Tales From A Camphorwood Chest
2026-11-19 14:00 - 15:00 (Australia/Sydney)
From the Australian Gold Rush to cosmopolitan Shanghai in the 1930s, the Cultural Revolution and the world of high fashion in New York. Join Claudia Chan Shaw for a personal journey telling the story of the strong women of her Australian Chinese family, and the design legacy that runs through each generation.
Dates and Locations
Thursday 19 November 2026 Molonglo Plains (ACT)
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On The Wild Side: Filming Creatures Great and Small
2026-11-19
In this lecture, Pieter will share stories and techniques for capturing extraordinary images for David Attenborough and National Geographic. From playful Macaque monkeys in China to majestic Cassowaries in Northern Australia, He’ll illustrate his presentation with segments from his nature documentaries.

Dates and Locations
Wednesday 1 April 2026 Chatswood (NSW)
Saturday 13 June 2026 Gold Coast (QLD)
Thursday 18 June 2026 Brisbane (QLD)
Saturday 20 June 2026 Rockhampton
Sunday 21 June 2026 Cairns (QLD)
Wednesday 24 June 2026 Toowoomba (QLD)
Friday 26 June​ 2026 Brisbane River (QLD)
​Sunday 28 June 2026 Sunshine Coast (QLD)
Thursday 5 November 2026 Yarra (VIC)
Friday 6 November 2026 Mornington Peninsula (VIC)
Wednesday 11 November 2026 Geelong (VIC)
Wednesday​ 18 November 2026 Tamworth (NSW)
Thursday 19 November 2026 Armidale (NSW)
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Creatures And Concertos
2026-11-22 11:00 - 12:00
Pieter shares his techniques for capturing extraordinary images for David Attenborough and National Geographic. His talk also features an exquisite performance of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons – “Spring”. In this segment of his documentary, “Four”, he captures the essence of Japan’s Cherry Blossom love story, offering a visually stunning musical experience.
Dates and Locations
Sunday 22 November 2026 Coffs Coast (NSW)
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Cutting Rythms, Shaping Stories: How Film Editing Works
2026-11-23 18:00 - 19:00
Few aspects of creative filmmaking are as shrouded in mystery as the work of the film editor. What do they do? How does it work? Film editors will usually say their art is intuitive – magic, instinctive, inexpressible. But this lecture explodes the myth that good editing is invisible, and reveals what goes on in the edit suite to save movies, tell stories and make thousands of bits of footage into coherent and compelling films. Drawing on her first-hand experience as an editor and her many years as a professional dancer, Karen Pearlman puts forward the idea that editing is a form of choreography. She shows how editors shape movement – movement of story, movement of emotion, and movement of image and sound, into moving experiences for an audience. Clips from Pearlman’s Australian Screen Editors Guild award winning films, and quotes from her internationally distributed book on film editing, ‘Cutting Rhythms’, are woven into this talk.
Dates and Locations
Tuesday 10 February 2026 Bowral (NSW)
Monday 16 February Newcastle (NSW)
Monday 23 November Hobart (TAS)
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