Message from the President,
Bruce Smith
Happy New Year members and volunteers.

We've started the year with a bang in our usual tradition with the performances of the Australia Day play.  While enjoying dinner under the stars, audiences were met with a vain judge and an array of unsavory (but hilarious) characters from a 19th century court.  We've got plenty of  other events and exhibitions lined up for you to enjoy this year. Oh! And we've got a new path from the carpark to the front entrance so you don't have to walk on the road.
Best wishes.

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. 

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

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. 
New gates have been installed and the cairn has been moved next to the gates. 
Work has yet to be completed to have three flag poles placed together facing Smith Street.  Directional signage is also being developed.
Thank you to the Alexander clan (Doug, Annabelle, their son Edward and grandson Austin), Tony Spinks, Russell Dinte & Adriaan Vriend for their hard work with this project.

Photos by Ian Munday, Annabelle Alexander & Sylvia McGarry

And a bit later ... ready for visitors

Theatre Redlands was a finalist in the Cultural section of the Redland Coast Australia Day Awards 2021 sponsored by Redland City Council. 
(Below L to R) Ray Noonan, Bruce Smith, Jan Nary, Sharon Vassallo, and Debra Spearritt attended the awards night at Alexandra Hills Hotel.
Unfortunately, they were "pipped at the post" by the Town Crier but that won't stop them providing quality, entertaining and innovative productions for the enjoyment of Museum members and visitors.

Theatre Redlands received two GOLD PALM THEATRE AWARDS in 2020 for their Halloween production, When the Darkness Moves, written and directed by Jan Nary.

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