Talk - MARKK Hamburg
MARKK Hamburg, Germany
Talk on the PNG collection and reflections on 50 years of PNG independence.
Featuring museum curators, Nakni Nelly and PNG artist Gazellah Bruder.
Nakni Nelly is from the Siassi Islands in PNG and has been invited by the museum to Germany to assist with provenance research on the sailboat collected from Siassi in 1910 by the museum and on display in the main gallery.
performance - Budapest
Néprajzi Múzeum, Museum of Ethnography in Budapest, Hungary
As part of its participation in WanBel, on the programme day of 11 October the museum will host an improvisational theatre performance in honour of the contemporary communities of Papua New Guinea.
Exact time to be confirmed nearer the date
Online Talk - The Hunterian
The Hunterian, Glasgow, Scotland
Online Talk
Dr. Andy Mills, Curator for Archaeology and World Cultures, will present part of the collection and the stories behind the objects with a focus on the Turner family and the London Missionary Society
https://www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/visit/whats-on/
Exact time to be confirmed nearer the date
ART AFTER HOURS - AGNSW SYDNEY
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Art After Hours: High Colour
Celebrating 50 years of Papua New Guinea's independence
6pm DJ set: DJ Black President
6.30pm Spoken word: Lungol Wekina
7pm Drop in workshop: Weaving
7.20pm Panel discussion:
Lungol Wekina, Lisa Hilli, Tetei Bakic and Alana Hicks
8.20pm DJ set: DJ Black President
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/whats-on/exhibitions/high-colour/
SCIENCE HUB - FIELD MUSEUM
Field Museum, Chicago, USA
On September 17, Come meet Field Museum Collections staff Chris Philipp and Julia Kennedy as they discuss rarely-displayed masks, contemporary items, and media from the Field's Papua New Guinea collection.
Part of the regular series Meet a Scientist at the Science Hub
https://www.fieldmuseum.org/activity/celebration-of-papua-new-guineas-independence
Community Day - NGA Canberra
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Bilong Papua New Guinea marks the 50th anniversary of Papua New Guinea’s independence, displaying part of the largest collection of Papua New Guinea urban art outside the country, held by the National Gallery.
Join us for a performance by the PNG Peroveta Singers of Canberra to celebrate this anniversary and the opening of the exhibition Bilong Papua New Guinea.
The PNG Peroveta Singers of Canberra will inaugurate the exhibition with Peroveta and traditional song and dance. Formed in 1999 by ACT diaspora community members, they specialize in Peroveta songs, prophet songs introduced by Polynesian missionaries in the late 1880s, as well as traditional Papua New Guinean folk songs and dances.
50 years of Independence Community Day is a collaboration with the National Archives of Australia for the Papua New Guinean community of the ACT and surrounding NSW and is open to all visitors.
Visit the National Archives of Australia from 9:30am to 12pm for curatorial talks, a performance, archival demonstrations and morning tea.
Visit the National Library of Australia to view the exhibition 1975: Living in the Seventies, which showcases Papua New Guinea's path to independence.
https://nga.gov.au/events/50-years-of-independence-community-day/