Talks Club: Jackie Kennedy Onassis—Her Life & Her Jewels
Tue, 28 July
|Majorca Room, City Library
Two talks exploring the life, style, jewels & legacy of Jackie Kennedy Onassis.
Time & Location
28 July 2026, 10:30 am – 12:30 pm
Majorca Room, City Library, 253 Flinders Ln, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia
About the event
Elegant, influential and endlessly fascinating, Jacqueline Lee "Jackie" Kennedy Onassis remains one of the twentieth century’s most enduring cultural icons.
Join Adrian Dickens of Circa AD Jewels (personal jeweller and ArtsNational lecturer) and Kenneth Park (historian, art curator, ArtsNational lecturer and cultural ambassador) for two complementary talks exploring the extraordinary life, style and jewellery of Jackie Kennedy Onassis.
Adrian Dickens reveals a remarkable collection of jewels associated with the former First Lady, examining how jewellery helped shape one of history’s most recognisable public images.
Kenneth Park takes audiences through the life and times of Jackie herself—First Lady, fashion icon, cultural figure and private individual navigating fame, politics and reinvention.
Ideal for lovers of jewellery, history, fashion, design and twentieth-century culture.
10:30am–12:30pm, 28 July 2026