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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20131111T193000
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SUMMARY:The Angry Sky: Australia’s Air War Over Europe 1939-1945
DESCRIPTION:A one day conference at the RAAF Museum\, Point Cook\, Victoria. Incorporating a special Remembrance Day Service. Monday 11 November 2013  \n  \n  \n  \nSince the last AWM conference on the subject in 2003\, much new  material has been revealed about Australia‚Äôs air war in Europe.¬† This  one day conference will bring together some of the best historians\,  authors and veterans to reflect not just on the history of the conduct  and outcomes of the RAAF‚Äôs part in the massive air war over Europe\, but  also the impact on the RAAF itself.¬† Set in the magnificent setting of  the RAAF Museum at Point Cook\, the conference will incorporate a special  Remembrance Day Service. \n  \nClick here to download the Angry Sky Conference Programme \n  \nRegistrations are open online. Click here to book your seat.\n \n  \nThe conference is being convened by Military History and Heritage  Victoria Inc.¬† Recent conferences have included the two day  international in Melbourne\, Australia 1942: In the Shadow of War in April 2012; and one day conferences By the Seat of their Pants: Australian Airmen and their Machines 1915-1918 at the RAAF Museum Point Cook in November 2012\, and in April 2013 Choppers: Helicopters and the Vietnam War\, held at the National Vietnam Veterans Museum. \nDownload a printable copy of The Angry Sky Flyer here. \nWhen war broke out in Europe in 1939\, Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) aircrews were among the first Australians to head overseas to Britain’s aid. Between 1939 and 1945\, they flew in both Australian and British squadrons with the Royal Air Force (RAF) in Coastal\, Bomber and Fighter Commands. \n  \n\nSurrey\, England. C. 1942. Portrait of a pilot of No. 457 (Spitfire) Squadron RAAF at RAF Station Redhill on one of the Squadron's Spitfire aircraft.\n  \nAustralia\, with the other British Dominions had adopted the Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS) to provide trained aircrews to fight with the RAF. Australian recruits received elementary training at air bases around Australia and many of them were then sent overseas for advanced training. Before the scheme ended in mid-1944\, more than 10\,000 Australians had received advanced training in Canada and 674 had been sent to Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) before joining the RAF in Britain. Squadrons which were predominantly Australian aircrew were designated as RAAF squadrons and 17 of these were eventually formed: 12 in Britain and 5 in the Middle East. Many Australians also served in RAF squadrons. \n  \nAustralians served mainly as aircrew – pilots\, engineers\, navigators\, wireless operators\, observers and air gunners. Some also went as ground crew and carried out the maintenance and administrative tasks on the ground necessary to keep aircraft flying. Between 1940 and 1943\, Australian airmen participated in the air war against the Germans and Italians in North Africa and the Middle East\, in the defence of Malta in 1942\, in the Allied drive through Sicily and Italy between 1943 and 1945\, and in the skies over the UK\, Europe and Britain’s sea lanes from 1939 until 1945. \n  \nGroup portrait of Australian air crew and ground staff at Lancaster Heavy Bomber no.460 squadron RAAF with Bomber Command at RAF station Binbook\, 1944. (UK1655 - Australian War Memorial)\nThe most costly missions were with RAF Bomber Command and Australian aircrews flew in virtually every major operation. Although their numbers amounted to less than 2 per cent of Australia‚Äôs World War II enlistments\, the 3486 men who were killed in Bomber Command accounted for almost 20 per cent of all Australian combat deaths. Approximately 1\,500 RAAF aircrew parachuted from their aircraft over enemy territory and spent the remainder of the war in prison camps. \n[Drawn from http://www.ww2australia.gov.au/raaf/]
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