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Friends of the National Library
Acclaimed expatriate poet Peter Porter, read to a full house in the Friends Lounge in May The Friends of the National Library share a common objective of supporting the Library, especially through their participation in the Friends program of events. This year those events include opportunities to meet published authors, take behind-the-scenes tours of the Library, and listen to excellent speakers. Three outstanding events yet to come this year will be an address on 7 August by Professor Michael Coper, Dean of Law and Professor of Constitutional Law at the ANU, followed by dinner at the Librarys Southbank restaurant; the celebration on 7 November of the literary achievements of Tim Winton; and a cultural weekend, 2021 November, in the Crookwell region. Membership enquiries should be directed to Judy Heap, executive officer of the Friends, tel. (02) 6262 1698, email friends@nla.gov.au, or the Web site http://www.nla.gov.au/friends/. |
The Friends program for JuneSeptember includes these events:
Digital
Photography Demonstration
National library photographer Andrew
Stawowczyk-Long will show you how digital
photography really works.
Date: Thursday 17 June
Time: 12.30 pm
Venue: Friends Lounge
Gold coin donation
Book
Launch
Keith Clarke, a Friend of the National Library,
invites other Friends to attend the launch
of his book Convicts of the Port Phillip District.
Date: Thursday 24 June
Time: 6 pm
Venue: Friends Lounge
RSVP: Friday 17 June
The
Referendum and Then?
Michael Coper addresses the issues
that the Australian public will face at the
forthcoming referendum. Discuss them with
Friends over dinner afterwards.
Date: Saturday 7 August
Time: 6.30 pm lecture
Venue: Theatrette
Admission to the lecture is free
Time: 8 pm dinner
Venue: Southbank restaurant
Cost per person: $40 friends, $45 others
The
Pied Piper from the Thirteenth Century to Today
Robert Holden presents a slide lecture inspired by his
identification of a small album of pen and ink illustrat-ions for
Robert Brownings complete poem of the Pied Piper of Hamelin
as the work of colonial artist Christopher Coveny. The album is now in
the National Librarys manuscript collection.
Date: Wednesday 29 Sept.
Time: 6 pm
Venue: Friends Lounge
Gold coin donation
Please address any comments and enquiries to The Editor, Gateways: lkirwan@nla.gov.au