Week of Events
Traditional Trades Exposition
Join this annual knowledge-sharing forum that brings together practitioners to exchange experiences, successes, and challenges, while fostering discussions on conservation philosophy and processes. Set against the backdrop of Labassa Mansion, the Exposition will showcase displays and demonstrations by some of Victoria’s finest traditional trade practitioners and offers a unique opportunity to engage their knowledge and
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The Dominatrix Next Door
The Dominatrix Next Door
🎭 The Dominatrix Next Door - Mother by day, Dominatrix by night. When a cash-strapped single mother of two in suburban Melbourne has a fun idea to start a side hustle running workshops for hens’ parties, she has no idea it will lead her on a surreal adventure (or twenty) through the debaucherous underground world
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Author Talk by Boris Frankel – No Country for Idealists
Author Talk by Boris Frankel – No Country for Idealists
Hosted by the Glen Eira Historical Society. We invite members and friends of Glen Eira Historical Society to join us at a presentation from Professor Boris Frankel. Boris will tell us the dramatic story of how his family (St Kilda residents) became 'subversives' in Australia and the USSR during the Cold War. Boris' book No Country
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The forgotten class? Shopkeepers of nineteenth-century Melbourne
The forgotten class? Shopkeepers of nineteenth-century Melbourne
Join members of the Malvern Historical Society with Guest speaker, professional historian, Dr Fiona Gatt, who will talk about ‘The forgotten class? Shopkeepers of nineteenth-century Melbourne’. Dr Fiona Gatt will investigate and compare the shopkeepers who operated in three distinct representative suburbs of nineteenth-century Melbourne; genteel Malvern, inner urban North Melbourne and industrial Footscray. All
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HUME & HOVELL BICENTENARY 2024 COMMEMORATION
HUME & HOVELL BICENTENARY 2024 COMMEMORATION
You are invited to join the Stanley Community and attend the HUME & HOVELL BICENTENARY 2024 COMMEMORATION Friends of Stanley Athenaeum Present Bicentenary of Hume & Hovell ‘THEY PASSED THIS WAY’ Sunday 24 November 2024 at 10am Hume & Hovell Monument (Myrtleford - Stanley Road) Afterwards at the Stanley Athenaeum to see ‘They Passed This
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