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Spring 2016 Season of celebration There’s a lot to love about Canberra in spring — from a jam-packed calendar of annual events and award-winning restaurants to endless natural attractions and a multitude of galleries and museums just waiting to be explored. EMBRACE SPRING TREAT YOURSELF Celebrate the turn of the season at After all that fresh air you’ll have Floriade, the largest flower show earned a little indulgence and in the Southern Hemisphere, and Canberra’s red-hot food and wine a much loved fixture on Canberra’s scene is sure to impress. Refuel in events calendar. This celebration the inner-city foodie precincts of of spring showcases the best Braddon, NewActon and the in horticulture, creative landscaping, Kingston Foreshore — where you’ll innovation and design. And don’t find a delicious combination of miss the five-night after dark hipster coffee shops, innovative extravaganza, Floriade NightFest, cafes and award-winning with spectacular lighting designs restaurants — or spend the day and installations, pop-up roving sampling the region’s cool climate entertainment, live comedy and wines, with more than 30 cellar music acts. doors located within 35 minutes drive of Canberra. Enjoy the great outdoors and soar above Lake Burley Griffin and the Enjoy a weekend of local wines National Arboretum Canberra in matched with scrumptious food, a hot air balloon or venture into while roving from winery to our nearby national parks to hike winery, and taking in the beautiful the mountainous surrounds and countryside along the way during appreciate the beauty of the region. the Murrumbateman Moving Feast. You can also sample the best Rieslings from the Canberra district and across the world at the Canberra International Riesling Challenge Public Tasting Day on 15 October at the Albert Hall. A pop-up Canberra District Wine event on 18–19 November in one of the city’s coolest laneways will give you another opportunity to taste a cheeky local red or white. Left: Hot air ballooning over National Arboretum Canberra Front cover: Floriade Tackle a Brodburger on the Kingston Foreshore EXPLORE THE CITY EXPEND SOME ENERGY Get up close and personal with Let the kids run wilder than their a cheetah at the National Zoo & imagination in Canberra through Aquarium, indulge in a world- giant acorns at the National famous Freakshake at Patissez, Arboretum Canberra, tiny villages sample award-winning bacon at Cockington Green Gardens and from Pialligo Estate or see a past friendly fossils at the National different side of Parliament House Dinosaur Museum. on a tour of the stunning private gardens during Floriade. Weave your way through the fascinating displays of Spiders at Explore the many parks around Questacon — The National Science Lake Burley Griffin, the masterful and Technology Centre, and explore centrepiece of Canberra. The large Play Up at the Museum of Australian and lovely lake is an ideal water at Old Parliament House. Build a playground, whether you’re into robot of the future using touch rowing, sailing, kayaking or screens and then journey back in stand-up paddle boarding. Cyclists time to learn about an important era and walkers are well catered for in Australia’s history at the popular along the 40km shoreline, and KSpace family space at the National nothing beats a picnic in its Museum of Australia. numerous parks and gardens. Central Coast Mariners v Wellington Phoenix TAKE IT ALL IN ENJOY THE GREAT Explore the history of humanity OUTDOORS when major international exhibition Enjoy the views, delicious picnic A History Of The World In 100 Objects hampers, wonderful atmosphere From The British Museum opens at and most of all the music when the National Museum of Australia. Canberra’s operatic spectacular, Voices in the Forest, returns for Immerse yourself in a pop-up its sixth concert at the National arts trail along the southern Arboretum Canberra. shores of Lake Burley Griffin during Contour 556. Fifty local, Catch latest releases, children’s national and international artists movies and classic films in the present public works, including beautiful surrounds of the Australian dance, soundscapes, projections National Botanic Gardens’ Sunset and ‘traditional’ sculpture, which Cinema throughout spring. respond to the layers of Canberra’s history. Be in the crowd when the Central Coast Mariners take on the Wellington Phoenix. GIO Stadium will host this blockbuster where the Central Coast Mariners will take on their rivals from across the Tasman in a remembrance weekend fixture. What’s on throughout spring Spot Australian wildlife at Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve RANGER GUIDED AIS TOURS DRESS CODE: EMPIRE WALKS AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE MUSEUM OF TIDBINBILLA OF SPORT AUSTRALIAN NATURE RESERVE Come on tour to see DEMOCRACY AT OLD PARLIAMENT HOUSE Don't miss your chance where many of our top to see Australian athletes prepared for the An old coat rescued. wildlife, including Rio 2016 Olympics — Sir Edmund Barton kangaroos, platypus, you might even catch revealed. Discover an wombats and more, some of them training for intriguing tale of power, in this beautiful their next competition. prestige and Australia’s natural environment. experienceais.com.au/ changing ties to Britain. tidbinbilla.act.gov.au visit-ais/tours moadoph.gov.au 02 6205 1233 02 6214 1010 02 6270 8222 Create your own time-travelling robot at Kspace. Photo: Adam McGrath KEEPER TALKS NATIONAL COIN KSPACE NATIONAL ZOO COLLECTION NATIONAL MUSEUM & AQUARIUM ROYAL AUSTRALIAN MINT OF AUSTRALIA Learn about the The Royal Australian Mint Create your own wide range of native is home to Australia's time-travelling robot and exotic animals, National Coin Collection, and blast to the past in including lions, with some of the most Kspace, an interactive penguins and meerkats, interesting items from adventure game for which call the National the collection on display kids aged 5–12 years. Zoo & Aquarium home. in the gallery. Session times vary. Keeper Talks take place ramint.gov.au nma.gov.au/kspace on weekends and 02 6202 6999 1800 026 132 school holidays. nationalzoo.com.au 02 6287 8400 The World of Coin Design at the Royal Australian Mint FIX AND MAKE DESIGN AND NATURE THE WORLD OF HOTEL HOTEL NATIONAL GALLERY COIN DESIGN A series of workshops OF AUSTRALIA ROYAL AUSTRALIAN MINT and talks inviting This glass and ceramics Enter the world of a individuals to reconnect exhibition features the coin designer at the with their hands works of Louis Comfort Royal Australian Mint and encourage new Tiffany and Clément this spring and see what learnings through doing. Massier, two of the a typical coin-design Bookings essential. greatest Art Nouveau studio looks like. hotel-hotel.com.au/ designers and artists, ramint.gov.au fixandmake and brings their 02 6202 6999 02 6287 6287 extraordinary art together for the first time at the gallery. nga.gov.au 02 6240 6411 Museum tours at the National Dinosaur Museum RE-DISCOVERING MUSEUM TOURS NATIONAL GALLERY GINNINDERRA NATIONAL DINOSAUR OF AUSTRALIA TALKS HALL SCHOOL MUSEUM MUSEUM AND WORKSHOPS AND HERITAGE CENTRE Bring your camera, NATIONAL GALLERY For half a century from your friends and those OF AUSTRALIA the 1860s, Ginninderra burning dinosaur The Gallery has an was a flourishing questions for a fun and extensive program of community boasting educational journey talks and workshops a church, two schools, back in time. Tours run where you can learn a police station and every weekend and about local and a hotel. But what during ACT/NSW international artists, be happened? school holidays. inspired by the National museum.hall.act.au nationaldinosaurmuseum. Art Collection and create com.au your own artworks. 02 6230 2655 nga.gov.au 02 6240 64119 Stand up, dress up and think up at Play Up PLAY UP MUD MEN — TOUR: COLLECTION MUSEUM OF RAMESH MARIO HIGHLIGHTS AUSTRALIAN NITHIYENDRAN NATIONAL PORTRAIT DEMOCRACY AT OLD INSTALLATION GALLERY PARLIAMENT HOUSE NATIONAL GALLERY Explore the National Curated for, with and by OF AUSTRALIA Portrait Gallery children, this fabulous The installation by Collection and the space allows children Ramesh Mario building on this free to stand up, dress up, Nithiyendran is daily highlights tour. make up, think up and comprised of five Meet some of the most step up. large-scale ceramic interesting people in moadoph.gov.au sculptures, including the collection and learn 02 6270 8222 four new works that about the building. are being exhibited portrait.gov.au for the first time. 02 6102 7000 nga.gov.au 02 6240 6411 Roll Of Honour Projections at the Australian War Memorial MAGNA CARTA: AN ROLL OF HONOUR FACE UP! AUSTRALIAN STORY PROJECTIONS IN KING’S HALL MUSEUM OF AUSTRALIAN WAR MUSEUM OF AUSTRALIAN MEMORIAL AUSTRALIAN DEMOCRACY AT OLD Explore the First World DEMOCRACY AT OLD PARLIAMENT HOUSE PARLIAMENT HOUSE War galleries. At night How do the movie see the names of those Join the democratic The Castle, the Yirrkala who gave their lives chorus and vote for Bark Petitions and projected onto the what matters to you Albert Langer relate to Memorial. Check the by projecting your Magna Carta? 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