Victor Steffensen is a master of timing, especially when it comes to burning country. His book 'Fire Country' discusses in depth the traditional processes taken by Indigenous culture when it comes to fire management.
Rachael led a team of eighteen people through a year-long expedition in Antarctica, which involved nine months of total isolation and months of darkness. She believes she can help you lead teams and families through to the other side of self-isolation and lock down.
When the West's biggest enemy, the USSR, fell apart it created a climate for an unprecedented, agile and dangerous rise of new enemies - terrorist groups. The dragon was dead, the snakes had come out.
Denmark stacks up as one of the happiest countries in the world! But come the harsh winter months, how do the Danes keep themselves cosy and entertained indoors? Helen Russell, author of international bestseller 'The Year of Living Danishly', has a few hints!
Do you recall the last LP or album you listened to in its entirety? The art of deep or active listening is a skill we may have lost in a world of fast paced media, accompanied by constant and readily available entertainment, but maybe we can get it back!
Comedian Andrew McClelland has turned Gilbert and Sullivan into a modern day comedy, and Laura Davis deals with social distancing by eating beans in the NZ woods
It took ten years for Alice Bishop's dad to talk about what he saw on the day the Black Saturday bushfires destroyed his family home. Alice has written a novel about surviving the fires.
Over the last few weeks photographs have documented our behaviour in response to COVID-19, and evoke a somewhat apocalyptic and unsettling scene. So why can't we look away?
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About The Drawing Room
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Retire to the eclectic environs of the RN Drive Drawing Room, for music, musings and unexpected conversations. The Drawing Room is equal parts performance space, salon, and kitchen table confessional.