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Coloured image featuring headshots of two women smiling at the camera. In the middle of the image is a collection of four sketches of Australian animals.

Stephanie Owen Reeder and Ingrid Bartkowiak

Science Week Online Learning Peculiar Parents Author Talk
13 Aug 2025 | 10:00am - 10:30am

We learnt about the features, habitat and behaviours of some truly peculiar Australian animals in this interactive online learning session.

Online
Books and authors
Author talk
Education/learning
For kids and families
Past event
An adult and child reading a book with a dog sitting between them.
Story Dogs on Sunday - July 2025
27 Jul 2025 | 2:00pm - 3:00pm

We had a paw-sitive reading experience with the Story Dogs program.

Kids and families
Foyer
Books and authors
Storytime
For kids and families
Past event
A blue background overlaid with illustrations of a lion, panda, cockatoo, mouse, cassowary, and ibis, with the word 'Hello' in the middle and a photo of a man's head with dark hair and glasses
School holiday activity: Creative writing and drawing workshop with Ronojoy Ghosh - 9 July, 11 am
09 Jul 2025 | 11:00am - 12:00pm

Children’s picture book creator Ronojoy Ghosh led a writing and drawing school holiday activity.

Foyer
For kids and families
School holiday event
Past event
A blue background overlaid with illustrations of a lion, panda, cockatoo, mouse, cassowary, and ibis, with the word 'Hello' in the middle and a photo of a man's head with dark hair and glasses
School holiday activity: Creative writing and drawing workshop with Ronojoy Ghosh - 9 July, 10 am
09 Jul 2025 | 10:00am - 11:00am

Children’s picture book creator Ronojoy Ghosh led a writing and drawing school holiday activity.

Foyer
For kids and families
School holiday event
Past event
An adult and child reading a book with a dog sitting between them.
Story Dogs on Sunday - June 2025
29 Jun 2025 | 2:00pm - 3:00pm

We had a paw-sitive reading experience with the Story Dogs program.

Kids and families
Foyer
Books and authors
Storytime
For kids and families
Past event
An adult and child reading a book with a dog sitting between them.
Story Dogs on Sunday - May 2025
25 May 2025 | 2:00pm - 3:00pm

We had a paw-sitive reading experience with the Story Dogs program.

Kids and families
Foyer
Books and authors
Storytime
For kids and families
Past event
Cover of the book The Truck Cat by Deborah Frenkel and Danny Snell. A man is crouched down patting a cat. There is a bowl in front of the cat, a bush with flowers in the foreground, and trees behind a white pole fence and a truck cabin in the background.
ALIA National Simultaneous Storytime 2025: 'The Truck Cat'
21 May 2025 | 12:00pm - 12:10pm

We read 'The Truck Cat' for National Simultaneous Storytime 2025.

Online
Books and authors
Storytime
Education/learning
For kids and families
Past event
An adult and child reading a book with a dog sitting between them.
Story Dogs on Sunday - April 2025
27 Apr 2025 | 2:00pm - 3:00pm

We had a paw-sitive reading experience with the Story Dogs program.

Kids and families
Foyer
Books and authors
Storytime
For kids and families
Past event
Two images side by side. On the left an image of two cyanotype sun prints being made by being dipped in a tub of liquid. On the right a finished cyanotype sun print, showing white leaves on a blue background.
School holiday activity: 'Fit to Photoprint' workshop
23 Apr 2025 | 10:00am - 12:00pm

Participants explored the Fit to Print exhibition and experienced producing a cyanotype sun print.

Exhibition Gallery
Foyer
Podium
For kids and families
School holiday event
Past event
Illustration of a brown horse and a white horse in the Australian bush

Detail from the cover The Colt of Old Regret written by Dianne Wolfer and illustrated by Erica Wagner

Book Launch: The Colt from Old Regret
05 Apr 2025 | 10:30am - 11:30am

An immersive read-through of this new classic, followed by a hands-on crafting activity where children could collage their own horse. 

Kids and families
Foyer
Books and authors
Book launch
For kids and families
Past event
Side by side photos of Dianne Wolfer and Erica Wagner smiling and holding up copies of their book 'The Colt from Old Regret'
How to make a book: 'Colt from Old Regret' online learning session
04 Apr 2025 | 10:00am - 10:30am

In this interactive online learning session, students joined author Dianne Wolfer and illustrator Erica Wagner to learn how to make a book.

Online
Books and authors
Education/learning
For kids and families
Past event
An adult and child reading a book with a dog sitting between them.
Story Dogs on Sunday - March 2025
30 Mar 2025 | 2:00pm - 3:00pm

We had a very paw-sitive reading experience with the Story Dogs program.

Kids and families
Foyer
Books and authors
Storytime
For kids and families
Past event

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