Book aficionados | Old sheds | Pandemic clothing | Living by the bay | April 2021

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View this email in your browser Dear *|FNAME|* We've been discovering new communities and diving deeper into old places recently. Join us behind the scenes by clicking your way through this email or exploring our website, and please get in touch if you'd like to talk about any of these projects. Also, a reminder that the Community Heritage Grants program applications are due in on May 9th - get in touch if you need help (preferably not at the last minute :) Happy reading Emma and Susan BOOK AFICIONADOS “It was Angus Shaw longing for some sort of reference library which started me going.” So wrote Mrs Aeneas (Jeannie) Gunn, author of the best sellers 'A Little Black Princess' (1905) and 'We of the Never-Never' (1908).  And it wasn't long before a large and excellent library with 'nothing but the essential' was produced for Monbulk with the assistance of an international community of book-lovers.  If you're a book lover too, you'll enjoy this story FROM WHELAN THE WRECKER TO A CIRCULAR ECONOMY A simple old shed (although things are never as simple as they seem) at the end of Flinders Street is the key to a development project from Riverlee that will 'build with history rather than over it'. During the next couple of years we'll be able to watch how both cultural + economic values can be enhanced when old structures are carefully retained, restored and enriched by interpretation and story telling, instead of being demolished in a cloud of dust. Read, and watch, how this is being done at the Goods Shed No.5 PANDEMIC HERITAGE SQUARED: international project + NGV Triennial Eager to stay connected to their communities in spite of The Pandemic, museums around the world have been reviewing, tweaking and changing to suit new conditions. And never more so than now to be COVID-safe and reopen. In a way, The Pandemic has been an exercise in disaster preparedness, just not the kind that most of us in the heritage or museum sectors expect to deal with.  Discover how this is being done BAYSIDE LIVING & PLANETARY GAZING We're excited about an upcoming project with the City of Port Phillip using oral history to explore the meaning and value of places. Beginning with the already established 'Solar System Trail' walk from Marine Parade, St Kilda to The Boulevard, Port Melbourne we'll be thinking about: - the effects of the solar system on local currents, tides, fishing, wildlife and the landscape - the importance of the sun and the night sky to 19th century mariners and immigrants  - Indigenous understandings of the universe  - how it feels to live near the bay and every day look out to the sea and horizon Is there anything else you think is important? Website Copyright © 2021, History At Work Pty Ltd, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: 13 Urquhart Street, Northcote, Australia, 3070 Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.

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