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PUBLIC EVENTS Radiant Pavilion 2024: Making It Up 15 September 2024 School Holiday Workshop: Wearable Art 24 September 2024 Forum: Word of Mouth 12 October 2024 Portrait of a Collection launch 19 October 2024 Untitled (seven monuments) publication launch 9 November 2024 Inventi Ensemble present 1001 Nights 30 January 2025 Rhythms of the Handmade 8 March 2025 Tarrawarra Festival with the Australian Chamber Orchestra 1 2 March 2025 We Are Eagles in Conversation #1 29 March 2025 School Holiday Clay Workshop 8 April 2025 We Are Eagles in Conversation #2 12 April 2025 VCE Visual Arts Intensive 16 May 2025 Tarrawarra x RISING Day 14 June 2025 COMMUNITY EVENTS Biik ngangak aur brukuk education resources March June 2025 BAM ARTS Inc. Disability Services exhibition tour 7 March 2024 Australian Centre Contemporary Art staff (EMBC), Indigenous resources and gardens, and exhibition tours June 19 2025 3 x Knox Probus Groups 3, 17, 24 September 2024 Auburn Probus Group 24 September 2024 RACV group tour 6 October 2024 Sussan staff tour 6 October 2024 Academy Travel group 24 October 2024 Nunawading University of the Third Age tour 3 April 2025 Melbourne Arts Precinct staff tour 30 April 2025 Eastern Health: Aboriginal Health workshop and tour 18 May 2025 5x community art activity tables for (SC)OOT(ER)ING around: Intimate Imaginaries exhibitions, and Visible Art Storage Collection) July 2024 June 2025
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Name: Museum
Classification: Art galleries and art museums (Arts and culture > Museums or Whare Taonga > Art galleries and art museums)
Beneficiaries:- General community in Australia
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