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Ewen Macgregor

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_single_image image="6649" img_size="full"][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text] Speaker: Ewen Macgregor [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] The Trans European Trail - An Adventure Motorcycle Rider's Dream [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="16px"][vc_column_text]Ewen is a passionate adventurer who has travelled extensively in Canada, UK, Europe and Australia. His previous escapades have included white water and sea kayaking, hiking and mountain biking around the remote Kimberley, cross-country mountain skiing in...

David Fedele

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_single_image image="6643" img_size="full"][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text] Speaker: David Fedele [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] Whose Story is it? Representation, Responsibility and Authorship in Global Storytelling [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="16px"][vc_column_text]David is an award-winning documentary filmmaker from Melbourne, particularly interested in exploring cultural, humanitarian, environmental and social justice issues. His films cover diverse topics including sub-Saharan African migration in Morocco, electronic waste in Ghana and illegal...

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...

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...

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...

Revenir (To Return)

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Part road-trip, part memoir, part journalistic investigation, REVENIR follows Kumut Imesh, a refugee from the Ivory Coast now living in France, as he returns to the African continent and attempts to retrace the same journey that he himself took when forced to flee civil war in his country ...

Wild Landings – Namibia

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]South African adventurer James Pitman and aviation pioneer Mike Blyth and have flown around the world in self designed aircraft, several harrowing times. Through these successful designs, they have become Africa’s only truly home grown aircraft manufacturer. Pressured by work, James persuades Mike to fly through the landscapes of Namibia, one of the best...

Walking for Genna

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]"Genna", the Ethiopian Christmas takes place on the night of the 6th of January. For the Christians in this country, this is an important moment of bliss. During the weeks running up to that particular night, pilgrims from all corners of the country, start on a journey that will take them to a...

Cape to Cairo by Trains

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]South African journalist and filmmaker Neil Shaw travels solo across the length of Africa using trains as much as possible. Along the way he interviews fellow passengers and has some surprising conversations covering topics as wide-ranging as Chinese involvement in Africa, cross border trade, philosophy and the history of the 12,500 kilometre Cape...

Dave Brown – Motorcycle To Ghana

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="4485" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] Speaker: Dave Brown [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="16px"][vc_column_text]Dave is a card-carrying Brummie but his roots are Jamaican and of course, before that, probably west African. With his 60th birthday approaching and the need for a hefty road-trip a-brewin’, Dave went back to the ‘old country’ and rode his motorbike out to Ghana and...