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Walking Tour with Julie Bates AO: Shine a Light

19 January 2019
4.00pm – 5.30pm AEDT
20 OXFORD SQUARE DARLINGHURST
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Join sex worker rights activist Julie Bates AO on a tour of Kings Cross and East Sydney through the lens of her own activism and experience working and living in the area. This mini tour is based on Bates' live street-based performance The Joy Tour, depicting the days of Tilly Devine and the birth of the sex worker rights movement in inner Sydney.

Presented as part of the exhibition The Beehive at UNSW Galleries.

MEETING PLACE: 20 OXFORD SQUARE DARLINGHURST Google Maps

This event forms part of the ‘Radical Sydney public program series. Taking its title from Terry Irving and Rowan Cahill's book on dissident politics and actions in Sydney this program of talks, documentary screenings and performances engages with the histories and futures of local activism concerned with housing, public space, sexuality and gender.

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Image: No Bad Whores Banner at the Opera House Forecourt. Image courtesy: Julie Bates.

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