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Turner from the Tate
| performances
Romantic and revolutionary: Turner in music
Jun 2
3:00 pm
Explore Turner's genius with his contemporaries John Field, Felix Mendelssohn and Franz Liszt, the high Romanticism of Brahms and a new work, The fallacies of hope, by Australian Stephen Wittington …
Venue: James O Fairfax Theatre
Price : $50, $44 concession, $42 members, $20 student (includes refreshments) (bookings essential (02) 6240 6502)
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Winter Film Series 2013
| screenings
Marina Abramovic: the artist is present
Jun 5
6:00 pm
2012, MA15+, 104 mins
Serbian performance artist Marina Abramovich prepares a major retrospective of her seductive, fearless and outrageous work at the Museum of Modern Art. Introduced by series curator Simon Weaving. More info here
Venue: James O Fairfax Theatre
Price : Series $80, $70 concession, $60 members; single $16, $14 concession, $12 members (bookings essential)
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Turner from the Tate
| performances
Poetry and music in the life and art of JMW Turner
Jun 9
2:30 pm
Actor John Turnbull portrays the Romantic era through poetry, accompanied by Giga Jeleskovic and his string ensemble. The sublime music of Purcell, Delibes and Schumann weaves around the poems of Byron, Dryden and Milton, …
Venue: James O Fairfax Theatre
Price : $40, $38 concession, $35 members, $15 student (includes refreshments) (bookings essential (02) 6240 6502)
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Permanent collection
| performances
Life is a work of art
Jun 29
11:00 am
Canberra Dance Theatre's GOLD company are a group of over 55s who love life, dance and culture. This processional performance celebrates art and elders, guiding audiences through the Gallery as dancers respond to works of art.
Venue: throughout the Gallery
Price : Free (limited numbers, bookings essential)
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Permanent collection
| performances
Life is a work of art
Jun 29
3:00 pm
Canberra Dance Theatre's GOLD company are a group of over 55s who love life, dance and culture. This processional performance celebrates art and elders, guiding audiences through the Gallery as dancers respond to works of art.
Venue: throughout the Gallery
Price : Free (limited numbers, bookings essential)
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Permanent collection
| performances
Life is a work of art
Jun 30
11:00 am
Canberra Dance Theatre's GOLD company are a group of over 55s who love life, dance and culture. This processional performance celebrates art and elders, guiding audiences through the Gallery as dancers respond to works of art.
Venue: throughout the Gallery
Price : Free (limited numbers, bookings essential)
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Permanent collection
| performances
Life is a work of art
Jun 30
3:00 pm
Canberra Dance Theatre's GOLD company are a group of over 55s who love life, dance and culture. This processional performance celebrates art and elders, guiding audiences through the Gallery as dancers respond to works of art.
Venue: throughout the Gallery
Price : Free (limited numbers, bookings essential)
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Turner from the Tate
| performances
Breaking boundaries: Turner and experimentalism
Jul 20
6:30 pm
Reicha's Wind quintet, op 88, the experimentalists Grainger, Ligeti and Cage, and Stravinsky's masterpiece The rite of spring. The Australian World Orchestra in association with the Goethe Institut presents …
Venue: James O Fairfax Theatre
Price : $55, $52 concession, $50 members, $20 student (bookings essential)
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Turner from the Tate
| performances
Turner and the sublime
Jul 27
2:30 pm
Concert pianist Ambre Hammond presents Chopin, Debussy, Piazzolla and Gershwin, followed by a performance exploring the sublime aesthetic with Tony Smibert, master watercolourist and Visiting Artist Researcher, Tate Britain.
Venue: James O Fairfax Theatre
Price : $45, $40 concession, $35 members, $15 student (includes refreshments) (bookings essential)
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Roy Lichtenstein
| performances
Pop art classics
Aug 3
7:30 pm
An ensemble from the Canberra Symphony Orchestra performs important strange and popular music from 1950 to 1970 and discusses links with the past and future of classical music and with visual arts movements …
Venue: NewActon Nishi
