Next on 5 Mar 2021 Enlighten Festival 26 Feb - 14 Mar 2021 Canberra will shine bright with culture and creativity as the Enlighten Festival brings together the best autumn events. Held over 17 days from 26 February to 14... Community EventFood and WineExhibition and ShowsFestivals and CelebrationsConcert or Performance
Free event Next on 5 Mar 2021 Collection Highlights Tour 19 Dec 2020 - 31 Dec 2021 Join the National Portrait Gallery for a free 30 minute guided tour touching on aspects of the building and some of the collection. Bookings essential, limited... Classes, Lessons, Workshops and Talks
Free event Next on 5 Mar 2021 Enlighten Illuminations at Enlighten Festival 26 Feb - 8 Mar 2021 Canberra’s beloved Enlighten Illuminations will again see the Parliamentary Triangle come to life after dark. Use the CheckIn CBR app as you immerse yourself in... Festivals and CelebrationsFood and Wine
Free event Next on 5 Mar 2021 Piinpi: Contemporary Indigenous Fashion 20 Feb - 8 Aug 2021 This stunning exhibition shines a light on Australia's leading First Nations creatives and a design movement that is fast becoming a national fashion phenomenon.... Exhibition and Shows
Next on 5 Mar 2021 Democracy. Are You In? 20 Jul 2020 - 20 Jun 2021 Democracy is a living system and it work best when there is a healthy balance between trust and distrust - but that balance is tipping. Distrust is on the rise,... Exhibition and Shows
Next on 5 Mar 2021 PlayUP: The Right to Have an Opinion and Be Heard 1 Oct 2020 - 30 Apr 2021 The imaginative family space has all-new hands-on activities to educate, excite and challenge young minds. Discover PlayUP – The Right to Have an Opinion and... Community EventExhibition and Shows
Next on 5 Mar 2021 onetoeight: Australia’s first prime ministers 20 Jul 2020 - 20 Jun 2021 Visually arresting, humorous and thoughtful, Canberra-based artist Alison Alder reinterprets and reinvigorates portraits of the first eight prime ministers in onetoeight,... Exhibition and Shows
Next on 5 Mar 2021 Happy and Glorious 20 Jul 2020 - 20 Jun 2021 The Queen’s Visit in 1954. The phrase conjures up memories of a young Queen in summer dresses and ball gowns, crowds of Australians excitedly waving flags and... Exhibition and Shows
Free event Next on 5 Mar 2021 Life Through the Lens - Photographic Display at the NFSA 1 Aug 2020 - 30 Jun 2021 This photographic display highlights just a few of the 3,000 Commonwealth documentaries and educational short films in the Film Australia Collection, which recorded... Community EventExhibition and Shows
Free event Next on 5 Mar 2021 The Amazing Face 4 Jan - 31 Dec 2021 The National Portrait Gallery has a free online class to learn the language of portraiture. Over 14 modules, iconic portraits from the NPG Collection are highlighted,... Exhibition and Shows
Next on 5 Mar 2021 Yours Faithfully 1 Oct 2020 - 30 Apr 2021 In an age of pithy one liners, text messages and FaceTime, letter writing might seem redundant. Yet rediscovering this lost art reminds us to slow down and express... Exhibition and Shows
Free event Next on 5 Mar 2021 Endeavour Voyage: The Untold Stories of Cook and the First Australians 4 Jun 2020 - 26 Apr 2021 This stunning exhibition takes you on a journey, travelling on board the ship with Cook and for the first time hearing the stories from those on the shore. In... Exhibition and Shows
Free event Next on 5 Mar 2021 Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now 15 Feb - 4 Jul 2021 Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now showcases art made by women. It brings together more than 300 works, drawn from the Gallery’s collection and... Exhibition and Shows
Next on 5 Mar 2021 Truth, Power and a Free Press 2 Jul 2020 - 31 Dec 2021 Rapidly changing technology creating a 24-hour news cycle, the rise of citizen journalists and a constant battle for truth. Media can shine a light into places... Exhibition and Shows
Free event Next on 5 Mar 2021 Belonging: Stories of Australian Art 3 Jul 2020 - 30 Jun 2021 This major collection presentation recasts the story of nineteenth-century Australian art. Informed by the many voices of Indigenous and non-Indigenous cultures... Exhibition and Shows
Next on 5 Mar 2021 Drag Takeover! 23 Jan - 19 Mar 2021 Every Drag Takeover is bringing you a bevy of local Canberran Drag Queens, Drag Kings and queer talent with and multiple stunning performers appearing at every show. What... Concert or Performance
Free event Next on 5 Mar 2021 Pub Rock 5 Sep 2020 - 14 Mar 2021 Your backstage pass to 70s and 80s sounds and scenes. Celebrate the people, places and sounds of Australian pub rock and its enduring impact on our nation’s identity. Get... Exhibition and Shows
Free event Next on 5 Mar 2021 NFSA Building History: If These Walls Could Talk 5 Feb - 4 Jun 2021 Discover the fascinating history behind the the National Film and Sound Archive's heritage-listed headquarters and follow the story of a Canberra landmark in this... Classes, Lessons, Workshops and Talks
Free event Next on 5 Mar 2021 Out of This World: Australia in the space age 29 Sep 2020 - 14 Mar 2021 Welcome to the dawn of the space age. From the 1950s through to the 1970s, Australia was gripped with excitement as humanity made its first forays beyond Earth’s... Exhibition and Shows
Free event Next on 5 Mar 2021 Birds of Paradise: Ellis Rowan in New Guinea 11 Sep 2020 - 8 Mar 2021 Ellis Rowan (1848–1922) is one of Australia’s most celebrated artists. Best known for her striking wildflower paintings, Ellis Rowan also had an interest in... Exhibition and Shows
Free event Next on 5 Mar 2021 This is my place 19 Sep 2020 - 11 Jul 2021 After months spent in isolation at home, the National Portrait Gallery invites you to take a fresh and intimate focus on the places that define who we are - our... Exhibition and Shows
Free event Next on 5 Mar 2021 Seeing Canberra 26 Oct 2020 - 17 Jul 2021 As a city initiated as an imagined capital for the new Australian nation, Canberra has been a place that quickly invited visual representation. As it developed,... Exhibition and Shows
Free event Next on 5 Mar 2021 Sidney Nolan and St Kilda: Memory and Modernism 27 Oct 2020 - 13 Mar 2021 For Sidney Nolan, his boyhood home of the Melbourne bayside suburb of St Kilda was ‘My kitsch heaven’. The memory of childhood experiences at the beach and... Exhibition and Shows
Free event Next on 5 Mar 2021 Crafting Canberra 27 Oct 2020 - 26 Jun 2021 Bringing together works of art and social history objects from the Canberra Museum and Gallery collection, Crafting Canberra explores how the Canberra community... Exhibition and Shows
