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Activities

'Sleepers, Wake' Revisited

Presenter(s): 
Barry Jones AC
Start: 
Wednesday 13 Mar 2019 - 8:00pm
Location: 
East Melbourne Library, 122 George Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Members free; non-members $5.00

Join us as Dr Barry Jones AC revisits for the 21st century his best-selling and widely influential book on technology and the future of work.

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Walking tour: Fitzroy Gardens and its Vanished Statues

Presenter(s): 
Monique Webber
Start: 
Wednesday 20 Feb 2019 - 3:00pm
Location: 
Conservatory, Fitzroy Gardens
Entry fee: 
Members free; non-members $5.00

Academic in art, architecture and design, Dr Monique Webber will take us on a walk through the Fitzroy Gardens.  She will explain exactly where some of the old statues stood and will iden

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AGM followed by 'Geoffrey Blainey's East Melbourne'

Presenter(s): 
Professor Geoffrey Blainey
Start: 
Wednesday 17 Oct 2018 - 8:00pm
Location: 
East Melbourne Library, 122 George Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Members free; non-members $5.00

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The Man Who Carried the Nation's Grief

Presenter(s): 
Carol Rosenhain
Start: 
Wednesday 15 Aug 2018 - 8:00pm
Location: 
East Melbourne Library, 122 George Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Members free; non-members $5.00

Carol Rosenhain’s moving book describes the extraordinary work of James Lean.

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Eucharist, Lunch and Recital of new Holy Trinity Organ

Presenter(s): 
Ian George
Rhys Boak
Start: 
Sunday 1 Jul 2018 - 10:00am
Location: 
Holy Trinity Church, Clarendon Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
None, although a donation for the work of the parish will always be welcome.

The Parish Council and the Parishioners of

HOLY TRINITY EAST MELBOURNE

invite

The Members of the East Melbourne Historical Society

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Cafe Balzac

Presenter(s): 
Kendrah Morgan
Start: 
Wednesday 20 Jun 2018 - 8:00pm
Location: 
East Melbourne Library, 122 George Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Members free; non-members $5.00

Kendrah Morgan, curator at Heide Muse

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Dr Adam Cairns

Presenter(s): 
Max Griffiths MBE
Start: 
Wednesday 18 Apr 2018 - 8:00pm
Location: 
East Melbourne Library, 122 George Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Members free; non-members $5.00

Max Griffiths will take us through the

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Bearbrass: discovering early Melbourne

Presenter(s): 
Meyer Eidelson
Start: 
Wednesday 21 Feb 2018 - 2:00pm
Location: 
East Melbourne Library, 122 George Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Members free; non-members $5.00
Meyer Eidelson will take us on a Virtual Tour of early Melbourne, once known as Bearbrass.  We will travel past early settlers’ homes, Batman Hill, gaols, pub, church, docks, woolstore, ware
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Holy Trinity Book Fair 2018

Start: 
Saturday 17 Feb 2018 - 10:00am
Location: 
Holy Trinity Anglican Church Cnr Clarendon and Hotham Streets East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Free

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The Midwife, the Bishop and an Assassin; three degrees of separation in nineteenth century East Melbourne

Presenter(s): 
Dr Madonna Grehan
Start: 
Wednesday 18 Oct 2017 - 8:00pm
Location: 
Clarendon Terrace, 210 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Members free; non-members $5.00

Peter Andrew Charles O’Farrell is but a dot in the history annals of East Melbourne. At some point in the mid-nineteenth century, he owned two plots of land on Powlett Street.

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