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Activities

AGM and Mystery Photographs: an unveiling

Presenter(s): 
Fiona Campbell
Start: 
Wednesday 18 Oct 2023 - 7:30pm
Location: 
East Melbourne Library, 122 George Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Members free; non-members $5.00

AGM followed by a talk presented by Fiona Campbell

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Dom Bonadio: A Life

Presenter(s): 
Dominic Bonadio
Start: 
Monday 21 Aug 2023 - 7:30pm
Location: 
East Melbourne Library, 122 George Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Members free; non-members $5.00

Dominic Bonadio, who most of us know as Dom from Il Duca restaurant, as a lockdown project, got to work writing his family story. Dom will bring this story to life for us in what is sure to be a talk both historically interesting and entertaining. As he puts it:

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The Art of Being Melbourne

Presenter(s): 
Maree Coote
Start: 
Wednesday 21 Jun 2023 - 7:30pm
Location: 
East Melbourne Library, 122 George Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Members free; non-members $5.00

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

Presenter(s): 
Major-General Mike O'Brien
Start: 
Wednesday 19 Apr 2023 - 7:30pm
Location: 
East Melbourne Library, 122 George Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Members free; non-members $5.00

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

Presenter(s): 
Professor Graeme Davison, AO, FASSA, FAHA
Start: 
Monday 27 Feb 2023 - 5:30pm
Location: 
Porticl Room, Town Hall, Swanston Street, Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Free

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

Presenter(s): 
Krystyna Campbell-Pretty
Start: 
Wednesday 15 Feb 2023 - 2:00pm
Location: 
National Gallery of Victoria, St Kilda Road, Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Members free; non-members $5.00

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

Presenter(s): 
Ian Hind
Start: 
Wednesday 19 Oct 2022 - 7:30pm
Location: 
East Melbourne Library, 122 George Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Members free; non-members $5.00

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

Presenter(s): 
Dr Sue Barker
Start: 
Wednesday 17 Aug 2022 - 7:30pm
Location: 
East Melbourne Library, 122 George Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Members free; non-members $5.00

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

Presenter(s): 
Dr Graeme Williams OAM
Start: 
Wednesday 15 Jun 2022 - 7:30pm
Location: 
East Melbourne Library, 122 George Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Members free; non-members $5.00

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

Presenter(s): 
Robyn Oswald-Jacobs
Nanette Carter
Start: 
Wednesday 20 Apr 2022 - 7:30pm
Location: 
East Melbourne Library, 122 George Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Members free; non-members $5.00

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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