January Workshops and Programs
Sat 18 Jan: NSW State Records Conservation Talk with Dominique Moussou. The exhibition, The Air Up There: Vintage Tourism in the Blue Mountains features paper-based objects from NSW State Records. Find out how State Records protect their collection, as well as ideas on how you can protect your collections in your own home.
1pm – 2.30pm Free Event. Bookings essential.
Tues 20 Jan: Keepsake Postcard Workshops
Explore a range of creative techniques to make postcards as “Keepsakes”. The workshop includes a tour of the exhibitions, Keepsake and The Air Up There. Participants’ work will be exhibited in the Keepsake Postcard Exhibition from 25-27 January.
10 -12noon Age: 5-8
1-3pm Age: 8+
Cost: $20 ($30 per family); $15 InSight Members ($25 per family)
Wed 22 Jan: Mobile Phone Photography
A full day introduction to mobile phone photography using an iPhone (iPad or Android device) with Keepsake Photographer David Brazil (see below for more information)
10 – 4.30pm Age: 10+
Cost: $45; $40 InSight Members
•• Postcards due for exhibition
Thur 23 Jan: Make your own recycled “Snowdome”: or message in a bottle!
Is there an idea or memory that you’d like to capture and “keep” … bring along tiny treasures and a recycled round lidded bottle to create a small imaginary world as a “Keepsake”. This workshop will also include a tour of the exhibitions, Keepsake and The Air Up There.
10am -12 noon Age: 6-8
1-3pm Age: 8+
Cost: $20 ($30 per family); $15 InSight Members ($25 per family)
Fri 24 Jan: E-Bling Workshop
Recycle electronic waste to make some very cool bling with Kathy O’Hara of Scrapture Studios! Items produced in this workshop can be submitted to the Waste to Art Exhibition at the Cultural Centre in March.
10am – 1pm Age: 8+
Cost: $20 ($30 per family); $15 InSight Members ($25 per family)
Sat 25 Jan Keepsake Postcard Exhibition and 2014 Summer Harvest Kitchen Workshops
Sun 26 Jan Keepsake Postcard Exhibition and 2014 Summer Harvest Kitchen Workshops
Mon 27 Jan Keepsake Postcard Exhibition
NB. The program will be continually updated so please do keep checking the website at http://bluemountainsculturalcentre.com.au/public-programs/ for what’s coming up and for more details as they become available.
Bookings essential for all events to 4780 5410.
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December 22, 2013
September 4, 2013
Legends of Lithgow - Capturing the Lithgow community
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| The Zig-Zag railway, Lithgow Valley, 1873, drawn by C. Martens, image courtesy SLNSW |
Organisation Name: Lithgow Library Learning Centre
Event Type: Exhibition
When: Saturday, 7 September 2013 to Friday, 20 September 2013 from 09:00 am to 06:00 pm (Monday to Friday), 09:00 am to 12:00 pm (Saturday)
Where: Lithgow Library Learning Centre, 157 Main Street , Lithgow
Cost: Free
Contact: Kay Shirt, 02 6352 9100, local.studies@lithgow.nsw.gov.au,
This display of photographs, family documents and ephemera
donated to the library will provide a glimpse of the Lithgow community
and show how the library is involved in preserving community heritage.
The display will also include entries in the Lithgow Branch of the
National Trust inaugural history competition. The display will be opened
on Friday, 6 September with an address by Dr Margaret Penson on the
role of the library in preserving Lithgow’s history.
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