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Gotcha! Concrete Prints from the McEwans Celebrity Pavement

April 17 @ 9:00 am - August 16 @ 5:00 pm
City Gallery, 110 Swanston Street
Melbourne, VIC 3000 Australia
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Free

Who remembers the McEwans celebrity pavement?
Between 1972 and 1994, scores of celebrities had their hand- and footprints immortalised in cement at the entrance of the McEwans hardware store in Bourke Street. Shopping for a hammer or a hair-dryer, you’d step in the prints of actors, musicians, sportspeople, writers, dancers, politicians, an astronaut, a racehorse – even an operatic dog.
Curated by Robyn Annear, 'Gotcha!' presents 40 of the surviving prints from the McEwans pavement, together with stories of the celebrities who made them and newspaper images that capture the mood of the times.

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9:00 am

Historical Society Network Leaders: Victoria-wide Conference and Networking Day, 2024

July 26 @ 9:00 am - 3:15 pm
RHSV Gallery Downstairs, 239 A'Beckett St
Melbourne, Victoria 3000 Australia
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Free – $20

The RHSV wants to bring together the leaders of the many networks of historical societies which exist across Victoria. This event will not be Zoomed as a key aim is for leaders to meet with peers from across Victoria and then to share their findings with their member societies. The conference is free-of-charge to each historical society network and 1-2 others from that network. And there is travel and accommodation assistance for those travelling long distances.

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1:00 pm

Rare Book Week: Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute

July 26 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Ballaarat Mechanics Institute, 117-119 Sturt St
Ballarat Central, VIC 3350 Australia
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An introduction to the Collection Speaker: Ellen Becker Established in central Ballarat in 1859, the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute’s Collection is of historical significance as the largest and most intact repository of material relating to Mechanics’ Institutes in Victoria, with its rare and valuable items demonstrating the tastes and interests of the inhabitants of a major
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