Activities
The Art of Being Melbourne
In her Royal Historical Society of Victoria award-winning book The Art of Being Melbourne, Maree Coote creates a clever history of Melbourne as seen through artworks of Melbourne's urban landscape. Art meets History as she tracks the Melbourne zeitgeist through 20 decades of art from 1835 to today.
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The Men Who Went to War
In 2014, Major-General Mike O’Brien gave us a list of men with a connection to East Melbourne who had volunteered for the 1st World War.
As a result of enthusiastic volunteers, we now have an archive of around 600 war records. some of which we would like to share with you at our April meeting.
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Book launch. Heritage Matters by Jill Fenwick OAM
Heritage Matters written by EMHS former president and EMG life member Jill Fenwick OAM reveals how the EMG became active in the protection of heritage places, parks and streetscapes during its seventy-year history. It will be launched by Professor Graeme Davison, AO, FASSA, FAHA
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Women Artists over 400 Years
Local resident, Krystyna Campbell-Pretty, has donated several portraits to the NGV which demonstrate the long-overlooked talent of women artists. She has arranged a guided tour of some of these works for us.
Following the tour we will have Afternoon Tea as her guests, during which she will talk
about her work in philanthropy.
Numbers strictly limited
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Yarra Park State School: it's establishment and early days
Ian Hind has been researching and compiling a history of Yarra Park State School for over a year and has uncovered a mass of material.
He will tell us the whys and wherefores of the school's establishment and regale us with some stories of those who made it happen. Stories, too, of early students and what life was like for them at the school.
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John Glover and Me
Dr Sue Barker is a descendant of early colonial artist, John Glover. She is a local resident and well known to many of us.
She will take us through John Glover's life and work as seen through the prism of family connections.
It is sure to be an erudite and entertaining talk.
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The Victorian Artists' Society
Dr Graeme Williams OAM has been researching the Melbourne art scene since 1851 through the prism of the Victorian Artists’ Society, 430 Albert Street, East Melbourne. He will share with us his journey through this vibrant slice of Melbourne’s history.
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Frances Burke: textile designer
Robyn Oswald-Jacobs and Nanette Carter will speak to us about the life and work of Frances Burke (1904-94). Burke was the leading textile designer in Melbourne from the 1940s to the 1960s.
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Afternoon Tea at Bishopscourt
Enjoy tea and company in the glorious gardens of East Melbourne’s stateliest home.
Helen Botham, an expert on the garden and its history, will conduct a tour at 4.15 p.m.
Please RSVP by Monday 14 February for catering purposes
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Painting the town: Robert Russell - artist of early Melbourne
Following our AGM at 7.30 Fay Woodhouse, professional historian and editor of the book, Robert Russell: Artist of Early Melbourne will take us through the life and work of the man who laid the foundations of our city but about whom relatively little is known.
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