Jack Lovelock: good myths and bad myths
An illustrated talk by Lovelock biographer James McNeish.
Thursday 13 July, Auditorium, 12.10pm

Guided tour of Come on, Jack! The Lovelock Olympic Story by curator David Colquhoun
Thursday 27 July, Gallery, 12.10pm
Saturday 9 September, Gallery, 2.00pm
Thursday 2 November, Gallery, 12.10pm

Olympism: more than just the Games
A presentation by Lyndsay Osborne, Olympic Programmes Manager, New Zealand Olympic Committee, on the philosophy at the heart of the Olympic movement - 'Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal'.
Thursday 7 September, Auditorium, 12.10pm

Lovelock
'The 1936 Olympics. In front of the Fuhrer and 120,000 frenzied spectators, Jack Lovelock ran a race that carried him beyond perfection to despair.' A showing of the short film Lovelock. Directed by David Robertson. Produced by Bruce Sheridan. With Crispin Balfour. NZ, 1991 (15 mins, 35mm, B&W, print courtesy NZFC) G. Followed by a talk about the film by Stuart Hoar, writer of the screenplay.
Thursday 21 September, Auditorium, 12.10pm

Olympia (Olympische Spiel 1936)
Rare screenings of Leni Riefenstahl's dazzling and infamous films of the Berlin Olympics. 'Olympia is an elegy on the youth of 1936: here they are in their flower, dedicated to the highest ideals of sportsmanship - these young men who were so soon to kill each other.' - Pauline Kael. 'Masterwork - or vicious propaganda for the master race? Riefenstahl's films haunt the liberal imagination . . . This record of the 1936 Berlin Olympics is another display of epic showmanship . . . The human body is eroticised in a paean to physical beauty.' - Time Out

• Part One: Festival of Nations (ca 118 mins)
• Part Two: Festival of Beauty (ca 107 mins)

Glorious Barbarians: winners and losers on the sports fields 1920s to 1940s
An illustrated talk by historian Charlotte Macdonald about the post-World War I sport and leisure revolution - the great figures and contests of the mid-20th century.
Thursday 26 October, Auditorium, 12.10pm

'To an athlete dying young': Jack Lovelock, the runner and the legend, with a footnote on his death
An illustrated talk by Roger Robinson, leading sports writer and historian, professor of English at Victoria University, and an international runner for 30 years. This talk will bring a fellow-runner's insight to Lovelock the runner and a scholar's to Lovelock the legend. It will also include comment on Lovelock's death in the New York subway, based on recent visits to the scene and his Brooklyn home.
Thursday 9 November, Auditorium, 12.10pm