Activities
For King and Country: East Melbourne Volunteers and the Great War
This exhibition is timed to coincide with the anniversary of the departure from Victoria of the first troops to serve overseas. HMAT Orvieto, the convoy’s flagship, left Port Melbourne on 21 October 1914. Many East Melbourne residents were aboard it and other ships in the convoy. Our exhibition will tell some of their stories, and of others who enlisted later.
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Adapting to Climate Change in the City of Melbourne (after AGM)
Ian Shears, Manager, Urban Landscapes, City of Melbourne leads the City’s climate change adaptation program for urban landscapes.
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Ola Cohn, sculptor
Ola Cohn was the sculptor best known as the creator of the Fairies’ Tree in the Fitzroy Gardens but was more important as a pioneer of modernist sculpture in Australia. Her studio was in East
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Dames of East Melbourne: the design story
Our speaker, Harriet Edquist, is Professor of Architectural History in the School of Architecture and Design at RMIT, and Director of the RMIT Design Archives.
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East Melbourne's Nurses in the First World War
Janet Scarfe is an adjunct research associate at Monash University.
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Midsummer Murders - A walk
Join us on a walk (approx. 2.5km) featuring some of the darker apsects of East Melbourne's history, and afterwards have coffee and cake at GG, 150 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne.
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East Melbourne's First Residence: Bishopscourt
Our Annual General Meeting will start at 8.00 p.m. Following the AGM Dr.
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Janet, Lady Clarke and Women's Philanthropy in Australia
Janet Lady Clarke’s efforts set the benchmark for a culture of philanthropy which continues today. Her public contribution draws natural comparison with the late Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, born in the year of her death. Janet Clarke successfully mixed traditional approaches to philanthropy – supporting hospitals and charities, for example – with bold, public contributions to the education and political awareness of Melbourne women. Punch magazine suggested that “most of the big charitable works which had been carried through to a successful issue in Melbourne… had their origins in Janet Lady Clarke’s ballroom”, and the Leader pronounced that she "stood at the head and front of almost every philanthropic movement".
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Lowe Kong Meng of Valetta
Lowe Kong Meng was born in Penang and spoke English and French fluently. He arrived in Australia with the gold rush in 1853 and a year later had established an importing business in Little Bourke Street.
Lowe Kong Meng became a very successful businessman with interests in mining, trading, banking and insurance. His business activities extended from China, Singapore, Queensland, Victoria and New Zealand. He lived at Valetta House, on the corner of Clarendon and Albert Streets, East Melbourne.
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Menzies Foundation AGM
Remembered lessons from the time of Menzies
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