This April, we’re embracing life’s blunders with “Failing Forward: Stories About Mistakes.” Join our incredible storytellers as they share hilarious mishaps that turned into valuable lessons. Let’s celebrate our shared humanity and the oops moments that remind us we’re all wonderfully human. Come ready to laugh and discover how owning our mistakes can lighten our load and bring us closer together!
Our performer line-up:
Team 20s: Mia Sherman is a curious, clever, ambitious, sometimes troubled, queer disabled twentysomething who works really damn hard every day to navigate a path through the jungle that is OCD. They find and spread joy through art, the outdoors, the study of history, food and connection. They live and work in Naarm.
Team 30s: Kara Huynh is a proud 31-year-old dog mum of two, wife and coach. As she continues trying to figure out what this thing called ‘life’ is supposed to mean, she embraces curiosity and resilience. Since the age of five, her vivid imagination has inspired her to explore, experiment and grow, embracing both success and failure along the way.
Team 40s: Nadia Mahjouri is a writer, counsellor, group facilitator and mother from Hobart/nipaluna. Her debut novel, Half Truth, was published by Penguin Random House in February 2025. Nadia hosts the podcast The Whole Truth: Motherhood and the Writing Life, about how writers keep creating in the messy muddle of family life.
Team 50s: Heidi Catherine is an award-winning author of over thirty novels. With a current focus on domestic suspense stories, Heidi is fascinated by human interactions and relationships, using ‘research’ as her excuse for watching too much reality TV. She lives in Melbourne with her husband, two sons and a feisty rescue chihuahua.
Team 60s: Kristine Philipp began life in Melbourne 1960. At fifteen she became an office chick, surviving administrative work on and off for the next forty years. At age 55, Kristine transformed into a volunteer stand-up comedian and unemployable old punk author. Her memoir Girl Friday: An extraordinarily ordinary working life was published in 2024.
Team 70s+: Bea Toews was born and trained as a teacher in Canada before emigrating to Australia in 1971. She has taught internationally in Thailand, Malaysia and Russia. In 2011, she remarried and retired. She now lives between Thailand and Melbourne and has built a house, become a widow, learned Thai and embraced powerlifting — proving that it’s never too late for new adventures.
Generation Women is an award-winning cross-generational storytelling night founded in New York in 2017, Sydney in 2018 and Melbourne in 2020. Each month, six women of note read an original piece on a theme. Of those, one is in her 20s, her 30s, her 40s, her 50s, her 60s and her 70s+.
Hosted by Rebecca Lister. Produced by Donna Logue, Hopepunk Productions. Created by Georgia Clark.
7-11 DAWSON ST, BRUNSWICK VIC 3056
DOORS AT 6.30 PM, SHOW AT 7 PM
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