 NewActon Events
Don’t miss out to enjoy a fabulous dinner at Flint Dining Room & Bar, great wine and tapas at Parlour wine bar, a relaxing spa at Soma Day Spa, cool jazz and bohemian nights at the NewActon Pavillion.
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 Australia
When: From 18 November 2008
Where: Australian Cinemas
This Baz Luhrmann movie, starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, centres on an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn cattle driver to drive 2000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier... More Info >>
 Australia Day
When: 26 January 2009
Where: Commonwealth Park
Celebrate what's great about being in the Nation's Capital on Australia Day and enjoy jam-packed days filled with fun, family and friends. Highlights include the Great Australia Day Breakfast, Flag Raising Ceremony, Citizenship Ceremony and all of the fun of the Australia Day Children's Festival. Finish the day with the spectacular Australia Day Fireworks Finale over Lake Burley Griffin... More Info >>
 Movie Extra Tropfest
When: 22 February 2009
Where: Commonwealth Park
The popularity of Movie Extra Tropfest, the world’s biggest short film festival, continues to grow rapidly in the national capital. Each year the Movie Extra Tropfest receives over 700 film entries, made specifically for the festival. The films are a maximum of 7 minutes and all include the Tropfest Signature Item, which for 2009 is ‘Spring’...More Info >>
 Behind the Lines: The Year's Best Cartoons 2008
When: 2 December 2008 – 1 February 2009
Where: National Museum of Australia (Nation Focus Gallery)
Behind the Lines 2008 is a celebration of the best Australian political cartoons sourced throughout the year. Regulars to the exhibition will be pleased to see their favourite artists such as Bill Leak, Cathy Wilcox, John Spooner, David Rowe, Geoff Pryor, David Pope and Mark Knight included in this year's show... More Info >>
 Darwin
When: 10 December 2008 – 29 March 2009
Where: National Museum of Australia (Temporary Exhibition Gallery)
The Charles Darwin exhibition has been developed by the American Museum of Natural History in New York and details the life and work of naturalist Charles Darwin including his travels and research work and how they helped shape his later publication The Origin of the Species...
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National Art Gallery of Australia
 Home at last
13 September 2008 – 1 February 2009
Children’s GalleryVisit an exhibition that is just like home. Home at last features prints, drawings, photographs, paintings and decorative arts by Australian artists from the national collection... More Info >>
 Gods, ghosts and men
Pacific arts from the National Gallery of Australia
10 October 2008 – 11 January 2009
Gods, ghosts and men is the first major exhibition of Pacific Arts to be held in Australia for over twenty years. Embracing the diverse artistic traditions of Polynesia and Melanesia, studying the greatest works of mainly unnamed artists, the exhibition draws upon the world-class Pacific Arts collection of the National Gallery of Australia... More Info >>
 Degas Master of French Art
12 December 2008 – 22 March 2009
For the first time ever in Australia, audiences will have the opportunity to see an exhibition on one of the most important and admired Impressionist artists – Edgar Degas (France 1834-1917). More than 80 masterpieces from some of the world’s most prestigious galleries and museums will be on show in Canberra only until 22March 2009... More Info >>
Check out our Degas-Exhibition Special.
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