LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY FOR THE AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

TIMETABLE OF EVENTS

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OPEN DAY SUNDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 10AM-2PM

The Speaker, Vicki Dunne MLA, warmly welcomes you on behalf of all Members of the Legislative Assembly to the Legislative Assembly Open Day

WHEN WHAT WHERE

10am The first 100 visitors receive a free Canberra Bell pot plant Foyer near the public (one per person or family) entrance of the Assembly 10:00am-2:00 pm The ‘Great Democratic Sausage Sizzle’ – MLAs serving their Outside, near the community. Come to meet your MLAs and have a free ethos statue/public e sausage. entrance to the Assembly  10am-10:30am – Chris Bourke & Meegan Fitzharris

 10:45am-11:30am – Nicole Lawder

 11:30am-12:15pm – and

 12:15pm-1:00pm –

 1:00pm-1:45pm –

10:00am-2:00 pm Departing from the Tours of the ACT Legislative chamber and building conducted photo wall of MLAs by MLAs (near the entrance to the Assembly  10am-10:30am – Nicole Lawder chamber)

 10:30am-11:00am – Chris Bourke & Meegan Fitzharris

 11:00am-11:30am – Giulia Jones & Steve Doszpot

 12:15am-12:45pm – Yvette Berry

 1:00pm-1:30pm – Max Kiermaier

WHEN WHAT WHERE

10:00am-2:00 pm Artwork display by Assembly staff & MLAs Exhibition room – First floor (go up the stairs in the foyer) 11:00am-11:30am Performance by Canberra Children’s Choir Reception Room 11.30am-1:50pm Tours of the Assembly art collection by the Assembly’s Leaving from the Art Curator, Merryn Gates (every 20 minutes): reception room (adjacent to the 11:30am-11:50am public entrance foyer) 11:50am-12:10pm 1:00pm-1:20pm 1:20pm-1:40pm 11.30am-1.15pm Come and view the Magna Carta replica in the Assembly Assembly chamber chamber and stay for the debate on the significance of the Magna Carta, featuring Year 10 and 11 students from Canberra schools

“The Magna Carta has little relevance to our system of democracy”.

The debate will be presided over by The Honourable Justice Richard Refshauge. 12:15pm-1:00pm Floor Talks – Three local Canberra artists to discuss their All floor talks/art works on display in the Assembly tours leave from the reception room  12:15pm – Bev Hogg speaks about her work “The (adjacent to the Listening Tree” public entrance foyer)  12:30pm – Cathy Franzi speaks about her work “Hills of Canberra”

 12:45pm – Artist Daniel Savage speaks about his work “Fluxibility”

1:00pm-1:30pm Performance by Latin Lovers choir Assembly Foyer near Stairwell