The mad square celebrity events
Wednesday night talks and performances on themes in the exhibition
Image: Flacco (21 September)
Wednesdays 10 August – 2 November 2011, 6.30pm
Free
Duration 30 minutes
Location: Entrance court
Related exhibition: The mad square: modernity in German art 1910–37
Paul Capsis, singer and actor
In conversation with arts broadcaster Fenella Kernebone, on the art of cabaret
Wednesday 10 August 2011 6:30pm – 7pm
Paul Grabowsky, pianist and composer
On the influence of German music
Wednesday 17 August 2011 6:30pm – 7pm
Mark Tedeschi, senior crown prosecutor and photographer, in conversation with journalist Richard Ackland
“Too many f.stops”
Wednesday 24 August 2011 6:30pm – 7pm
Bob Carr, former NSW premier
Weimar: experiment in democracy
Wednesday 31 August 2011 6:30pm – 7pm
Wendy Sharpe, artist
On the influence of German Expressionism on her work, particularly in relation to her commission as an Official Artist to East Timor by The Australian War Memorial
Photo: Peter Jones
Wednesday 7 September 2011 6:30pm – 7pm
Tom Wright, associate director, Sydney Theatre Company
On the influence of German theatre
Wednesday 14 September 2011 6:30pm – 7pm
Flacco and composer Stu Hunter
“Who’s your Dada?”
Duchamp made the urinal – Now Flacco takes the piss.
Wednesday 21 September 2011 6:30pm – 7pm
Robyn Archer, cabaret performer
A special performance
Wednesday 28 September 2011 6:30pm – 7pm
David Stratton, film critic
On the significance of German modernist cinema
Wednesday 5 October 2011 6:30pm – 7pm
Dr Gerard Vaughan, director, National Gallery Victoria
On the significance of German modernist art
Wednesday 12 October 2011 6:30pm – 7pm
Verushka Darling, cabaret performer
A special performance
Photo: Petez Imagez
Wednesday 19 October 2011 6:30pm – 7pm
Frank Strobel, orchestral conductor
On conducting Fritz Lang’s Metropolis
Photo: Kai Bienert
Wednesday 26 October 2011 6:30pm – 7pm
Elizabeth Farrelly, columnist and critic
Modern architecture: the seductive paradox
Wednesday 2 November 2011 6:30pm – 7pm
