The 2016 Festival Of Dangerous Ideas will bring a conversation-starting series of talks to the Sydney Opera House over one weekend in September.
The eighth edition of the Opera House’s annual talks program includes several big-name guests from Australia and overseas. Last year’s event saw 30,000 people filter through Sydney’s famous sailed venue.
The 2016 program promises to address issues from politics and inequality to drugs in sport and surveillance. The highlight names include former Black Flag frontman and spoken-word artist Henry Rollins, visual artist and Drawing Blood author Molly Crabapple, local political commentator Andrew Bolt and outspoken feminist author Germaine Greer.
The full lineup is (in alphabetical order):
John Bell
Jesse Bering
Andrew Bolt
Raewyn Connell
Molly Crabapple
Annabel Crabb
Stephen Dank
Satyajit Das
Pat Dudgeon
Tobias Feakin
Cordelia Fine
Tim Flannery
Alicia Garza
Bates Gill
Priyamvada Gopal
Kevan Gosper
Stan Grant
AC Grayling
Lev Grossman
Germaine Greer
Tracey Holmes
Sarah Houbolt
Shanto Iyengar
Simon Jackman
Alok Jha
Miranda Johnson
Michael Kirby
Brian Lipson
Sheryn Lee
Philippe Legrain
Ming Long
Hamish Macdonald
Dee Madigan
David Marr
Jason Mazanov
Jane McAdam
Lloyd Newson
Norman Ornstein
George Packer
Jennifer Rayner
John Elder Robison
Henry Rollins
Alexei Sayle
Laura Secor
Lionel Shriver
Tim Soutphommasane
Neil Strauss
Lee Vinsel
Sheila Watt-Cloutier
Daniel Webb
Jennifer Whelan
Photo: Prudence Upton
The 2016 Festival Of Dangerous Ideas takes over the Sydney Opera House on Saturday September 3 and Sunday September 4. Tickets go on sale 9am Monday July 11.
