Behind the Lines 2025: 'Are We Rolling?' celebrates the year's best political cartoons.
Featuring established and emerging cartoonists from across Australia, this exhibition highlights the significant contribution they make to cultural and political debates through witty, insightful and often poignant satirical drawings.
This year, the Behind the Lines theme is the cinema, acknowledging that, like some of your favourite movies, 2025 has been full of thrills and spills, romance and heartbreak, with plenty of unexpected plot twists. Australia's cartoonists and illustrators have tackled many of the issues that made news, including the federal election, the cost of living, energy policy, interest rates, housing security, the economy, climate change and stories from overseas.
The exhibition is free.
Come and enjoy a weekend of everything psychic, spiritual and wellbeing.
Browse the beautiful stalls displaying crystals, handcrafted jewellery, handcrafted candles, clothing, scents, Wicca and Witchcraft items. Book in for a reading from some of the best psychics and mediums in Australia or receive a wax art reading, aura reading, spirit drawing, reiki healing and so much more.
Canberra Art Biennial is a biennial contemporary public art festival that engages the stories and aesthetics of Canberra's designed landscape through site-specific artworks and events. The festival champions diverse and accessible approaches to public art, presenting commissioned artworks by leading Australian and international artists as well as promising emerging artists, many of whom are creating public art or working with new media, scales and sites for the first time.
Founded by Dr Neil Hobbs, the festival was born from Neil's research into how temporary public art interventions transform space. Now, the festival invites artists to bring their ideas into dialogue with the capital's designed landscape, presenting free contemporary art in the places we gather day-to-day.
The 6th edition of the Canberra Art Biennial features newly commissioned artworks, along with exhibitions and re-stagings of preexisting artworks, from over 50 Australian and international artists and curators. Explore the program over 7 weeks, across 20 festival sites.
Canberra Art Biennial acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land on which their festival operates, the Ngunnawal and Ngambri people. They pay their respects to their elders past, present and emerging.
Join a transcendental healing journey and enjoy the benefits of this soul-nourishing session, melting away any tension, stress or fatigue.
Allow yourself to be fully harmonised by recalibrating your frequencies.
The session starts with 15 minutes of relaxing Breathwork to tune the body into a meditative state, using ancients and modern techniques, follow by the sound healing journey where they use native and meditative instruments like Didgeridoo, Cristal Bowls, RavVast, The Heaven & Earth Flute, Shamanic Drum, Tibetan Bowls, Crystal Pyramid, Harmonic Healing Chimes, Koshi Chimes and more. Each of those with a specific vibration and function for yourself.
They can't wait to welcome you at Soma Woman's Wellness, Dickson for an inspiring experience!
Some of the benefits include experiencing deep relaxation, boosting your immune system and balancing your nervous system. Release physical, emotional, anxiety and tension. Improve focus and memory and improve sleep quality. Align and tune your energy centres, Chakras, Nadis. Experience emotional release, reduced muscle tension and deepen states of relaxation and meditation. Feel at peace in harmony. Increase mental clarity, creativity and insight so you can manifest your intentions more effectively. Activate, empower and awaken your limitless potential.
Pain reduction and so much more.
Bring your mat, blanket, pillow and anything you need to be super comfy during the session.
Twilight Flow and Live Music is Canberra's unique immersive experience bringing together yoga-inspired movement, live music, sound immersion, light immersion and community.
Twilight Flow runs multiple events across various venues in Canberra and the surrounding region, Ngunnawal Country. This October, Twilight Flow and Live Music brings this unique experience to Ainslie Arts Centre, in the heart of Canberra.
The guided 90-minute session weaves together a powerful Yin&Yang yoga flow, combining dynamic and strong movements with grounding, deep stretches. The whole session is accompanied by live music from local artists, including handpan, didgeridoo, saxophone, synths, vocals, digital pads and more.
As the movement and flow intensify, so does the music, responsive to the energy in the room. The experience transitions into a deeply meditative sound bath for a further 30 minutes, held by crystal bowls and live instruments, and when the darkness falls, the space lights up with lighting immersion and displays that fill the room. The sessions close with live performances from the local musicians, giving the audience a truly unique performance. When the performances end, guests are invited to stay for herbal tea, fruit, and connection.
Whether you're a local Canberran or a visitor looking to experience a soulful, artistic evening in nature, Twilight Flow and Live Music is a transformative offering that bridges wellness, music, creativity, and community arts.
Australian-born, New York-based duo Olivia Chindamo and Matthew Sheens return to Australia to launch their second album, Putting It Together.
Drawing on years immersed in New York's jazz scene, Chindamo and Sheens bring their acclaimed musical partnership to Chapel off Chapel, presenting a collection of Great American Songbook gems, masterfully reworked classics and original compositions.
Mumkurla-nginyi-ma parrngalinyparla – from the darkness into the light.
The Gurindji freedom banners are a collection of 10 hand-painted banners created in 2000 by the Gurindji to share the community's version of the historic 1966 Wave Hill walk-off. The walk-off, or Gurindji strike, led by Gurindji man Vincent Lingiari was an important event in Australia's land rights movement. Many of the 35 Gurindji people involved in the banner-making project were participants in the walk-off.
At some stage, banner eight, Ngumpittu nguwula junypa wanyjarnana (Two young men dancing), went missing. In July 2025, a banner-making workshop was held in Daguragu and Kalkarindji to reconstruct the missing banner and restore the collection.
Light up your curiosity at Illuminate! Bend light, make music with sensors, and play with lenses across 13 hands-on exhibits.
Step into a world where science and light collide to ignite your senses. Through hands-on interactive play, come on a colourful adventure as you explore the science behind light, the fastest traveller in the universe. Packed full of vivid hands-on activities and interactive exhibits, this exhibition will have you bending light, blending colours, dancing with shadows, and transforming your reflection.
As you journey through the exhibition, discover how light behaves, where it comes from, how it reflects and refracts, and explore the tools humans have created to harness its power.
Illuminate: How Science Comes to Light is a Museums Victoria Touring Exhibition.
Take a drive through the story of an Australian icon in 'Rear vision: the Holden collection' at the National Archives of Australia in Canberra.
Trace Holden's journey from a 19th-century saddlery to 'Australia's Own Car' and its lasting impact on the nation's economy, industry and identity.
Explore archival records, rare artefacts, drawings and images that reveal the people, innovations and decisions behind General Motors-Holden.
Developed by the State Library of South Australia in partnership with Adelaide University, the exhibition has been expanded by National Archives of Australia with records from the national archival collection.
From wartime production to the fight for equal pay, these stories highlight how Holden helped shape modern Australia.
This free exhibition is open daily, with daily gallery talks for visitors keen to discover the stories under the hood.
Immerse yourself in an imagined near-future Australia where quantum technologies transform how you live, work and play.
Journey through an imagined future Australia, where tomorrow's quantum technologies come to life through the colourful illustrations of Canberra artist Paul Summerfield, airborne sculptures and a mesmerising cloud chamber.
Along the way, you'll encounter some of the Australian researchers who are harnessing the behaviours of quantum objects to create world-changing technologies that could make ordinary lives extraordinary in the future.
Discover how these technologies could transform how you sense the invisible, share information and solve the most important problems. From unhackable communications to personalised medicines and ultra-responsive prosthetics, the quantum future is full of promise.
Lawn mower racing, rock climbing, dry river-bed boating, mountain biking, disc golf and pickleball are some of the unique and emerging sports played across Australia.
'Regional Rivalries' celebrates the diversity of Australian sporting culture through unique and unexpected competitions and events. With more than 10 million people living in regional and remote areas, sport and competitive events play an important role in bringing the community together.
Many of these events are specific to particular regional locations and are based on long-term traditions. Some are new and just gaining popularity. Others are creative takes on mainstream sports and events.
Between 2024 and 2026, the National Library of Australia commissioned the Regional Sport and Competitive Events Photography Project, aiming to document sports and competitive events not already represented in the Library's collections. This exhibition showcases highlights from this collection.
See a selection of the images from the exhibit coming soon to the Library's Treasures Gallery, learn more about the collecting project, and dive into the full collection online on Trove.
'Regional Rivalries' runs from 22 September 2026 to 19 September 2027 and is exclusive to Canberra. This free exhibition is curated by the Library's Karen Schamberger.
