What’s on in July

National Gallery of Australia

• Winter film series: Beuys: Art as a weapon—5 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Art for lunch—6, 13, 20, 27 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Rendezvous with art—10, 31 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Out of the box—11 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Meet the maker—14 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Art appreciation for carers—18 July 2017
• Contemporary conversations—27 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Australian Impressionism—(Canberra, ACT)
• Namatjira: Painting Country—from 15 July 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)
• Mexican Modernism—until 26 November 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

Kids and family:

• Creative meditation for children—4 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Art explorer: Creative workshop with Tony Albert—7 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Create space with Tony Albert—8 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Sketchy Tuesday—11 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• ASI: Art Scene Investigation—Inside outrageous—13 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Drawesome—16 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Little look at ART—19 July 2017  (Canberra, ACT)
• NGA Play: Reko Rennie —14 May - 3 December 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

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

National Museum of Australia

• NAIDOC Week—Traditional weaving workshop—8 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Sensory objects: A taste of East meets West—17 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• A Change is Gonna Come—until 30 January 2018 (Canberra, ACT)
• Evolution: Torres Strait Masks—until 23 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

Kids and family:

• Discovery Space: Wheelie fun—3 to 7 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Afternoon play space—3 to 7 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Freewheeling family fun day—9 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Towers of Tomorrow with LEGO Bricks—28 July—8 October 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

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

National Portrait Gallery

• Family Space: Dempsey street—1 to 16 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Dempsey's people revealed—2 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Dempsey's people preview: Circle of Friends—6 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Evensong—15 and 16 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Art and dementia—18 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Portrait encounter: Tracey Moffatt by Greg Weight—20 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Transition—21 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Collection in Focus: Brook Andrew—until 27 August 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Dempsey's People: A Folio of British Street Portraits 1824-1844—from 22 October 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Collections highlights tour—until 24 December 2017  (Canberra, ACT)

Kids and family:

• Press you letters—1 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Little Faces: Winter Series—4 and 5 June 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Portrait Play—3 to 7 and 10 to 14 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Storytime—13 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Moana screening—15 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Drawn in: Humbug Celtic Band—23 July 2017

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

Australian National Maritime Museum

• Escape from Pompeii—until 30 August 2017 (Sydney, NSW)
• Lustre—until 13 August 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)

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

National Film and Sound Archive

• Daily Program: July—3 to 31 July, weekdays only (Canberra, ACT)
• School holiday screenings—book heroes on the screen—5—14 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
  
  • Jasper Jones—5 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
  • The Neverending  Story—6 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
  • The Iron Giant—7 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
  • Beauty and the Beast—13 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
  • Night at the Museum—14 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Mabo: Life of an Island Man—5 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• The Vinyl Lounge—7 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Jen Anderson presents Pandora's Box—7 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• The Banned and the Beautiful—12 July to 2 September 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
  
  • Peeping Tom—12 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
  • Pink Flamingos—18 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
  • Romance + Smut Hounds—26 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
  • Pussy Riot—28 July 2017
  • The Punk Singer—28 July 2017
• NFSA Ghost Tour—14 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• People of the Australian Western Desert—21 and 22 July 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)
• NAIDOC Week Event: Collection Talk—4 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Book launch: Clancy's Hat—5 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Using Microform Readers—6 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• NAIDOC Collection Talk: Our Voice—6 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Visionary or Vandal?—6 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Getting Started @ the Library—12 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Fellowship Presentation: Shojo: Changing Representations—19 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Apps for research and study—20 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Author talk with Kate Forsyth—20 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Fellowship Presentation: Searching for Japan - 25 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Author talk with Michael Robotham - 27 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Winter tales with Susie Beaver—30 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

Kids and family:

• Winter Storytime—13 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)
• Children's film: Wolf Children—13 July 2017 (Canberra, ACT)

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

Museum of Australian Democracy

• 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)
• Art is a Weapon—ongoing (Canberra, ACT)

Kids and family:

• Play Up—ongoing (Canberra, ACT)
• Mystery Tour Party Games—ongoing (Canberra, ACT)
• Sunday Crafternoons: One Million Stars to End Violence—25 June 2017 (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)
• Brandenburg Quartet—16 July 2017 (Bundanon, NSW)

For more information visit Bundanon Trust's website.