Events | National Library of Australia (NLA)
Search

What can we help you find?

Not sure where to start or need help? Ask a Librarian

Events

Showing 13 - 24 of 24 results
event-image-shakespeare2-2025

A. de Paszthory, Portrait of Nellie Stewart as Rosalind in As You Like It, oil on canvas, 1904, https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn3022148; Broadside advertising George Musgrove’s As You Like It, Princess Theatre, Melbourne, Melbourne: Troedel, 1903, https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn107848

Shakespeare on the move: Gold rush to Great War
01 Aug 2025 | 6:00pm - 7:30pm

Join us for the third illustrated Shakespeare lecture and discover the objects and stories that reveal how Shakespeare made landfall in Australia.  

Online
Theatre
Talks and ideas
Assistance animals icon Assistance animals icon
Assistance animals welcome
Assistive learning icon Assistive learning icon
Hearing induction loop
Wheelchair icon Wheelchair icon
Wheelchair accessible
A man with grey hair and brown and grey beard and moustache standing in front of blurred out trees

Professor Brett Sutton AO

2025 Kenneth Myer Lecture, Melbourne: Professor Brett Sutton AO
05 Aug 2025 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm

Join us in Melbourne for the 2025 Kenneth Myer Lecture, presented by Professor Brett Sutton AO.

Offsite
Talks and ideas
Flagship lecture
An man sits in an empty grandstand

Image courtesy Anne Algar

Deadly Dialogues: Bringing Them Home Oration with Kutcha Edwards
06 Aug 2025 | 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Kutcha Edwards delivers the inaugural Bringing Them Home Oration.

Theatre
First Australians
Deadly dialogues
Talks and ideas
Katherine Parr’s handwriting and signature in a copy of A Sermon of Saint Chrysostom

Katherine Parr’s handwriting and signature in a copy of A Sermon of Saint Chrysostom (1542). Image by permission of Sudeley Castle, Winchcombe.

Gorgeous books and royal annotations
07 Aug 2025 | 6:00pm - 7:00pm

What did Katherine Parr and Henry VIII write in their books? Hear Professor Micheline White delve into the marginalia left in their personal books.

Online
Theatre
Talks and ideas
Assistance animals icon Assistance animals icon
Assistance animals welcome
Assistive learning icon Assistive learning icon
Hearing induction loop
Wheelchair icon Wheelchair icon
Wheelchair accessible
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

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

Online
Education/learning
For kids and families
Letter from Jane Austen to her sister Cassandra, 11 June 1799

Letter from Jane Austen to her sister Cassandra, 11 June 1799, nla.obj-229629481

Jane Austen and her legacy – 250 glorious years
20 Aug 2025 | 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Susannah Fullerton OAM, President of the Jane Austen Society of Australia will deliver a public lecture marking the 250th Anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth.

Online
Theatre
Talks and ideas
Assistance animals icon Assistance animals icon
Assistance animals welcome
Assistive learning icon Assistive learning icon
Hearing induction loop
Wheelchair icon Wheelchair icon
Wheelchair accessible
Cover of the What a Ripper book and a photo of Tim Ross
What a Ripper! with Tim Ross and special guest Mary Featherston
30 Aug 2025 | 3:00pm - 4:15pm

To celebrate his latest book What a Ripper! 60 everyday objects that shaped Australia, Tim Ross is being joined on stage by one of the designers featured in the book, Mary Featherston.

Foyer
Theatre
Book launch
Talks and ideas
An adult and child reading a book with a dog sitting between them.
Story Dogs on Sunday - August 2025
31 Aug 2025 | 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Join us for a paw-sitive reading experience with the  Story Dogs program.

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

Join us for a paw-sitive reading experience with the  Story Dogs program.

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

Join us for a paw-sitive reading experience with the  Story Dogs program.

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

Join us for a paw-sitive reading experience with the  Story Dogs program.

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

Join us for a paw-sitive reading experience with the  Story Dogs program.

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

Visit us

Find our opening times, get directions, join a tour, or dine and shop with us.

Plan your visit