A bohemian football match
The costume football match in 1881 featured players dressed as characters from opera, tragedy, comedy, farce and pantomime.
Archive for March, 2015
The art of the garden
With the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show in full bloom, it seems only right to have a bit of a floral festival here at the Library. As Cicero said: “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
2015 Inky Awards longlist announcement
News:
Honoring the best new international youth literature out there, the annual Inky Awards longlist has been announced. For those of you who are not familiar with this award, it is… Read More ›
12,000 attend Children’s Book Festival
News:
More than 12,000 children and their families joined us for a giant book party with the Wheeler Centre on Sunday 22 March.
Louis Lothian Children’s Literature Fellowship
News:
Our newly titled Louis Lothian Children’s Literature Fellowship is named in honour of Louis Lothian.
What is an artist book?
Our exhibition Inspiration by Design has artist books from Picasso, Matisse and Ernst, to name but a few! What exactly is an ‘artist book’? Learn from the experts.
New in the visual arts: on the shelf and online
New books, Painting, Photography, Rare Books & Arts, Visual arts:
The visual arts come in all shapes and sizes
Making an exhibition of yourself
People & professions, Such was life:
Want to meet some ordinary Melbournians from the 1880s? About 500 of them lurk in the pages of a ‘security album’ from the spectacular Melbourne Centennial Exhibition, held in 1888.
A new space to hang out in the Library
News:
We are building a more comfortable space for visitors to hang out, check email and have a break
Q&A with children’s author Andy Griffiths
Hear from children’s author extraordinaire Andy Griffiths in the lead up to his visit to the Library for Children’s Book Festival 2015.
