The National 2019: New Australian Art is accompanied by a program of free performances and talks celebrating the opening and closing weekends, as well as tours and special events during the exhibition.

 

OPENING WEEKEND

— Friday, 29 March 2019
 
10:15-11:00
Performance: The Unbound Collective, Sovereign Acts IV: Objects (Location: AGNSW)
 
11:15-11:45
Artist Talk: Selma Coulthard and Mervyn Rubuntja from Iltja Ntjarra Many Hands Art Centre with Coby Edgar (AGNSW)
 
12:45-13:15
Artist Talk: Peta Clancy (Location: AGNSW)
 
14:00-14:45
A talking circle: women’s yarning (Location: MCA)
 
15:00
A talking circle: men’s yarning (Location: MCA)
 
— Saturday, 30 March 2019
 
11:15-12:00
Artist and Curator Floor Talks (Location: Carriageworks)
 
15:00-16:00
A talking circle: The Unbound Collective (Location: MCA)
 
— Sunday, 31 March 2019
 
11:00-12:00
Panel: Embracing Chaos (Location: AGNSW)
 
12:15-12:45
Curatorial Tour with Isobel Parker Philip (Location: AGNSW)
 
14:00
Performance: Amrita Hepi, The Tender (Location: AGNSW)

 

OTHER EVENTS

Thursday 11 April 2019 – 12pm
Floor Talk: ReCollection: Many Hands watercolourists collective (Location: AGNSW)

Wednesday 24 April 2019 – 6pm
Performance: Amrita Hepi, The Tender (Location: AGNSW)

Wednesday 24 April 2019 – 7.30pm
In conversation: Isobel Parker Philip and Amrita Hepi (Location: AGNSW)

Saturday 1 June 2019 – 3pm
Performance: Amrita Hepi, The Tender (Location: AGNSW)

 

CLOSING WEEKEND

— Saturday, 22 June 2019

15:00
Panel: The Collectors – Tony Albert, Troy-Anthony Baylis and Sean Rafferty. Moderated by Aarna Fitzgerald Hanley (Location: Carriageworks)
 
 
GUIDED TOURS
 
Free introduction tours of the exhibition guided by volunteers are regularly held at the MCA until 23 June and at the Art Gallery of NSW until 21 July.
 
A French-speaking tour of the Art Gallery of NSW’s Indigenous Australian art collection and temporary exhibitions including The National is presented by IDAIA on:
Wed 19 June at 6.30pm
Sat 22 June at 11am
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