo and spin guru Marina Vit to nut out the information channels of the future. What is the media feeding on and what are they feeding us?

speaker bios: - Camille Barbagallo - Kimberly Palmer - Marina Vit
Visy Theatre
200 Seats

Free

60 min session
1:00pm

Friday
Aug 15
healing powers
British Architecture and Landscape Architecture Professor Clare Cooper Marcus shares her current passion. The author of House as a Mirror of Self, she discusses the use of natural imagery in healing from cancer and her current work advocating for healing gardens in hospitals.

speaker bios: - Clare Cooper Marcus
Powerhouse Theatre
400 Seats

$15

70 min session
2:00pm

Friday
Aug 15
ideas soapbox
Take to the box with your ideas - urgent, insistent and vital ideas.
Spark Bar

Free
2:30pm

Friday
Aug 15
watching, wanting, winning
Who is watching government? Mayor Mike Berwick, the invisible public servant and Alan Demack, Australia’s first Integrity Commissioner, join Commissioner Rachel Hunter to discuss ethics, accountability, leadership and change.

speaker bios: - Mike Berwick - Alan Demack
Visy Theatre
200 Seats

Free

60 min session
3:00pm

Friday
Aug 15
greed and gumption
Who are the new business people? What are they doing and why are they succeeding? Director of five new companies James Bradfield Moody and Brazen’s Kimberly Palmer examine the new generation of business, work and career. Will you be part of it? Introduced by Dale Spender.

speaker bios: - James Bradfield Moody - Kimberly Palmer - Dale Spender
Powerhouse Theatre
400 Seats

Free

70 min session
5:00pm

Friday
Aug 15
great ideas from history
Some moments change who we are and how we live. These speeches and ideas changed our world.
Spark Bar

Free
5:30pm

Friday
Aug 15
hidden stories
Historian and author Rosamond Siemon discusses our fixation on social history: the joys and perils of researching and the little mysteries we have tucked away.

speaker bios: - Rosamond Siemon
Visy Theatre
200 Seats

Free

60 min session
6:00pm

Friday
Aug 15
human rights and the national interest
Barrister Angela Ward knows the law of the European Union and the European Convention of Human Rights. Lillian Holt is a scholar and commentator on indigenous justice. They join agent provocateur Phillip Adams to consider whether the national interest really exists and if it does, what it might be.

speaker bios: - Phillip Adams - Lillian Holt - Angela Ward
Powerhouse Theatre
400 Seats

$15
Auslan

70 min session
6:30pm

Friday
Aug 15
ideas soapbox
Brisbane Writers take to the soapbox with their many, many wicked ideas.
Spark Bar

Free
7:30pm

Friday
Aug 15
sustainability or scandal
Have we fallen for the great corporate greenwash? Author of Global Spin Sharon Beder joins convenor of the National Business Leaders Forum on Sustainable Development Molly Harriss Olson to debate whether we are being suckered. Privatization, green accountability, business and power. With Jacqui Katona.

speaker bios: - Sharon Beder - Molly Harriss Olson - Jacqui Katona
Visy Theatre
200 Seats

Free

70 min session
8:00pm

Friday
Aug 15
random outburst
Logan City’s own community radio station Radio 101fm broadcasts from the Powerhouse. Youth, music, comment and ideas all go live to air.
Ideas Tent
100 Seats

Free

until midnight
8:30pm

Friday
Aug 15
an unfair advantage ...
Author of The Creative Economy John Howkins discusses talent, capital and the creativity monopoly. He argues that it doesn’t matter where you get your ideas from, what matters is what you do can with them. Introduced by Dale Spender.

speaker bios: - John Howkins - Dale Spender
Powerhouse Theatre
400 Seats

$25

70 min session
9:00pm

Friday
Aug 15
late night ideas – bring out your dead
After proposing the death of the cultural elites and the success of his book Ganglands, Mark Davis is now exploring the future of democracy.

Late Night Ideas is followed by live music by Steve Newcomb Trio in the Spark Bar, until even later.

speaker bios: - Mark Davis
Spark Bar Stage

Free
Auslan

Saturday August 16


Time

Session

Venue
10:00am

Saturday
Aug 16
Ideas Bazaar
Take a wander in and around the Powerhouse to check out installations, exhibitions and demonstrations. Brilliant and bizarre ideas, people’s passions and projects bought together for four days in the Ideas Bazaar.
Throughout Brisbane Powerhouse and surrounds

Free

All day
10:00am

Saturday
Aug 16
Kids Ideas
Activities to drop into and/or Kids Ideas workshops starting on the hour every hour.
Kids Ideas Tent

Free

until 4pm
10:00am

Saturday
Aug 16
there is no such thing as unaustralian
The Queensland Debating Team thrash it out. Do we know more about what it is to be unaustralian than we do about being Australian?
Visy Theatre
200 Seats

Free

70 min session
10:30am

Saturday
Aug 16
thinking... can get your hurt
University of London philosopher and former postman Stephen Law introduces the extreme sport that is philosophical thinking. ‘Is time travel possible?’ ‘Designer babies’ and ‘Where did the universe come from?’ Introduced by Ian Lowe.

speaker bios: - Stephen Law - Ian Lowe
Powerhouse Theatre
400 Seats

Free
Auslan

70 min session
11:00am

Saturday
Aug 16
ideas that change the way we live
Rainwater, shade and waste, clean and green innovations. Stories of simple ideas that will have maximum impact.
Ideas Tent
100 Seats

Free

45 min session
12:00pm

Saturday
Aug 16
ideas engine room
The big ideas brainstorm. Drop in to the engine room. Bring your ideas!
Rehearsal Room

Free

until 7pm
12:00pm

Saturday
Aug 16
when will we ever learn?
Who is deciding what we should learn, and what do they know? Feminist Ivana Milojevic and activist Gary Foley on what sort of education we need for the future. Surely the students know best? With education commentator Dale Spender.

speaker bios: - Gary Foley - Ivana Milojevic - Dale Spender
Visy Theatre
200 Seats

Free

70 min session
12:30pm

Saturday
Aug 16
concept to cash
A sharp introduction to the big bewildering world of innovation. Secretary General of the Innovation Profession of Australia, Richard Braun, covers the problems, dangers and unknowns faced by inventors of new products. You have to know what to ask and who to ask. This is when to ask.
Rooftop Terrace
120 Seats

Free

120 min session
12:30pm

Saturday
Aug 16
voting day
There's a plebiscite on. It’s Saturday, August 19, 2006 and it’s voting day. Rod Kendall of the Australian Republican Movement takes you through the models for an Australian republic. How will you vote?
Ideas Tent
100 Seats

Free
1:00pm

Saturday
Aug 16
rebuilding paradise
Architects without Frontiers founder Esther Charlesworth takes us into the war zone, rebuilding cities post conflict, disaster and war. Can paradise be rebuilt? Karen Umemoto knows the war of the streets: gang war and race war. She understands urban violence and social conflict and argues that you can plan for a peaceful city.

speaker bios: - Esther Charlesworth - Karen Umemoto
Powerhouse Theatre
400 Seats

$15

70 min session
1:30pm

Saturday
Aug 16
ideas soapbox
Take to the box with your ideas - conviction, commitment and passion.
Spark Bar

Free
2:30pm

Saturday
Aug 16
the eureka moment
Some ideas are lifelong labours, some are accidents of a moment. Right Livelihood Award winner Martin Green and James Bradfield Moody join Ian Lowe to discuss discovery. They say chance favours the prepared mind.

speaker bios: - James Bradfield Moody - Martin Green - Ian Lowe
Visy Theatre
200 Seats

Free

70 min session
2:30pm

Saturday
Aug 16
youth, commerce and creation
If there is money in creativity, then how will employment training be reinvented? Advocates of a new approach tested in the Tripod project present an alternative to digging holes.
Ideas Tent
100 Seats

Free

45 min session
3:00pm

Saturday
Aug 16
new generation = new ideas?
Each generation generates new ideas, so why the tension between the old and the new? Australian historian Henry Reynolds and gen X stirrer Mark Davis on what happens when an idea outlives its generation, and when a generation outlives its ideas? With someone who has seen few ideas live and die, Phillip Adams.

speaker bios: - Phillip Adams - Mark Davis - Henry Reynolds
Powerhouse Theatre
400 Seats

$15

70 min session
4:00pm

Saturday
Aug 16
the latest ideas
Bringing an idea into reality is a long road. These inventors have persevered and succeeded. They tell the story of battling for their ideas.
Ideas Tent
100 Seats

Free

45 min session
4:30pm

Saturday
Aug 16
great ideas from history
The Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts presents the works of great orators, thinkers and doers. These speeches and ideas changed our world.
Spark Bar

Free
5:00pm

Saturday
Aug 16
digging your own grave
Lifestyle choices that are killing us. Author of Selling the Work Ethic Sharon Beder confronts our pathological commitment to work and asks what are we working for?

speaker bios: - Sharon Beder
Visy Theatre
200 Seats

Free

60 min session
5:30pm

Saturday
Aug 16
ideas soapbox
Ideas that have to go. Take to the box and knock off some ideas whose time has come.
Spark Bar

Free
6:00pm

Saturday
Aug 16
the 2003 ideas game show
Political satirist and funny man Rod Quantock hosts the inaugural Ideas Game Show. Four ideas competitors Kath Albury, Gary Foley, James Bradfield Moody and Pat Dudgeon are ready at their buzzers to challenge the big ideas and the big questions. Who will win the psychologist, the activist, the sexpert or the scientist?

speaker bios: - Kath Albury - James Bradfield Moody - Pat Dudgeon - Gary Foley - Rod Quantock
Powerhouse Theatre
400 Seats

$25

90 min session
6:30pm

Saturday
Aug 16
inner city crucible
Local passion in action. Stories exploring the anatomy of active tolerance. With the New Farm Neighbourhood Centre, Reconciliation Action Group.
Ideas Tent
100 Seats

Free

60 min session
7:00pm

Saturday
Aug 16
will fear ever change?
Fear is an old idea. Philosopher Mary Zournazi on hope, fear and change joins feminist and scholar Aileen Moreton-Robinson on fear of the other, race and whiteness.

speaker bios: - Aileen Moreton-Robinson - Mary Zournazi
Visy Theatre
200 Seats

Free

70 min session
8:30pm

Saturday
Aug 16
life, the universe and everything
Muslim scholar and cultural critic Ziauddin Sardar is described by The Independent as ‘Britain’s own Muslim polymath’ and by The Herald as ‘one of the finest intellectuals on the planet’. He puts forth his ideas on hate, America, heroes, evil, hamburgers and other viruses. With broadcaster and doctor of religious studies Rachael Kohn.

speaker bios: - Rachael Kohn - Ziauddin Sardar
Powerhouse Theatre
400 Seats

$25
Auslan

70 min session
9:00pm

Saturday
Aug 16
late night ideas - public sex
Chief pornography investigator Kath Albury provides the lowdown on porn. Who makes it, who consumes it, and why we are so uptight about it?

Late Night Ideas is followed by live music by Louise Denson and Friends in the Spark Bar, until even later.

speaker bios: - Kath Albury
Spark Bar

Free

Sunday August 17


Time

Session

Venue
10:00am

Sunday
Aug 17
Ideas Bazaar
Take a wander in and around the Powerhouse to check out installations, exhibitions and demonstrations. Brilliant and bizarre ideas, people’s passions and projects bought together for four days in the Ideas Bazaar.
Throughout Brisbane Powerhouse and surrounds

Free

All day
10:00am

Sunday
Aug 17
Kids Ideas
Activities to drop into and/or Kids Ideas workshops starting on the hour every hour.
Kids Ideas Tent

Free

until 4pm
10:00am

Sunday
Aug 17
solutions
Taking control, making change and community renewal. Join the people who have tackled big things locally and come up with answers. Have them guide you through the labyrinth to positive change.
Stores Studio

Free

until 5pm
10:30am

Sunday
Aug 17
great ideas from history
The works of great orators, thinkers and doers. These speeches and ideas changed our world.
Ideas Tent
100 Seats

Free
10:30am

Sunday
Aug 17
the difference between ideas and ideals
What is the difference between having them and fighting for them? Three campaign leaders Camille Barbagallo, Mike Berwick and Jacqui Katona tell the story of taking action, for land, for the future and for rights.

speaker bios: - Camille Barbagallo - Mike Berwick - Jacqui Katona
Visy Theatre
200 Seats

Free

70 min session
11:00am

Sunday
Aug 17
sunday brunch
Ideas speakers Ziauddin Sardar, Tim Costello and Karen Umemoto join Phillip Adams and drop in guests for Sunday brunch. Society, belief, justice, gangs, science. Where will a chat between these formidable conversationalists end?

speaker bios: - Phillip Adams - Tim Costello - Ziauddin Sardar - Karen Umemoto
Powerhouse Theatre
400 Seats

$15

90 min session
12:00pm

Sunday
Aug 17
ideas engine room
Discuss, debate and add to the ideas of the day. Drop in to the engine room with you ideas.
Rehearsal Room

Free

until 7pm
12:00pm

Sunday
Aug 17
taking up residence
Join the hypothetical Lilliput Community Forum. It’s 2013 and you are part of a democratic forum of local people. Join in to change the social and economic future of this suburb.
Stores Rehearsal Room

Free

120 min session
12:30pm

Sunday
Aug 17
reality check
Why does racism surprise us? Psychologists Pat Dudgeon and Anne Pedersen examine the similarities between the long history of racism against Indigenous Australians and the more recent turn on asylum seekers. Where is the ‘multicultural society’ heading?

speaker bios: - Pat Dudgeon - Anne Pedersen
Visy Theatre
200 Seats

Free

60 min session
12:30pm

Sunday
Aug 17
the juggling act
Recovering addict Cynthia Morton, Ambassador for the Kids First Foundation, discusses the challenges of families, parenting and the rigours of modern life.

speaker bios: - Cynthia Morton
Ideas Tent
100 Seats

Free

60 min session
1:00pm

Sunday
Aug 17
solar model car challenge – the finals
Race callers Ian Lowe and Martin Green call the shots for the race finals. Solar energy, future power, reduced pollution and inventive passion - it's all part of the race.

speaker bios: - Martin Green - Ian Lowe
Powerhouse Park

Free
1:30pm

Sunday
Aug 17
biodiscovery
What does it mean, who’s doing it and what are they planning for our natural capital? Scientists and schemers map out the new frontier.
Ideas Tent
100 Seats

Free

45 min session
1:30pm

Sunday
Aug 17
where is the money
British communications analyst and ideas money man John Howkins and American techno-optimist Graham Molitor advise companies and governments of the world on the finances of the future. Are people with ideas more powerful than people with machines? Where is the money, and can you get in on it?

speaker bios: - John Howkins - Graham TT Molitor
Powerhouse Theatre
400 Seats

$25

70 min session
2:30pm

Sunday
Aug 17
the great ideas rip off
Is 'fusion' just another word for appropriation? Curator of some of the nation’s most iconic artworks Djon Mundine argues that we are caught in an intellectual masquerade. He asks how the hell is an idea authenticated? How is that different from an idea assimilated?

speaker bios: - Djon Mundine
Visy Theatre
200 Seats

Free

60 min session
3:00pm

Sunday
Aug 17
ideas soapbox
Take to the box with your ideas: what do you want? when do you want it?
Ideas Tent
100 Seats

Free
4:00pm

Sunday
Aug 17
war and empire
Tariq Ali, author of The Clash of Fundamentalism: Crusades, Jihad, and Modernity, wonders whether we are fostering a cult of stupidity. He puts forth his views on recolonising Iraq, respect, aggression and history.

speaker bios: - Tariq Ali
Powerhouse Theatre
400 Seats

$25
Auslan

75 min session
4:30pm

Sunday
Aug 17
black chicks – still at it
Power, identity, feminism, change and control. Pat Dudgeon, Jacqui Katona, Lillian Holt and Aileen Moreton-Robertson catch up and keep talking.

speaker bios: - Pat Dudgeon - Lillian Holt - Jacqui Katona - Aileen Moreton-Robinson
Visy Theatre
200 Seats

Free

75 min session
6:00pm

Sunday
Aug 17
war and empire
Special repeat session by popular demand
Tariq Ali, author of The Clash of Fundamentalism: Crusades, Jihad, and Modernity, wonders whether we are fostering a cult of stupidity. He puts forth his views on recolonising Iraq, respect, aggression and history.
Powerhouse Theatre
400 Seats

$25
Auslan

75 min session
7:30pm

Sunday
Aug 17
that's it folks
Turbine Hall

Free

 


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Brisbane 14-17 August 2003

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