NEWS & EVENTS 2008
Great walks and talks coming up in the months ahead.
We're working on more events for the calendar at the moment
– details will be added to this page as they are finalised.
We have plenty planned in the months ahead.
If you can't wait, and you'd like to know about what's coming
up, feel free to give us a call in Sydney on (02) 9878 2511
or email: info@twentieth.org.au
Walks and talks with the Australian Garden History Society
14th September: Mulgoa visit – Stuart Read leads tour
of colonial & Victorian gardens, joint HHT/AGHS event.
16th September: Lost Gardens of Sydney - talk on First Government
House's lost garden by Michael Lehany & Colleen Morris,
MoS at 6.30pm.
28th September: Lost Gardens walking tour: Parramatta's heart
- discover Wisteria Gardens & Cumberland Hospital East
with Terry Smith & Stuart Read, 2-4pm.
5th October: Lost Gardens walking tour: The Domain, Sydney
- with Flora Deverall, 2-4pm.
For more information visit www.gardenhistorysociety.org.au
Art Deco 1910–1939
Melbourne Winter Masterpieces
28 June to 5 October 2008
This winter 2008, the National Gallery of Victoria is the
exclusive Australian venue for a major exhibition of the celebrated
and popular style, Art Deco. The exhibition is the most popular
program ever mounted at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London,
which houses one of the world’s great collections of
Art Deco.
The exhibition comprises over 300 works and covers all artistic
media from painting to photography, fashion to film and architecture
to jewellery. Spanning the boom of the roaring Twenties and
the Depression–ridden 1930s, Art Deco came to epitomize
all the glamour, opulence and hedonism of the Jazz age.
It was the era of the flapper girl, the luxury ocean liner,
the Hollywood film and the skyscraper.
Open daily 10am–5pm
Open until 9pm every Wednesday
National Gallery of Victoria
www.ngv.vic.gov.au
Montreal, Canada: World Congress on Art Deco 2009.
The International Coalition of Art Deco Societies (ICADS)
has awarded Art Déco Montréal the honour of
hosting the 10th World Congress on Art Deco. It will take
place in Montreal from May 24 to May 30, 2009. more>
2008: THE YEAR TO DATE
August: Deco at the Beach.
A day at the beach became an entrenched feature of many Australians’
leisure time during the early decades of the twentieth century,
coinciding with the rise and spread of the Art Deco style
across the world.
In Sydney everyday life and modern style overlapped as members
of the artistic community found life at the beach a rich resource
and interpreted it in various ways into what may be this country’s
unique contribution to the Art Deco style.
This presentation by Roy Lumby explored beach culture and
the many works of art it inspired; ranging from graphic design
to literature and sculpture.
May: A Walk through The Rocks
Although The Rocks is as old as European settlement in New
South Wales, a remarkably large part of its environs reflect
the concerns, aspirations and fears of twentieth century Sydney.
Society members and guests enjoyed a day by the harbour wandering
around Australia’s most historic and colourful neighbourhood.
We explored its venerable pubs and other architectural treasures
as well.
April: Sydney Tramway Museum
On April 6th, a tour was organised to view the Sydney Tramway
Museum in Loftus, NSW.
As well as old Sydney trams, the Museum has trams from Ballarat,
Berlin, Brisbane, Melbourne (above), Munich, Nagasaki and
San Francisco.
Last year's events:
2007 was an exciting year, especially for art deco enthusiasts.
The Society's walks and talks took us to interesting places
and covered a broad range of heritage issues. For a brief
overview, click here.
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Individual membership is just $65 per year, even less for
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