Here is Don Dwyer’s summary of the best events on offer around town, including film, performance, political events and talks.
August 2015
Saturday 22 August, 9 am
ACT ALP Conference
Southern Cross Cub, Woden
Saturday 22–Sunday 23 August
Big Boys Toys Expo, Exhibition Park
Sunday 23- Monday 24 August, 10am-3pm
Retirement Village Expo
Southern Cross Cu
Monday 24 August – Tuesday 1 Sept., 2.30 and 6.30 daily
Free Latin American Films
National Gallery of Australia
Tuesday 25 August
COTA response to Intergenerational Report – Ian Yates
Hughes Community Centre – $
Thursday 27 August, 6 pm
Professor Mick Dodson delivers Kenneth Myer Memorial Lecture
National Library of Australia. RSVP 62621271
Thursday 27 August
Chris Bowen launches his new book: The Money Men: Australia’s greatest treasurers.
Manning Clark lecture theatre 2
Thursday 27 August 5.30
China in the World – Hugh White in Conversation with John Garnaut
CIW Auditorium ANU RSVP 6125 2167
Friday 28- Sunday 30 August
Arab Film Festival – National Film and Sound Archive
http://www.nfsa.gov.au/calendar/?program=arc&page=2
Sunday 30 August, 2.30
Speed Sisters: film about Palestinian women racing car drivers
National Film and Sound Archives
Monday 31 August 5.45
Between the dances: WWII Women tell their Stories – by Jaqueline Dinan
Paperchain Bookshop, Manuka
September 2015
Wednesday 2- Saturday 5 September
Ghosts in the Snowy
Canberra Theatre
Wednesday 2 September, 6.30
Andrew Leigh launches his new book: The luck of politics.
Manning Clark Lecture Theatre, ANU
Wednesday 2 September, 12 for 12.30
Boko Haram Verities /Caroline Ifeka
Molony Room, Emeritus Faculty ANU; Building 1c, 24 Balmain Crescent
Enquiries: Adrian Gibbs adrian_j_gibbs@hotmail.com; Tel: 02 6281 6971
http://www.anu.edu.au/emeritus/events.html
Thursday 3 September, 5.45 pm
With just one suitcase, by Cheryl Koenig
World War II story about moving from Romania to Australia
Paperchain Bookshop
Saturday 5 September
Possible date for federal election.
Saturday 12 September
New British Labour leader announced.
Tuesday 15-Friday 26 September
The Wharf Review
Wednesday 16 September, 4 pm
Telling the Secrets; writing the history of ASIO / David Horner
Molony Room, Emeritus Faculty; ANU; Building 1c, 24 Balmain Crescent
Enquiries: Adrian Gibbs adrian_j_gibbs@hotmail.com; Tel: 02 6281 6971
http://www.anu.edu.au/emeritus/events.html
Thursday 17 September, 8 pm
Joan Baez performs An Evening with Joan Baezat the Royal Theatre, National Convention Centre, Civic.
Tickets $89-$150. See ticketek.com.au.
Sunday 20-Wednesday 23 September
The Confidence
Street Theatre
Tuesday 22 Sept-Sunday 11 October
Italian Film Festival
Palace Theatre
Wednesday 23-Saturday 26 September
Circus Oz
Canberra Theatre
Tuesday 29 September
China in the world: panel of historians will discuss the rise and fall of empires.
CIW Auditorium, ANU
October 2015
Friday 2-Sunday 4 October
She fought for peace
Street Theatre
13-24 October
Bell Shakespeare’s Othello
Canberra Theatre
Wednesday 28 October, 4.15
Prof. Angela Woollacott discusses Don Dunstan in 1940s and 1950s Establishment Adelaide
Room 1.04 Coombs Extension, ANU
Friday 30 October, 9.15 am- 4.15 pm
Symposium on Magna Carta
Parliament House Main Committee Room
Free. RSVP 6277 3078
Speakers include Dyson Heydon, Jim Spiegelman, Des Manderson, David Headon, etc.
November 2015
Wednesday 4 to Wednesday 11 November
Russian Film Festival
Capitol Theatre, Manuka
Thursday 5-Sunday 15 November
International Film Festival
National Film and Sound Archive
December 2015
Sunday 6 December, 12 noon
Commemoration of Spanish Civil War
Lennox Park, behind Hyatt Hotel, BYO
Keep up to date with current affairs by Googling Bob Ellis Talk
Recommended reading: Political animal house, by Guy Rundle page 7 in The Saturday Paper, 15 August, 2015
Catch and Kill by Joel Deane – the Inside Story of Modern Victorian State Labor (Bracks, etc.)
For more events, check out websites of all theatres, cinemas, Australian National University, University of Canberra, Senate Lecture series, National Library of Australia, Palace Theatre National Gallery of Australia, National Portrait Gallery, High Court of Australia, National Archives, Australian War Memorial, Museum of Australian Democracy, National Film and Sound Archives, U3A, Manning Clark House, Emeritus Faculty, ANU, etc.