State Library NSW

Free, but bookings are essential: https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/events/home-charmian-clift

In 1960s Australia, Charmian Clift invited readers into her home by way of her weekly newspaper column. Her many readers in turn often said that when they read Clift’s essays, they felt as if the writer was having a chat with them in their own home. Nadia Wheatley will present the author’s life and writing through a series of picture-windows into five places where Clift made her home. There will be a display of photographs of Clift from the SLNSW collection, with additional photographs by  Andrew Jakubowicz, who in April 1969 took a series of informal family photographs at the Clift-Johnston home, at the invitation of his university friend Martin Johnston.