![Mathew Salle Papua New Guinea, New Ireland Bird and Snake fighting [Turu] 2004 (detail) wood, orches, shell National Gallery of Australia, Canberra](/web/20081114184616im_/http://www.nga.gov.au/artonline/109/DSC01512.jpg)
ISSUE 109 | October 2008 | nga.gov.au/Calendar
Gods, ghosts and men
Pacific arts from the National Gallery of Australia
10 October 2008 — 11 January 2009 | nga.gov.au/GodsGhostsMen
![The Ambum stone [Pre-historic zoomorphic figure] c.1500 BCE greywacke stone National Gallery of Australia, Canberra](/web/20081114184616im_/http://www.nga.gov.au/artonline/109/40724.jpg)
The Ambum stone [Pre-historic zoomorphic figure] c.1500 BCE greywacke stone National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Members’ opening night
Wednesday 15 October 6pm
Cocktail reception between 6-8pm
Exclusive viewing of the exhibition between 7-8pm
Crispin Howarth, Curator, Pacific Arts and exhibition curator gives an introduction to the exhibition followed by a short performance by Pacific dancers Phoenix Performing Arts Troupe.
$35 members and their guests
Bookings essential | 02 6240 6504
Become a member today at nga.gov.au/Members
Curator's perspective
Tuesday 14 October 12.45 pm
Crispin Howarth, Curator, Pacific Arts, and exhibition curator, provides a walkthrough introduction to this exciting new exhibition.
Free | Orde Poynton Gallery and Project Gallery
From harakeke to huaki
Thursday 16 October 12.45 pm
Dr Patricia Te Arapo Wallace (Ngati Porou), Research Associate, Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, discuses Maori weaving and the Gallery's Maori cloak.
Free | Small Theatre
To collect or not to collect; that is the question
Wednesday 22 October 12.45 pm
Dr Barry Craig, Researcher, Foreign Ethnology, South Australian Museum, speaks about collecting art in the field in Papua New Guinea and about the ethics of collecting.
Free | Small Theatre
top image: Mathew Salle Papua New Guinea, New Ireland Bird and Snake fighting [Turu] 2004 (detail) wood, ochres, shell National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
fullscreen 08
Explorations in digital media: communion, community and communication
Sunday 12 October 11 am - 4 pm | nga.gov.au/fullscreen
The National Gallery of Australia presents fullscreen 08: explorations in digital media, a full-day forum of four artists exploring new-media practice and its role in building connections and community. Participants include artists Lucas Ihlein, Sarah Jane Pell, Wade Marynowsky and Anne Walton.
Free | James O Fairfax Theatre
left: Anne Walton, Bruce Maguire Braille window project right: Wade Marynowsky Meditation for G8 2008
Floriade at the NGA
floortalk series | 2008
National Gallery of Australia curators provide insightful talks on the works of art in the national collection that relate to flora.
![Claude Monet Nymphéas [Waterlilies] c.1914-17 oil on canvas 181.0 h x 201.6 w cm National Gallery of Australia, Canberra more detail](/web/20081114184616im_/http://www.nga.gov.au/artonline/109/64894.jpg)
In the fernery
Saturday 11 October 2 pm
Alexandra Walton, Gordon Darling Graduate Intern, will discuss early prints of ferns by artists such as Nicholas Caire, George Angas and Eugene von Guérard.
Free | Australian galleries
Claude Monet Nymphéas [Waterlilies] c.1914-17 (detail) oil on canvas National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Speaker series
Asia–Pacific photography 1840s–1940s
Documenting early Fiji: photography in Levuka in the late nineteenth century
Sunday 12 October 2 pm
Dr Rod Ewins, artist, anthropologist and researcher in Fijian history and
indigenous culture, speaks about the F H Dufty montage Panorama of Levuka,
Fiji, and portraits c. 1870–79 in the context of Fiji's transition to a British colony.
Free | Small Theatre
Visualising history: dance, film and phosphate in the Pacific
Saturday 18 October 2 pm
Dr Katerina Teaiwa, Pacific Studies Convenor, ANU, discusses re-imagining history in visual images. Using rich photographic and film records kept by the British Phosphate Commission, she integrates a transformed view of history with the art and culture of the Pacific island of Banaba in Kiribati and Rabi in Fiji.
Free | Small Theatre
Modern women photographers
Tuesday 21 October 12.45 pm
Anne O'Hehir, Curator, Photography, talks about modern women photographers in Asia and the Pacific and their work in the first half of the twentieth century.
Free | Small Theatre
Children's week
18 October – 26 October 2008 | Download flyer
Peter Tully Le headpiece c.1980 plastic, vinyl, found objects Gift of the Philip Morris Arts Grant 1982. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra © Merlene Gibson Part of Home at last
Big draw
community drawing event
Sunday 19 October 11 am – 2 pm | download flyer
Come and draw the distinctive architecture and inspirational works of art in the Gallery at this national drawing event held in conjunction with Drawing Australia. To celebrate Art Beyond Sight Awareness Month, this community drawing event for all ages and abilities will include a shared drawing activity for sighted and non-sighted visitors to the Gallery.
Free | Throughout the Gallery
Home is where we start from
Tues 21 October 6 pm
Dr Sarah Mares, Head of Infancy and Early Childhood Studies, NSW Institute of Psychiatry, discusses the developmental significance of home as an actual, imagined and remembered place, as the place where we first learn to play, create and explore.
Free | Bookings essential: 6240 6502 | James O Fairfax Theatre | download flyer
Touch and draw: assisted workshop
Art Beyond Sight Awareness Month workshop
Thursday 23 October 10.30–11.30 am
(ages 10–18) Get close to art with Adriane Boag, Gallery Educator, in this tactile workshop for children and youth who are blind or have low vision.
Free | Bookings essential: (02) 6240 6519 | Small Theatre
Pacific arts storytelling
Saturday 25 October 10.30–11.30 am
(all ages, children accompanied by an adult) Traditional stories told through dance and mime performed by Siua Lafitani of Phoenix Performing Arts, with Shiara Astle and ‘Amelia King.
Free | Orde Poynton Gallery and Project Gallery
BELL SHAKESPEARE & QUEENSLAND THEATRE COMPANY PRESENT
ANATOMY TITUS FALL OF ROME
A SHAKESPEARE COMMENTARY BY HEINER MÜLLER
CANBERRA THEATRE CENTRE, THE PLAYHOUSE
8 - 18 OCTOBER
In a powerful new co-production by Bell Shakespeare and Queensland Theatre Company, Michael Gow directs John Bell in the title role of Anatomy Titus Fall Of Rome: A Shakespeare Commentary, a reworking of Shakespeare’s bloodiest play Titus Andronicus, by German playwright and director Heiner Müller. A searingly provocative examination of the nature of violence, this sharply political work speaks as much of our world today as of Ancient Rome.
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Pay just $45 per ticket (normally $60) when you book for one of the following performances:
Monday 13 October 6.30pm or Tuesday 14 October 7.30pm
To take advantage of this offer, call Canberra Theatre Centre on 02 6275 2700 and quote GALLERY OFFER. Booking fees apply.
![image: Kamakaing, Wonam Village, Papua New Guinea Bowl in the form of a fish [njul potipah] 20th century wood National Gallery of Australia, Canberra](/web/20081114184616im_/http://www.nga.gov.au/artonline/109/43380.jpg)
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image: Kamakaing Huon Gulf, Papua New Guinea Bowl in the form of a fish [njul potipah] 20th century wood National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Part of Gods, ghosts and men
