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Poet's Corner with Helen Parsons

Join us for the first Poet's Corner of the year, featuring guest host Helen Parsons. Helen will read from her collection of poems inspired by Georgia O'Keeffe, The Feeling of Bigness. Participants are also welcome to share their own poetry. Tickets start at $12, and can be purchased 

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AWW: Shining Like the Sun

Stephen Orr discusses the complex interconnections of family and community, memory and place, commitment and contribution in Shining Like the Sun with Walter Marsh. More information

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AWW: Splinter Journal: Unravelling Reality

Can a literary journal help us understand or even change our reality? Editor of new Tarntanya-based journal Splinter, Farrin Foster, and issue one writers Hossein Asgari, Karen Wyld and Anthony Nocera, discuss the evolving purpose of literary journals and how it dovetails with their work in Splinter. More information

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AWW: Between Colonial Archives and Indigenous Memory

Natalie Harkin talks with Jackie Huggins and Jo Case about her new work Apron-Sorrow/Sovereign-Tea, forthcoming from Wakefield Press, a history of Aboriginal domestic service and unwaged labour in South Australia that is imbued with the concept of archival justice. Supported by the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund. More information

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Salon Series: Wendy Sharpe AM in conversation with Elizabeth Fortescue

Join us at the Women's Club in Sydney for a captivating Salon Series dinner event featuring Wendy Sharpe AM in conversation with Elizabeth Fortescue. This evening will provide a rare glimpse into Wendy’s creative journey, her inspirations, and her profound impact on the visual arts, as well as a closer look at Wendy Sharpe: Many lives by Elizabeth Fortescue. More information here.

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Exhibition: Stephanie Radok, Inside a Book

How do books and art help us remember and learn about the past? How do we preserve and revisit the past? Do words last longer than images? What role do museums and archives play for us? How do books, libraries, writing, and drawing preserve the past? In her new exhibition Inside a Book, Stephanie Radok explores these questions and ideas through her work. The exhibition features Radok’s etchings which illustrate her new book Under the…

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Exhibition: Matthew Flinders: Fearless in life, love and tragedy

Explore the remarkable life and legacy of renowned explorer Matthew Flinders in this captivating exhibition at Flinders University City Campus. At its heart is Flinders’ original coffin plate, shown in Australia for the first time. Alongside the coffin plate are rare artefacts from the Flinders University Special Collections including Flinders’ ebony pocket compass, brass buttons from his naval jacket, and a first edition of A Voyage to Terra Australis, his monumental final publication featuring maps…

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Author Talk: John Davis, Harry Hodgetts

Join us at the Burnside Library as John Davis discusses Harry Hodgetts: The flawed broker behind Bradman's move to Adelaide. Discover the rise and fall of Hodgetts, from his influential role in Adelaide’s stock market and sports scene to his scandalous conviction in 1945. Tea and coffee provided. Bookings are essential, and can be made

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Exhibition: After Images

After Images tracks the remarkable history of Australian Dance Theatre, our nation’s oldest continuing contemporary dance company. In celebration of the company’s 60th birthday, it revisits iconic works by ADT’s six artistic directors — Elizabeth Cameron Dalman, Jonathan Taylor, Leigh Warren, Meryl Tankard, Garry Stewart and Daniel Riley — that have moved and inspired audiences, and left an indelible mark on contemporary dance locally and internationally. This exhibition will run until Monday 24 March. More…

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