RMIT Culture

RMIT Culture

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RMIT Culture

Three young women sit in front of a screen, one points at the screen

RMIT Culture

A woman lays on her side on cushions inside a wooden circle surrounded by leaves

RMIT Culture

A female and a male dancer in brightly coloured clothing dance on the floor

RMIT Culture

View of corner in an exhibition called Radical Utopia featuring graphic posters and a mannequin in a brightly coloured suit

RMIT Culture

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RMIT Culture

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RMIT Culture connects the University’s cultural spaces and collections with the community, fostering creative engagement and supporting learning and research through programs, exhibitions, events and opportunities.

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Auto-Photo: A Life in Portraits

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 05 Jun 2025 - 16 Aug 2025

Auto-Photo: A Life in Portraits introduces us to Alan Adler (1932 – 2024), who while little known, was the oldest and longest serving photobooth technician in the world.

Two black and white photobooth photos of two young women.

Floor Talk with Mark Holsworth, Julie Mac and Carrie Kennedy, Ben Morieson and Osker Morieson

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 28 Jun 2025

Join the artists and exhibitors in conversation with Auto-Photo curator Catlin Langford.

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Network Anarchy and Unstable Diffusions

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 03 Jul 2025
Icon / Small / Location Created with Sketch. Melbourne City

Featuring performances from JODI (NL, BE), Eryk Salvaggio (USA) and Debris Facility Pty Ltd (AU)

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NAIDOC Week Screening - Wash My Soul in the River’s Flow

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 08 Jul 2025

NAIDOC Week 2025 - The Next Generation: Strength, Vision, Legacy

Black and white profile of a woman in a headband and earrings against a green and yellow painted background.

Photobooth Self-Portraits Workshop (Ages 5-12)

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 10 Jul 2025

Join us for a photobooth self-portrait workshop inspired by Auto-Photo: A Life in Portraits (ages 5-12).

Faded black and white photo of woman wearing round earrings against a painted bright yellow background.

Photobooth Self-Portraits Workshop (Ages 13 – 17)

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 11 Jul 2025

Join us for a photobooth self-portrait workshop inspired by Auto-Photo: A Life in Portraits (ages 13-17).

Exhibitions

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Auto-Photo: A Life in Portraits

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 05 Jun 2025 - 16 Aug 2025

Auto-Photo: A Life in Portraits introduces us to Alan Adler (1932 – 2024), who while little known, was the oldest and longest serving photobooth technician in the world.

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tên tôi (my name): On-Site with Nguyễn Ngọc Thảo

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 15 Jul 2025 - 08 Aug 2025

Names can connect us and embody our stories. tên tôi (my name) is a community-driven project that embraces and celebrates ethnic names through bead-making workshops and participatory installations.

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The Mourning After

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 24 Jul 2025 - 20 Sep 2025

The Mourning After seeks to explore how we can connect, enhance kinship and create hope in response to the overwhelming sense of permacrisis we face in our daily lives. It seeks to uncover and make sense of different mourning rituals and practices, to form a constellation of grieving moments.

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BAINZ JEWLZ

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 18 Sep 2025 - 22 Nov 2025

BAINZ JEWLZ is a major retrospective exhibition survey of the eminent career of Australian artist-jeweller Robert Baines.

Talks

Two black and white photobooth photos of two young women.

Floor Talk with Mark Holsworth, Julie Mac and Carrie Kennedy, Ben Morieson and Osker Morieson

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 28 Jun 2025

Join the artists and exhibitors in conversation with Auto-Photo curator Catlin Langford.

Vintage illustrated poster about domestic violence by Carol Wilson

Melbourne Rare Books Week 2025: Carole Wilson's Archive of Political Posters

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 29 Jul 2025

Join us during Melbourne Rare Book Week 2025 for a collection viewing of Carole Wilson's collection of political posters.

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Floor Talk with Kyle Archie Knight, Ruth O’Leary and Katherine Griffiths

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 14 Aug 2025

Join exhibiting artists in conversation with Auto-Photo curator Catlin Langford.

Screenings

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NAIDOC Week Screening - Wash My Soul in the River’s Flow

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 08 Jul 2025

NAIDOC Week 2025 - The Next Generation: Strength, Vision, Legacy

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White Rock: Ocean Research Climate Action (ORCA) Launch

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 17 Jul 2025
Icon / Small / Location Created with Sketch. Melbourne City

Join us for the launch of Ocean Research Climate Action (ORCA)—a bold new network led by RMIT’s Professor Wendy Steele, Professor Kit Wise, Dr Rebecca Olive, and Dr Fiona Hillary—reimagining our relationship with the ocean to drive climate action.

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The Best Films You’ve Never Seen: La Dolce Vita (1960) by Federico Fellini

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 22 Jul 2025

Escape Melbourne’s winter into the glamourous excesses of 1960s Rome with Federico Fellini’s masterpiece La Dolce Vita.

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Amélie (2001) at The Capitol

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 30 Jul 2025

Celebrating the photobooth as a popular character in cinema, RMIT Culture presents beloved French film Amélie (2001) as part of the RMIT Gallery’s exhibition Auto-Photo: A Life in Portraits.

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Multicultural Film Festival x RMIT Screening

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 25 Sep 2025

RMIT is proud to partner with the Victorian Multicultural Commission for the 2025 Multicultural Film Festival – an annual celebration of diversity, storytelling and community.

Performances

Workshops

Black and white profile of a woman in a headband and earrings against a green and yellow painted background.

Photobooth Self-Portraits Workshop (Ages 5-12)

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 10 Jul 2025

Join us for a photobooth self-portrait workshop inspired by Auto-Photo: A Life in Portraits (ages 5-12).

Faded black and white photo of woman wearing round earrings against a painted bright yellow background.

Photobooth Self-Portraits Workshop (Ages 13 – 17)

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 11 Jul 2025

Join us for a photobooth self-portrait workshop inspired by Auto-Photo: A Life in Portraits (ages 13-17).

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Working with Photobooths: A Metro Auto Photo Workshop

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 23 Jul 2025

Join Christopher Sutherland and Jessie Norman of Metro Auto Photo as they discuss their wider practice restoring and running photobooths across Melbourne, and will demonstrate how they work with these ageing, and at times, tricky machines.

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Watch to learn more about RMIT Culture's programs, exhibitions, events and opportunities.

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Galleries

Discover our gallery spaces, exhibitions and public programs.

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Collections

Explore our cultural collections, including art, design and screen research.

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Opportunities

Learn about our opportunities, from grants to residencies and more.

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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.

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