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a message from the Mayor! WELCOME TO THE 2014 FREMANTLE The program this year includes some tried and HERITAGE FESTIVAL as we remember the true favourites including tours by the Fremantle people and places of Fremantle of the past as well as Volunteer Heritage Guides, local history celebrate the contemporary uses of our wonderfully workshops and Arthur Grady Day—now bigger preserved port city. and better than ever, celebrating everything vintage. It also includes exciting new events like Fremantle This year we get a great insight into the history and As It Was, As We Were Inc’s Antique Treasure development of future Fremantle as local businesses Show, an exclusive glimpse at the artwork hidden Bread in Common, the Hougoumont Hotel and inside Fremantle’s Prison and enough music and EVENT PRESENTED BY the National Hotel invite the public on a guided dance events to keep you moving all week! The tour through their beautifully readapted heritage University of Notre Dame Australia has brought buildings. Owners and/or architects from each will together its own popular historians as well as others discuss the process of renovating a historic building from Murdoch University, Edith Cowan University, in Fremantle for contemporary use and the value in Curtin University and the Maritime Museum of using these grand spaces in our city. WA to present a series of talks on Empire, Faith Running from Friday 9 May to Sunday 18 May and Conflict in Fremantle since 1829. Notre to coincide with the broader Western Australian Dame will also host a rousing keynote address EVENT SUPPORTED BY heritage festival being organised by the National by Professor Michael McCarthy of the Maritime Trust of Australia (WA), the festival will open Museum of WA as he retells the story of the with a flourish as we partner with Esplanade Hotel imperial pursuit of Fremantle. Fremantle by Rydges to bring you festival programs These are just a tiny sample of the many uniquely stamped by an antique Arab printing press and varied events in this year’s festival which (c1873)—you can watch the wheels spinning and promises to highlight the diverse culture and rich cogs turning before you walk away with your program history of Fremantle. fresh off the press! The evening will continue with an Awards Night to celebrate the work of individuals I hope you can make it down and be part of the adding to Fremantle’s local history through their Fremantle story. published or unpublished research as well as DR BRAD PETTITT multimedia projects including online exhibitions, FREMANTLE MAYOR photographs and audio visual material. BROWN COW DESIGN 11-04-14 FRE764 COW BROWN IMPORTANT NOTES The number of participants per event is often limited. Please pay careful attention to the 'booking enquiry' details. LEGENDS family friendly wheelchair/disabled access 18+ Event table of CONTENTS SpECIAL Events .................................................... 4-6 TALKS a Tours ......................................................7-15 ART a the Outdoors .....................................16-21 MUSIC a Movement ..................................22-27 PERFORMANCE a Participation..................................................... 28-31 EVENTS Calendar ..........................................32-33 FESTIVAL Supporters ............................... 34-35 page 3 SPECIAL Events Fresh off the Press! Come down to the beautiful Esplanade Festival Hotel by Rydges and help us open the 2014 Heritage Festival in style as the Little Press, Launch! a fabulous design and hand-printing company, operate an antique Arab printing press (c1873). Watch the big fly wheel turn and hear it clunk as the printers work the foot treadle and hand feed programs into the press. In front of your eyes they will emblazon your festival program with a limited edition print! If you love it so much you want another, the Little Press will be hand mixing a whole new colour for their print run on Saturday and Sunday. Enjoy refreshments and musical entertainment in Marine Lounge Bar as you take a closer look at some antique letterpress printing equipment on display and wooden block type letters ADDITIONAL DATES OF OPERATION available to touch. OF THE PRINTING PRESS Presented by: City of Fremantle and Esplanade Hotel Fremantle 10am – 2pm, Saturday 10 May by Rydges 10am – 2pm, Sunday 11 May Date Date: 5-9pm, Friday 9 May Marine Lounge Bar, Esplanade Hotel Fremantle by Price: Where Website: www.thelittlepress.net Rydges, cnr Marine Tce & Essex St Price Booking [email protected] or 9432 9999 Enquiry Awards Night: Website www.fremantlestory.com.au Celebrating Local History Nominations for the Local History Awards are open every year to recognise historiographical contributions in the form of published and unpublished works of non-fiction as well as multimedia works including photographs, pictorial works, drawings, maps, audio or audio visual material, that focus on the Date 7pm, Friday 9 May diverse social and cultural heritage of Fremantle and the Town of Carnac Room, Esplanade Hotel East Fremantle. This event celebrates the valuable contributions Where Fremantle by Rydges, cnr Marine Tce made to Fremantle’s story and those individuals working hard to & Essex St present and preserve them. Each submission is viewed by three Price Light refreshments provided independent and learned judges with a first place prize of $500 available to the winner in each of the three categories. Bookings essential; Booking [email protected] Presented by: City of Fremantle and Esplanade Hotel Enquiry or 9432 9999 Fremantle by Rydges Website www.fremantlestory.com.au page 4 Arthur Grady Day This event continues to grow! Originally a motorcycle ride and display paying homage to Arthur Grady, a Fremantle bicycle maker who became the first person to ride a motorcycle around Australia, this event now celebrates everything vintage. This year over 200 vintage motorcycles will be joined by fascinating displays from the: Veteran Car Club of WA, Bus Preservation Society, Vintage Commercial Vehicle Association, Vintage Cycle Club of WA, Vintage Pram Society, Machine Preservation Society and Hand Tool Preservation Society. Join us and experience: • the best selection of veteran, vintage and classic motorcycles • demonstrations of antique hand tools • a mobile display of vintage bicycles • a selection of vintage prams from 1865-1960 including English Coachbuilt and Australian Cane Prams • see the street filled with pre 1930’s cars • and enjoy a BBQ and entertainment by the Juke Joint Band; the ‘Mad Tatters Morris’ Dancers; and, Resonate singing group. Date 11am - 3pm, Saturday 10 May If you have a vehicle you would like to include in the display, contact Where Kings Square, Fremantle details are below. Price And if you have any antique and/or perplexing tools around the Booking [email protected] house, the Hand Tool Preservation Society will happily try and Enquiry or 9432 9999 identify them for you and even tell you how they operate. Find them www.fremantlestory.com.au in in Many 6160 (formerly Myer). Website Freo Antique Treasure Show Ever wondered what those items handed down to you or stuck in the back of your cupboard are worth? Discover the story behind your hidden treasures! The Freo Antique Treasure Show will be giving you the chance to have your antiques appraised for free, by local antique dealers. Other features of the day include: • a Freo photographic exhibition of historical photos, some that have never been seen by the public • a chance to dress up in our vintage clothes with your own take home, antique look photo! 10am – 4pm, Saturday 10 May • various stalls including historical canvas prints and antique Date jewellery Where Victoria Hall, 179 High Street • photo preservation: Bring down or donate your old Freo Price photographs to be scanned into the local history collections so an important part of our heritage can live on forever! Booking www.facebook.com/fremantleasitwas Enquiry or 0474 076 484. • prizes will be awarded for the best photos! Website www.facebook.com/fremantleasitwas Presented by: Fremantle As It Was, As We Were Inc page 5 Keynote FREMANTLE: t last Address! In this special keynote address Mack McCarthy will illuminate the desperate (pathologically-human?) quest for empire, and how Outpost of Empire Fremantle itself came so late as a pawn in an international game. Keynote Address by Professor Michael (Mack) Join us for refreshments after the talk. McCarthy, Maritime Museum of WA Presented by: The University of Notre Dame Australia and the City of Fremantle Join us for the inaugural Heritage Festival keynote address, brought to you by the City of Fremantle and the University of Professor Michael (Mack) McCarthy is a senior archaeologist of the Notre Dame Australia. Maritime Museum in Western Australia. A public speaker of note, his research has gained popular attention in recent years partly as a result of We are delighted to welcome senior archaeologist and curator, his role in the discovery of the wrecks of William Dampier’s Roebuck Professor Michael (Mack) McCarthy, who will headline the and L’ Uranie, the transport of the lovers Rose and Louis deFreycinet in 'Empire, Faith and Conflict: Fremantle since 1829' public talks the Atlantic and the HMAS Sydney, Australia’s most significant naval program at Notre Dame. loss of the Second World War off Shark Bay. In this keynote address Fremantle was one of the last, remote outposts of Europe's great for the Fremantle Heritage Festival, Professor McCarthy