Event
Board Game Marathon Drop-In Day
16 January 2020

Spend a fun family day, or just a lazy half-hour at CMAG these school holidays playing board games!

 In Conversation: Collaboration in Art and Music in Hi-Vis Futures
Event
4 December 2019
In Conversation: Collaboration in Art and Music in Hi-Vis Futures

Join artists Mandy Martin, Alexander Boynes and musician and composer Tristen Parr as they discuss the process of collaboration involved in creating the exhibition Hi-Vis Futures

Kimberley Echoes
Event
3 December 2019
Kimberley Echoes

Kimberley Echoes is a powerful musical celebration of the Kimberley and its people

Panel: Art + Emotion = Action
Event
28 November 2019
Panel: Art + Emotion = Action

Can a deeply emotional experience of art drive a personal response to climate change?

Collection Conversation: Civic Square and the Utopian City Ideal
Event
22 November 2019
Collection Conversation: Civic Square and the Utopian City Ideal

Civic Square, designed by Roy Simpson of Yuncken Freeman in 1959, was a confident assertion of utopian Modernist architectural style

NFSA Friends - Lost Australia: Orphan of the Wilderness (1936)
Event
15 November 2019
NFSA Friends - Lost Australia: Orphan of the Wilderness (1936)

Friends of the National Film and Sound Archive presents stories that celebrate film

Sustainable arts practice: creativity and business
Event
1 November 2019
Sustainable arts practice: creativity and business

Join Professor David Throsby and a panel of four local artists as they consider what a sustainable arts practice looks like

Walk: Activism at ANU
Event
24 October 2019
Walk: Activism at ANU

Discover sites and stories of activism on a walk around the ANU Acton Campus with ANU Heritage Advisor Amy Jarvis

NFSA Friends - The Pentagon Papers: Conversations with Daniel Ellsberg (1972) + The Franklin River Blockade (1983)
Event
11 October 2019
NFSA Friends - The Pentagon Papers: Conversations with Daniel Ellsberg (1972) + The Franklin River Blockade (1983)

Friends of the National Film and Sound Archive presents stories that celebrate film

Daniel Ellsberg discusses his experiences in Vietnam and their influence on his decision to release the stolen Pentagon papers to the American public. Plus, the Tasmanian Wilderness Society's blockade of construction on a dam to flood the Franklin River attracted activists from all over Australia, 1440 of whom were arrested for non-violent protest.  Their efforts influenced the 1983 federal election campaign.

Event
Floor Talk: Women Against Rape in War
9 October 2019

Discover the story behind the Women Against Rape in Warprotests of the early 1980s with Dr Gail Radford and Di Lucas

Floor Talk: Mandarin Tour of The Nolan Collection
Event
3 October 2019
Floor Talk: Mandarin Tour of The Nolan Collection

Join a Mandarin language tour and discover one of Australia’s most acclaimed artists Sidney Nolan

Day Bus Tour: ‘Old Graham’ near Cowra
Event
Booked Out
28 September 2019
Day Bus Tour: ‘Old Graham’ near Cowra
Booked out

Driving through Wiradjuri country and arriving at ‘Old Graham’ house, the tour will take in the beautifully restored stone homestead…

Film Screening: 2040
Event
21 September 2019
Film Screening: 2040

2040 is a hybrid feature documentary that looks to the future, but is vitally important NOW!

Floor Talk: Environmental activism across generations
Event
21 September 2019
Floor Talk: Environmental activism across generations

Join us for an intergenerational conversation about environmental activism.

Event
NFSA Friends - Hugh Watson: Songs of Peace and Protest
13 September 2019

Friends of the National Film and Sound Archive presents stories that celebrate film and music

Guest Speaker: Unmasking Nolan's hidden paintings with Dr Paula Dredge
Event
12 September 2019
Guest Speaker: Unmasking Nolan's hidden paintings with Dr Paula Dredge

Dr Paula Dredge shares her ground-breaking research on Sidney Nolan’s innovative use of household paint in the mid-1940s

Floor Talk: Aboriginal Tent Embassy
Event
5 September 2019
Floor Talk: Aboriginal Tent Embassy

The Aboriginal Tent Embassy has been the focus for Aboriginal political rights in Canberra for the past 47 years