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.