We are delighted that Professor Joy Damousi AM FASSA FAHA, one of Australia’s most distinguished historians and humanities thought leaders, will deliver the 2023 Women's History Month Lecture, part of our Distinguished Lecture series. Joy is the Immediate Past President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and a Fellow of both the Australian Academy of the Humanities and the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.

What better defines a city than its street corners? A corner gives you a starting point, a destination and a place to turn. It’s furnished with pillar boxes, newsstands and tram stops, and lamp-posts for light and lounging. Where would you be likeliest to find a pub? At the corner, of course. And who better than Robyn Annear to usher you around the corners of Melbourne, and reveal their bizarre, baroque and mostly forgotten stories?

"Old Hawthorn, Fresh Eyes' by Hawthorn Historical Society This exhibition provides new ways of looking at the historical narrative of Hawthorn and the familiar places around us. There are stories about the lives of people, or ordinary and extraordinary events, and of the changing ways of social involvement, which reflects not only what we were,
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Meet the Artist: Jennifer Mann, Sculptor Continuing the Duldig Studio’s commitment to exploring, experiencing and enjoying sculpture, join us for an artful afternoon with renowned contemporary sculptor and Forensic Sculptor at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine, Jennifer Mann. Her most recent public bronze sculpture of Zelda D’Aprano was unveiled outside Trades Hall last May.
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