Past Events

2010

• MGA is CLOSED for the Christmas Period
• Exhibition opening & artist talk 'Francis Reiss: pictures of the 1940s'
• Sparkling Christmas Shopping Evening: exclusive event for Friends of MGA
• Christmas Curator's Brunch with Stella Loftus-Hills
• Pinhole Camera Workshop with David Tatnall
• ART IN THE PARK
• Friends of MGA: morning coffee program
• Come and see! Chinese dance, painting and photography
• Artists' talk with Julie Goodwin and Konrad WinklerJulie: art and postnatal depression
• Exhibition opening 'Julie: art and postnatal depression'
• MGA is CLOSED for Melbourne Cup Day
• Field Trip with special guest ANNE LASS (Germany)
• Exhibition opening 'Hijacked 2: Australia/Germany'
• Hijacked book launch and film screening at Fed Sqr
• Hijacked 2: artists talk with Anne Lass (GER) and Bronek Kozka (AUS)
• Bowness Photography Prize artists' talk: with Valerie Sparks, Melanie Faith Dove and Robert Imhoff
• 2010 Bowness Photography Prize: Crumpler People's Choice Award announcement and Artist Party
• Friends of MGA: morning coffee program and AGM
• Bowness Photography Prize artist talks: with Angela Bailey and Darren Sylvester
• Curator's Brunch with Tony Trembath [Exhibition curator for Li Gang: in the grey scale]
• Listen up: artist talk with Li Gang (in Mandarin)
• Exhibition opening LI GANG: in the grey scale
• Award Announcement $25 000 William & Winifred Bowness Photography Prize 2010
• Friends of MGA: morning coffee program
• Listen up: artist talk with Ponch Hawkes
• Winter Children's Art Program 7-12 year olds (Week 5)
• Exhibition opening PONCH HAWKES: more seeing is not understanding
• Digital photography essentials with Tim Handfield (4 weeks of workshops for beginner to intermediate photographers)
• An armchair guide to contemporary Aboriginal art with Susan McCulloch & Emily McCulloch Childs SESSION FOUR: Fresh from the festivals
• Contemporary international photography at MGA: events for October to December
• Winter Children's Art Program 7-12 year olds (Week 3/5)
• Winter Children's Art Program 7-12 year olds (Week 2)
• Curator's talk with Stephen Zagala
• Friends of MGA: morning coffee program with the Melbourne Zoo
• Photography and the return of the dead: panel discussion FREE EVENT
• Winter Children's Art Program 7-12 year olds (Week 1)
• BILL HENSON in conversation with STEPHEN ZAGALA
• Girl in a Mirror: a portrait of Carol Jerrems FILM SCREENING FREE EVENT
• An armchair guide to contemporary Aboriginal art with Susan McCulloch & Emily McCulloch Childs SESSION THREE: New media & city-based artists
• Living Deadly Brunch - A Friends of MGA exclusive event
• Bringing people together: artists talk with Concettina Inserra & Lyndal Walker
• An armchair guide to contemporary Aboriginal art with Susan McCulloch & Emily McCulloch Childs SESSION TWO: The big myth
• EXHIBITION OPENINGS Living deadly: haunted surfaces in contemporary art / Taking pictures some time later: Concettina Inserra & Lyndal Walker
• An armchair guide to contemporary Aboriginal art with Susan McCulloch & Emily McCulloch Childs SESSION ONE: Symbols, mark-making & colour
• Friends of MGA: morning coffee with Kester Brown
• Film Screening: Standard Operating Procedure FREE EVENT
• Propaganda & WW2: Icon & archive floor talk with Shaune Lakin FREE EVENT
• Preserving memories workshop: scrapbooking
• Caring for old & damaged family photographs FREE EVENT
• FRIENDS OF MGA: morning coffee program with ANN DIXON, The Genealogical Society of Victoria
• Sharing your memories workshop: journalling
• Researching your family history
• CONTROVERSIAL COMPOSITIONS: Icon & Archive short talk
• Paper Aeroplane Competition FREE EVENT
• Preserving memories workshop: Digital Images
• depARTure - THE SHRINE
• LISTEN UP Lyndell Brown & Charles Green in conversation with Shaune Lakin
• AN ARMCHAIR GUIDE TO CONTEMPORARY ABORIGINAL ART with Susan McCulloch & Emily McCulloch Childs
• BRING IN YOUR MEMORABILIA DAY
• THE WIRE: photographs by Lyndell Brown & Charles GreenExhibition Opening
• AUTHOR'S TALK with Patrick LindsayA 2010 Monash WORDFEST event
• THE THREE TENORS TRIBUTE SHOW
• depARTure: A CAMERA ON THE SOMME McClelland Gallery & Sculpture Park
• FRIENDS OF MGA: morning coffee program SPECIAL EVENT at TARRAWARRA MUSEUM OF ART, Healesville
• WORDS & PHOTOGRAPHS with Paul Daley & Mike BowersA 2010 Monash WORDFEST event
• Gallipoli Revisited, 1919: words and images from the battlefield with Janda GoodingA 2010 Monash WORDFEST event
• HIDDEN TREASURES: floortalk with Shaune Lakin
• 2010 Monash WORDFEST launch WITH DENISE SCOTT
• ANZAC DAY SPECIAL TALK
• LA JETÉE film screening
• ICONIC PICTURES
• Friends of MGA Exclusive Event
• SCHOOL HOLIDAY ACTIVITY: collage using recycled materials
• SCHOOL HOLIDAY ACTIVITY: decorate your own re-useable bag
• SCHOOL HOLIDAY ACTIVITYPrintmaking on recycled paper
• Sustainability and the arts
• PASIFIKA FAMILY FUN
• PASIFIKA guided tour
• Curator's talk with Joan Winter