Stargazing LIVE – Looking Up To the Future in Australia 2018
STARGAZING LIVE, the BBC Series, will present once more on Australian Television May 22, 23 and May 24, 2018, beaming from ANU Siding Spring Observatory in NSW
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Australian Reading Hour – Love2Read – Spring is Time 2 Start
The Australian Reading Hour takes place each spring, a time for rebirth, refreshment and renewal and this year it is scheduled for Thursday, September 14, 2017
Happy Birthday Mr Hockney: 80 Years of Genius, Getty Museum
J.Paul Getty Museum presents Happy Birthday Mr Hockney rarely seen works by the artist Self Portraits starts June 27, Photographs, July 18, at the Getty Center
Chihuly: Art Glass at NYBG Glistening & Dazzling Day & Night
Chihuly, an exhibition now showing at the New York Botanical Garden, presents breathtaking art glass works by sculptor Dale Chihuly, dazzling both day and night
LION: Hobart to Home – Extended Director’s Cut & Garth Davis
After viewing an extended cut of LION at Palace Cinema Como Garth Davis talked about his movie directorial debut the amazing story of a lost boy in India, Saroo
David Hockney: Current – NGV Show, a Language in Images
David Hockney: Current a show at the NGV International reveals the intangibles that so often occlude the truth with a riveting and powerfully humanistic reality
Snowden – A Caught Man to a Free Man, Paying Freedom’s Price
Snowden, a whistleblower, reminded us of how vulnerable we are if we don’t engage with, or hold to account, those in power we trust with our security and lives
Music, Science and Engineering – Heavy Wind Instrument Stand
John MacKey ANU School of Music & Stephen Holgate ANU Research School of Physics & Engineering invent stand to prevent injury for heavy wind instrument players
Star Trek Beyond – In Unity We Are Stronger Together
Star Trek Beyond proves to be another epic voyage as the crew of the Starship Enterprise led by Captain James T. Kirk are all tested way beyond their own limits
China: Grain to Pixel – Monash Gallery of Art Photo Show
China: Grain to Pixel a photographic show at the Monash Gallery of Art is complex and fascinating, its size and sweep requiring attention, it repays the effort
Court and Cosmos: Great Age of the Seljuqs at The Met, NY
At The Met, NY a landmark international loan exhibition until July 24 features spectacular works of art showcasing Court and Cosmos the Great Age of the Seljuqs
Alan Alda – Keeping His Hawk-Eye on Communicating Science
Actor Alan Alda best known for his role as Hawke eye in the hit TV series M*A*S*H is raising public awareness of the history and theory of science communication
Jurassic World: The Exhibition, Now Showing, Museum Victoria
Jurassic World: The Exhibition at Museum Victoria is suitably scary, allowing kids to get up close to a Tyrranosaurus Rex, a Brachiosaurus and Pachyrhinosaurus
Eye in the Sky – Modern Warfare, Human Morality & Democracy
Eye in the Sky a tense thriller with Helen Mirren and Alan Rickman succinctly told, addresses issues of modern warfare, human morality and democracy in action
Steve Jobs – Rejected or Chosen, Design is How it Works
Steve Jobs the movie directed by Danny Boyle, is high-octane portrait by award winning Irish born actor Michael Fassbender of the man many believed was a genius
The Orchid Show: Orchidelirium – NYBG/125: Celebrations
As winter thaw begins in the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, its gardeners are gathering thousands of fabulous blooms for its Orchid Show: Orchidelirium