Oceania
Australia
The Workshops Rail Museum, Ipswich
Exhibition: Fun & Games
We love them, trash them, plead for them, collect them and preserve them. Regardless of your age, toys are a fun part of life. Let your playtime past catch up with you as you wonder through this exhibition dedicated to the joy of childhood toy time. From the well-used to the well-kept, see a selection of cherished toy collections from the 1900s to current times. See how toy technology has changed over the years, from materials they are made of to the enjoyment you get out of the amazing things they can do.
Toys have helped plenty of brands boost their sales over the years, remember the surprise toy in the cereal box or the special memento from the Ekka. They also help paint pictures of the past, as toys are often round at investigation sites during excavation and tell archaeologists a thing of too about the place.
Event: Bush Picnic – 18&19 May 2013
Meet Jack Roo for some fun and laughs with his games from the bush. How are your gumboot throwing skills and bush moves. Farmer Phil’s sharing stories of life on the land and showing how billy tea and damper is made. Relax listening to folk tunes by Penny Davies & Roger Ilott. Take a trip around the Museum on the miniature train ¬– toot toot!
General Museum entry fees apply:
Adults $20, Concessions $17, Children (under 3) FREE, Children (3 to 15) $11.50, Family (2 Adults and up to 4 Children) $59.00.
The Workshops Rail Museum,
North Street, North Ipswich Q 4305
Phone number: (07) 3432 5100
Fax: (07) 3432 5114
Email: info@theworkshops.qm.qld.gov.au
www.theworkshops.qm.qld.gov.au
Australia
Heathcote Museum & Gallery, Applecross, Western Australia
The strange case of Matron Shawcross: sex, politics and madness in Western Australia, 1938
By Dr. Philippa Martyr
When WA’s mental health director James Bentley was sacked in 1938 for incompetence, he in turn accused Heathcote’s matron Mildred Shawcross of insubordination, sub-acute mania, drug addiction, and of interfering in the running of the Mental Hospitals Department through an inappropriately close relationship with the (married) Chief Secretary, William Kitson.
Were these accusations merely the demonisation of an outspoken woman – or were they based on fact? The investigation of Mildred Shawcross reveals a number of broader fault-lines in the history of nursing: the dynamic and often hazardous relationship between medical and nursing authority, the use of experimental treatments, and the difficulties in bringing about change in existing structures and patterns of mental health care.
Dr Philippa Martyr is Communications Officer at the Clinical Research Centre, NMHS MH. She is also a historian, and is currently an adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, University of Western Australia. She has previously been a Visiting Scholar at Oxford Brookes University, UK, and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Norwich, UK. Dr Martyr is the author of Paradise of Quacks: an alternative history of medicine in Australia (Macleay Press, 2002), and has recently completed a history of Claremont/Graylands Hospital, Western Australia.
DATE: Saturday, 18 May 2013
TIME: 1pm
PLACE: Heathcote Museum & Gallery, Meeting Room
COST: Free
RSVP: melinfo@melville.wa.gov.au or 1300 635 845
Swan House, 58-60 Duncraig Road, Applecross, Western Australia
Tel.: (08) 9364 5666
melinfo@melville.wa.gov.au
Offical website
New Zealand
Whanganui Regional Museum, Whanganui
International Museum Month
The Theme: Museums (Memory + Creativity) = Social Change
Museums seek to provide a community with an environment and philosophy that embraces understanding of our past experiences personally and collectively. With the International Museum Month theme of Museums (Memory + Creativity) = Social Change the Whanganui Regional Museum provides a platform for learning and enjoying events that reflect who we are in a diverse cultural mix.
New Zealand Music Month also falls in May and our Museum is combining both celebrations through the programme River City Guitars III, a celebration of Whanganui musicians and the colour they bring to our community. A large display of guitars and stringed instruments from the 1920s to the present day will be on display from Friday 10 – Friday 24 May.
Samoan Language week is also celebrated at the end of May and the Museum is honoured to host two events: Art and Crafts for Youngsters and Samoan Independence Day Celebrations.
Whanganui Regional Museum’s programmes for International Museum Month are:
Soulful Slide Sessions
Sunday 12 & Sunday 19 May 12.00 – 1.00 pm
FREE
Let Sherman Page, passionate slide guitarist, introduce you to that most distinctive and moving sound of the slide guitar. Sherman will also perform the slide guitarist’s rite-of-passage, Dust my Broom.
Lessons on Luthier
Saturday 11 May 10.00 am – 12.00 pm
FREE
Want to know what goes into making a stringed instrument like a guitar? Join David Pitt, local luthier and music man to learn more.
Blues Harp Workshop
Saturday 11 & Saturday 18 May 1.00 – 2.00 pm
FREE
Join Thomo Thompson in Blues Harp workshops for beginners.
Samoan Arts and Crafts for Youngsters
Wednesday 29 May 10.30 am -12.00 pm
The Atrium, Whanganui Regional Museum
FREE
Your pre-schoolers can have fun at the Museum, creating their own piece of Samoan design on fabric. Aunty Tuina and a team from Born and Raised Pacifika will be here to help. Adults are welcome to join the fun.
Samoan Independence Day
Saturday 1 June 4.00 pm
The Atrium, Whanganui Regional Museum
FREE
This is the day to celebrate all things Samoan. At 4.00 pm the day’s events will start with Samoan performers welcoming you, followed by the screening of Samoan language film The Orator in the Davis Theatre at 4.30 pm. As a great finale to the celebrations, join us after the film for a shared meal. Please book you place by phoning 349 1110.
Free activities
Tel: 06 349 1110
Contact: Louise Follett
Email: Louisef@wrm.org.nz
Watt Street, Whanganui 4540 New Zealand
Australia
QUT Art Museum, Brisbane
An exhibition using social media, via Twitter.
Over 24 hours, the QUT Art Museum Twitter feed will present a time lapse of live images by Ross Manning and Caitlin Franzmann, who feature in our current exhibition Foundation’s Edge: artists and technology. The works both contain live video feeds, projecting beautiful images on to the wall which are constantly changing. The exhibition presents the work of artists who, rather than adhering to the intended use of technological devices, push them to realise their potential as an art medium. The modus operandi of these artists — shared by many great artists who produced the seminal work of the last century — is the exploitation, deconstruction and reworking of commercial technologies to their own creative ends.
Free activities
Tel. 07 3138 5370
Email: artmuseum@qut.edu.au
2 George Street, QUT Gardens Point Campus, Brisbane QLD 4001, Australia