ISSUE 94 | November 2007 | nga.gov.au/Calendar

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Collection events

NAB Sculpture Gallery: special access tour
Monday 3 December 11 am
Special access tour led by voluntary guides for people with disabilities and their carers as part of the International Day of People with a Disability
Free | Limited places | Bookings essential: 02 6240 6519
meet in Gallery Foyer

No touching: Sculpture Garden
Thursday 6 December 12.45 pm
Join Roy Marchant, artist and Gallery Educator, in the Sculpture Garden for a talk on Diamonds 2002 by Neil Dawson. This event is subject to weather conditions
Free | meet in Gallery Foyer

Christmas carols
Sunday 9 December 11 am
Canberra Chordsmen celebrate the festive season with traditional Christmas carols
Free | Gallery Foyer

Brack off the rack
Tuesday 11 December 12.45 pm
Alexandra Walton, Australian Prints and Drawings, discusses John Brack's Men's wear 1953
Free | Australian Art Galleries

Members: Christmas shopping night
Thursday 13 December 5.30 pm
Exclusive Christmas shopping with free gift wrapping and 20% discount on all purchases (excluding already reduced items)
Members only | Gallery Shop | Become a member at nga.gov.au/Members

Children's Christmas performance
Saturday 15 December 11 am - 12 pm
Join us for a fun-filled performance of 'Christmas Dreaming', presented by the innovative Ickle Pickle Productions. Both children and adults will be entertained by this talented local company
$10 per ticket | Bookings essential | James O Fairfax Theatre

Christmas screening: Miracle on 34th Street
Sunday 16 December 2 - 3.40 pm
This original film, directed by George Seaton, tells the charming story of the real Kris Kringle (Edmund Gwenn) who finds himself working as a replacement Santa at Macy's and accused of being insane by the store manager
DVD, 1947, G, 96 min. | Free | James O Fairfax Theatre

Image detail left and top: Ethel Spowers 'Greeting card: To wish you a happy Christmas and New Year' 1929 linocut, printed in colour, from multiple blocks Collection of the National Gallery of Australia

National Indigenous Art Triennial 07

culture warriors
until 10 February 2008
nga.gov.au/NIAT07 | events

Screening series: Women of the sun
Sunday 2 December 2 pm
Women of the sun... 25 years later
Directed by Bob Weis, this powerful documentary looks at the impact of the award-winning 1981 series, Women of the sun, on those who played leading roles.
Free | James O Fairfax Theatre

Visiting curators: floortalks
Saturday 8 December 2 - 3 pm
Stephen Gilchrist, Curator, Indigenous Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Franchesca Cubillo, Senior Curator, Aboriginal Art & Material Culture, Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, and Bruce McLean, Associate Curator, Indigenous Australian Art, Queensland Art Gallery/ Gallery of Modern Art, discuss a selection of works from the exhibition Culture Warriors: National Indigenous Art Triennial
Free | Exhibition Galleries

Young, gifted and black
Saturday 15 December 2 pm
Brenda L Croft, Senior Curator, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, and curator of the exhibition discusses Indigenous identity in art, looking at Daniel Boyd, Julie Dowling, Christian Bumbarra Thompson and Dennis Nona
Free | Exhibition Galleries

Black robe, white mist

Art of the Japanese Buddhist nun Rengetsu
until 27 January 2008
nga.gov.au/Rengetsu | events

Japanese calligraphy
Saturday 8 December 10.30 am - 2.30 pm
Drawing inspiration from the exhibition Black robe, white mist, calligraphy teacher Kyoko Millar, conducts a practical workshop. $60; $50 members/concession (includes materials) Bookings essential | meet in Gallery Foyer

Auslan sign-interpreted tour
Sunday 9 December 2.30 pm
Auslan sign-interpreted tour of Black robe, white mist with the curator of the exhibition, Melanie Eastburn
Free | Limited places | Bookings essential: 02 6240 6519
meet in Gallery Foyer

image: Otagaki Rengetsu 'Fluttering merrily' sake flask [tokkuri] 1870 glazed stoneware, incised calligraphy
Museum DKM/Stifung DKM, Duisburg, Germany

Robert Rauschenberg

1967–1978
until 27 January 2008
nga.gov.au/Rauschenberg | events

Screening: Bonnie and Clyde
Sunday 9 December 2 pm
Rauschenberg's series Reels (B+C) 1968 pays homage to this classic film. Starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, Bonnie and Clyde is considered a landmark in film history, most notable for a level of cinematic violence that was unprecedented at the time
35 mm, 1967, M+, 157 min. | Free | James O Fairfax Theatre

Portfolio workshop (ages 16-18)
Saturday 15 December 10.30 am - 3.30 pm
Join Penny Low, artist and Gallery Educator, and learn how to build a visual art portfolio using the radical collage and design techniques of Robert Rauschenberg. Incorporate text, print, photography, drawing and found objects into a cohesive and powerful thematic collage. Participants are encouraged to bring source materials such as old x-rays, wrapping paper, packaging labels, old photographs and calendars, and magazine and newspaper clippings
$20; $15 members/concessions Bookings essential | meet in Gallery Foyer

Robert Rauschenberg 'Horsefeathers Thirteen - I' 1972 colour lithograph, screenprint, pochoir, collage and embossing Collection of the National Gallery of Australia © Robert Rauschenberg. Licensed by VAGA & VISCOPY, Australia

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Other benefits of being a Member include free subscription to the Gallery’s quarterly magazine artonview, 10% discount in the Gallery Shop, Café and Restaurant in the Sculpture Garden, as well as exclusive use of the Members’ Lounge with stunning views across the Sculpture Garden and Lake Burley Griffin.

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detail: Sydney Long 'Flamingoes' c.1905-06 oil on canvas Acquired with the assistance of the Masterpieces for the Nation Fund 2006 Reproduced with the kind permission of the Ophthalmic Research Institute of Australia

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Vincent Van Gogh 'Boomstammen het gras [Tree trunks in the grass]' 1890 oil on canvas Collection Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterloo, The Netherlands Part of the Upcoming Turner to Monet exhibtion