Pick-up a book and read during afterhours at the La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo.
We'll bring a selection of humour writers, and other recommendations, and there'll be a gallery of art to enjoy.
Bring your own book too.
Budget depending we'll have live music playing in the background.
Tickets offered at Pay What You Can pricing. So you choose payment from free to billions of dollars.
Here is a selection of books suggested by comedians at the Bendigo Comedy Festival:
Careless People: A story of where I used to work, by Sarah Wynn-Williams - recommended by Danielle Walker
A Wolf At The Table by Augusten Burroughs - recommended by Mick Neven
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss - recommended by Mick Neven
Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilber - recommended by Urvi Majumdar
Doppelgänger by Naomi Klein - recommended by Bert Misery
Greta and Valdin by Rebecca K. Reilly - recommended by Luke Morris
Joy in the Morning by PG Wodehouse - recommended by Luke Morris
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams - recommended by Luke Morris
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett - recommended by Luke Morris
Time For Bed by David Baddiel - recommended by Luke Morris
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole - recommended by Luke Morris (again)
Math Mind: The Simple path to loving Math, by Shalinee Sharma - recommended by Michael Connell
The Right Way, the Wrong Way, and the Railway by Nick Anchen - recommended by Sam Hargraves
Four Little Engines by The Rev. W. Awdry - recommended by Sam Hargraves
Three Hours by Rosamund Lupton - recommended by Amy Ruffle
Mad Mabel by Sally Hepworth - recommended by Amy Ruffle
Landfall by James Bradley - recommended by Amy Ruffle
Hyperion by Dan Simmons - recommended by Ben Richardson
The Beach by Alex Garland - recommended by Ben Richardson
Hekate by Nikita Gill - recommended by Ben Richardson
Overstory by Richard Powers - recommended by Lucy Best
Hyperbole and a Half : unfortunate situations, flawed coping mechanisms, mayhem, and other things that happened, by Allie Brosch - recommended by Lucy Best
Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut - recommended by Jez Watts
Running The Light by Sam Tallent - recommended by Jez Watts
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein - recommended by Jez Watts
The Bible by God - recommended by Rowan Thambar
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins - recommended by Rowan Thambar
Pokémon Encyclopedia by Simcha Whitehill - recommended by Thomas Begg
Presented as part of the Bendigo Comedy Festival with support from Emporium Creative Hub, and the Benefit Bendigo.
Content Warning:
None… unless the book you choose does