Clare Bowditch being her own kind of girl in Canberra
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She’s her own kind of girl. And Clare Bowditch is coming to Canberra to share her own kind of stories.
A musician, broadcaster, sometimes-actor, speaker, entrepreneur, Clare just recently became a top-ten, best-selling author for her memoir Your Own Kind of Girl.
She will be delivering an address on Music, Meaning and Money at the National Press Club on Wednesday 26 May as a guest of Women in Media Canberra.
Clare’s speech will give an overview of the current working reality for those within the entertainment industries, and explore potential pathways forward for the country’s beloved Australian music industry, whose tens of thousands of workers who were amongst the first and worst affected by the COVID-19 health crisis, and will be amongst the very last to recover.
“Whether we’re celebrating victory, mourning loss, or just trying to cajole ourselves to complete a difficult or otherwise tedious task, music is the connector we turn to. It’s our fast-track to inspiration. It’s our constant reminder that we are never alone,” says Clare.
“But what happens at times like these, when music, and those who make, support, tour, promote and live for Australian music, are themselves under genuine threat of devastation? Music is always there for us. Are we always there for music?”
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Clare’s address will be informed by her locked-down Melburnian’s perspective—a time during which she and her siblings were caring for their mother, who died at home during the second lockdown from pancreatic cancer.
She also used the time to release an Audible Original audiobook entitled Tame Your Inner Critic, which has remained at the top of the Audible Charts since the day of its release in August last year.
It epitomises her unique approach to skill-building, and story-telling, using a novel mix of humour, story-telling and science to help people have better relations with the voice of their self-doubt.
Clare’s book also made an immediate splash with a top 7 placement on the Neilsen Book Charts, #1 seller for Dymocks, Readings and Booktopia and two re-printings in the first week. It won the 2020 Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) for the New Writer of The Year Award.
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The Essentials:
Clare Bowditch Address at the National Press Club with Women in Media
When: Wednesday 26 May from
Where: 16 National Circuit Barton
Tickets are $85 for a sit-down lunch and can be bought here
