Traditional stonemason discusses his craft Museums of History NSW 2016-10-21 | Stonemason James Gardner talks through his craft during an event at the Hyde Park Barracks Museum in 2011.
Cast in cast out Museums of History NSW 2024-09-25 | Artist Dennis Golding talks about the relationship between his work Cast in cast out and the Aboriginal community in ‘The Block’, where he grew up, in the inner-Sydney suburb of Redfern.
Citrus in the Wentworth’s kitchen garden Museums of History NSW 2024-07-29 | Join the Museums of History NSW Horticulture team as they plant new citrus trees in the kitchen garden at Vaucluse House. The chosen trees replicate some of the citrus species once grown in the Wentworth family estate’s orchards in the mid-1850s.
What is Significance 2.0 and why use it? Museums of History NSW 2024-07-03 | In this video Curator Anna Cossu briefly outlines what ‘Significance’ is and the benefits of using the significance assessment process.
How to do a significance assessment Museums of History NSW 2024-07-03 | Significance 2.0 encourages us to not just be curious about our collections but to understand, assess and communicate what makes them important for our communities now and into the future. In this video Curator Anna Cossu steps through the significance assessment process.
Education live stream: The art of place Museums of History NSW 2024-05-30 | Reconciliation Week will see our first free Live Event for 2024 and will be streaming from the Museum of Sydney, which exists on the site of First Government House, on Gadigal land.During this interactive and thought-provoking session your students will consider how we can understand and connect to place through art and how a place can mean different things, for different people.We will investigate the museum’s place-based art and explore the current exhibition Coomaditchie: The Art of Place, created by the Coomaditchie United Aboriginal Corporation, with artworks that reflect life in and around the Coomaditchie Lagoon, near Wollongong.Draw on historic records from the NSW State Archives, contemporary First Nations perspectives and archaeology to address the significance and the contested nature of the site.Learn about a range of different techniques, which can be used to create art.Finish the session with a creative arts activity – providing a framework to students so they can develop an artwork about a place and what it means to them.https://mhnsw.au/learning/the-art-of-place/
Public program: Creating imagined interiors Museums of History NSW 2024-05-23 | Join award winning production designer Melinda Doring; Craig McPherson, Senior Curator at the National Trust of Australia (NSW); and Joanna Nicholas from Museums of History NSW as they discuss different approaches to creating interiors for house museums and film and television productions.Whether working on film and TV productions or historic houses and museums, what are the narratives that drive these interior designs and inspire the designers themselves? Melinda has sought inspiration from the collection of the Caroline Simpson Library when designing TV productions, including the recent Amazon Prime Video series The lost flowers of Alice Hart. Craig worked with the library in the reinterpretation of Everglades House, Leura, while Joanna used the library’s collection in the revitalisation of the drawing room at Vaucluse House.The evening included a viewing of creative sources in the Caroline Simpson Library collection used for each project as well as presentations from the three speakers. Q&A will be led by Research Librarian Dr Matthew Stephens.
Coomaditchie: The art of place - Art mapping Museums of History NSW 2024-04-30 | During the 2022 research phase of curating ‘Coomaditchie: The Art of Place’, Tess Allas and assistant curator, Alinta Maguire, uncovered a map of the Coomaditchie area showing Port Kembla Beach, Coomaditchie Lagoon and the surrounding areas. The original map – dated 1929 and held in the New South Wales Archives Collection was re-interpreted as a wall painting to inform visitors to the Museum of Sydney of some of the history of the landscape and claiming of land in and around the settlement of today’s Coomaditchie. The artists, Mignon Steele and Alinta Maguire were commissioned to create this wall map which featured in both the 2023 Wollongong Art Gallery and the 2024 Museum of Sydney versions of the exhibition. https://mhnsw.au/whats-on/exhibitions/coomaditchie-the-art-of-place/
Coomaditchie: The art of place - Family history of activism Museums of History NSW 2024-04-24 | The historical documents showcased in the exhibition, Coomaditchie: The Art of Place, are from the NSW State Archives collection and were unearthed by First Nations curator, Tess Allas. They show the letters written by Allas’s grandfather Jack Tattersall to various state government Lands Ministers from the mid-1950s to the early 1960s demanding land and housing for the people of Coomaditchie (near Port Kembla). This campaign was eventually successful, but Jack never lived long enough to see the fruits of his labour. The artists of Coomaditchie now all live at the settlement which Jack and his contemporaries fought for, and they did so with grace, intellectualism, and elegance. These documents were originally held by the NSW Department of Lands and have now been transferred to the Archives for ease of access for all of Jack’s descendants and future researchers.
Sonic Spaces at Hyde Park Barracks Museums of History NSW 2024-04-11 | Sonic Spaces is an intimate series of music performances in one of the city’s most unique spaces, the hammock room at the UNESCO World Heritage–listed Hyde Park Barracks. Originally housing convicts, the hammock room is steeped in history and personal stories. Visitors can immerse in an audiovisual experience with atmospheric lighting, projected imagery and surround sound. From the comfort of a hammock, soak up the sounds of some of Sydney’s most interesting and diverse artists exploring a range of genres.Find out more:mhnsw.au/whats-on/events/sonic-spaces-2024/
Caroline Simpson Library display: Rose de Freycinet Museums of History NSW 2024-04-05 | Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Caroline Simpson Library2024 marks the 20th anniversary of the Caroline Simpson Library.The Caroline Simpson Library began as the Lyndhurst Conservation Resource Centre in 1984. It was renamed in 2004 in recognition of the extraordinary cultural gift donated by the children of Caroline Simpson OAM (1930–2003) to the Historic Houses Trust of NSW (now Museums of History NSW). The gift included furniture, artworks, books and decorative arts from their mother’s collection, along with an endowment for the library. A keen collector, Caroline had a passion for colonial history and heritage and an eye for rare and significant material. This display draws from Caroline’s collection of objects related to the incredible voyage of Rose de Freycinet (1794–1832) aboard the French scientific vessel Uranie in 1817–20. It offers just a glimpse of the breadth and importance of the objects acquired by one of Australia’s great collectors.On display until 12 July 2024https://mhnsw.au/whats-on/exhibitions/celebrating-the-20th-anniversary-of-the-caroline-simpson-library/
Vaucluse House Kitchen Garden Rejuvenation Project Museums of History NSW 2024-04-03 | This unique and important site has been revitalised for current and future generations to access, learn from and appreciate the history of NSW.
Suzanne Falkiner talk: The Extraordinary Story of Rose de Freycinet Museums of History NSW 2024-03-25 | Join us for a conversation with Suzanne Falkiner, author of a biography of Rose de Freycinet, the first woman to write an account of a global circumnavigation.Suzanne will discuss her research into the incredible story of the young Frenchwoman who was smuggled aboard her husband's ship, the Uranie, in 1817, becoming the only woman on the three-year scientific voyage around the world.Rose's presence on the voyage was deliberately omitted from official narratives of the journey, and little was known about her life until recently. This talk will focus on a series of original images that demonstrate the process of removing Rose from the final publications.The conversation will be hosted by Mel Flyte, Collection Discovery Assistant at the Caroline Simpson Library.About Suzanne FalkinerSuzanne Falkiner is a Sydney writer. After growing up on a sheep station in central-western NSW, she spent several years travelling in Asia, Europe and South America, and living in Paris, Umbria and New York. Suzanne is the author of 13 books, including Mick: a life of Randolph Stow, which was short-listed for several biography awards. It was while researching this last book that she discovered the story of Rose de Freycinet, as she walked on a remote beach at Shark Bay in Western Australia. Suzanne has always had a fondness for beachcombing in distant places, for which biographical research provides a wonderful excuse.
Phyllis Shillito and her colour curriculum 1945–79 Museums of History NSW 2024-03-21 | This event was presented jointly by Museums of History NSW and the Colour Society of Australia.This hybrid in-person and online event focused on the colour curriculum of pioneering Sydney-based colour designer and educator Phyllis Shillito (1895–1980) of the 1940s to the 1970s.In-person attendees examined the impressive collection of student exercises and notes created by designer Eva Fay when she was a student at the Shillito Design School in Sydney in the late 1970s, which were recently donated to the Caroline Simpson Library (CSL), as well as other Shillito portfolios held in the CSL and private collections.In addition, three presentations established the context of Shillito’s teaching of colour. Artist and educator Jocelyn Maughan shared her recollections of Shillito as a teacher in the late 1950s and gave a critical assessment of Shillito’s approach to colour. Design historian Dr Catriona Quinn examines the broader context of Shillito’s impact on technical education and its relationship to the dynamic development of the Australian interior design profession. And Dr David Briggs discusses his research, conducted jointly with Eva Fay, into the sources of Shillito’s colour curriculum, based on the portfolios and notes on display.
Storage on a shoestring: housing collection items Museums of History NSW 2024-03-18 | Housing small collection items in boxes, folders or rolls can improve the organisation, capacity and effectiveness of a collection store. In this video the Collections Care team from Museums of History NSW looks at archival-quality collection housing, what sort of materials are best suited to different types of housing and cost-effective ways to adapt existing housing.
Storage on a shoestring: getting started Museums of History NSW 2024-03-18 | Having a dedicated space to store your collections is an important aspect of collection care. In this video the Collections Care team from Museums of History NSW looks at the basics of setting up a collection store: how and where to locate the store, selecting storage furniture and some cost-effective ways to improve storage environments.
Storage on a shoestring: why collection storage matters Museums of History NSW 2024-03-18 | When space is limited, it can be difficult to see the value in a dedicated collection store. But it is important! Join the Collections Care team from Museums of History NSW to find out why.
Lessons from the Past - Stage 1 Education Program Museums of History NSW 2024-02-14 | Lessons from the Past - Stage 1 Education ProgramRouse Hill EstateBook now: MHNSW.au/learning integrating outcomes from History, PDHPE and Creative Arts, this program gives students the opportunity to learn first hand about what school life was like in the late 19th century.Students dress in period costume – straw hats, plus cotton pinafores for the girls and sailor collars or coats for the boys – and then meet their schoolmistress or master to begin the school day. After saluting the British flag, the class is marched into the 1880s schoolroom, where they will sing the national anthem God Save the Queen and prepare to start the first lesson.Throughout this immersive and engaging program, students take part in a recreation of late 19th-century classroom activities, led by highly-trained staff, who are also in costume and in character as 1880s school teachers. Hands-on activities include practising writing on slates, completing a science lesson, a sewing lesson and a drawing lesson as well as an outdoor physical education drill and (weather permitting) maypole dancing in the yard, enabling students to make vivid comparisons between schooling then and now.
Early to Rise - Stage 1 Education Program Museums of History NSW 2024-02-14 | Early to Rise - Stage 1 Education ProgramRouse Hill EstateBook now: MHNSW.au/learningThis Stage 1 History program gives students the opportunity to explore the working areas of the former farm, and investigate what life would have been like for children living there in the late 1800s.Students visit the old milking shed and explore the beautiful stables that the Rouse family built for their horses. They learn about the vital role of horses at the time, as an essential means of transport and for getting work done around the farm. They shift bags of chaff, polish saddles in the tack-room and hear what poet Banjo Patterson had to say about the Rouse ‘Crooked R’ brand.As chores would have been part of daily life for children living on the farm in the late 1800s, students have the chance to experience some of these for themselves; feeding the chooks, hanging out the washing and pumping water.
Teaching history in museums through sensory activities Museums of History NSW 2024-02-14 | The learning team at Museums of History NSW shows how sensory activities can be used to engage school students in the stories and histories in museum collections and sites.
Teaching history in museums through roleplay Museums of History NSW 2024-02-14 | The learning team at Museums of History NSW shows how roleplay can be used to engage school students in the stories and histories in museum collections and sites.
Teaching history in museums through objects Museums of History NSW 2024-02-14 | The learning team at Museums of History NSW shows how museum objects can be used to engage school students in the stories and histories in museum collections and sites.
Stage 3 school excursion at Museum of Sydney: Garuwanga Gurad (stories that belong to Country) Museums of History NSW 2023-12-15 | During this Stage 3 school excursion at Museum of Sydney, on the site of first Government House, students have a unique opportunity to explore links between Indigenous and European histories, cultures and perspectives in the expanding Sydney colony of the 1800s. Students will explore the themes of resilience, survival and resistance in the colony as they apply to both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people.Find out more: https://mhnsw.au/learning/garuwanga-gurad-stories-belong-country/(updated Dec 2023)
First Nations Speaker Series: Nareen Young Museums of History NSW 2023-12-04 | Nareen Young's keynote: Gari Yala – Indigenous-lead employment research. Why it’s crucial.Nareen is Associate Dean (Indigenous Leadership and Engagement) at the University of Technology, Business School, Sydney. She also leads Jumbunna Indigenous Education and Research Institute's Indigenous People and Work Research and Practice Hub which focuses on robust research and analysis, policy, practice, people and law reform. The Hub leads the National Indigenous employment sector and convenes the First Nations Employment Alliance.Nareen Young bio:Nareen is one of Australia's leading and most respected workplace Diversity practitioners, thinkers and influencers, lead and managed two Diversity peak bodies (Diversity Council Australia and NSW Working Women's Centre), with enormous impact and success, for nearly 15 years, and was then Director and Employment Lead at a large Indigenous consulting firm for three years.She is influenced by both her Indigenous and culturally diverse heritages in this work and has received numerous awards and acknowledgements, including the inaugural Westpac 100 Women of Influence honour for Diversity, has commentated widely, presented both Nationally and internationally, and published.Nareen has significant governance experience, spent a term as Director, Indigenous Business Australia and currently sits on the boards of BlakDance, Per Capita and Evolve Housing. She also sits on the Indigenous advisory bodies of National Australia Bank, Insurance Australia Group and Kindergarten Union, and in 2022 was appointed to the NSW Premier’s Women’s Economic Participation Straegy’s Expert Advisory Panel. She also reported very successfully to boards as an NFP CEO for nearly 15 years.Nareen identifies diversity trends in the unique Australian context and is a significant collaborator in the diversity and employment sectors by bringing together people and organisations for the common good. She achieves practical, measurable outcomes utilising her ethical leadership style and, working with others, her thinking and concepts have had significant influence on employment diversity policy and practice. She is a committed, tenacious and active self-determinationist and leads in developing understanding in the employment sector as to its importance, and has worked at the intersection of the employment and human rights jurisdictions for many years.
First Nations Speaker Series: Aboriginal Languages Trust - Live from the Museum of Sydney Museums of History NSW 2023-11-07 | Aboriginal Languages Trust - NSW Aboriginal Languages Week Languages Alive, Culture ThrivesJoin the celebration of the very first NSW Aboriginal Languages Week 2023. This panel features NSW Aboriginal Languages Week Ambassadors, rapper BARKAA (Chloe Quayle) and comedian Andy Saunders, who will reflect on how Language has impacted their family, what insights have been gleaned through their Ambassador journeys, and why the celebration of Languages today is so important. Chloe will be joined by her mother, Cleonie Quayle, and Andy will be joined by his sister Joedie Lawler.Recorded live from the Warren theatre at the Museum of Sydney on Thursday 26 October 2023Introductions by Catherine Trindall( Gomeroi Murri Yinnar)Deputy Chair, Aboriginal Languages TrustMs Catherine Trindall has had a distinguished career as an educator and is currently the President of the NSW Aboriginal Education Consultative Group (AECG). She is also Chair of the Tamworth Aboriginal Medical Service and Life member of the NSW Aboriginal Education Consultative Group Incorporated.more info: https://mhnsw.au/whats-on/events/first-nations-speaker-series-event/
The Astor’s red rule book Museums of History NSW 2023-11-05 | To celebrate the centenary of The Astor, a display in the Caroline Simpson Library brings together a range of objects from the archives of The Astor alongside collection material from the library to explore the concept, design and construction of the building, and look at the apartments of several early residents.Find out more: https://mhnsw.au/whats-on/exhibitions/celebrating-the-centenary-of-the-astor/
How to Weave an Opera House Museums of History NSW 2023-10-31 | Master weavers Phyllis Stewart and Steven Russell tackle their greatest weaving challenge, bringing to life a woven model of the Sydney Opera House for the exhibition ‘The People's House: Sydney Opera House at 50’ at the Museum of Sydney.
Experiencing a Technical Difficulty: Interior Design Education in Sydney 1945-65 Museums of History NSW 2023-10-30 | Join Dr Catriona Quinn on a journey through Australia’s rich interior design heritage and a deep dive into the studios of design educators in Sydney in the 1940s, 50s and 60s.After World War II, Australian interior design education was shaped by a shifting social and economic landscape, and it was during this time the new profession of ‘interior designer’ emerged. Interior design’s association with craft, commercial and ‘feminine’ practices means it has often been overlooked or misrepresented in public discourse. In this lecture, Dr Catriona Quinn presents a history of interior design in Australia that emphasises the value of technical education and offers new insights into the issues faced by the profession today.Focusing on rare mid-century student portfolios and archives held in the Caroline Simpson Library collections and the interior design program at the former East Sydney Technical College, Dr Quinn examines the work of the college’s graduates and their impact on Australian interiors. Dr Quinn also explores the role of the private design schools that helped to shape interior design education in Australia. The lecture gives an inside view of training in post–World War II Sydney, when progressive colour theory and modernist design theory were taught within the Commonwealth Reconstruction Training Scheme (1942–52), a significant federal economic program.With her extensive knowledge of the subject and her background as a former curator at the Caroline Simpson Library, Dr Quinn brings to life the stories of mid-century Australian interior decorators and educators and their contribution to our design history.
Home in the Hunter Museums of History NSW 2023-08-15 | Hear Mel Flyte share highlights from 'Home in the Hunter', a display that draws from the rich collection of regional material in the Caroline Simpson Library to look at the changing fortunes of three late-19th century pastoral estates in the Hunter Region.Find out more at https://mhnsw.au/whats-on/exhibitions/home-in-the-hunter/
An Opera House in every home Museums of History NSW 2023-08-11 | Instantly recognisable, the Opera House has been replicated across a vast array of forms and materials, from kitsch souvenirs and homewares to artworks and designer accessories. We hear from two curators about their collections and the memories they evoke.https://mhnsw.au/whats-on/exhibitions/the-peoples-house-sydney-opera-house-at-50/
The People’s House: Sydney Opera House at 50 Museums of History NSW 2023-08-02 | The People’s House: Sydney Opera House at 50 at the Museum of Sydney celebrates five decades of extraordinary performances and unforgettable moments at the Sydney Opera House. Images: Daniel Boud; Curtain of the sun, artist John Coburn, 1969–70. © The Coburn Estate; Jørn Utzon Sydney Opera House photograph. Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW: PXA 590 (v13), npA25J41; Photo by Max Dupain, c1965–72. Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW: FL601561
Highlights from Queering the interior with Mel Flyte Museums of History NSW 2023-08-01 | Hear Mel Flyte talk about highlights from ‘Queering the interior: London, New York, Sydney, 1882–1929’, on display at the Caroline Simpson Library, 21 February – 28 July 2023. Read more: https://mhnsw.au/stories/general/queering-the-interior-london-new-york-sydney-1882-1929/Film produced by Katie Furlonger, Digital Content Coordinator, Museums of History NSW.
Celebrating NSW Aboriginal Languages revival from a cross-generational perspective Museums of History NSW 2023-07-25 | ...
Paving the way ... Harold Blair: The first Aboriginal opera singer Museums of History NSW 2023-07-19 | Paving the Way is a short documentary that offers a glimpse into the life of Harold Blair, a world-renowned tenor, family man and political campaigner who sought social justice and human rights for Australia’s First Nations people. Harold Blair (b. 1924) was Australia’s first professionally trained Aboriginal Opera Singer, who overcame enormous racial barriers to be accepted at the Melba Conservatorium of Music (now the Melba Opera Trust) to study opera singing. Paving The Way features interviews with Dorothy Blair (Harold’s widow), Nerida Blair (Harold’s daughter), Warren Blair (Harold’s son), Kim Walker (CEO, NAISDA Dance College) and Don Christopher (Opera singer), as well as the 2022 and 2023 recipients of the Melba Opera Trust Artist, Harold Blair Opera Scholarship, Elias Wilson and Nina Korbe. These interviews are interspersed with images from the Blair family archives.
Fight for Liberty and Freedom with Professor John Maynard Museums of History NSW 2023-05-24 | The First Nations Speaker Series is presented in collaboration with GML Heritage and the Research Centre for Deep History at the Australian National University.The series has produced fascinating discussions from contemporary authors, artists, curators, designers, and producers.Fight for Liberty and FreedomSpeaker Professor John MaynardThursday 11 May, 6pm–7pm Museum of Sydney
In Conversation with Tony Albert and Hayden Walsh Museums of History NSW 2023-05-24 | The First Nations Speaker Series is presented in collaboration with GML Heritage and the Research Centre for Deep History at the Australian National University.The series has produced fascinating discussions from contemporary authors, artists, curators, designers, and producers.In Conversation with Tony Albert and Hayden WalshThursday 13 April, 6pm–7pm Museum of Sydney
Murmurations at Hyde Park Barracks Museums of History NSW 2023-05-15 | Go behind the scenes of Murmurations the 2023 Hyde Park Barracks annual art commission and hear from First Nations artist Tony Albert and Sāmoan–Australian artist Angela Tiatia. Free, on display daily, 10am–5pm until 4 June 2023 at the Hyde Park Barracks.Find out more and see related events https://mhnsw.au/whats-on/exhibitions/murmurations/
Renovating the Nissen hut Museums of History NSW 2023-03-21 | Saving a 1950's Nissan hut and the heritage value it represents in the story of post war migration in Australia.
Cutter and Coota at the Hyde Park Barracks Museums of History NSW 2023-02-20 | Cutter and Coota Presented at the Hyde Park Barracks 6-8 October 2022Cutter and Coota, a new children’s play written by Bruce Pascoe and presented with Moogahlin Performing Arts, explores themes of sustainability, colonisation and how we care for Country.
Cutter and Coota - Bruce Pascoe Museums of History NSW 2023-02-14 | Cutter and Coota by Bruce PascoeHyde Park Barracks6-8 October 2022Book now https://slm.is/cuttercootaThese school holidays experience the unlikely bond of Cutter, an ambitious rat, and Coota, a compassionate bandicoot, as they find freedom and friendship. Cutter and Coota, a new children’s play written by Bruce Pascoe and presented with Moogahlin Performing Arts, explores themes of sustainability, colonisation and how we care for Country.
Cutter and Coota - Jesse Grant Museums of History NSW 2023-02-14 | Cutter and Coota Hyde Park Barracks6-8 October 2022Book now https://slm.is/cuttercootaThese school holidays experience the unlikely bond of Cutter, an ambitious rat, and Coota, a compassionate bandicoot, as they find freedom and friendship. Cutter and Coota, a new children’s play written by Bruce Pascoe and presented with Moogahlin Performing Arts, explores themes of sustainability, colonisation and how we care for Country.
Unrealised Sydney Keynote Lecture – Professor Robert Freestone Museums of History NSW 2022-12-01 | Hear about incredible unrealised visions for the city of Sydney in an insightful talk by Robert Freestone. Freestone is a Professor of Planning and Fellow of the City Futures Research Centre in the Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture at the University of New South Wales and guest curator of the Unrealised Sydney exhibition at the Museum of Sydney. The Unrealised Sydney Keynote Talk was presented and recorded at Museum of Sydney Wednesday 14 September 2022, from the support of City Futures Research Centre at UNSW.
Nathan ‘mudyi’ Sentance: Remembering and Re-storying Museums of History NSW 2022-11-03 | First Nations Speaker Series:Nathan ‘mudyi’ SentanceRemembering and Re-storying. Storytelling approaches I have taken to confront uncomfortable histories.How do we get audiences to engage with uncomfortable histories, especially histories related to the ongoing impact of settler colonialism? Join Wiradjuri librarian and museum educator, Nathan mudyi Sentance, who has been asking this question for over a decade as he discusses how he has worked to create more space in galleries, libraries, archives, and museums for First Nations representation and truth telling. And listen to his journey to examine new ways to get audiences to engage in uncomfortable histories and how instead of guilt or anger, audiences learning brutal histories were inspired to action.
Dr Leah Lui-Chivizhe: Science, mourning and loss: WJ Macleay & Erub in 1875 Museums of History NSW 2022-10-12 | First Nations Speaker Series:Dr Leah Lui-ChivizheScience, mourning and loss: WJ Macleay & Erub in 1875 Historian and curator, Dr Leah Lui-Chivizhe is a Torres Strait Islander with enduring family connections to the eastern and western Torres Strait. Leah's current research focuses on how nineteenth century collections from the region can be useful for reconnecting Islanders with our pre-colonial histories of human and more-than-human relations. In January 2022 she joined the Social and Political Sciences program at the University of Technology, Sydney, where she is senior lecturer in Indigenous histories.
Cutter and Coota - Abbie-Lee Lewis Museums of History NSW 2022-09-23 | Cutter and Coota Hyde Park Barracks6-8 October 2022Book now https://slm.is/cuttercootaThese school holidays experience the unlikely bond of Cutter, an ambitious rat, and Coota, a compassionate bandicoot, as they find freedom and friendship. Cutter and Coota, a new children’s play written by Bruce Pascoe and presented with Moogahlin Performing Arts, explores themes of sustainability, colonisation and how we care for Country.
Hayden Walsh: Creating change within institutions and ourselves Museums of History NSW 2022-09-08 | Join us for the First Nations Speaker Series, presented in collaboration with GML Heritage and the Research Centre for Deep History at the Australian National University. Creating change within institutions and ourselvesSpeaker Hayden WalshWednesday 7 September, 6pm–7pm Museum of SydneyLearn more slm.is/firstnationsseries
Two ways of walking together, Science and Culture: Aboriginal rock art project in the Blue Mountains Museums of History NSW 2022-09-07 | Join us for the First Nations Speaker Series, presented in collaboration with GML Heritage and the Research Centre for Deep History at the Australian National University. Two ways of walking together, Science and Culture; A community based Aboriginal rock art project in the Blue Mountains NSW.Speaker Wayne BrennanWednesday 3 August, 6pm–7pm Museum of Sydney About Wayne BrennanWayne is an archaeologist of Gamilaraay descent, who specializes in Aboriginal rock art and has lived and conducted research in the Blue Mountains for over 35 years. He has worked as an education officer, researcher and remote fire fighter for the National Parks and Wildlife Service since 1987. He currently works as an Aboriginal heritage consultant and is a visiting research fellow with the Australian Museum, Sydney.Learn more slm.is/firstnationsseries
Elizabeth Bay House Concert: The Much Admired Australian Quadrilles by William Ellard Museums of History NSW 2022-08-22 | William Ellard (d. c. 1838/39): ‘The Much Admired Australian Quadrilles’ (Dublin and Sydney, 1835) (arr. for pianoforte trio): [i] La Sydney; [ii] La Wooloomooloo [sic]; [iii] La Illawarra; [iv] La Bong-Bong; [v] La EngehurstAnnie Gard (violin)Daniel Yeadon (violoncello)Neal Peres Da Costa (pianoforte)Dublin-born Francis Ellard, Sydney’s earliest specialist music publisher, advertised his first sheet music titles late in 1835. Ellard engraved all of his later sheet music himself and had it printed in Sydney, but in this first instance, he commissioned his brother William in Ireland to arrange the music, print it there in Dublin, and ship it out to the colony to be sold. As Cavendish had done in this earlier set, the Ellards gave each of the quadrilles a local title. All five are based on tunes popular in the 1830s, including two still well-known today, in the first quadrille the grand march from Bellini’s Norma, and in the last the troop song The Girl I Left Behind Me.‘On the Plains of Emu: Settler Art Music in Early NSW’, Elizabeth Bay House, Sydney, 27 February 2022. A concert presented by the Sydney Living Museums Foundation and Hearing the Music of Early New South Wales 1788-1860, Conservatorium of Music, The University of Sydney. Australian Research Discovery Project DP210101511 – 2021–24.
Elizabeth Bay House Concert: La Engehurst by William Ellard Museums of History NSW 2022-08-22 | William Ellard (d. c. 1838/39): ‘La Engehurst’, from ‘The Much Admired Australian Quadrilles’ (Dublin and Sydney, 1835) (arr. for pianoforte trio).Annie Gard (violin)Daniel Yeadon (violoncello)Neal Peres Da Costa (pianoforte)Dublin-born Francis Ellard, Sydney’s earliest specialist music publisher, advertised his first sheet music titles late in 1835. Ellard engraved all of his later sheet music himself and had it printed in Sydney, but in this first instance, he commissioned his brother William in Ireland to arrange the music, print it there in Dublin, and ship it out to the colony to be sold. The Ellards gave each of the quadrilles a local title and all five are based on tunes popular in the 1830s. ‘La Engehurst’ uses the troop song The Girl I Left Behind Me as its tune.‘On the Plains of Emu: Settler Art Music in Early NSW’, Elizabeth Bay House, Sydney, 27 February 2022. A concert presented by the Sydney Living Museums Foundation and Hearing the Music of Early New South Wales 1788-1860, Conservatorium of Music, The University of Sydney. Australian Research Discovery Project DP210101511 – 2021–24.
