Australian Performing Group
Arts & literature, Such was life:
The 1960s, a time of social and political change, saw the birth of the Australian Performing Group (APG).
Archive for 2013
Shake Your Family Tree Day April 16th
Family history events, Family matters:
On Tuesday 16th April, come join Grant Hamston and myself at the National Archives of Australia’s annual Shake Your Family Tree Day (SYFTD). Held at the Victorian Archives Centre in… Read More ›
Victoria, and the world, through the camera lens
Photography, Rare Books & Arts:
Jane Miller has been inspired by the Library’s wonderful collection of photography books and journals, as well as original photographs held in our Picture Collection The Melbourne Camera Club :… Read More ›
Arts on Film: opera favourites.
A program of opera favourites is the first in the Arts on Film series for 2013, to be screened this Wednesday April 3 in Arts. With selected highlights from the world’s… Read More ›
The Major Moon Collection
Major Arthur Moon was an Australian surgeon and POW in the Tamuang and Chungkai camps during World War II. He worked alongside Sir Edward (Weary) Dunlop and performed up to… Read More ›
New books: the joy of photography and the pleasure of prints
New books, Photography, Rare Books & Arts:
Our wonderful collection of photography books welcomes a few new titles, and the book on prints was just too charming to leave out! Photography and play by Erin C. Garcia… Read More ›
From Ararat to the Dardanelles: World War I through newspapers
Over 70 Victorian newspapers covering 1914 to 1918 are now freely available on Trove, the digitised Australian newspapers website. These titles have been digitised to support the commemoration of the… Read More ›
Who turned off the lights?
We did. The Library is again participating in Earth Hour which will be held between 8:30pm and 9:30pm on Saturday 23rd March 2013. Earth Hour is a World Wildlife Foundation… Read More ›
Tenth Family History Feast approaches
Family history events, Family matters:
In 2013 the State Library of Victoria will again host the annual Family History Feast (the tenth) to be held at the Library on Monday 5 August during National Family History… Read More ›
Curiouser and curiouser: following Alice down that rabbit hole…..
Children’s Research Librarian Juliet O’Conor has sent through this fascinating piece about the many curious lives of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland: A selection of illustrated versions of Lewis… Read More ›
