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Robert Dessaix: Art, Travel, Ideas and Love 

Musings on the shimmering treasures that make up a life

Robert Dessaix (Photo credit W.H. Chong)
Caroline Baum (Photo credit Jeremy Park)
Friday 23 May 2025
11am-12pm
Event Code: 62
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Join writer, translator and broadcaster Robert Dessaix as he explores his most recent memoir, aptly titled Chameleon for the way the stories shimmer and shift.

Emotions and anecdotes have coloured Robert’s life, from his beginnings as an adopted child, through youthful investigations, marriage and divorce, to travel and graceful ageing. In this virtuoso collection of memories, he reflects on lessons of feeling and being; muses on art, literature, music and life and searches for what makes life good.

Ponder the light and dark of life with Robert, in conversation with Caroline Baum.

In this flinty yet fond conversation with his long-ago self, Robert Dessaix explores the myriad contradictions that make us fully human. His words, and his singular wisdom, shimmer.
Ailsa Piper
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