Day 1 – Tuesday 31 October 

11:30  

Interstate Arrivals      

11:45  

LUNCH FOR ALL STAFF           

12:30

Welcome to Country

Jude Barlow

12.45

Welcome to the Conference

Jacqui Uhlmann (MC)

13:00

In Conversation: Reconnecting to Country - A First Nations-led approach to placemaking and sustainability

Chris Mercer and Christian Hampson, Yerrabingin

13:30  

Keynote Address

Patrick McIntyre

14:30

Curating for Relevance: Highlights from the Collection

Curatorial Team Leaders

15:30

AFTERNOON TEA

16:00

Collection Data Model

Jen Drysdale and Vick Gwyn

16:15

Building a Conversational Archive

Keir Winesmith

16:45

In Conversation: Backlog! Unpicking the past

Rebecca Coronel, Belinda Hunt, Bronwyn Barnett, Shannon Hutchinson and Stewart Shannon

17:15

PechaKucha

Rebecca Coronel (MC), Rowan McGinness, Celena Hobbins, Ingrid Mason and Elise McMillan

17:45  

Day 1 Reflections

Nicole McPeake

18:00

BREAK

18:30

Canapés & ‘Scarefoot’ Bowls @ The Ruc Turner Lawn Bowls Club

It is Halloween so feel free to ‘accessorise’!

Day 2 – Wednesday 1 November

09:00  

Welcome to Day 2

Rebecca Coronel (MC)

09:15  

Who listens to the Radio? Inside the Radio 100 project

Thorsten Kaeding and Kate Scott

09:45

PechaKucha

Rebecca Coronel (MC), Paul Duchesne, Yolanda Yip, Angus Johnstone and Daniel Smith

10:15

Staff photo on the front steps

10.30  

MORNING TEA

11:00

Staff Length of Service Awards

Patrick McIntyre

11:15

Staff Short Film Awards and Screening

Patrick McIntyre and Rowan McGinness

11:45

Day 2 Reflections

Jacqui Uhlmann

12:00

LUNCH

12:45 – 14:25 

NFSA Staff Screening of WINHANGANHA and Q&A Discussion with Jazz Money

All staff are invited to this special screening of a major new work, WINHANGANHA (Wiradjuri language: Remember, know, think).  The finished film is a lyrical journey of archival footage and sound, poetry and original composition. It is an examination of how archives and the legacies of collection affect First Nations people and wider Australia, told through the lens of acclaimed Wiradjuri artist, Jazz Money accompanied by an original score from Filipino-Aboriginal rapper, DOBBY.

Over 35 NFSA staff were involved in the production of the work across Executive, Curatorial and Accessioning, Rights and Licensing, Collection Digitisation, Marketing and Communications, Public Programs, Finance, Governance, Digital and Legal and Procurement.

We are delighted to have Jazz with us, to discuss the film, following the screening.

Learn more about the film and view the trailer. 

14:30  

Open House: New Conservation and Film Services Area

Conservation and Film Services are throwing open their doors from 2:30-3:30pm on Wednesday afternoon. Previously used for film preservation/processing and engineering workshop activities, the ground floor space has been totally renewed to house the Conservation team, new audio suites, post-production suites, remastering suite and film scanning work areas. Come and have a wander through the space and enjoy a quick show and tell from specialist staff about the new facilities and capabilities the AVA funding has provided.

Acton Tape Library Tours

Earlier this year the NFSA upgraded the Acton tape library to hold almost 5,000 tapes, more than enough to host the whole collection. Now complete, the team is working on the new offsite data centre tape library. This tour will take staff into the Acton Data Centre and is a unique opportunity to see the tape library in action, learn about its unique capacity, and hear how it connects to the renewed film services spaces and the new scanner. The upgrade to the tape library has been made possible by the AVA funding.

Given the size of the space, tours will be limited to five people per session and you will need to book a space to attend one of these sessions. Sessions will run for 10 mins. Tour meeting place is in front of the Ngunnawal Meeting Room, Level 1 Acton Annex. 

Sign up for a tour. 

15:30

Bus departs for Sydney

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