Tour the home of eminent Australian historian Professor Manning Clark and accomplished linguist Dymphna Clark.

Saturdays - by appointment.

11 Tasmania Circle, Forrest, ACT

Kit Kelen will be reading his powerful poetry.

Thursday 24 April, 2025

11 Tasmania Circle. Forrest, ACT

Sarah Reid from Electrifying Canberra presents

Sunday 27 April, 2025

11 Tasmania Circle, Forrest, ACT

Jon Stanhope, former Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and Khalid Ahmed, former ACT Treasury Executive, will deliver a powerful address and conversation on the future of the ACT, reflecting on critical areas such as health, housing, and the state of the ACT economy.

Sunday 18 May, 2025

11 Tasmania Circle, Forrest, ACT

This talk will reveal how Australia acquired the Australian Antarctic Territory, which makes up 42% of Antarctica, and its role in shaping the 1959 Antarctic Treaty to prevent militarisation of the region.

6pm, 7 May, 2025

11 Tasmania Circle, Forrest, ACT

his workshop will explore some aspects of women’s experience, contribution and significance in Canberra’s history, especially from the 1930s to the 1970s. It will be led by women who will reflect on their own sense of those times – how the period might be remembered? – and also by those involved in collecting, curating, interpreting and enhancing our appreciation of the active, creative and engaged work of those generations: how might their history be presented? These perspectives are certain to stimulate discussion among all who attend. What can we learn from these stories? What heritage needs to be unearthed? What history is too easily forgotten?