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10 Nov 2019

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Taking Up Space: Building the City That We Deserve / Sexism & feminism

With Gala Vanting, Jax Jacki Brown, Caroline Martin and 2 others

Single session tickets are now available.

A woman’s place in the world and right to move through it freely has always been controlled. Workplaces, our city streets, pubs and parks are not just traditionally unwelcoming, but can be dangerous and destructive. Patriarchy has, until now, dominated our public spaces, and the way that different bodies and identities are policed within…

31 Oct 2019

Upcoming event

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As She Appears: The Muse in Art

Subversion / Art history

With Maria Quirk, Susan van Wyk, Eloise Grills and 1 other

Extra tickets may be released prior to the event. Check the NGV website for details.

Inspired by Olympia: Photographs by Polixeni Papapetrou and Petrina Hicks: Bleached Gothic, on display at NGV Australia, explore contemporary artists, writers and thinkers whose work features the same figures again and again. How do these representations subvert traditional notions of the muse?

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24 Oct 2019

Upcoming event

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As She Appears: The Muse in Art

Country / Art history

With Judith Ryan, Bridget Caldwell, and Laniyuk

Consider community and country as inspiration in the work of Indigenous artists, writers and performers, responding to women artists currently on display in Marking Time: Indigenous Art from the NGV.

Presented in partnership with the National Gallery of Victoria.

This event will be Auslan interpreted.

17 Oct 2019

Upcoming event

Booked out

As She Appears: The Muse in Art

Sirens / Art history

With Angela Hesson, Vidya Makan, Roj Amedi and 1 other

Explore representations of destructive and seductive women in mythology, looking at Bertram Mackennal’s Circe (1893) and John Longstaff’s The Sirens (1892) in the NGV’s 20th Century Australian art gallery.

Presented in partnership with the National Gallery of Victoria.

This event will be Auslan interpreted.

Event series

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As She Appears: The Muse in Art / Art

In partnership with the National Gallery of Victoria, we uncover the many meanings of the muse with curators, writers and performers. They’ll respond to works in the NGV collection – talking representation, inspiration, family and the female body.

12 Sep 2019

Past event

We Are United / Performing arts & pop culture

With Sally Rugg, Sista Zai Zanda, Jean Tong and 6 others

Resistance, activism and change are the themes for the opening night of the 2019 Melbourne Fringe Festival and we'll be celebrating – where else? – at Victorian Trades Hall. It's the world's oldest trade union building and, following recent restoration and refurbishment, it’s the new home of the Melbourne Fringe. Most importantly, it’s the perfect venue for a night of…

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