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Ann-Marie Meredith

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_single_image image="6653" img_size="full"][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text] Speaker: Ann-Marie Meredith [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] Up the Mahakam: Cave Exploration Expeditions in Kalimantan, Borneo [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="16px"][vc_column_text]Ann-Marie is a passionate caver with over 30 years’ experience and is a recognised Trip Leader with the Western Australian Speleological Group. She has caved extensively in many of Australia's karst regions and has a particular love for...

Karen Barrett

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="6586" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] Speakers: Karen Barrett [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="16px"][vc_column_text]Running began for me as a way to try and quite smoking. I was a 2 pack a day smoker and I found I couldn’t smoke and run at the same time, so I just kept on running. My love of running all started when I ran...

Lucy Clark

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="6583" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] Speakers: Lucy Clark [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="16px"][vc_column_text]Lucy Clark has just become the fastest woman to complete the Te Araroa Trail, a 3,000km trail running from top to the bottom of New Zealand. She completed it in 66 days and 7 hours.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][edgtf_portfolio_info title_tag="h4" show_tags="no" show_date="no" title="INFO"][edgtf_social_share][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="64px"][vc_column_text] Speakers, Bright 2020: [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="16px"][edgtf_portfolio_slider type="gallery" show_navigation="yes" category="speakers-bright-aus-2020"][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

Xander Kabat -Behind the Lens of Infinite Wonder of Africa Photographic Exhibition

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_gallery interval="3" images="6623,6622,6621,6620,6619,6618" img_size="large"][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] Speaker: Xander Kabat [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="16px"][vc_column_text]Africa was called "The Dark Continent" in Henry Stanley’s 1878 travelogue, describing it as an unexplored, unknown and “Savage” place. Xander Kabat spent 11 months traveling the length of the west coast, discovering that Africa is anything but dark. Exhibiting for the first time in...

Made Like a Gun

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Ride with an ageing ex-champion motorcycle racer and his son on a Himalayan odyssey, as they attempt to conquer the world’s highest navigable roads and discover what makes the iconic brand they’re riding so revered by millions on the Indian sub-continent. This isn’t just a grueling physical and emotional journey, but the fulfillment...

Tim Cope – a man, a dog, an epic adventure

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="6317" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="6318" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] Speakers: Tim Cope [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="16px"][vc_column_text]Tim Cope is an adventurer, author and film-maker who is passionate about inspiring young people to explore the world that exists beyond their doorstep. He has studied as a wilderness guide in the Finnish and Russian subarctic, ridden a bicycle across Russia to China...

Heather Ellis – Timeless on the Silk Road

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="6334" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="6336" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="6335" img_size="large"][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] Speaker: Heather Ellis [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="16px"][vc_column_text]  After riding her Yamaha TT600 across Africa, Heather Ellis rides the fabled Silk Roads of antiquity from London to Hanoi. What unfolds is a journey of courage, hardship and immense natural beauty as she rides through Europe, Turkey and Central Asia and...

Troy Gavin – Misadventures of a Nomad

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="6332" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="6330" img_size="large"][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] Speaker: Troy Gavin -Misadventures of a Nomad – Sometimes plan but sometime wing it [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="16px"][vc_column_text] Did you read Choose Your Own Adventure books when you were a kid? Troy did and found that sometimes life imitates art. Those books and a psychic prediction of meeting a girl whose name...

Jan and Paul Dwyer – Globetrekkers

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="6323" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="6322" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] Speakers: Jan and Paul Dwyer [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="16px"][vc_column_text]Paul & Jan Dwyer are seasoned travellers who enjoy photography & documenting their travels in film. The couple hail from Mackay Qld and travel approx 6 months each year. They've been to over 100 countries, 50+ on their trusty BMW motorbike. They've...

Andreas and Frederick Powell – The Canning Stock Route in 1983

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="6296" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="6298" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="6295" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] Speakers: Andreas and Frederick Powell [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="16px"][vc_column_text]In 1983, the Canning Stock route remained a daunting challenge for motorcycle riders. Its remote location, the huge distance to be covered without fuel or food supplies and the difficulties in traversing hundreds of soft, sandy dunes made it “The...