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Past events and exhibitions

Past events and exhibitions

Event Date
While the World Waits Tue 6 Aug 2024
Parliament Unpacked: The Watchdogs Tue 7 May 2024
Bicentenary Seminar Series Thu 18 Apr 2024
Regional Roadshows - Democracy on the move! Thu 4 Apr 2024
Standing at the heart of seven generations Wed 3 Apr 2024
Australian Quaker Narrative Embroidery Project Tue 2 Apr 2024
Bicentenary Concert Series Wed 20 Mar 2024
More than numbers... 200 years of audit impact - Audit Office of NSW Mon 4 Mar 2024
'Kujungka' - Together, In One Thu 1 Feb 2024
Restoration of Truth Wed 1 Nov 2023
The Breakfast Club: Hansard Wed 25 Oct 2023
Parliament Unpacked - Ministers and Shadow Ministers Tue 17 Oct 2023
Every Step Counts Tue 10 Oct 2023
Free Family Fun with the Parliament of NSW Mon 25 Sep 2023
Leaders in Conversation: Economic development and prosperity - looking to the future Wed 13 Sep 2023
Petitions: the power of voices Wed 6 Sep 2023
Skyscapes Mon 4 Sep 2023
When Art Meets Science Tue 1 Aug 2023
Schools Reconciliation Challenge: From River to Sea - Our Island Home Tue 1 Aug 2023
The Rum Hospital: the building that refuses to fall down Wed 5 Jul 2023
Portraits from Studio A Tue 4 Jul 2023
Festival of Democracy Mon 3 Jul 2023
Free Event - Parliament Unpacked: News MPs on the Block Mon 5 Jun 2023
Free Event - Parliament Unpacked: New MPs on the Block Mon 5 Jun 2023
Our Shared Futures Tue 30 May 2023
Songline exhibition Tue 30 May 2023
The Bare Pit 2023 Tue 23 May 2023
Wabu exhibition Tue 2 May 2023
Through the Heart... a Flood of Fears and Tears Exhibition 2023 Mon 1 May 2023
Unconditional Stories Exhibition Mon 1 May 2023
NSW Election Wrap Up with Antony Green Thu 27 Apr 2023
Election 2023 Series - Democracy in crisis? USA – a case study Wed 22 Mar 2023
Free Event - Election 2023 Series - Silent History: Aboriginal Suffrage in NSW Wed 1 Mar 2023
Free Event: Election 2023 Series - Voting in New South Wales Tue 10 Jan 2023
Free Event - The Edmund Barton Lecture: The Role of the Speaker in the Westminster System of Government Tue 22 Nov 2022
Through the Heart… a Flood of Fears and Tears – Jacklyn Wagner Mon 7 Nov 2022
The Nikon-Walkley Awards for Excellence in Photojournalism 2022 Tue 1 Nov 2022
Family Fun Day 2022 Fri 7 Oct 2022
Special Exhibition - Unlocking the House Tue 27 Sep 2022
Too Blue To Be True – Australia Chinese New Arts Society Tue 30 Aug 2022
Schools Reconciliation Challenge exhibition Tue 2 Aug 2022
Misunderstood Animals - Rhonda Partridge Tue 2 Aug 2022
In Living Memory Sun 5 Jun 2022
HOPE Butterfly Installation - Nick Baldas Tue 31 May 2022
Vivid Ideas - The Bare Pit Tue 31 May 2022
ARTREACH: REACHING OTHERS THROUGH ART Tue 31 May 2022
Out of the Blue - Blue Mountains Creative Arts Network Tue 3 May 2022
Luminosity: Salvatore Zofrea Retrospective - Macquarie University Art Gallery Tue 5 Apr 2022
Henry Parkes and Saul Samuel: the duo who preserved Australia’s colonial history Wed 23 Mar 2022
National Art School in the NSW Landscape Wed 9 Mar 2022
A Tale of Two Zoos - Sydney Living Museums and NSW State Archives Fri 25 Feb 2022
Parliament Unpacked: Conflict, Collaboration and Conscience Votes Mon 21 Feb 2022
Are There Any Questions? A Virtual Panel Discussion on Question Time in the NSW Parliament Thu 2 Dec 2021
Nikon Walkley Press Photography Exhibition 2021 Mon 29 Nov 2021
The Edmund Barton Lecture - The Role of the Attorney General Tue 21 Sep 2021
Talking History: Treasures from our collection Tue 7 Sep 2021
Unseen: Women, homelessness and housing insecurity Tue 3 Aug 2021
A Colonial Divorce: Drawing the Boundaries of NSW Tue 27 Jul 2021
The Bare Pit: The Power of Changing Your Mind Tue 15 Jun 2021
Clear Away The Dust - Carmonn French Tue 1 Jun 2021
This is where they travelled Thu 27 May 2021
Free Event: House Talks - Independence and Empire Wed 19 May 2021
The Queen's Album - NSW State Archives & Sydney Living Museums Wed 5 May 2021
Parliament Unpacked: Parliamentary Committees Tue 20 Apr 2021
Festival of Democracy 2021 Fri 16 Apr 2021
The Flower Picking - Carol Barroso Wed 7 Apr 2021
To make a mark - Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative Wed 7 Apr 2021
Reconciliation NSW - Schools Reconciliation Challenge Mon 1 Mar 2021
Eastwood Chinese Senior Citizens Club - Our Place Mon 1 Mar 2021
The Effect on a Butterfly Mon 1 Feb 2021
Hope and Gratitude Mon 1 Feb 2021
Our Past, Our Future Mon 9 Nov 2020
Our Past, Our Future - Virtual exhibition Mon 9 Nov 2020
Nikon-Walkley Press Photography Exhibition Mon 2 Nov 2020
The Spirit of Australia: A time and place, by Tracey Esteves Fri 2 Oct 2020
Dining With History Virtual Exhibition Tue 12 May 2020
Art of Ageing 2020 Tue 3 Mar 2020
Beyond Duty Mon 3 Feb 2020
A Little Night Sitting - Hansard: A History Tue 22 Oct 2019
Shades of the Plateau Tue 3 Sep 2019
Out of the Illawarra 2019 Tue 6 Aug 2019
Opulence Art Exhibition Tue 2 Jul 2019
A Little Night Sitting: The 57th Parliament Wed 19 Jun 2019
Head On Photo Festival 2019 Wed 8 May 2019
Australian Landscapes on Chinese rice paper - Unity in Diversity Tue 5 Mar 2019
Visit Before You Vote Tue 26 Feb 2019
Australia Day 2019 Sat 26 Jan 2019
The Anzac Legacy in NSW: Then and Now Tue 13 Nov 2018
Aboriginal Service in the First World War - A Forum Thu 8 Nov 2018
Anne Twomey Presents - Women & The Law Evening Lecture Tue 16 Oct 2018
Plein Air 2018 Wed 3 Oct 2018
Women & The Law Exhibition September - October 2018 Mon 17 Sep 2018
King and Wood Mallesons Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Prize Wed 5 Sep 2018
Indignation in the Colony, The Failed Royal Assassination exhibition Thu 23 Aug 2018
NAIDOC Week Tue 10 Jul 2018
Interrelate - Journeys of Hope Tue 3 Jul 2018
The Trailblazers Live Event Fri 15 Jun 2018
Baltic Artists in Australia - Celebrating 100 Years Tue 29 May 2018
Head On Landscape Photography Prize Tue 8 May 2018
Next Generation - Solomon Islands After RAMSI Mon 7 May 2018
Indignation In The Colony - The Failed Royal Assassination Tue 13 Mar 2018
The Art of Ageing Mon 5 Mar 2018
Australia Day 2018 Fri 26 Jan 2018
A Little Night Sitting: Democratic Systems - Westminster vs Presidential Wed 15 Nov 2017
NAIDOC AT OUR HOUSE Tue 4 Jul 2017
A LITTLE NIGHT SITTING - 1967 REFERENDUM Tue 20 Jun 2017
1967 REFERENDUM DISPLAY - UNTIL 31st AUGUST Mon 5 Jun 2017
Skirts on Sacred Benches Fri 31 Mar 2017
A Fit Place for Women - NSW Parliament Mon 16 Jan 2017
Wilmotte Williams – A Centennial Retrospective Fri 4 Nov 2016
'Wolawola Mariyang Malang - Go Forward Together’ by Saretta Fielding Wed 12 Oct 2016
Family Fun Day at the Parliament - Friday 7 October, 2016 Fri 7 Oct 2016
A Little Night Sitting, Culture and the Arts: the Key to a Harmonious Democracy Tue 13 Sep 2016
Hungary 1956 Mon 22 Aug 2016
NAIDOC Week event Tue 5 Jul 2016
‘Our Communities’ - National Indigenous Art Exhibition Wed 15 Jun 2016
Exhibition - Head On Landscape Photography Prize Thu 5 May 2016
Exhibition - Parliament's Past - the Rum Hospital's Bicentenary 1816 to 2016 - 6 to 29 April 2016 Wed 6 Apr 2016
Exhibition - 'Review and Prospect' - Chinese-Australian Exhibition - 4 to 28 April 2016 Mon 4 Apr 2016
Exhibition - Infinities of Blue: Life and Artistic Practice in the Greater Blue Mountains Region - 29 February to 1 April 2016 Mon 29 Feb 2016
Australia Day 2016 Tue 26 Jan 2016
Exhibition - underSTATEd 2016 - A collection of 44 works from Brett Whiteley, Lloyd Rees, Martin Sharp and several other iconic Australian Artists - 11 January to 26 February 2016 Mon 11 Jan 2016
Exhibition - James Gleeson: The collection of Michael and Marilyn Reardon-Small - 2 November to 18 December 2015 Mon 2 Nov 2015
Free: A Little Night Sitting - Tuesday 10 November 2015 4.30pm to 6.30pm bookings essential Tue 13 Oct 2015
Exhibition - 2015 Parliament of NSW Aboriginal Art Prize Mon 28 Sep 2015
Exhibition - 'Art teaches' - 1 September to 24 September 2015 Tue 1 Sep 2015
Free Event: School Holidays Family Fun Day - Friday 2 October 10 am to 3 pm Thu 27 Aug 2015
History Week 2015: talk/tour Battle for Federation 7 September 2pm-4pm Free but bookings essential Mon 10 Aug 2015
Exhibition - 'Out of the Illawarra - An exhibition of contemporary art' - 3 August to 28 August 2015 Mon 3 Aug 2015
Free: A Little Night Sitting - Tuesday 25 August 2015 4.30pm to 6.30pm bookings essential Wed 22 Jul 2015
Exhibition - NSW Parliament Plein Air Art Prize - 17 June to 31 July 2015 Wed 17 Jun 2015
Opening of the 56th Parliament Tue 5 May 2015
ANZAC Day - Saturday 25 April 2015: Parliament House will be open 10am-5pm. Free entry Mon 2 Mar 2015
Visit Parliament - free tour: 1.00 pm-2.00 pm first Thursday each month (except sitting days) Wed 4 Feb 2015

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