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Useful Knowledge - MARK YOUR CALENDAR Comingseptember Events FEBRUARY 12 Let's Talk - MIV Community Halls Forum 13 130Th Tolmie Sports The Magazine of the Mechanics’ Institutes Of Victoria Inc. UsefulNo. Knowledge37 – Winter 2015 PO Box 1080, Windsor VIC 3181 Australia ISSN 1835-5242 Reg No. A0038156G ABN 60 337 355 989 Price: Five Dollars $5 THE MECHANICS' ON SHOW the Stereoscopic Panoramic Theatre wasOther established Institute in itor in Hall1977. relocations It also has followeda collection around of books. the State: the Narracan at Old Gippstown East Mechanics’ Institute (est. 1877) donated and relocated, Moe; to theCoal Kardella Creek, Mechanics’ Institute (est. 1893) Hall at Wimmera-Mallee Pioneer MuseumKorumburra in 1977; and the Warrup at Jeparit; and the SouthOld TailemLillimur TownInstitute (est. 1883) which was shifted on 25 October 1995 to just across the border Scarsdale Mechanics' Institute at Sovereign Hill, into South Australia. More Flagstaffrecently Ballarat. Photo: Lorraine Huddle Hill there has been the recreated Flagstaff But thenHill allMechanics’ Institutes Institute, are on show to In late June, early July there was evening TV , Warrnambool; saturation advertising for Sovereign Hill, Ballarat’s It was a well Christmas in July. the general public as street frontages, road produced advert, and in part it featured their somefrontages unfortunately or in isolated aren’t paddocks. signed. So Who we canknows put who is looking? Check out the range onHome flikr, floodlit Mechanics’ Institute and Free Library. is Where the Hall Is Month of November, our best foot forward for the forthcoming c1868).The Institute Sparsely furnished,building, which as those you old can Institutes enter, is the former Scarsdale Mechanics’ Institute (est. can we suggest a sign preferably and proudly declaring the Mechanics’ Institute name, with were, it has: some of the remnant library, along an establishment date. Also do a small sign ‘For with some other books from regional Institutes, Bookings Contact: Phone Number’. behind glass in the original bookcases; the ever a very important Open Day for the community. Plan an activity for November even if it is only present clock; a framed lithograph of Queen Victoria; and ‘a cheery fire’ still heats the competition for a picture or model of your hall The local school may even like to run a drawing shiftedbuilding. to The Sovereign building Hill. was purchased in 1971 for $200, with the clock being an extra $20, and then are after all our and your future. and these can be displayed on the day. Our youth This publicitySwan got Hillus to Pioneer thinking Settlement about the, new dates for reinvention - other Institutes in theme parks. There’s the: Hall thriving in the 21st century with(est. c.1872)the arrival at of the Paddle Steamer Gem in see page 5 Victoria’s first outdoor museum, which opened 1963. Later the Hall was relocated to the site and 2 Useful Knowledge - MARK YOUR CALENDAR ComingSEPTEMBER Events FEBRUARY 12 Let's Talk - MIV Community Halls Forum 13 130th Tolmie Sports. Enquiries tolmie. 7 [email protected] Gymkhana and Sports Day @ Lilydale Athenaeum Gunn’s Plains Hall (Tas), 90th MARCH OCTOBERAnniversary Celebrations 3-4 Pomonal Hall - Native Flower Show your event now! 9-11 Birregurra Festival and Art Show. 12-21 Cultural Diversity Week. Start planning Fair 10 St Arnaud - Open Day 19-20 Romsey Mechanics' Institute Antiques Enquiries: Liz Bashford 0475 265 249 JUNE 18-25NOVEMBER History Week TBCOCTOBER AIL AGM. Date and Venue to be advised. 1-30 Home is Where the Hall Is! Show 6 Snake Valley Hall Biennial Photographic 14 Road,MIV Annual Prahran, General 10am. Meeting, Prahran Mechanics' Institute, 39 St Edmonds NOVEMBERHistory Week 15 Arthurs Creek Mechanics’ Institute 3-6 Independent Libraries and Mechanics’ Garden Ramble Anniversary Ball TBC InstitutesRuffartz Biennial Worldwide Art Show 2016 22 Bundalaguah-Myrtlebank Hall – 60th 2016 – San JANUARY Franciso Mechanics’ Institute. Contact: [email protected] Institute 41st Antique Fair 7 Institute,American USA Membership Libraries - Annual 22-24 Fryerstown Burke and Wills Mechanics’ Meeting - San Franciso Mechanics’ MIV'S EVENTS CALENDAR IS NOW ONLINE! vicnet.net.au/~mivic/events Subscribe for weekly email updates on events throughout the week. The calendar will include events held at or by MIV Institute Members, and important dates and events that may be of interest to Institutes and other members of MIV. Member Institutes: email through details of your events, big and small to [email protected] for inclusion in the online calendar. MIV Contacts President: Robert Kingston Research:Archives ScanningPam Baragwanath Project; Plaques; Travelling Secretary: Judith Dwyer [email protected] [email protected] Exhibition: Judith Dwyer [email protected] Treasurer:Vice-President: Position Luke Vacant Mitchell [email protected] Magazine/Website: Bron Lowden MIRC/E-News [email protected] [email protected] MIV Magazine No. 37 – Winter 2015 3 MIV - VICNET.NET.AU/~MIVIC News Over the past few months, MIV has been rolling out its newOur websitenew site - isstill aimed currently at putting hosted our through Institute the State Library of Victoria's Vicnet web service. to see. In this digital age, more and more people members on show - front and centre - for everyone rely on searching the web for the information majoritythey need of about Council a place, directories and often will what only you list arean looking for cannot be found in enough detail. The Institute's name and contact number without any photographs of the place you are trying to find, and costlyunless toyou manage have the for capability some Committees), for your Institute Institutes to have its own website (which can prove difficult and for their activities or events. canWe be overlookedare endeavouring by people to tryingcreate to a findlittle a spaceplace on the web for each of our members to showcase providing a snippet of history, a few images of your and we would love people to be able to find your their Institute to the web surfers of the world. By Institute as the place for their event. Our member profiles are for our financial Institute Members Institute, both inside and out, hire availability and We are also in the process of digitising our who wish to have their information available. rates, facilities, regular events, membership details, contacts and social media profile links, we hope to be able to connect people with your Institute to old newsletters (our first issue, a seven page, encourage use and support of our members. text only document from way back in 1999) is MIV receives a few enquiries every year about interestingnow available to seeonline how in Institutes our magazine have changedarchive Institutes that may be available for hire for events over(vicnet.net.au/~mivic/magazine-archive). the years, and the ups and downs they Ithave is like weddings, exhibitions and photo/film shoots, gone through to get to where they are today, and we are happy to have these articles and stories available for people to follow through the 16 years of MIV's newsletters and magazines. Keep checking back as new newsletters (with coloured pictures added back in where available) are uploaded to our website. 4 Useful Knowledge EditorialAs we settle into the second half of the year, we NEW MEMBERS time has gone. Gary Bester look back at the first half and wonder where that Welcome to our new members: Gunns Plains Hall, Tasmania • Our upgraded website has opened new John Graham restorationopportunities of forthe MIVsocial, to culturalcarry out and one physical of its • objectives: "...to foster the preservation and • heritage of Mechanics' Institutes...". We want to • Tamaki Makaurau Library (National NEWSLETTER ROUND put our member Institutes on show for people to Library), New Zealand find on the world wide web. Tick after reading and pass it on Bron Lowd e n President ........................................................................ USEFUL KNOWLEDGE Vice-President .............................................................. 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( [email protected] and I will add you to ............................................................................................. via email enables you to see all the photos in full ............................................................................................. colour, and you can forward the magazine onto yourMEMBERSHIP Institute's RENEWALSCommittee or members. ............................................................................................. were ............................................................................................. due on 30 June 2015. If you have not yet paid Membership fees for the 2015-2016 year ............................................................................................. renew ASAP so you will not miss out on any news. your membership for the coming year, please ............................................................................................. 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