Australian Heritage Grants 2018-19
The Australian Heritage Grants Program aims to:
- improve conservation, preservation and access to National Heritage Listed places, and/or
- improve community engagement and improve awareness of the values the places were listed for.
The first grants round is open from 20 November 2018 to 19 December 2018. Applications are to be submitted through business.gov.au and GrantConnect.
What will the Program fund?
The Australian Heritage Grants Program provides funding for projects that do one or more of the following:
- maintain, protect and conserve the National Heritage values of one or more listed places
- improve access to one or more listed places
- improve engagement with, and awareness of, the values for which one or more listed places was listed.
Program documentation
The application guidelines, application form, and grant agreement documents are available at the Australian Heritage Grants 2018-19 Grant Opportunity.
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Australian Heritage Festival 2019 - registrations open
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The theme this year is Connecting People, Places and the Past.
Events
across Australia will be held at historic buildings, landmarks,
shipwrecks and sacred sites. The festival will bring together
communities from all walks of life to recognise and celebrate heritage
and culture through ceremony, song and dance, performance art, art in
various media and artefacts, talks on books and stories, and guided
tours of towns, places and spaces.
The
Australian Heritage Festival will bring to life all chapters of
Australian culture and history, telling the stories of diverse and
distinctive experiences that make up our communities.
Brought to you by the National Trust of Australia and the Australian Government
The
National Trust of Australia is proud to be the national convenors and
coordinators of the Australian Heritage Festival working in partnership
and with the generous funding of the Australian Government. In 2018, the Australian Heritage Festival:
- Provided Australians with a selection of 1,253 events celebrating cultural, natural and built heritage nationally.
- Attracted 441,000 visitors to events across the nation.
- Digitally engaged 80,958 people with stories about heritage and culture over four weeks.
We
look forward to welcoming Australians and international visitors to
another year of the Australian Heritage Festival and the wonderful range
of exhibitions, walking tours, films, expert talks, workshops, food
fairs, guided tours of historical sites, ceremonies, demonstrations,
special dinners and lunches this program has to offer.
Let us connect you to People, Places and the Past.
For further information and to register visit https://www.nationaltrust.org.au/ahf/
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FAHS Constituents Managers' meeting
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FAHS Constituents Managers' meeting, held at History Trust of South Australia, 23/11/2018
Due to unavailability of some state managers and cancelled flights, we
did not have the full complement of national representatives at the
meeting but we did not let that get our spirits down.
We started with a rundown from Catherine Manning (Curator of Digital
Engagement) about all things digital in HTSA’s Digital Hub. The
space is used by Catherine and her volunteers to scan and photograph, as
well as for image editing, web content creation, and social media.
Catherine says that the success of her volunteer program can be
attributed to the thorough procedure documents she has created and the
time spent inducting new volunteers. She also took us for a tour through
the HTSA’s online presence, including SA History Hub, Adelaidia, and South Australian History Network.
Rosemary (RHSV) and Ilona (RHSQ) brought us up-to-date with news out of
Victoria and Queensland respectively. The FAHS draft website was
showcased next, which is set to go live in early 2019. There have been
conversations around this website and how it can best support the
affiliates for months now, and it was great to be able to show the
nearly-finished product.
In the afternoon, curator Nikki Sullivan gave us a tour of the Migration
Museum. This thoroughly impressive institution has some fantastic
themes and interactives. Broadening the Museum’s curatorial interest to
align with the way Australia has moved past multiculturalism to
‘super-diversity’ has set them up for success. Modern migration is
explored via themed storytelling, which creates an engaging learning
environment.
The day ended with discussions about joint projects to start next year,
now that the website is nearly ready to launch. Watch this space for
exciting updates. Thanks to Amanda and Catherine and the rest of the
History Trust of South Australia for their hospitality on the day, and
for arranging the tour.
Sophie Shilling, FAHS Outreach Officer
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Tasmania - Marita Bardenhagen Memorial Award
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Book cover
L to R: Dianne Snowden, Maureen Martin Ferris, Ross
Latham
The Glamorgan Spring Bay Historical Society (Tas.) has been awarded the
2018 Marita Bardenhagen Memorial Award for their publication Houses and Estates of Old Glamorgan.
Marita Bardenhagen was a respected historian and advocate for the
importance and value of local history. The award has been established to
encourage the publication of local history research in Tasmania. For
more information on the publication and the work of the Historical
Society, visit its website.
The photo shows Society Vice President and one of the authors Maureen
Martin Ferris receiving the Award from Dianne Snowden (historian/author
& former head of Heritage Tasmania) and Ross Latham (TAHO
Archivist).
Congratulations to the authors, Maureen Martin Ferris, Malcolm Ward and
Tully Brookes & Photographer Marion Harrison. Of course there was a
great team of GSBHS contributors behind them which made the publication
possible, Design and Layout by Diane Bricknell, Editor Lou Coghill,
Financial management and printing liaison–Noel Stanley, and the mighty
team of proof readers and spell checkers, too numerous to name.
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Putting it out there: Melbourne in the 1970s
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RHSV Collection: PH-020695
This photo was taken around 1970 just prior to the city loop being
built. The photographer, Horrie Lee Archer, is standing in LaTrobe St
west of its intersection with Elizabeth St.
Putting it out there: Melbourne in the 1970s,
an exhibition curated by Zoe Henderson at the Royal Historical Society
of Victoria, sets out to capture some of the many faces and moods of
Melbourne in the 1970s.
Where: Royal Historical Society of Victoria
239 A’Beckett Street, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000
Phone: 03 9326 9288
When: Until 14 January 2019
M - F 9a - 5p
Read more: http://cbdnews.com.au/livin-in-the-70s/
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Street photography - Museum of Sydney
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During the mid-20th century,
commercial street photographers were a familiar sight on
Sydney’s streets, capturing everyday people as they strode by or
stopped to pose.
Taken
against the vibrant background of the city streets, these photographs
captured candid moments in the lives of millions of people, from
uniformed servicemen and women to postwar
migrants exploring their new city and young couples out for a
day in town.
Following a hugely successful public call-out, the exhibition draws together photos from hundreds of private family albums.
This extraordinary, largely unseen record of Sydney and its people is
displayed alongside contemporary street photography by photomedia artist Anne Zahalka, capturing people on the streets of Sydney today.
Where: Museum of Sydney
When: 8 December 2018 - 21 July 2019
Read more
https://sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/exhibitions/street-photography
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State Library of Queensland - The Corley Explorer
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Home: a suburban obsession
Image from the Frank and Eunice Corley House Photographs collection, Acc.6169 John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland.
For those unable to view this exhibition in person at the State Library of Queensland, the collection can also be viewed online with the Corley Explorer
To launch the Corley Explorer, click here: explorer.corley.slq.gov.au
Home: a suburban obsession is about the allure
of home and the stories found within, inspired by one of the largest
digitised photographic collections of Queensland houses. It explores the
social and emotional foundations of our houses through ephemera and
artistic responses capturing the places we call home.
During
the 1960s and 70s, Frank and Eunice roamed the suburbs photographing
houses in South-East Queensland. Fifty years on, the legacy of their
efforts is an extensive collection of images that indiscriminately
capture Queensland housing stock – from the architectural to the
ramshackle.
Through
an immersive virtual reality streetscape, art installations, incredible
untold stories and rarely-seen photographs, peer through the Corleys’
viewfinder to see just a glimpse of their extraordinary obsession.
- reflect on artwork created by celebrated Australian multidisciplinary artist Ian Strange
- contemplate the installation by Queensland artist/designer Jennifer Marchant
- immerse yourself in a Brisbane virtual reality streetscape by [f]FLAT
- hear personal stories of the homes and their owners
- view rarely-seen original photographs and ephemera about Queensland homes
- listen to a soundscape and imagine what the suburbs may have sounded like
The collection can also be viewed online with the Corley Explorer
To launch the Corley Explorer, click here: explorer.corley.slq.gov.au
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The FAHS e-Bulletin, No. 185,
11th December 2018
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