Trevar has let us know about his little video from Enlighten.
Frequent RiotACT contributor MartyO had a lot of credits on this one!

[ 17 April, 2013; 1:00 pm; ] For those of you who love some TEDX action, you’re in for a treat.

We fig­ured why wait until later in 2013 to have another TEDx­Can­berra event, so we’ve been work­ing behind the scenes for a cou­ple of months on some­thing for you – the TEDx­Can­ber­raSa­lon 2013!

Return­ing to our orig­i­nal venue, the National Library of [...]

The Reel McCoy film group returns for 2013 on Wed Feb 6 at 6pm at the National Library.
Membership available at the door.
Free entry to Friends of the National Library. Film showing is The Man in the White Suit (UK 1951) starring Alec Guinness.
Full details available at website: reelmccoy.org.au

Ozhair sent these in just before New Years:
The clouds yesterday evening looked like they’d make for an awesome sunset, so I grabbed my gear and headed down to the lake. Unfortunately, I forgot to pack spare batteries, but managed to get these pics before my camera died.

Got an image of Canberra you want to [...]

Ozhair has sent these in:
I was experimenting with the camera down by the lake a couple of days ago. The experimental shots turned out rubbish, so I grabbed a couple of HDRs of the Nat Library so that the drive wasn’t a total waste.

[ 3 September, 2012; ] The celebrated British Novelist Patrick Gale will making his Canberra debut, reading at the National Library at 6pm on September 3rd, as part of his Australian Reading Tour. He will be promoting his new book; “A Perfectly Good Man.” Patrick has a world wide following of fans, and his books will appeal to anyone with [...]

Hi all,
The National Capital Authority has given notice that the dirt car park situated between the National Library and the Lake will be permanently closed (except for special events) from Friday next week. Parking in this area will henceforth become even tighter…
From the National Library website:
Changes to car parking
Posted on: 23rd July 2012
The National Capital [...]

The Community Heritage Grants (CHG) program provides grants of up to $15,000 to community organisations such as libraries, archives, museums, genealogical and historical societies, multicultural and Indigenous groups. The grants are provided to assist with the preservation of locally owned, but nationally significant collections of materials that are publicly accessible including artifacts, letters, diaries, maps, [...]

ACT Policing arrested a man for throwing a cup of coffee onto a $300 000 tapestry on Monday morning (February 20) at the National Library of Australia.
The Myer Tapestry which had been donated to the Library was stained from the liquid. Laboratory staff at the library spent several hours cleaning it in an attempt [...]

This in from the ABC.
1. Ngarigu Claim
The Ngunnawal people are recognised by the A.C.T. Government as the traditional owners of the region – a decision resisted by those identifying as Ngambri people.
Now there is a new claimant to the land – from the lesser known Ngarigu tribe.
2. UnderMined
Rural landowners around the country having been trying [...]

This in from the 7.30 ACT team at the ABC:
7.30 ACT for Friday October 7th.
And so begins our second decade:
1. Gender Agenda
The High Court has just ruled in favour of two female to male transexuals – arguing that they should not have to undergo painful genital surgery in order to prove that they are now [...]

[ 26 November, 2011 to 18 March, 2012. ]

There’s very little on the National Library’s website about this yet but Andrew Barr has announced that he’s spending $200,000 promoting a pretty amazing sounding exhibition of handwritten manuscripts at the National Library:

The Handwritten: Ten Centuries of Manuscript – Treasures from Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin exhibition will feature manuscripts, letters, sketches and musical scores handwritten [...]

Coming up this week on 7.30 ACT on ABC1:
Chris Kimball to compere. ( Note next week, a special program to celebrate our 10th anniversary. The program’s original host, Kathleen Hyland will be returning to compere for the occasion. Kathleen got married, moved to Newcastle and has had three children since we last saw her. [...]

[ 14 September, 2011; 11:00 am; ] The National Library has the news that literary boat floater Jonathan Franzen will be speaking there.

Hear author of The Corrections Jonathan Franzen talk about his work in his exclusive Canberra appearance at the National Library on Wednesday 14 September.

Franzen’s most recent novel Freedom has been acclaimed as a modern masterpiece and has confirmed his [...]

Brian has sent in this great shot of the National Library at night.
Got an image of Canberra you want to share with the world? Email it to images@the-riotact.com .

Brian has sent in this photo of the National Library lit in moody blue by night.
Got an image of Canberra you want to share with the world? Email it to images@the-riotact.com .

Richard has sent in two beauts of the amazing sunsets we’ve been having lately.

And Gareth has been an early bird capturing the sun’s rise:

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The Herald Sun has a story on the sav blanc revolt at Canberra’s cultural insititutions as the efficiency dividend bites ever harder.
STAFF from the National Gallery, the National Library and the National Archives have held a protest meeting in Canberra over proposed cuts to jobs and services.
Last month, the public service was warned it would [...]

Senator Humphries is wailing and gnashing his teeth at efficiencies being imposed on Canberra’s National Institutions.
“Gillard Labor has ripped the guts out of our national institutions,” Senator Humphries said today.
– The Director of the National Museum of Australia, Andrew Sayers, revealed that he had called for voluntary redundancies in the order of 10% of the [...]

The Reel McCoy film society is turning 21 this year.
We started screening at the National Film and Sound Archive in 1990 and since 2009 have been at the National Library.
Screenings are every 2 weeks on Wednesdays at 6pm. Membership is available at screening from 5.30pm, 3 months $15, 6 months $30, 12 months [...]

I took my initially skeptical family to the Youth Theatre’s Retrieval at the National Library Saturday night, mainly on the promise of a backroom tour through the library. 
We got that and a wierd and wonderful Dr Who-ish grand production as we weaved through darkened spaces into new ‘situations’ full of  haunting characters, installations and atmospheric audio visual effects.
It all hangs together and has a thoughtful [...]

[ 29 October, 2010; 6:30 pm; ]

Hello Rioters,

Tonight the annual Henry Parkes Oration is on at the National Library, 6.30pm, and it’s free: http://www.parkesfoundation.org.au/

The importance of public education as a fundamental building block of a sustainable democracy is the theme of the Oration, to be delivered by Associate Professor Lyndsay Connors. She will argue that Henry Parkes’ vision for public education [...]

[Curator of Maps at the National Library, Martin Woods with the star atlas, picture courtesy of the NLA]
The National Library has announced their acquisition of a real treasure:
A seminal atlas by the first British Astronomer Royal, John Flamsteed, of particular significance for Australia and the Pacific, has been acquired by the National Library [...]

[ 15 August, 2009 9:00 am to 29 November, 2009 5:00 pm. ] “A winter day suddenly came your way
And you ran into your mind”

Take a walk through the mind of Nick Cave. The journey is a bit weird, a bit voyeuristic, and still leaves a fair chunk of mystery. On show at the National Library is an enormous collection of ephemera from a creative life.

From photos of [...]

For a few months now there appears to be work around the steps of the National Library, with the purpose of beautifying the area. Personally, I have seen nothing wrong with the stairs at the Library.
However, what would be helpful is if you could walk around the whole lake without crossing a road.
At the [...]