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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:19700101T100000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20180109T210000
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SUMMARY:Mud and Blood - WWI play by Meg McNena directed by Alice Bishop - Special Performance
DESCRIPTION:Mud and Blood\, Meg McNena’s compelling 80-minute\, six-actor play\, is about distinguished Australian general\, Harold ‘Pompey’ Elliott\, who led the Essendon Rifles and took most of them to WWI. \n \nThe tenacity of Australian men and women is shown in battle and at home. Timing in 2018 with Anzac and Armistice centenaries adds impact. Set 1914-1921\, it shows how Pompey Elliott and a soldier’s mother deal with his vow to look after ‘his boys’ in war as if they were his own. This vow\, driving the play’s drama\, was made at a farewell to troops a century ago at Essendon Town Hall\, now the Clocktower Centre\, where Mud and Blood will be centre-stage on Fri 31 August. Women’s efforts and struggles are also pivotal . Please share in your networks and newsletter this opportunity to see a story about local heroes by a Moonee Ponds writer. \nA brilliant cast and skilled production team is powerfully directed by Alice Bishop\, who has been nominated for a Green Room Award for best director. Writer and producer\, Meg McNena\, has an Amnesty International Award and others for writing; this is her sixth play staged. Darren Mort\, a lawyer like Pompey\,plays his complex character masterfully. Humour and songs intone the era. \nMud and Blood‚Äôs Melbourne premiere is at the Clocktower Centre\, Moonee Ponds at 12 noon on Friday 31 August with a Q&A and talk by Ross McMullin\, awarded historian\, biographer and author of two books on Pompey Elliott (included in the matinee price) and opening night is 8pm 31 August. \nElliott trained youth in the Essendon Rifles militia; three units of his 7th Battalion came from the Northern suburbs and one from the Western suburbs; they trained at Broadmeadows and went with him to Gallipoli\, Lone Pine\, Fromelles and trenches of The Somme\, where Elliott turned the outcome of WWI in the Allies favour. Pompey inspires as husband\, father\, brother\, friend\, leader\, veteran and senator – the soldier before and after war; the stalwart wife keeps the family going; the cost for Pompey in making this heartfelt but impossible promise and returning to unveil honour boards and memorials. \nWe want to share this significant history of world-changing times for the newly declared nation of Australia and to increase awareness of post-traumatic stress disorder. \nHere is the vox pop from our successful preview in Charlton\, where Pompey was born. \nClick here for more information
URL:https://www.mhhv.org.au/event/mud-and-blood-wwi-play-by-meg-mcnena-directed-by-alice-bishop-special-performance/
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DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20131004T020000
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SUMMARY:Debt of Honour Photographic Exhibition - Bruce Butler - Last Week
DESCRIPTION:Reflects the debt of honour owed by Australia to the Timorese people. In   1942 two of Australia’s first Commando units who trained at Wilsons   Promontory fought a guerrilla war against the Japanese in former   Portuguese East Timor. The Commandos only survived through the support   of the Timorese people who provided food and shelter\, warned of   approaching danger and assisted with escapes after ambushes.\nAs a member of the Friends of East Timor group\, Bruce Butler has   created this exhibition to show the Australian people the debt owed to   both Australian soldiers and the East Timorese people whos supported   them during world War II \nStockyard gallery \nwww.stockyardgallery.org.au
URL:https://www.mhhv.org.au/event/debt-of-honour-photographic-exhibition-bruce-butler-last-week/
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20131004T230000
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SUMMARY:Commemorating World War II at Museum Victoria: Stories From the Collections
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Deborah Tout-Smith\, Liz Bramley & Nina Buchan\, Museum VictoriaNext year marks the centenary of the outbreak of World War I\, an event that profoundly influenced the development of our national identity and impacted on the lives of everyone living in Australia at the time. As part of a range of programs and activities to mark the centenary\, Museum Victoria is planning an exhibition at Melbourne Museum that will provide unique insights into the experience of war and the cost of the conflict on soldiers\, their families and the community. Drawing primarily on the Museum’s collection of World War I memorabilia\, the exhibition will focus on injury\, mourning and the remarkable fortitude shown by so many Australians during the war and over following decades.\nIn preparation for the centenary\, a curatorial research project has been underway since 2007 to document the Museum’s significant military history collections and make them more widely available through Collections Online. Deborah Tout-Smith and two of her volunteer researchers will talk about some of the unique stories and previously unknown images and first-hand accounts that have been discovered. Several stories will be profiled: Corporal S.W. Siddeley\, Australian Army Medical Corps; Captain Edward Albert McKenna\, 7th Battalion; Driver Cyril Rose\, 1st Australian Auxiliary Mechanical Transport Company; and Corporal Alan Horner\, 6th Battalion. \nDeborah Tout-Smith is Senior Curator\, Home & Community Life\, at Museum Victoria\, and is jointly responsible for military history collections with Dr Charlotte Smith. She is lead curator for Museum Victoria’s new exhibition on World War I\, opening in 2014. \nLiz Bramley and Nina Buchan are alumni of Deakin University’s Graduate Diploma of Museum Studies and are voluntary curators at Museum Victoria. Liz is also extending her collection management experience\, while Nina is preparing to undertake a Masters of Cultural Heritage at Deakin University. \n  \nFree entry. Please book to reserve a seat  \nFor email bookings reply to: rsvphumanities@museum.vic.gov.au \nFor phone bookings\, inquiries or other information contact: \nMatthew Churchward\, Senior Curator\, Humanities Department \nPhone: 8341 7253 or 0407 096 586 \n ‘Icecream in the Desert’\, Egypt\, circa 1915  Source: Captain Edward Albert McKenna Album\, Museum Victoria
URL:https://www.mhhv.org.au/event/commemorating-world-war-ii-at-museum-victoria-stories-from-the-collections/
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