Family Festival Day 2008

Luke Carroll

Date: Saturday 26 January 2008
Time: 10am – 3pm
Venue: National Museum of Australia

Join our host Luke Carroll, who recently appeared in Home and Away and The Alice, for a day packed with FREE family fun!

Amphitheatre performances - hosted by Luke Carroll

Join our special guests for the sounds and moves of some of Australia's finest Indigenous performers.

10–11am

• Matilda House - smoking ceremony
• Ermara Singers - a capella group
• Larry Brandy - storytelling

Beizam Koedal dancers, Masepah Banu and Nepo Lusik Banu, performing at the National Museum of Australia. Photo: George Serras.

11am – 12 noon

• Beizam Koedal - Torres Strait Islander dance troupe
• Ermara Singers - a capella group
• Vicki Van-Hout - contemporary dance

12 noon – 12.40pm

• Wiradjuri Echo - dance performance

1–2pm

• Jimmy Little performs with members of GANGajang

2–3pm

• Vicki Van-Hout - contemporary dance
• Ermara Singers - a capella group

Wiradjuri Echo. Photo: George Serras.

Workshops and tours

10.45am, 11.45am, 12.45pm, 1.45pm

• Boomerang throwing workshop with Phillip Brown, 15 minutes duration
  Bookings essential on the day
  (book and meet at the information desk)

11am, 1pm

• Bushtucker tour with Warren Saunders, 40 minutes duration
  Bookings essential on the day
  (book and meet at the information desk)

11am, 2pm

• Traditional Indigenous games, 1 hour duration
  (Lakeside)

11.30am, 12.30pm, 1.30pm

• Animals of the Dreaming performance, 20 minutes duration
  (the Studio)

A young National Museum visitor gets close to nature. Photo: Dean McNicoll.

Throughout the day

10am – 3pm

• Jumping castle, pony rides
  (entrance forecourt)
• Indigenous face painting
  (the Hall)
• Family craft activities
  (the Hall)
• Artist demonstrations
  (the Hall)
• Didjeridu performances
  (throughout the Museum)
• RSPCA wildlife (ACT) stall
  (the Hall)
• Outdoor BBQ, bushtucker and native ice creams
  (deck)

11am – 2pm

• Taronga Zoomobile
  (the Hall)
• Roving Bogong Moth stilt-walkers
  (throughout the Museum)

11am – 3pm

• Paddle Steamer Enterprise public inspections
  (jetty)

A National Museum host shares an Aboriginal Dreaming story with visitors at the Tjitji gathering place. Photo: George Serras.

11.30am - 12.30pm

• Prime Possum
  (the Hall)

Hourly

• Papunya Painting: Out of the Desert exhibition host talks, 15 minutes duration
  (Temporary Exhibition Gallery)
• First Australians tour, 1 hour duration
  (meet at information desk)