KALEIDOSCOPE
RHSV Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett St, MelbourneThis exhibition is biography imagined through the lens of a Kaleidoscope. The viewer is offered fragments of the lives represented here. There is no linear narrative. Each time the kaleidoscope turns, a different story emerges. There are repeating patterns but different emphases and new ways of seeing, new reflections, new refractions. No one story dominates and one story does not fit all.
Slingshots, ragdolls and knucklebones: A history of Australian children’s play
ZOOM Join from anywhere in the worldWhat can objects, photographs and recollections teach us about the history of childhood? In this talk, historian Carla Pascoe Leahy discusses the history of children’s play in the twentieth century,
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Acts of Reckoning
The Wheeler Centre 176 Little Londsale Street, MelbourneHow does Australia's relationship to its settler colonial past shape our shared future? And can we ever achieve true healing if we don't confront history head on? Griffith Review's Acts of Reckoning issue examines some of the complexities at play in Australia's long and fraught journey toward centering First Nations peoples, cultures and knowledges. Join the Wheeler Centre for this special panel event as lawyer, storyteller and Griffith Review contributing editor, Teela Reid, activist and Uluru Statement from the Heart architect, Megan Davis and historian Henry Reynolds (appearing via a video feed) reckon with questions of history, truth-telling and decolonisation.