Free Floor Talks
Townsville City Council provides a range of free floor talks at a number of venues throughout the year. For more information about upcoming events please contact Council during business hours, or if the event is being held outside of business hours, please contact the venue.
To find out more information about upcoming floor talks, please check the Event Calendar, and regularly check this page for updates.
Upcoming floor talks
There are no upcoming floor talks scheduled at this time.
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Recently held floor talks
| Sir Robert Philp Lecture Series |
| Date: |
Monday 17 November |
| Venue: |
Von Stieglitz Room, Citi Libraries Thuringowa |
| Time: |
7pm |
| Topic: |
The World's Great Age… The Golden Years: Queensland's Miners, Poets and Story-tellers |
| Presenter: |
Dr Cheryl Taylor |
| Blue Nursing Service |
| Date: |
Tuesday 21 October |
| Venue: |
Citi Libraries Flinders Mall |
| Time: |
12.30pm |
| Topic: |
Blue Care Townsville 50th Anniversary |
| More Info: |
Event Calendar item |
| Sir Robert Philp Lecture Series |
| Date: |
Monday 6 October |
| Venue: |
Von Stieglitz Room, Citi Libraries Thuringowa |
| Time: |
7pm |
| Topic: |
The White Man in the Tropics |
| Presenter: |
Dr Russell McGregor |
| Sir Robert Philp Lecture Series |
| Date: |
Monday 22 September |
| Venue: |
Von Stieglitz Room, Citi Libraries Thuringowa |
| Time: |
7pm |
| Topic: |
William Lennon (1849-1938): a North Queenslander of 'perpetual contradictions'? |
| Presenter: |
Dr Rodney Sullivan |
| Sir Robert Philp Lecture Series |
| Date: |
Monday 11 August |
| Venue: |
Von Stieglitz Room, Citi Libraries Thuringowa |
| Time: |
7pm |
| Topic: |
Ellis Rowan: Flower-Hunting in the Tropics |
| Presenter: |
Dr Judith McKay |
| Lecture on Portraiture |
| Date: |
Saturday 26 July |
| Venue: |
Perc Tucker Regional Gallery |
| Time: |
11am |
| RSVP: |
RSVP essential - please call 4727 9011 |
| Topic: |
Portraiture |
| Presenter: |
Elizabeth Cross - Melbourne based writer, critic, curator and artist |
| Picasso and his collection |
| Date: |
Monday 14 July |
| Venue: |
Perc Tucker Regional Gallery |
| Time: |
6pm |
| RSVP: |
RSVP essential - please call 4727 9011 |
| Topic: |
The range of work Picasso collected over his lifetime, including paintings, drawings, and prints by artists such as Matisse, Renoir, Cézanne, Rousseau, Miró, Modigliani and Braque, as well as an extraordinary selection of Oceanic and African works. |
| Presenter: |
David Burnett - Queensland Art Gallery Curator of International Art |
| Sir Robert Philp Lecture Series |
| Date: |
Monday 7 July |
| Venue: |
Von Stieglitz Room, Citi Libraries Thuringowa |
| Time: |
7pm |
| Topic: |
The History of North Queensland in Black and White: A Personal Retrospective |
| Presenter: |
Associate Professor Noel Loos |
| Sir Robert Philp Lecture Series |
| Date: |
Monday 9 June |
| Venue: |
Riverway Arts Centre |
| Time: |
7pm |
| Topic: |
Why is Robert Philp worth remembering? |
| Presenter: |
Professor Geoffrey Bolton |
| Transcript: |
Lecture notes  (626KB) |
| Weapons on the Wall with Ross Thomas |
| Date: |
Tuesday 22 April |
| Venue: |
CitiLibraries Knowledge Centre, Flinders Mall |
| Time: |
12.30pm |
| Author talk by Letizia De Rosa |
| Date: |
Friday 18 April |
| Venue: |
CitiLibraries Knowledge Centre, Flinders Mall |
| Time: |
10am - 11am |
| Website: |
www.sorrentinipublishing.com |
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