This month, we're celebrating success so we’ve invited our superstar line-up to tell us a story about an achievement of any kind. Life is often marked by “big” achievements—getting published/sober/to the top of Mt Everest—but small achievements can also represent significant progress. Maybe the fact they kept a fig plant alive or finally reorganized that bottom drawer is a metaphor for positive change in their life. Whatever they care to share, you can expect our usual blend of warmth and wit in a feel-good show that’ll inspire you to keep striving for your achievements!
Our performer line-up:
Team 20s: Jenny Tian burst onto the stand-up comedy scene in 2016 and has since become a regular around the Comedy circuit. If you’re wondering why she looks familiar, you’ve probably seen/heard her on your Instagram reels, TikTok, triple j, ABC Breakfast Radio and Celebrity Letters and Numbers on SBS.
Team 30s: Elyse McInerney is a former amateur musical theatre star, a current amateur urban gardener, and a willing servant to the two cats she spontaneously adopted during lockdown. Her career has focused on the pursuit of social justice and gender equality, and she is a strong believer in the power of stories to create connection and positive change.
Team 40s: Laura Conti is an AAICD, a CA and a CPA. She worked for 17 years in Finance, starting out in consulting, and moving to Industry as a Finance leader inside small high growth business and digital/technology corporate teams. In 2019 Laura Co-founded social enterprise #GoKindly – a bed and bath brand which supports women from underrepresented backgrounds with meaningful employment and uses the proceeds to support women experiencing homelessness and housing stress. She also works in advocacy for women from/leaving Fundamentalist Christian groups.
Team 50s: Dr Pauline Manley. Dancer, academic, teacher and writer. Feminist, music lover and gardener. But most of all she is a survivor and a thriver. Pauline describes herself as "Burnished by life, I am a midlife woman doing what the hell she wants. If not now, when?"
Team 60s: Leah Nischler is a published writer and playwright, comedian, performer and political tragic. She regularly watches re-runs of the West wing and for the past year has written content for online campaign, The Age of Visibility, which seeks to highlight beauty as we age.
Team 70s: Jaynie Anderson AM OSI FAHA is Professor Emeritus at the University of Melbourne. She is an art historian, curator of exhibitions and fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. She is known for her research on Giorgione, a sixteenth-century Venetian painter.
Generation Women is an award-winning cross-generational storytelling night founded in New York in 2017, Sydney in 2018, Melbourne in 2020, and Canberra in 2022. Each month, six women of note read an original piece on a theme. Of those women, one is in her 20s, her 30s, her 40s, her 50s, her 60s, and her 70s+.
Hosted by Rebecca Lister, Produced by Brooke Farmer & Donna Logue, Hopepunk Productions. Created by Georgia Clark.