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What's on this week

School holiday chess for kids
Photo of a giant chess set on the forecourt of the library
  • Thursday 17 April 2014, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
  • Library forecourt
Outside-in Cinema: Rome on Film
Audience in canvas deckchairs are absorbed in a film at Experimedia, State Library of Victoriato
  • Thursday 17 April 2014, 6:00pm
  • Village Roadshow Theatrette
Make a book
Children drawing with crayons ©Andrew Lloyd
  • Thursday 17 April 2014, 10:30am - 12:00pm
  • Meet in front foyer