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What’s On at Immigration Museum April to July 2008
What’s On at Immigration Museum April to July 2008
We’re 10! Come celebrate!
The Immigration Museum is celebrating its 10th birthday in 2008, with a special program of exhibitions and activities. For more information as the year progresses, watch this space and the website: museumvictoria.com.au/immigrationmuseum
Kimono: Osaka’s Golden Age
Discover breathtakingly beautiful kimono and accessories from the glory days of Japan. This extraordinary exhibition, highlighting the wealth and prosperity of the late Edo and Meiji periods (1850-1900), is showing exclusively at the Immigration Museum. Direct from the Osaka Museum of History, the stunning collection celebrates the Immigration Museum’s 10th birthday and 30 years of the Melbourne-Osaka sister-city relationship.
Date: 15 May to 14 September 2008
FORUM: IS MULTICULTURALISM GOOD FOR WOMEN? ACTIVISM, APATHY AND ATTITUDE
This forum event will bring together women from the migrant activist movement of the 1970s and 1980s with today’s young women, to discuss the central place of women in our multicultural community. Speakers include: noted author and academic Professor Joy Damousi from the University of Melbourne, and Josephine Cafagna from ABC TV. The forum celebrates the current exhibition, Trailblazers: Migrant Women Activists, honouring the work of the activists who 30 years ago who fought to establish specialist medical, social, workplace and educational services for women of migrant backgrounds.
Date: Wednesday 21 May, 6pm to 8pm
Cost: free admission; bookings essential, tel 9927 2754
SHIP REUNION EVENT: BRIDE SHIPS - MIGRATION AND MARRIAGE
Ship Reunion events provide a special opportunity for migrants and their families to come together to share stories and experiences of their journey to Australia. This event celebrates the courageous journey many women made to Australia - for love and marriage, including the post-WWII phenomenon of proxy marriages. The event will include expert speakers and the opportunity to share your experience or that of someone you know who came to Australia for love and marriage. The Ship Reunion’s theme celebrates the centenary of Victorian Women’s Voting in 2008 and the Museum’s exhibition Trailblazers: Migrant Women Activists.
Date: Sunday 1 June, 2pm to 4pm
Cost: $12 per person ($8 MV Members), including Reunion, Museum admission and light refreshments
Bookings essential, ph 9927 2754
WINTER KIDS FEST: EXPERIENCE JAPAN!
In celebration of the gorgeous special exhibition, Kimono: Osaka’s Golden Age, the Immigration Museum is presenting a one-day festival just for kids highlighting all things Japanese. Children and families will have the opportunity to watch a Bunraku puppet performance from Barking Spider Visual Theatre, then make kakeshi dolls and Japanese Hanging fish, create a kimono for a paper doll, fold an origami Samurai hat, decorate a Japanese fan, and learn how to dress in a yukata kimono.
Date: 11am to 4pm, Sunday 6 July 2008
Cost: adult $6, children and concession FREE
SHARE YOUR COMMUNITY’S STORY AT THE IMMIGRATION MUSEUM
Community exhibitions at the Immigration Museum offer the opportunity to tell your community’s story through text, images and objects. Your group will develop the exhibition with our assistance and advice. Exhibition ideas are selected annually through a competitive process, with applications now open for exhibitions in 2010.
For further information, contact the Immigration Museum on 03 9927 2727 or go to museumvictoria.com.au/immigrationmuseum
Date: applications close on 31 July 2008
Immigration Museum, 400 Flinders Street, Melbourne. Open daily from 10.00am to 5.00pm (except Good Friday and Christmas Day). Enquiries: 13 11 02 or museumvictoria.com.au/immigrationmuseum
