Coppelia: free ballet screening.
Coppelia : a ballet in three acts, is the next program in the Music and Dance on Film series, to be screened this Wednesday May 11 in Arts. This ballet classic… Read More ›
Family Matters celebrates first birthday!
Family matters, Uncategorized:
May 2011 marks our blog’s first birthday. One year ago we began with our first post “Hello world!” We looked forward to sharing the State Library’s window on the world… Read More ›
Tutankhamun and 7000 years of Egyptian art
You’ve probably already noticed that Melbourne is currently in the grip of Tutankhamun fever, with the blockbuster exhibition on show at the Melbourne Museum. You can explore the extraordinary history… Read More ›
Stellar line-up for Reading Matters conference
Events, Family history events:
Reading Matters, the State Library’s biennial youth literature conference begins Wednesday May 25 with a stellar line-up of Australian and international authors leading two days discussions, workshops and events about writing and publishing for young adult readers.
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Film, Rare Books & Arts, Visual arts:
This Wednesday 4th April at 6:30pm, as a part of the Outside-in cinema series in Experimedia here at the Library, we will be showing the documentary Love the beast, in… Read More ›
Welcome to “Marvellous Melbourne” SAG tour group!
Family history events, Family matters:
For a few days in early May a tour group from the Society of Genealogists in Sydney is visiting a variety of agencies and organisations in Melbourne, including of course the… Read More ›
Behold His mighty hand!
Confession time! I simply can’t resist watching Cecil B. DeMille’s The Ten Commandments whenever it appears on television in all of its Technicolor, larger-than-life glory, which it did yet again… Read More ›
Jacqueline du Pre: Double Bill Screening.
Two documentaries about renowned British cellist, Jacqueline du Pre, will feature in the next Music & Dance on Film series program, to be screened this Wednesday April 27 in Arts.… Read More ›
Lest we forget : the World War 1 experience
The published collections of the State Library of Victoria contain a variety of portrayals of the war experience from the horror of war to heroic accounts. Most modern histories of World… Read More ›
A mixed bag in Arts
A diverse range of new books hitting the shelves in Arts this week. Alex Katz : an American way of seeing: editors Riitta Valorinta, Guy Tosatto & Guido de Werdo Katz’s… Read More ›
Such was life
On the case: Detective Piggott and the development of forensics
The early 1900s was an exciting time to be a detective. Innovations in science and technology, combined with the popularity of detective stories shifted crime fighting away from the seedy world of informers, which had influenced the early years of policing, towards the detection of crime using scientific methods and forensic evidence. Find out about how one Victorian detective contributed to the development of police forensics.
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Portraits of Melbourne artists in their studios
John Hinds, an artist, photographer and active ROAR member from 1986 to 1992 spent time capturing artists he personally knew and the spaces that they used to create their works. His photographs captured a unique and often unseen time and place, creating an invaluable insight into the art scene in Melbourne.
