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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/
LOCATION:Victoria
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SUMMARY:You Gotta Laugh – Australian Cartoons of the Vietnam War
DESCRIPTION:Jim Bridges is the man behind the Australian Cartoon Museum. For the last 33 years\, he has been collecting cartoons in all their many shapes and sizes.\n He has over 5\,000\,000 cartoons in his collection. Our Social and Political History is intrinsically bound up in these sketches\, which are also time capsules of our era. \nThe National Vietnam Veterans Museum is hosting an exhibition of cartoons of the Vietnam War era\, depicting the historical and social issues of that period in Australia’s history. \nThis exhibition concentrates mostly on the soldiers’ point of view and the coping mechanism of humour\, including cartoons by Geoff Hook and William Ellis Green (WEG). \nJim will be at the Museum to launch this thought provoking Exhibition at 2pm Tuesday 1 September. Normal entrance fees will apply to anyone wishing to attend this event. \nThis Exhibition will be at the Museum from 1 September to 30 November 2015. \nContact Sonia Hogg on 03 5956 6400 for more information.
URL:https://www.mhhv.org.au/event/you-gotta-laugh-ai-australian-cartoons-of-the-vietnam-war/
LOCATION:Victoria
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20150110T233000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20150111T013000
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SUMMARY:Lemnos - The Other Side of Gallipoli
DESCRIPTION:Jim Claven MA\, Secretary of the Lemnos Gallipoli Commemorative Committee\, will recount the often forgotten role that the Greek Island of Lemnos played in the Gallipoli campaign. Lemnos was the forward base for the campaign. There were 148 diggers buried amongst the over 1\,200 other allied graves on the island. Lemnos is also the location of the armistice which ended the First World War in the East.\nBook now
URL:https://www.mhhv.org.au/event/lemnos-the-other-side-of-gallipoli/
LOCATION:Victoria
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