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AQuA x NGV: Pride Month

As part of Melbourne Now, the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) and the Australian Queer Archives come together to present a series of talks, discussions and workshops in Community Hall every Sunday in June for Pride Month.

All events take place at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Federation Square, Melbourne.

Date Name Description

Sunday 4 June 2023, 11am–12:30pm Open Forum Launching the NGV x AQuA: Pride Month series, Open Forum will provide an opportunity for community leaders to gather and facilitate a broad and open discussion about the importance of archiving marginal histories.Looking at topics ranging from what constitutes a community archive, to the importance of collecting institutions representing marginal histories, the forum will be moderated by NGV Curator Meg Slater and AQuA Vice President Angela Bailey. The forum will be a democratic, open discussion between artists, arts workers and archivists whose practice encompasses or intersects with archival work in First Nations, feminist and queer contexts. Information

Sunday 4 June 2023, 12:45–1:15pm Ballot Box Part One Through a series of Ballot Box discussions, we will explore how art making can intersect with archival work. Hosted in Community Hall and in keeping with the spirit of Australian community halls, these discussions will be informed by your voices. Prior to each discussion, a question will be posed via a virtual ballot box inviting responses from members of the community. Information

Sunday 11 June 2023, 11am–12:30pm Make a Zine Zine making and distribution has long held a significant place in the practice of queer creative practice, protest and community building. Amongst its significant collection of paper-based ephemera, the Australian Queer Archives (AQuA) holds many zines that together, demonstrate the diverse ways in which these important publications can be made and distributed, as well as the histories they often hold. In the second session of the NGV x AQuA: Pride Month series, hear from librarian, archivist and AQuA committee member Clare O’Hanlon and committee member Nick Henderson about the history of queer zine-making. Visitors are invited to then make their own zine with the guidance of artist Aaron Billings. Information

Sunday 18 June 2023, 11:45am–1pm Queer Melbourne In 2021, Heritage Victoria and the Australian Queer Archives (AQuA) published a landmark report – A History of LGBTIQ+ Victoria in 100 Places and Objects. Drawing inspiration from this important document, NGV and AQuA have partnered to develop conversations with key figures linked to some of the report’s places and spaces. Information

Sunday 25 June 2023, 11am–12:30pm Ballot Box Part Two Through a series of Ballot Box discussions, we will explore how art making can intersect with archival work. Hosted in Community Hall and in keeping with the spirit of Australian community halls, these discussions will be informed by your voices. Prior to each discussion, a question will be posed via a virtual ballot box inviting responses from members of the community. Information

Other events

Date Name Description Location

Friday 16 June 2023, 8–9pm what if we held hands in the queer archives
Emerging Writers’ Festival in partnership with AQuA
Archive as both site and verb: as an event that happens and continues to happen. The archive comes in many different structures and arrangements. A library, a word, a rock, a body of water. Five writers traverse the Australian Queer Archives (AQuA) and interact with the queer histories collected and preserved there. Made in collaboration with and supported by AQuA. They cut up and collage; restore and trouble, re-emerging with new forms made from old materials – forms that archive the archive to then become a part of it, NEW AGONIES publication sitting on the AQuA shelves. Join us for an evening of performances at the Victorian Pride Centre to witness this self-referential relic. Bookings essential – via EWF AQuA Reading Room
Victorian Pride Centre
79-81
Fitzroy Street
St Kilda

Saturday 17 June 2023, 7–10pm Queer Gaze: A Wicked Storytelling Event Wicked Women (1988–96) was a delectable sex positive zine published by Lisa and Jasper thirty years ago when they decided Australian dykes deserved raunchy representation. The zine evolved into a magazine that sparked a revolution in lesbian circles of inner city Sydney and Melbourne. Come along to see a screening of archival footage from Wicked Women events as well as selected short films and hear from key wicked performers, patrons and personalities in a night of storytelling and panel discussions. Tickets via TryBooking Victorian Pride Centre
79-81 Fitzroy Street
St Kilda