Children’s Activity Tables and Reading Corner

Children are always catered for with our Activity Table and Reading Corner. The Activity Table helps 4 to 8 year olds access our collection through undirected play activities, and the Reading Corner provides a quiet place in the City to catch on the latest childrens titles.

For: Families with 4 to 8 year olds
Cost: Free
NB: Parental supervision required

Lunchtime Workshop: Intermediate Printmaking

Wednesdays 4, 11, 18 June › 12.30 – 1.30pm

Escape the office during your lunch hour! This three-week workshop provides experiences for people who have some previous knowledge of printmaking techniques. Each participant will create a dual colour lino print as a base work, with possible mixed media additions using Sidney Nolan's works as inspiration. At the end of the three sessions you will have an original artwork for your home or office.

For: Adults familiar with the printmaking process
Cost: $40 for three week workshop. All materials provided.*
Bookings and payment: 6207 3968 by Wed 28 May
CMAG Studio

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The Lucite Queen

Back by popular demand...
Tuesday 8 July 12.30 - 1.30pm

Take a trip back to the 1940s and 50s, as Rae Harvey takes you on a walking tour of her Lucite handbag collection. With their amazing architectural styles and shining embellishments of rhinestones and pearls, Lucite handbags were fabulously imaginative and came in a wide variety of shapes and colours. These plastic handbags were an icon of style for women of the period, and are now a highly prized collector’s item.

Cost: Free
RSVP: 6207 3968

Jan Brown and Peter Haynes: A Conversation

Wednesday 2 July › 12.30 - 1.30pm
Theatrette

Join the Director of ACT Museums & Galleries as he talks to Jan Brown, eminent local artist and mentor to generations of Canberra art students, on the occasion of CMAG's major survey of her work.

Cost: Free
RSVP: 6207 3968

CMAG on Sunday

Family Event 1.00 – 4.00 pm
Studio

Join us on the first Sunday of every month for an afternoon of structured and free-range activities for children aged 4-8 years. Structured workshops run throughout the day and bookings are strongly recommended. Workshops are led by artist Hanna Hoyne.

Find out more

Cost: Free
For: Families with 4-8 year olds
RSVP: 6207 3968

Sunday films

Big House Film Society presents monthly fi lm screenings exclusively for Big House and ACT M&G Members.
Cards must be shown at the door and memberships to both organisations can be purchased on the day.

For: Members of Big House Films and ACT M&G
Cost: Free
RSVP: 6207 3968
Theatrette

Big House Film Society presents:

Sunday 27 July › 1.00 – 4.00 pm
Gaslight (1944) + surprise short
Atmospheric, fog-shrouded Gothic thriller.

Sunday 31 August › 1.00 – 5.00 pm
Experiment in Terror (1962) + surprise short
Blake (Pink Panther) Edwards’ only crime flick + buff s’ fave.

Sunday 14 September › 1.00 – 4.00 pm

Only Angels Have Wings (1939) + Brute Force (1947)
Men in isolated, pressure-cooker situations

Sunday 26 October › 1.00 – 5.00 pm
Went the Day Well (1942) +
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
(The enemy is moving in — next door)

Sunday 23 November › 1.00 – 5.00 pm

You Only Live Once (1937) + Gun Crazy (1950)
More ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ style mayhem.