Speaker roadshow ‘for the passionately curious’ seeks sponsor
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A new series of live talks backed by veteran Nine and Seven journalist Patrick Lindsay is looking for a sponsor.
The format, which targets 40-somethings, is based on five 20-minute speaker sessions with novelists, broadcasters and journalists that will run as a national series.
Called Topic Talks, the project is the brainchild of Lindsay and Colin McLennan, entertainment entrepreneur and father of News Corp EVP Hamish McLennan.
The duo are planning to hold 100 events across the country within the format’s first year.
“We are out to ‘own’ the intelligent, live presentations of topics and issues affecting us all,” McLennan told Mumbrella. “We believe that many people feel they are slipping off the pace as technology races away from them. We want to provide a forum where they can reconnect to fascinating people with intriguing ideas and have fun as they do it.”
The first series of events will be hosted by journalist Ray Martin, and feature author Thomas Keneally on the topic of ‘Five great novels you haven’t read yet’ and TV host Gretel Killeen on ‘Why happiness is like nits’.
Also speaking will be Patrick Lindsay on ‘Voices from the grave’, Professor Matthew England from the university of NSW on ‘our climate future will cost the earth’ and Ray Martin on ‘the most remarkable man he’s ever met’.
A sponsor will get naming rights on the day, exposure on tickets, in press ads promoting the series and on video highlights of the talks available online.
Geez Hamish McLennan has aged. Guess stresses of the job and all.
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Us greys don’t give a hoot about looking older because we are mature.
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Intellectuals commenting intelligently on intelligent issues seems like something only an intellectual would find intelligent. Five novels no one has read yet? Happiness aligned with nits? The most remarkable man Ray Martin has ever met? Voices from the grave? This is Topic Talk? (with nits for levity of course). So who’s the sponsor? How about White Lady Funerals?
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Sounds like “Grumpy Old Men and Women – The Roadshow” to me.
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