Join the Australia Institute for an Afternoon with Yanis Varoufakis and Friends, featuring Yanis Varoufakis, Dr Bob Brown, Professor Clare Wright, Hannah Ferguson and Dominic Guerrera. At Adelaide Town Hall, tickets available here for $49 ($29 for concession).

In his most personal book yet, Raise Your Soul: A Personal History of Resistance, Yanis Varoufakis tells the engrossing story of his political awakening. This captivating portrait is told through the extraordinary lives of five women, and the West's tumultuous history from 1924 to the present.

Yanis Varoufakis will be in conversation with Professor Clare Wright, award-winning historian, author, broadcaster, podcaster and public commentator.

This will be preceded by a discussion of culture, community, and the stories we tell, featuring environmentalist, doctor, campaigner, and former Parliamentary Leader of the Australian Greens, Dr Bob Brown. Bob is the founder of the Bob Brown Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation which works to protect nature through direct action, legal defence, and science. He will be in conversation with Hannah Ferguson, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Cheek Media Co., and Dominic Guerrera, Ngarrindjeri and Kaurna poet, writer, artist and curator, recipient of the 2021 Oodgeroo Noonuccal Indigenous Poetry Prize and 2024 David Unaipon Prize.

Books from Australia Institute Press and the authors attending will be available for purchase at the venue. A book signing will follow the event.