The Digger and the Larrikin Live On: Anzac Weekend at the Imperial War Museum 22/23 April 2006 Organised with the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies.

Saturday 22nd April

10.15am: Opening address by a representative of the New Zealand High Commission.

10.30am: ‘Anzac Day Memories: Digger’s Day – New Zealand’s Great War on Film’ (courtesy of the New Zealand Film Archive): Chris Pugsley (RMA Sandhurst) with live piano accompaniment by John Sweeney. 60mins

11.30pm: Break

11.50pm: 'Milestones in Identity’: The New Zealand Memorial Project, Hyde Park: Therese Crocker (Research Historian)

12.30pm: Break

1.30pm: '’'Spotting the Fake”: CEW Bean, Frank Hurley and the making of the 1923

Photographic Record of the War': Robert Dixon (University of Queensland).

2.15pm: ‘Shared Experiences’: talk on Australian war art to coincide with traveling exhibition (Speaker tbc).

3.00pm Break

3.15pm: Catherine Kevin (Menzies Centre) introduces A Town Like Alice (1956)

3.45pm: Screen: A Town Like Alice (1956), 117mins

6.00pm: Museum closes

Sunday 23 April.

10.15am: Opening address by a representative of the Australian High Commission.

10.30am: Readings from the play The One Day of the Year (1958) by Alan Seymour.

Performed by members of the Jacaranda Theatre and introduced by Ian Henderson

(Menzies Centre).

11.30am: Break

11.50am: Patterns of observance of ANZAC day in Australia and New Zealand. Panel

discussion led by Carl Bridge (Menzies Centre) and Chris Pugsley.

12:30pm: Break

2.00pm: Experimenting at the Realist Film Unit: Len Lye's Second World War films: Sarah

Davy

2.40pm: Sarah Easen on the filmmaker Margaret Thomson

3.20pm: Break

3.45 Session to be finalised.

4.25pm: End of conference

6.00pm: Museum closes

Free tickets for the event can be booked by calling the Box Office on 020 7416 5439 (weekdays 10.00am - 5.00pm) or by email at boxoffice@iwm.org.uk