Calling all fashionistas, fashion-resisters, fun lovers, fun makers and cool creators! Join Maxine Beneba Clarke as she reads her book Fashionista, leads us in craft activities and finishes in a flurry with a fashion parade finale! All are welcome, all are unique, and all are celebrated in this seriously stylish story time!
This program is Auslan interpreted and designed for ages 4-10 years accompanied by their grownup.
Maxine Beneba Clarke is an Australian writer and illustrator of Afro-Caribbean descent. She is the author of over ten books, including the short fiction collection Foreign Soil, the memoir The Hate Race, the poetry collections Carrying the World and How Decent Folk Behave and the children’s books Fashionista and When We Say Black Lives Matter. She is currently Poet in Residence at The University of Melbourne.
Made possible with funds donated by Tim Fairfax AC
Open every day
Spanning the 1880s to the 1930s, this collection display celebrates the innovations in art – and life – introduced by the generation of Australians who travelled to London and Paris for experience and inspiration in the decades either side of 1900.
Open every day
Australian portraiture of the mid-twentieth century was rich with the influence of European modernism, exemplified by the work of artists including Arthur Boyd, Judy Cassab and Clifton Pugh.
from Friday 10 March
Portraiture. Not as you know it. We invite you to stretch, push, resist and transcend portraiture’s conventional constraints.
