Giselle: free ballet screening.
Giselle: a ballet in two acts, is the next screening in the Music and Dance on Film series. This is Maina Gielgud’s acclaimed production of the classical ballet that is a… Read More ›
Family History Feast 2010
Family history events, Family matters:
”It was great! As always a must attend event” so said one of the 170 plus people who attended this year’s annual Feast. This was the seventh city-based event, a… Read More ›
Listening Posts in Arts: Mary Poppins, Melba and more
Music, Musicals, Rare Books & Arts:
The Arts Reading Room has eight listening posts where you can listen to CDs from the audiovisual collection. They are connected to jukebox players at the Arts Enquiry Desk, each holding… Read More ›
Marxism for t-shirts
Photography, Rare Books & Arts:
As a part of the Outside-in Cinema screenings in Experimedia here at the Library, on Wednesday 11 August at 6:30pm you can catch the recent documentary about the most re-produced photograph ever… Read More ›
Rhythm on film
Film, Music, Popular music, Rare Books & Arts:
The Backbeat section of the Melbourne International Film Festival is known for highlighting a variety of fascinating films on various aspects of popular and un/non-popular music and music culture over… Read More ›
Family History Feast 2010 podcast now available!
Family history events, Family matters:
The podcast of our annual Family History Feast held on Monday 2 August 2010 is now available on the State Library of Victoria website. There is also a vidcast of… Read More ›
Where’s Ned?
Announcements, Collection, Exhibitions, News:
Ned Kelly’s armour has been lent to Beechworth for the annual Ned Kelly Weekend and will not be on exhibition at the State Library between Tuesday 3 – Wednesday 11 August 2010.
New books in Arts
Comic books, Film, Painting, Rare Books & Arts, Visual arts:
French paintings of the fifteenth through the eighteenth century byPhilip Conisbee British paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1575-1875 by Katharine Baetjer The Greek body by Ian Jenkins and Victoria… Read More ›
The Salzburg Festival – free screening.
Music, Rare Books & Arts, Theatre:
The Salzburg Festival is an international festival of music and drama, held each European Summer in the Austrian town of Salzburg – birthplace of Mozart and location for the classic movie… Read More ›
The 2010 Don Grant Lecture : Professor Geoffery Blainey
Family history events, Family matters:
This afternoon, attendees at the Family History Feast, had the great pleasure of hearing Professor Geoffery Blainey deliver the 2010 Don Grant lecture on the topic of Victoria in the… Read More ›
Such was life
A passion for adventure: Agatha Christie in Victoria
In 1922 Agatha Christie accompanied her husband on an around the world tour to promote the British Empire Exhibition in 1924. On her travels, she spent 10 days in Victoria- find out what she thought…
Arts
Victoria’s State Artist: Harold Freedman
Cavalacde of Transport, The Story of Fire and The history of Australian thoroughbred racing are some of Melbourne’s largest and most seen artworks. These were from the hands of Harold Freedman, locally born and bred, whose exploration of monumental art came later in his life.
