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Women Transported – Life in Australia’s Convict Female Factories explores convict women’s lives in the 12 Female Factories established in early colonial Australia. The exhibition reveals the stories and experiences of the many women who found themselves torn away from the lives they knew and thrown into an unfamiliar landscape in Australia.
The exhibition shows the human stories behind the historical facts and challenges the common stereotypes of the Colonial era. In particular, this exhibition reveals the significant contribution of these women to the nation. In the Colony of New South Wales, there were factories located in Newcastle, Bathurst, Port Macquarie, and two each in Morton Bay and Parramatta. In the Colony of Van Diemens Land, these were Hobart Town, Cascades, Launceston, Ross and George Town.
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TEACHERS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Understanding History: Women Transported
Friday 28 May, 4.30-6.30pm
Join exhibition curator, Gaye Hendriksen, for a guided tour of Women Transported. Gaye will share her knowledge of the exhibition content and suggest ways of using the content for pre and post-visit activities.
Suitable for: Primary and secondary teachers
Focus area: Australian History, Local History, English
Location: Glasshouse Gallery
Cost: $10.00, bookings required
WORKSHOPS FOR STUDENTS
7-11 June @ 9am, 11am & 1pm
max 30 students per workshop
Students will step back in time as they look at objects, people and places where women spent their days in Australia’s convict female factories. Guided by Port Macquarie-Hastings Council’s Regional Museum Curator, Liz Gillroy, students will engage with the exhibition and learn about our local history.
Suitable for: Stage 2 – stage 6
Curriculm links: History, Local History, Visual Arts, Textiles, HSIE
Workshop duration: approx 60 mins
Cost: Free, bookings required
Location: Glasshouse Gallery
Friday 16 April 2010 - Saturday 17 April 2010
Queensland Theatre Company’s very own artistic director and award-winning playwright Michael Gow, gives us a rare insight into the heart and mind of the artist and the inescapable power of memory.
Gow’s long-awaited new play Toy Symphony – and the toast of Sydney’s theatre scene in 2007 – is a compelling journey of personal self-discovery and regeneration.
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Suitable for: Secondary teachers and Year 11 & 12 English students studying contemporary writers and texts or scripting their own stories.
Focus area: English, Drama
Location: Glasshouse Theatre
Cost: $40-65, bookings required
Friday 14 May 2010 - Saturday 15 May 2010
Lewis, a young director and a university drop-out, takes a job in a mental asylum working with patients who are interested in the dramatic arts. He thinks his work will involve staging a small variety show with the group, until long-term patient Roy hijacks the show and insists that the production be nothing less than a grand staging of Mozart’s opera Cosi Fan Tutte. An ambitious thought to say the least!
Lewis’ life is touched by these extraordinary people as his operatic production lurches forward. We learn, along with Lewis, that when chasing your dreams it helps not to be too attached to reality. After all if it's sanity you are after, there is no recipe like laughter! Read more here.
Download: Cosi Study Kit
Adapted from the popular children’s book of the same title, and combining a haunting score and breathtaking physicality, this production created by Monkey Baa Theatre for Young People tells the story of the triumph of friendship.
Magpie is injured in a bushfire but she discovers that riding atop her friend, one-eyed Dog, as he runs through the bush, feels almost the same as flying. “FLY, DOG, FLY! I will be your missing eye and you will be my wings.”
Fox arrives and tempts Magpie with an even faster ride. Desire, loyalty and friendship all come into play. After an exhilarating ride, Fox dumps Magpie. Magpie finds that Fox has abandoned her far out in the desert. Alone, Magpie begins the long journey home to her friend.
The book of the play was written by Margaret Wild, an award-winning author, and illustrated by Ron Brooks, two-time winner of the Picture Book of the Year Award.
Download: Fox Teachers' Notes & Fox Footage - YouTube
Suitable for: Stage 2 – Stage 3
Curriculm links: English, Drama
Duration: 60 minutes
Cost: $5.00, bookings required
Location: Glasshouse Theatre
Jacaranda Aquisitive Drawing Award, 25 March - 16 May
A touring exhibition of Australia’s foremost drawing awards from Grafton Regional Gallery, this exhibition presents some of Australia’s best drawings. Blue Mountains’ artist John Philippidies won the major prize of $15,000 with his drawing Portrait 2 at the exhibition in Grafton in October 2008. The work is a portrait of the artist’s mother who has been the subject of many of his works.
The judge of the 2008 JADA was Hendrick Kolenberg, Senior Curator of Australian Prints, Drawings and Watercolours at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
PORT NOW!: Port Macquarie Camera Club, 8 April - 23 May
Port Macquarie Now features over 100 photographs which investigate the many narratives of the recent life and times of the people and place of Port Macquarie.
The exhibition relays the diversity of a regional city, the everyday involvement with a beautiful landscape and the complexity of contemporary social history in a rapidly changing city. Subjects reflect the photographers’ personal and familial associations or their close interaction with the landscape and a sense of place.
Linked Landscapes: Anneke Silver, 20 May - 25 July
This touring exhibition from Cairns Regional Gallery, presents the work of prominent North Queensland artist Anneke Silver. Her work captures the atmosphere created by the vast and unique northern landscape.
Silver’s large paintings are composed of grids, each piece linking to reveal the whole. Awe and respect for nature is central to the artist’s practice, and her vistas encourage the viewer to look further than the one-off glance.
Download: Primary Teachers' Notes or Secondary Teachers' Notes
