Events

Damon has spoken at festivals, panels, and workshops across Australia and the world. You can listen to/watch a small selection of his events below. To request a visit, see the contact page.

'Literature' (Red Room poetry), MONA museum, Hobart, 27th August 2022.

'On Getting Off', Second Life Book Club, 20th January 2022.

'On Getting Off', Avid Reader, Queensland, 5th February 2021.

'The Art of Reading' (with Meg Mundell, Anna Whateley, Alice Robinson), Second Life Book Club, 16th July 2020.

'The Art of Reading', Ubud Writers and Readers Festival, Ubud Writers and Readers Festival, Bali, Indonesia, 27th October 2016.

The Art of Reading Brisbane launch, Avid Reader, West End, Brisbane, 21st April 2016.

'Ninja Book Party' (with Peter Carnavas and Tony Flowers), StoryArts Festival, Ipswich, Queensland, 8th September 2015.

'How to Think About Exercise', Happiness and its Causes, Luna Park, Sydney, 11th June 2015.

'What is a Mind?' (with Kate Richards, David Roland, Anthony Funnell), Brisbane Writers Festival, State Library of Queensland, 5th September 2014.

Work, globalisation and the garden, G8 of Philosophy, Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 18th April 2014.

'Meaning' and freedom, G8 of Philosophy, Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 18th April 2014.

'Men Are From Mars and Other Myths', Mind and its Potential, SMC Conference Centre, Sydney, 14th November 2013.

'Distraction', Mind and its Potential, SMC Conference Centre, Sydney, 14th November 2013.

'Swimming Home and Black Vodka: A Conversation With Deborah Levy' (Slow TV), Sydney Writers Festival, Pier 2/3, 24th May 2013.

'What makes creative minds tick?', Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 18th August 2011.