Back to Hastings
Hastings Club 155 MARINE PDE, HASTINGS, VIC, AustraliaPlease contact the organiser before attending this event in case it has been cancelled. We are planning a reunion of all those people who remember their time in Hastings or those people wishing to socialise with us and reminisce about life in Hastings prior to 1970. Snacks provided. Drinks at your cost. Please RSVP with
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Fishermans Bend: an urban renewal project unlike any other in Australia
Mary Kehoe Community Centre 224 Danks St, VIC, Albert Park, VIC, AustraliaPlease contact the organiser before attending this event in case it has been cancelled. Want to know more about what's going on with Fishermans Bend? U3A's Saturday seminar Fishermans Bend: an urban renewal project unlike any other in Australia is on 21 March from 2.30 to 4.00 pm at the Mary Kehoe Centre in Danks St.
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Gippsland Art Gallery: tour and talk
Gippsland Art Gallery 70 Foster St, Sale, VIC, AustraliaPlease contact the organiser before attending this event in case it has been cancelled. Enjoy a guided tour of the Gippsland Art Gallery led by Director, Simon Gregg, and hear about the learnings and successes of the 2018 redevelopment of the gallery. Presented by AMaGA AMaGA members free Non-members $10 Bookings: www.amagavic.org.au/events or call 03
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Designing a Travelling Exhibition
Bairnsdale Library 22 Service St,, Bairnsdale, VIC, AustraliaPlease contact the organiser before attending this event in case it has been cancelled. This AMaGA workshop, targeted at small museums and volunteers will look at exhibition development, design principles, installation and display techniques for exhibitions that are easily transportable and can be displayed in a range of venues. AMaGA members $35 Non-members $40 Bookings:
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Teasing women’s stories from the archives
Old Treasury Building 20 Spring St, East Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaIn this seminar, three historians share their experience of researching women’s lives, as biographical dictionaries strive to increase their representation of women. From a medieval countess to Victoria’s female criminals, the stories uncovered range widely in both time and place, pointing to the richness the archives can yield 'with a little more effort and research'.
Our Chinese Community
ECHUCA HISTORICAL SCOEITY MUSEUM 1 Dickson Street, Echuca, victoria, AustraliaPlease contact the organiser before attending this event in case it has been cancelled. Our Chinese Community Exhibition opens daily from 1st April 11am till 3pm at Echuca Historical Society Museum, 1 Dickson Street Echuca 3564 This exhibition tells the story of some of our earliest residents the Chinese. Find out why our first Chinese
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Heritage Festival & Antiques Sideshow, Geelong
Sacred Heart College Geelong Retreat Road, NEWTOWN, VIC, AustraliaAll are warmly invited to attend SHC’s inaugural Heritage Festival, featuring an Antiques Sideshow on Sunday 5 April 2020, 10.00am - 4.00pm. LEONARD JOEL – OBJECT VALUATIONS We are excited to have experts from Leonard Joel who will be available for valuations on the day. Leonard Joel, established 1919, is Australia’s largest multi-department auction house,
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53RD ANNUAL VINTAGE MACHINERY RALLY WARRACKNABEAL
Wheatlands Agricultural Machinery Museum 34 Henty Highway,, Warracknabeal, VIC, AustraliaPlease contact the organiser before attending this event as we suspect it has been cancelled. Working Vintage Tractors & Machinery Wheatlands Agricultural Machinery Museum is located on the Henty Highway Warracknabeal and houses the most extensive collection of vintage agricultural machinery, tractors, stationary engines and other such equipment in Australia. Over three days of the
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ZOOM History Bookclub: Truganini
RHSV, Gordon Moffatt Room 239 A'Beckett St, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaWe are thrilled that Professor Cassandra Pybus, author of our chosen book this month, Truganini, will be joining our book club for a discussion. The book club is now a ZOOM book club so we will be convening through video-conferencing. We can't pour you a glass of red but we can have a lively engaged conversation.
Launch of Mike Rosel’s ‘A Rat of Tobruk’
Shrine of Remembrance Birdwood Ave, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaTo mark the 80th anniversary of the Siege of Tobruk in 2021, Melbourne writer Mike Rosel has chosen many photographs from his father’s WWII albums, notably those from Tobruk – many not seen before.