Museum Theatre FREE Event, capacity is limited – please register to secure your seats. Join us for an honest and hearty conversation between mother...

Our Place: Mehreen Faruqi And Osman Faruqi on family, food and identity

Location:

2 Murray Street
2000 NSW
Australia

Venue:
Australian National Maritime Museum
Our Place: Mehreen Faruqi And Osman Faruqi on family, food and identity
Our Place: Mehreen Faruqi And Osman Faruqi on family, food and identity

Featuring

Dr. Mehreen Faruqi

Dr. Mehreen Faruqi

Dr. Mehreen Faruqi

Dr Mehreen Faruqi is the Greens' senator for New South Wales. She is a civil and environmental engineer and life-long activist for social and environmental justice. In 2013, she joined the NSW Parliament, becoming the first Muslim woman to sit in an Australian parliament. In 2018, she became Australia's first Muslim senator. She has been a passionate advocate against racism and misogyny.

Osman Faruqi

Osman Faruqi

Osman Faruqi is an award-winning journalist and editor, with a unique and distinct passion for arts and culture. His previous roles include Deputy Editor at ABC Life, presenter on ABC TV’s The Mix, news editor at Junkee Media, reporter for ABC Radio National’s Background Briefing for which he won a Kennedy Award and Head of Audio at Schwartz Media, responsible for executive producing the 7am podcast as well as regularly writing for The Saturday Paper and The Monthly. His weekly podcast The Culture won best arts and culture podcast at the Australian Podcast Awards.
Osman has recently been appointed culture news editor for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, where he will be responsible for driving the culture team’s daily news agenda, delivering breaking news and trending stories across television, film, books, music, the arts, celebrity, and pop culture. He is currently writing a book on race in Australia.

Event Details

Museum Theatre

FREE Event, capacity is limited – please register to secure your seats.

Join us for an honest and hearty conversation between mother and son as they share their personal stories of family, food, identity and community in modern Australia.

Migrant, engineer, activist, feminist and politician, Dr Mehreen Faruqi is joined on stage by her son, Osman Faruqi, the Culture News Editor for The Age and Sydney Morning Herald.

This is a rare opportunity to share in the highs and lows of a family that can lay claim to being one of the most influential in the current cultural, social and political landscape of Australia.

Presented by Vivid Ideas in association with Blacktown Arts and the Australian National Maritime Museum. See more of the Australian National Maritime Museum x Vivid Ideas program here.

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