explore...excite...escape... Message from the President, WHAT'S ON Following sold-out shows last September BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL! explore and learn at Redland Museum SAILING SOUTH - Exhibition Above: John Gould's "Birds of Australia" Our talented Exhibition Officer, Rick Thomason, has done it again. This time -marvelous maritime stories to accompany the Australia Day play. Included is a display on famous botanist Sir Joseph Banks who accompanied Captain James Cook on his 1763 expedition to the south Pacific (below). Left (upper model): The "Norfolk" which transported convicts from 1825 to 1837. Her second voyage in 1829 included seven Greeks convicted for piracy - the first unwilling Greek immigrants! Left (lower model): British Royal Navy ship "Investigator" on which Matthew Flinders circumnavigated Australia in 1801-1803. excite your imagination at Redland Museum SAILING SOUTH - AUSTRALIA DAY PLAY Opening week saw sold-out covid-safe performances of "Sailing South", a play by Judith Prior, directed by Kath Kunde, and presented by Mates Theatre Genesis. And there's no better way to celebrate your birthday, as Museum volunteer Cathy Beadley can attest, than by doing it at our play and dinner. Hope you had a happy and enjoyable birthday, Cathy! Photos by Paul Ledington, Wendy Boglary & Sylvia McGarry Thank you to the cast and crew of MTG for their entertaining performances. Thank you also to the many wonderful volunteers who made the events a success and those that will do the same for the forthcoming performances. We can't do it without you! NEW PATH Thanks to funding of $6800 of a Jeffery and Geraldine Underhill grant administered by Redland Foundation, the Museum has been able to build a new concrete path that will enable visitors to walk safely from the carpark to the Smith Street front entrance. Photos by Ian Munday, Annabelle Alexander & Sylvia McGarry And a bit later ... ready for visitors escape to a different world at Redland Museum AWARDS Theatre Redlands was a finalist in the Cultural section of the Redland Coast Australia Day Awards 2021 sponsored by Redland City Council. Theatre Redlands received two GOLD PALM THEATRE AWARDS in 2020 for their Halloween production, When the Darkness Moves, written and directed by Jan Nary. The editors, Sharon Vassallo and Sylvia McGarry, will endeavour to provide you with articles about items in our Collection and historical facts on the Redlands. But we would like to hear from members. What would you like for inclusion? Do you have a story to tell? The newsletter will continue to be sent at the end of each month (except for December which maybe earlier). Editors can be contacted at recollections@redlandmuseum.org.au |