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Sydney Rotary Peacebuilding Group - Jess Scully - 5 August 2021

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We are very privileged to have as our guest speaker Deputy Lord Mayor of the City of Sydney, Jess Scully.

In addition to her role as Deputy Lord Mayor, Jess was the founding director of Vivid Ideas, Australia's largest creative industries event.  She has also curated creative sector events like TEDxSydney and is a founding contributor to the Sydney Culture Network, co-ordinated by UNSW Art and Design, launched in late 2017.

It’s hard to be excited about the future right now. Climate change is accelerating; inequality is growing; politics is polarised; institutions designed to protect us are strained; technology is disrupting the world of work. We need to upgrade the operating systems of our society. Jess Scully asks, What can we do? The answer is: plenty! All over the world, people are refusing the business-as-usual mindset and putting humans back into the civic equation, reimagining work and care, finance and government, urban planning and communication, to make them better and fairer for all.

Jess will share her insights and ideas about creating a better future through civic engagement.  Her new book, Glimpses of Utopia – Real Ideas for a Fairer World is a blueprint for how to do that.  http://www.jessscully.com/glimpses-of-utopia

Please join in for this timely talk about…optimism!


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