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Head On – Who Lives Here and Immigration

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HEAD ON

Opening Night Wednesday 14th May 6:00pm for 6:30pm start

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Don’t Miss this excellent Photographic Exhibition as part of the Head On Festival at Leichhardt Library form May 12 -June 28th

Head On Photo Festival is Australia’s largest photo festival and the world’s second largest festival.

Who Lives Here?Exhibition Opening
6pm – 8pm
Leichhardt Library
Bookings required
Free event – All welcome
Where: Leichhardt Library
Piazza Level -Italian Forum, 23 Norton St
Leichhardt , NSW, Australia
Event Details:

As part of Head On, Kerry Pryor’s exhibition of images for ‘Beyond the Orphanage’ will open at 6pm in the Library’s exhibition space. Bookings required – register online or call 9367 9266.
More information:

Who Lives Here? Kerry Pryor unlocks the door, invites you in, and welcomes you to meet a group of orphaned children in Ethiopia. Through the support of foundation, Beyond the Orphanage the children are sponsored to attend school and live with extended family members and guardians. We are introduced to their lives and homes through Kerry’s evocative images.

View exhibition during library hours Monday 12 May – Friday 28 June

A Wonderful Heritage Festival

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The Walking Group

The Walking Group

We have had a brilliant Heritage Festival for 2014 with three walking tours two author talks and two exhibitions with over 700 visitors to events. Jason Chatwin led a group of 30 on an  engaging Historical walk around Bicentennial Park, The Crescent and Jubilee Park. Perfect Autumn weather and a journey from the early beginnings of Annandale, Sir John Young, the crescent and early industry to the later Industrial phase of Rozelle Bay with Timber yards and ship industry to the reclamation of the park after the very effective “Save Rozelle Bay Campaign” in the 1980s. With rich historical resources made available through TROVE our online catalogue WEBOPAC and Online resources some amazing historical information can be found.  Keep posted for more walking Tours later on in the year.

Johnstone St. Nth. Annandale, Sydney, in 1883 looking across Rozelle Bay. Toxeth house in the distance.

Jubilee Park

Jubilee Park

Jubilee Park looking over at Viaduct.

Jubilee Park looking over at Viaduct.

Annandale Walking tour

Leichhardt on the Margins revised edition on sale next week !!!

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Don’t miss out on the revised edition of Leichhardt’s Historical book If you don’t have one it is not to be missed. With new coloured maps and revised index.

Purchase your copy at Leichhardt or Balmain Library.

Leichhardt : on the margins of the city : a social history of Leichhardt and the former municipalities of Annandale, Balmain and Glebe / Max Solling and Peter Reynolds. 2013

$20.00rrp

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International Women’s Day and Leichhardt Women’s Community Health Centre 40th Anniversary

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This year our own Leichhardt Women’s Community Health Centre celebrates it’s 40th Anniversary (est 1974.) One of Australia’s first women’s Health centres it has provided esssential support to women over four decades. Special guests in support of the centre over the years have included Hazel Hawke, Feminist Eva Cox, Tanya Pliberseck, Franca Arena and Leichhardt Mayor LArry Hand. Don’t miss tommorrow’s International Women’s Day event at Leichhardt’s Pioneer Park with guest Governer of NSW Marie Bashir.IWD AC CVO

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Taking to the streets

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International Women’s Day 2014

08 Mar 2014

What time: 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Where: Pioneers Memorial Park Norton St, Leichhardt, NSW, Australia

Event Details: Join us and Leichhardt Women’s Community Health Centre to enjoy a lovely March afternoon in Pioneers Memorial Park.

More information: Light refreshments and entertainment from local artists will be provided.

The theme for the 2014 Leichhardt Council International Women’s Day celebrations is: “Break the silence about violence: Uniting local ambassadors” and the event will be celebrating 40 years of Leichhardt Women’s Community Health Centre as well as acknowledging women who inspire change locally.

By Azar