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Gallery Members: What's on May 2012

Program Guide

18 Fri 3:00pm Getting to know the Gallery – for new Members (Friday)(May) QAG
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Come on an introductory tour of the Gallery and find out how to make the most of your Membership.

Bookings required / Free / Please call (07) 3840 7278 or book online to RSVP by the Friday of the week prior to each meeting (places are limited).

11.00am Saturday 31 March,
11.00am Saturday 14 April and
3.00pm Friday 18 May
QAG Members Lounge

This autumn we invite our newest QAGOMA Members — as well as existing Members wanting a refresher — to meet other Members and find out more about the Gallery, its facilities and all that membership has to offer. Enjoy tea and coffee in the QAG Members Lounge before an informal tour of the Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art.

19 Sat 1:30pm ‘Carl and Phillip McConnell: Queensland Studio Potters’ In situ - monthly tour and talk QAG
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SATURDAY MONTHLY TOUR AND TALK
No bookings required / Free

1.30pm Saturday 19 May
Xstrata Coal Queensland Artists' Gallery (Gallery 14), QAG
'Carl and Phillip McConnell: Queensland Studio Potters' talk by Glenn Cooke, Research Curator, Queensland Heritage

19 Sat 4:00pm ‘Portrait of Spain: Masterpieces from the Prado’ sneak peek GoMA
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'PORTRAIT OF SPAIN: MASTERPIECES FROM THE PRADO/ SNEAK PEEK

4.00pm Saturday 19 May
Meet at the information desk, GOMA

Be the first to hear all about ‘Portrait of Spain’ with an exhibition model viewing and insights into this major winter exhibition with David Burnett, Curator, International Art.

Bookings required / $15 Members / $25 Members’ guests (includes light refreshments) / Please call (07) 3840 7278 or book online to RSVP by Friday 4 May.

24 Thu 11:00am ‘Carl and Phillip McConnell: Queensland Studio Potters’ In situ - monthly lunch and lecture QAG
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THURSDAY MONTHLY LUNCH AND LECTURE

Bookings required / $35 Members / $45 Members' guests (includes lunch and a glass of wine, followed by coffee and sweets) / Please call (07) 3840 7278 or book online to RSVP by the Friday prior to each program.

11.00am — 1.30pm Thursday 24 May
Lecture Theatre, Xstrata Coal Queensland Artists' Gallery (Gallery 14), QAG & GOMA Restaurant

'Carl and Phillip McConnell: Queensland Studio Potters' lunch, with lecture by Glenn Cooke, Research Curator, Queensland Heritage

26 Sat 2:00pm Autumn Book Club (Saturday) – Anna Funder’s All That I Am (2011) QAG
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Autumn Book Club - Engage with themes explored in Gallery exhibitions through specially selected texts as part of the QAGOMA Members Book Club.

Thursday Book Club:
10.00am 22 March, 19 April & 31 May
Saturday Book Club:

2.00pm 31 March, 28 April & 26 May
QAG Members Lounge

‘Contemporary Australia: Women’ celebrates the diversity, energy and innovation of work by contemporary Australian women artists, and this season’s Book Club, like the exhibition, explores women’s voices in Australia today. This autumn, we focus on three critically acclaimed debut novels by some of Australia’s most exciting writers. The autumn reading list includes a powerful tale of a family growing up on the remote south coast of Tasmania (Past the Shallows), the story of a woman’s journey from Australia’s east coast to far north in search of her father and her Aboriginal identity (Swallow the Air), and a narrative based on real individuals and events exploring the heroism hidden in unexpected places (All That I Am).

Special discount available at the QAGOMA Store, 20 per cent off all books on the Autumn Book Club reading list – exclusive to QAGOMA Members!

Autumn Book Club reading list:
March: Favel Parrett’s Past the Shallows (2011)
April: Tara June Winch’s Swallow the Air (2006)
May: Anna Funder’s All That I Am (2011)

To register for the Autumn Book Club, please call (07) 3840 7278 or book online / $10 per meeting QAGOMA Members / $12 per meeting Members' guests (includes cake and tea/coffee) / RSVP required by the Friday of the week prior to each book club meeting (places are limited)

26 Sat 4:00pm New Member evening (May) GoMA
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New Member evenings

5.30—7.00pm Friday 13 April and
4.00—5.30pm Saturday 26 May
GOMA Lounge Bar

Meet other new Members — enjoy a drink on arrival, accompanied by antipasto prepared by the QAGOMA Head Chef in the GOMA Lounge Bar, before hearing a brief overview of how you can make the most of your membership.

Bookings required / $20 QAGOMA Members (includes a drink on arrival and antipasto platters) / Please call (07) 3840 7278 or book online to RSVP by Friday 30 March (places are limited).

27 Sun 2:00pm ‘Contemporary Australia: Women’ artist-run painting workshop GoMA
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'Contemporary Australia: Women' artist-run workshops
In conjunction with ‘Contemporary Australia: Women’, Members are invited to attend workshops with two exhibiting artists.

PART 1 - Hiromi Tango
2.00pm Friday 13 & Sunday 15 April
Meet at the information desk, GOMA

PART 2 - Kirsty Bruce
2.00pm Sunday 27 May
Meet at the information desk, GOMA

Bookings required / $40 Members / $55 Members’ guests (includes materials and refreshments) / Please call (07) 3840 7278 or book online to RSVP by Wednesday 4 April (places are limited).

 

27 Sun 11:00pm Movies for Members – 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 G (141 mins) GoMA
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2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 G

11.00am Sunday 27 May Cinema B, GOMA
35MM, COLOUR, DTS, 141 MINUTES, UK/USA, ENGLISH/RUSSIAN (ENGLISH SUBTITLES) / DIRECTOR: STANLEY KUBRICK

A four-million-year-old monolith is discovered on the moon and the government sends a team of scientists on a fact-finding mission to investigate. Another team is sent to Jupiter in a ship controlled by the ‘perfect’ computer (a ‘HAL 9000’) to further examine the giant object — but things go terribly wrong.

Bookings required / Free / Please call (07) 3840 7278 or book online to RSVP by Wednesday 23 May

31 Thu 10:00am Autumn Book Club (Thursday) – Anna Funder’s All That I Am (2011) QAG
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Autumn Book Club - Engage with themes explored in Gallery exhibitions through specially selected texts as part of the QAGOMA Members Book Club.

Thursday Book Club:
10.00am 22 March, 19 April & 31 May
Saturday Book Club:

2.00pm 31 March, 28 April & 26 May
QAG Members Lounge

‘Contemporary Australia: Women’ celebrates the diversity, energy and innovation of work by contemporary Australian women artists, and this season’s Book Club, like the exhibition, explores women’s voices in Australia today. This autumn, we focus on three critically acclaimed debut novels by some of Australia’s most exciting writers. The autumn reading list includes a powerful tale of a family growing up on the remote south coast of Tasmania (Past the Shallows), the story of a woman’s journey from Australia’s east coast to far north in search of her father and her Aboriginal identity (Swallow the Air), and a narrative based on real individuals and events exploring the heroism hidden in unexpected places (All That I Am).

Special discount available at the QAGOMA Store, 20 per cent off all books on the Autumn Book Club reading list – exclusive to QAGOMA Members!

Autumn Book Club reading list:
March: Favel Parrett’s Past the Shallows (2011)
April: Tara June Winch’s Swallow the Air (2006)
May: Anna Funder’s All That I Am (2011)

To register for the Autumn Book Club, please call (07) 3840 7278 or book online / $10 per meeting QAGOMA Members / $12 per meeting Members' guests (includes cake and tea/coffee) / RSVP required by the Friday of the week prior to each book club meeting (places are limited)

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