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10 Nov

The Mushroom Tapes: Conversations about a Trial

For over eight weeks, three of Australia’s greatest literary forces – Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper and Sarah Krasnostein – tracked Erin Patterson’s preliminary hearings and trial. They joined the media scrum at the Latrobe Valley Law Courts, camped out in Morwell and spent countless hours in fervent discussion of the case, dissecting the facts, speculating on motives and contemplating its sensation.

In this event they take the stage to ponder what happened and why it matters – reflecting on why they and all of us became so invested in Erin Patterson’s story, and what it means to bear witness to humanity’s darkest impulses. Together, they will examine the gap between the certainties of the law and the messiness of reality, the tension between truth and narrative, ethics and entertainment, justice and voyeurism, and confront their own ambivalence about the record of true crime.

Date	Times
Mon 10 Nov	7:00pm - 8:00pm

From $29.50 to $39.50

Adult / general $39.50
Senior $29.50
Student / concession $29.50

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