STATUES: PUTTING THEM UP, AND PULLING ‘EM DOWN

RHSV, Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

There may be a lull in the statue wars now, but that is because the front has broadened – certainly overseas. This oration shows how statues rose with the nineteenth century, and spread with the growth of empires, not least to Australia. The nature of traditional Australian statuary is considered, along with the questions it implicitly raises. (Comparisons are made with America.)  Statues, it seems, have become lightning conductors for unresolved tensions, the public culture which once sustained them being increasingly subject to segmentation and fracture.  

Free

Waltzing Matilda: Australia’s Accidental Anthem

Altona Library 123 Queen St, Altona, VIC, Australia

The song that started as an accidental collaboration in outback Queensland in 1895 caused the death of a seven-year relationship and went on to inspire a nation during WWII. Author
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Talk: The history of Kodak in Coburg 1961-2004

Coburg Library Corner Waterfield and Louisa Streets, Coburg, Victoria, Australia

At Coburg Historical Society May monthly meeting, Fiona Kinsey, Senior curator of the images and Image history including the Kodak Collection at Museums Victoria will talk on the subject of
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Open Day at La Trobe’s Cottge

La Trobe's Cottage cnr Birdwood Avenue and Dallas Brooks Drive, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Spend your afternoon in the beautiful Domain, with a guided tour of the home of our first governor Charles Joseph La Trobe and his family. You will be able to
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$5

FRIENDS OF LA TROBE’S COTTAGE ANNUAL LECTURE

RHSV, Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

C J La Trobe: Jolimont plantsman Guest Speaker: Helen Botham Garden history researcher, author of La Trobe’s Jolimont: a walk round my garden, and coordinator La Trobe’s Cottage management team
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Cataloguing Clinic via Zoom with Jillian Hiscock

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At the 27 May Clinic, Jillian will revisit the process of book cataloguing, both published and unpublished material. What is the information that should be captured and what is the
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Free