What’s on in August

National Gallery of Australia

• Art for lunch – 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Descriptive tour Namatjira – 5 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Australian String Quartet national Tour: Homeward – 6 August (Canberra, ACT)
• Auslan sign-interpreted tour of Namatjira – 6 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Out of the box – 8 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Rendezvous with art – 14 and 28 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Art appreciation for carers – 15 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Assisted tour of Defying Empire – 24 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Art after hours – 24 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Installation 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)
• Defying Empire: 3rd National Indigenous Art Triennial – until 10 September 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Frank Stella The Kenneth Tyler Print Collection – until 22 October 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Australian Impressionism – until 31 October 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Namatjira: Painting Country – until 19 November 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Mexican Modernism – until 26 November 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

Kids and family:

• stART with art – 7 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Little look at ART – 16 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Drawesome – 20 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Tales for the very young – 29 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• NGA Play: Reko Rennie  – 14 May to 3 December 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

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

National Museum of Australia

• New members welcome tour – 12 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Night at the Museum: Uncharted – 18 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Sensory objects: Pleasures of play – 21 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• A Change is Gonna Come – until 30 January 2018 (Canberra, ACT)

Kids and family:

• David Attenborough’s VR Experiences – August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Towers of Tomorrow with LEGO Bricks – until 8 October 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

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

National Portrait Gallery

• New friends – 1 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Winter festival – 6 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Evensong – 12 and 13 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Art and dementia – 15 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Portrait encounter: Derek Denton by Evert Ploeg – 17 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Poetic Portraits: A workshop with Sarah Rice – 20 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Archibald Prize bus trip 2017 – 24 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Canberra Writers Festival – 25 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Collection in Focus: Brook Andrew – until 27 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Canberra Symphony Orchestra: Forgotten – 31 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Dempsey’s people highlights – until 22 October 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Collections highlights tour – until 24 December 2017  (Canberra, ACT)

Kids and family:

• Little Faces: Winter Series – 1 to 4 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Drawn in: Carl St Jacques, violin – 27 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

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

Australian National Maritime Museum

• Lustre – until 13 August 2017 (Sydney, NSW)
• Escape from Pompeii – until 3 September 2017 (Sydney, NSW)
• Aurora – until 30 September 2017 (Sydney, NSW)
• Wildlife Photographer of the Year – until 9 October 2017 (Sydney, NSW)
• The Hartog Plate – until 29 October 2017 (Sydney, NSW)

Kids and family:

• Explore Escape from Pompeii – until 30 August 2017 (Sydney, NSW)
• Kids on Deck – ongoing (Sydney, NSW)
• Cabinet of Curiosities – ongoing (Sydney, NSW)
• Family Fun Sunday – ongoing (Sydney, NSW)
• Sea-Side Strollers Tour – until 8 August 2017 (Sydney, NSW)
• Kids Activity Backpacks – until 30 August 2017 (Sydney, NSW)
• Mini Mariners – ongoing (Sydney, NSW)

National Film and Sound Archive

• Daily Program: August – 1 to 31 August 2017, weekdays only (Canberra, ACT)
• Bad Boy Bubby – 2 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• NFSA Ghost tour – 4 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Elvis: That’s the way it is – 4 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Blue Suede Vinyl Lounge – 4 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• The Breaking of the Drought – 9 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• National Science Week: Hedy lamarr – Hollywood Inventor – 16 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Samson and Delilah (4K) – 16 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Banned Bushrangers – Double Feature – 23 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• The Year my Voice Broke + Flirting – 26 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• The Man from Hong Kong – 30 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

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

National Library of Australia

• Melodrama in Meiji Japan – until 27 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Waving the Red Flag: Chinese Posters 1949 – 1976 – until 2 February 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• Author Talk with Rusty Young – 2 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Using Microform Readers – 3 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Stories from the Sandstone – 3 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Coffee with a Curator – 4 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Fellowship Presentation: Poetry and Public Apology – 8 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Author talk with David Haskell – 9 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Getting started @ the Library – 10 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• 2017 Kenneth Myer Lecture – 10 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Winter Tales with Louise Page – 13 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Maps for Family History – 15 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• 8 August 1918 from the German side – 15 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Family Jewels or Pandora’s Box? – 23 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Canberra Writers Festival – 25 to 27 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Fellowship Presentation: In the Eyes of Their Foes – 29 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Book Launch: Proof – 30 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

Kids and family:

• Escape to Everywhere: CBCA Book Week – 18 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

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

Museum of Australian Democracy

• Canberra Writers Festival – 25 to 27 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Yes: The Ongoing Story of the 1967 Referendum – ongoing (Canberra, ACT)
• The Opening Day: 9 May 1927 – ongoing (Canberra, ACT)
• Finders Keepers: Collectors and their Stories – ongoing (Canberra, ACT)
• Onetoeight: Australia’s First Prime Ministers – ongoing (Canberra, ACT)
• Behind the Lines 2016: The Year’s Best Political Cartoons – ongoing (Canberra, ACT)
• Dress Code: Empire – ongoing (Canberra, ACT)
• Magna Carta: An Australian Story – ongoing (Canberra, ACT)
• Happy and Glorious – ongoing (Canberra, ACT)

Kids and family:

• Play Up – ongoing (Canberra, ACT)
• Mystery Tour Party Games – ongoing (Canberra, ACT)

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

Bundanon Trust

• Nolan 100 – 1917-2017 – until 28 January 2018 (Bundanon, NSW)
• Bundanon Open Days – every Sunday (Bundanon, NSW)

For more information visit Bundanon Trust’s website.