This is Don Dwyer’s Exclusive Calendar of Events for Canberrans.
APRIL
Friday 22 April, 5.30 p.m., National Film and Sound Archive
“Ireland Will be Free”: Film of 1920 Melbourne St Patrick’s Day March.
Tickets $10 or $8; RSVP 6248 2000. http://www.nfsa.gov.au/calendar/event/6138-ireland-will-be-free/
Friday 22 April, 6 p.m., Manning Clark House, 11 Tasmania Circle, Forrest
Libby Connors speaks on Australia’s Frontier Wars.
RSVP 0419 369 206
Saturday 23 April, 2 p.m., National Library
Celebrating 400 years of Shakespeare.
Tickets $16. RSVP 6262 1271
Sunday 24 April, 12 noon, National Library
Book launch of Barbara Blackman‘s All My Januaries.
$15. RSVP 6262 1271
Wednesday 27 April, 7 p.m., Llewellyn Hall, ANU
Gillian Triggs speaks on “Human Rights & Refugees”.
Thursday 28 April, 6 p.m., Manning Clark House, 11 Tasmania Circle, Forrest
Drusilla Modjeska on Papua New Guinea.
RSVP 0419 369 206
28 April to 4 May, various venues
Canberra International Music Festival.
http://www.cimf.org.au, 6230 5880
Friday 29 April, from 6.30 p.m., Woden Tradies, cnr Launceston St & Furzer Sts, Phillip.
May Day Dinner.
Contact Jane Timbrell to join a Vintage Reds table, or UnionsACT. http://www.unionsact.org.au/may-day-dinner-2016
MAY
Sunday 1st May, 1.30 p.m., National Library Theatre
Symposium on 100th Anniversary of the Irish Rebellion. Guest Speakers: Father Frank Brennan; Dr Val Noone; Dr Michael McKinley
$10, RSVP 6286 3823
Friday 6 May, 10 a.m. & 2 p.m., National Film & Sound Archive
Phil Noyce’s Good Afternoon: Phil Noyce and Jack Waterford discuss the 1971 Aquarius Festival.
Saturday 7 May, Canberra Seniors Centre, 10 Watson St, Turner
Canberra Seniors Centre Fete
Friday 13 May, Canberra Theatre
Eric Burdon & the Animals
www.canberratheatre.com.au, 6275 2700
Wednesday 18 May, 4.15 p.m., McDonald Room, Menzies Library, ANU
John Gascoigne, “Origins of Australia as a Secular State”
Tuesday 24 May, 5.30 p.m., National Library
Michelle Arrow, “1970s Politics”.
Free. RSVP 6262 1271
Saturday 28 May, 2 p.m., National Library
Celebration of Not-for-Profit Publishing. Paul McDermott and Meredith McKinney.
Free. RSVP 6262 1424
JULY
7 to 9 July, Canberra Theatre
Songs of Jimmy Little
9 to 10 July, City Walk
World Curry Festival
AUGUST
Wednesday 3 August, 8.45 a.m. to 5 p.m., National Library
Australia and the 1916 Rising in Ireland.
$50, RSVP 0466 402 415