Events

Event title Date Location
LOCAL
Charles Darwin: Shaping our Science, Society & Future - Charles Darwin Symposium 2009 September 22-24, 2009 Darwin Convention Centre, Darwin
POINT - an exhibition by the art and design students of Charles Darwin University October 30 - November 5, 2009 Charles Darwin University, Darwin
Find Your Inner Fish! February 11, at 7.30pm Olive Pink Botanic Garden, Alice Springs
Supercrocodilians: Darwin’s ultimate survival story - Exhibition February 12 to November 29, 2009 Flinders Gallery, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
Persistence of Dreaming: art inspired by Darwin's ideas May 22 to June 7, 2009 Olive Pink Botanic Garden, Alice Springs
The HMS Beagle Ship Bell Chime - Art work launch July, 2009 Civic Park, Darwin
Dinner to celebrate "Finding Darwin in Stanley" July 25, 2009 Stanley Memorial Hall, Stanley

Ian Potter Museum of Art – Melbourne University - Exhibition

August 12 to November 1, 2009

Cornucopia Restaurant, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin

Charles Darwin On the Origin of Species Exhibition September 9 - 23, 2009 Northern Territory Library
Opening Hours:
Monday to Friday - 10.00am to 5.00pm (from July 1, 2009)
Saturday and Sunday - 1.00pm to 5.00pm
Public Holidays - closed
Metamorphosis: Origins and Ancestors - Workshop September, 2009 Various including Yirrkala Community
Territory Craft Gallery - exhibition September 18-28, 2009 Territory Craft Gallery, Conacher Street, Fannie Bay
Charles Darwin Dinner Wednesday, September 23, 2009 SKYCITY Darwin, Grand Ballroom
7.00pm - Tickets: $60.00 per person, $600.00 for tables of 10

For further information or to purchase tickets, phone 8946 6202 or email cdss@cdu.edu.au

Backyard Biodiversity Youth Forum September 25, 2009 Humpty Doo Primary School, Fred's Pass Road, Humpty Doo
In the Wake of the Beagle: a history tour of Darwin Harbour September 26, 2009 Historical Society of the Northern Territory

84th Coral Reef Society Conference

September 26-30, 2009 Charles Darwin University, Casuarina Campus, Darwin

Burning Man Australia 2009 - Exhibition

2009 TBA
NT Field Naturalists Club - monthly series of natural history talks and field trips. Meetings held on the 2nd Wednesday of each month commencing February 2009 at 7.45 pm. Charles Darwin University, Blue Building 1, Room 03, Casuarina Campus.

Origins - Cross-disciplinary creative arts performance

January/February 2009 Civic Park, Darwin
 
AUSTRALIA-WIDE
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University of Sydney - Accidental Encounters science, life and culture in Australasia 1846-1850. An exhibition to mark the anniversary of Darwin's ideas 12 February 2009 - 24 May 2009

Macleay Museum, University of Sydney

William Sharp Macleay and his natural history circles. Life before evolution 12 February - December 2009 Exhibition at the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney
Professor Michael Ruse:Sydney ideas is Darwinism past its sell by date?

Tuesday, February 17, at 6.30pm

Seymour Centre, University of Sydney - Public Talk
Generate - Exhibition December 2, 2008 to March 26, 2009 Australian National Botanic Garden, Clunies Ross Street (at the foot of Black Mountain), Acton, Canberra

DarwinExhibition

December 10, 2008 to March 29, 2009

National Museum of Australia, Lawson Crescent, Acton Peninsula, Canberra
Charles Darwin - Voyages and ideas that shook the world - Exhibition March 20 to August 23, 2009 Australian National Maritime Museum, Murray Street, Darling Harbour, Sydney

Australian Academy of Science – 2009 SATS Annual Symposium

TBA

The Shine Dome, Gordon Street, Canberra

Science biography, including Iain McCalman on Darwin's Armada, Frank Nicholas on Darwin in Australia, Sydney Writers' Festival    
Super Human: Revolution of the Species November 2009  
 
INTERNATIONAL
Vatican Conference March 3 to 7, 2009

Vatican City Rome, Italy

Chiapas Museum of Science and Technology, Mexico

April 21-26 "Darwin week", with film series, lectures, exhibitions, workshops and demonstrations.

The Museum is located in the city of Tuxtla Gutierr Chiapas, Mexico. We have three permanent rooms, including one called "life and human being."

Programs planned in Kerala State, India Febuary to November 2009 Program Details

Galapagos Science Symposium

July 20-24, 2009 Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz, Galapagos, Ecuador