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Imagine...the Wonder of Picture Books

9 Jul 2022 to 9 Jul 2023

Stories and characters from much-loved Australian picture books come to life in this celebration of children’s literature. 

Illustration of a forest of black trees and ferns and mushrooms in the foreground
  • Exhibition

Pride (R)evolution

18 Feb 2023 to 9 Jul 2023
  • series: Pride Month

This major exhibition takes a queer lens to the State Library’s vast collection and shares more than 20 untold stories that celebrate LGBTQI+...

Collage of images from the 2023 Pride (R)evolution exhibition
  • Exhibition

Koori Knockout: 50 years

24 Sep 2022 to 27 Aug 2023

Over 30,000 spectators. Countless sporting heroes. One tournament. Take a front row seat in this major celebration of First Nations sporting...

Koori Knockout supporters in stands, seated and standing.
  • Exhibition
  • Ongoing
  • Free

Amaze Gallery

Current highlights include William Yang’s Sydneyphiles Reimagined.

Group of people in the Amaze Gallery
  • Exhibition
  • Ongoing
  • Free

Paintings from the Collection

More than 300 original artworks from the Library’s unique collection of landscape and portrait paintings.

Oil painting. Panoramic scene of a harbour.
  • Talk
  • Online
  • Free

Deborah Lee-Talbot: Phyllis Mander-Jones – Librarian, Archivist, Historian

Tuesday
Tue 6 Jun 2023
  • series: Scholar Talks

Deborah Lee-Talbot addresses Phyllis Mander-Jones’s surveying of Pacific records as Australia sought to define its national identity.

Black and white photographic headshot
  • Talk
  • Onsite

William Yang and Benjamin Law: Sydneyphiles Reimagined

Tuesday
Tue 6 Jun 2023
  • series: Exhibition related
  • series: Nights at the Library
  • series: Pride Month
  • series: Talks & Ideas

Hear celebrated photographer William Yang discuss his breakthrough exhibition Sydneyphiles, followed by a conversation with Benjamin Law.

Two men smiling at the camera, one has his arms around the others shoulders.
  • Virtual excursion
  • Free

Exploring our environment

Wednesday
Wed 7 Jun 2023
  • series: Schools

Take a walk with us and investigate our land’s unique geography.

Drawing of bushland
  • Virtual excursion
  • Free

History skills: Evaluating sources

Wednesday
Wed 7 Jun 2023
  • series: Schools

Learn how to think like a historian in this skills-focused virtual excursion. 

Paintings on blue wall
  • Talk
  • Onsite
  • Free

History Now: history on screens

Wednesday
Wed 7 Jun 2023
  • series: History Now

Tom Murray and Graham Shirley explore the importance of screen-based histories ability to generate knowledge about the past.

a sepia photograph of a film crew with cameras
  • Special event
  • Onsite
  • Ongoing
  • Free

Trivia in The Library Bar

Wednesday
Wed 7 Jun 2023
  • series: After Dark in The Library Bar
  • series: Nights at the Library

Join us on the first Wednesday of each month for Trivia in The Library Bar, hosted by writer and editor Cathy Perkins

A wooden bookshelf has piles of books on top of it, and an open notebook with a pencil and a pair of glasses resting on top. Next to it is a glass of red wine.
  • Tour
  • Onsite
  • Free

Take a walk with a 78er

Thursday
Thu 8 Jun 2023
  • series: Exhibition related
  • series: Pride Month

Explore the Library's exhibition, Pride (R)evolution, with some of the activists who marched in the first Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.

four 78ers in front of a sign that says Welcome to the Revolution