What’s on in April

National Gallery of Australia

• Versailles: Treasures from the Palace exhibition – Until 17 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Pipilotti Rist: Worry Will Vanish Revelation – Until 20 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Rodel Tapaya: New Art from the Philippines – Until 20 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Louis Legacy, Salut! Baroque Concert – 1 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Art for Lunch – 6 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Exclusive Viewing of Versailles: Treasures from the Palace – 6 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Art and Dementia: Friday with a Friend – 7 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Versailles’ Petit Trianon: A Queen’s Retreat – 8 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Rendezvous with Art – 10, 24 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Art for Lunch: Madame de Pompadour – 13 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Art Appreciation for Carers – 18 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Art for Lunch – 20 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Balinese Dance Performance – 23 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Australian Civilian Women’s Poetry of the Great War – 25 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• A Very Long Engagement (Un Long Dimanche de Fançailles) – 25 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Art for Lunch: Australia’s First War Artist – 27 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Oh! What a Lovely War – 29 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Stalin’s Piano (World Premiere) – 30 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

Kids and family:

• Start with Art – 3 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Creative Meditation for Children – 11 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Tales from the Palace – 12, 19 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• NGA Play  – Until 17 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• ASI: Art Scene Investigation: All that Glitters is not Gold – 18 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Little Look at ART – 19 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Art Explorer: Creatures of the Garden – 20 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

For more information visit the National Gallery of Australia’s website.

National Museum of Australia

• Freewheeling: Cycling in Australia – 13 April to 9 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Kaninjaku: Stories from the Canning Stock Route – Until June 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• David Attenborough’s Virtual Reality Experiences – Daily from 10 to 26 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Paddle Steamer Enterprise Inspection – 16, 22, 29 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Museum Friends Welcome Tour – 22 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Night at the Museum: Heroes and Villains – 28 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Parks Changing Australia – Until 30 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Peninsula Tales – 30 April (Canberra, ACT)

Kids and family:

• Discovery Space: The Nature Collector – 10-13, 18-21 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Afternoon Play Space – 10-13, 18-21 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

For more information visit the National Museum of Australia’s website.

National Portrait Gallery

• National Photographic Portrait Prize 2017 – 1 April to 18 June (Canberra, ACT)
• Seminar: Les Walkling – Matching Screen to Print – 1 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT
• Slow Art Day 2017 – 8 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Drawn In – Hope Street Band, Classical Pop and Carnival Grooves – 16 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Art and Dementia – 18 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Portrait Encounter – Portrait of Deborah Vernon Hackett – 20 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Rabbit Proof Fence – 22 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Evensong – 22, 23 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Soundwaves in Space – 23, 30 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

Kids and family:

• Little Faces – 4, 5 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Portrait Play – Making Portraits – 10-14, 17-21, 24 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Story Time – 12 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

For more information visit the National Portrait Gallery’s website.

Australian National Maritime Museum

• Vampire Wardroom Dinner – 8 April 2017 (Sydney, NSW)
• Dogs and Cats – Until 17 April 2017 (Sydney, NSW)
• Phil Renouf Memorial Lecture – 20 April 2017 (Sydney, NSW)
• Lessons from the Arctic – Until 30 June 2017 (Sydney, NSW)
• Escape From Pompeii: The Untold Roman Rescue – Until 30 August 2017 (Sydney, NSW)

Kids and family:

• School Holiday Activities – 9 to 23 April 2017 (Sydney, NSW)
• Empires and Eruptions! – 9 to 23 April 2017 (Sydney, NSW)
• Creative Workshops – 12 to 20 April 2017 (Sydney, NSW)
• Family Torchlight Tour: Pompeii Mysteries – 20 April 2017 (Sydney, NSW)

For more information visit the Australian National Maritime Museum’s website.

National Film and Sound Archive

• Fire of the Land/Freedom Ride – Weekdays, April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Forces of Evil – 5 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• NFSA Ghost Tour – 6 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• The Vinyl Lounge – 7 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• QueerScreen – 7 to 9 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Body and Soul – 12 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Gun Crazy – 19 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Thirty Two Short Films about Glenn Gould – 19 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Rififi – 21 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• The Asphalt Jungle – 26 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Learning the Tricks of the Trade – Until 10 May 2017 (Canberra, 2017)

Kids and family:

• School Holiday Screenings – Book Heroes on the Screen – 11 to 21 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

For more information visit the National Film and Sound Archive’s website.

National Library of Australia

• Rediscovering Hans Heysen – 2 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Sport, Tobacco and Advertising – 4 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• “Dreamtime” To Aboriginal Theatre – 6 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• On War – 11 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• National Folk Festival Concert – 12 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Birds of a Feather – 13 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• WW1 Military Ancestors – 18 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Athol Shmith Fashion Photographs – Until 25 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

Kids and family:

• Autumn Storytime – 20 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Hop – 20 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Blinky Bill – 30 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

For more information visit the National Library of Australia’s website.    

Museum of Australian Democracy

• Onetoeight: Australia’s First Prime Ministers – (Canberra, ACT)
• Behind the Lines 2016: The Year’s Best Political Cartoons – (Canberra, ACT)
• Dress Code Empire – (Canberra, ACT)
• Face Up – (Canberra, ACT)
• Magna Carta: An Australian Story – (Canberra, ACT)
• Happy and Glorious – (Canberra, ACT)
• Art is a Weapon – (Canberra, ACT)

Kids and family:

• Cartooning Masterclass – 10 to 14 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• The Great Easter Egg Trail 2017 – 16 April 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Play Up – (Canberra ACT)

For more information visit the Museum of Australian Democracy’s website.

Bundanon Trust

• Bundanon Field Day 2017 – 9 April 2017 (Bundanon, NSW)
• Gary Warner – Soundtracker – 9 April to 7 May 2017 (Bundanon, NSW)
• Rasa Duende – 30 April 2017 (Bundanon, NSW)
• Anne Ferran, Intimate Journals – until 28 May 2017 (Bundanon, NSW)

For more information visit the Bundanon Trust’s website.