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Season’s Greetings from Australia ICOMOS
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Australia ICOMOS Secretariat Office closure for the holiday season
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Tasmanian Heritage Council seeks EOIs for their Works Committee
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Feedback Wanted on Victorian Heritage Register Criteria and Guidelines
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Finding and Understanding Historical Sources in Australia and the Pacific: a workshop for Anthropologists, Historians and Linguists, Canberra, January 2014
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Fun for families at Port Arthur this summer, PAHSMA media release
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Upcoming IPPHA courses for 2014
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Australia ICOMOS New Membership Applications
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A bulletin from Heritage Tasmania and the Tasmanian Heritage Council
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18th ICOMOS General Assembly – call for papers
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New Masters program in Urban and Cultural Heritage, University of Melbourne
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Mount Lofty Ranges World Heritage Bid – seeking EOI for advisory and focus groups
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Heritage Interpretation and Tourism conference, Croatia – call for papers
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Open Palaces Opportunity for emerging interpretation professionals
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Call for Submissions to the CyArk 500
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New book available for purchase
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Athens: Heritage and Modernity – 13 day visit of Athens in 2014
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Port Arthur Talks, Thursday 23 January 2014
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Scholarships for the Advanced Masters in Structural Analysis of Monuments and Historical Constructions
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Restore a School in Nepal, a Conservation & Restoration 2014 workshop – call for registrations
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SITUATION WANTED PhD researcher seeks 2 month placement in Australia
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SITUATION VACANT Tenders invited for the 2013/14-75 Accessing Our Regional Heritage Stage 2 Business Plan project, Ballarat City Council
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1. Season’s Greetings from Australia ICOMOS
The Australia ICOMOS President and Executive Committee extend Seasons Greetings and Best Wishes for 2014.
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2. Australia ICOMOS Secretariat Office closure for the holiday season
The Australia ICOMOS office will be closed from COB Wednesday 18 December 2013 to Friday 10 January 2014 inclusive. The office will reopen on Monday 13 January 2014, and the first e-newsletter for 2014 will be published on Friday 17 January.
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3. Tasmanian Heritage Council seeks EOIs for their Works Committee
Expressions of Interest are being sought from interested individuals to occupy a vacancy as a general representative (non-Heritage Council member) on the Works Committee.
The Works Committee has an important role to play in assisting the Heritage Council to ensure the sound statutory management of places on the Tasmanian Heritage Register.
Meetings are usually held each fortnight and can operate as a video link between Devonport, Hobart and Launceston. Members are entitled to sitting fees and travel expenses.
Those interested in expressing their interest must provide a written statement in support of their nomination, their current Curriculum Vitae and the contact details of two referees.
Nominations must be submitted to:
Dr Dianne Snowden, Chair
Tasmanian Heritage Council
GPO Box 618
Hobart TAS 7001
by 5pm, Friday 10 January 2014.
For further information please phone 1300 850 332 (for the cost of a local call).
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4. Feedback Wanted on Victorian Heritage Register Criteria and Guidelines
A year ago the Heritage Council of Victoria adopted “Assessing the cultural heritage significance of places and objects for possible state heritage listing: The Victorian Heritage Register Criteria and Threshold Guidelines” for use in registration processes under the Heritage Act.
The guidelines can be found by clicking here (opens PDF).
The Heritage Council agreed to review these guidelines after 12 months of operation.
The Heritage Council is now seeking your feedback on the guidelines. The Heritage Council would particularly like to know how useful the guidelines are and if improvements can be made.
You can provide your feedback by completing the online survey or by emailing Renae Jarman.
Comments are invited before 31 January 2014.
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5. Finding and Understanding Historical Sources in Australia and the Pacific: a workshop for Anthropologists, Historians and Linguists, Canberra, January 2014
Finding and Understanding Historical Sources in Australia and the Pacific
Australian National University, Canberra
28 – 30 January 2014
As anthropologists, historians and linguists are aware, historical documents, or unpublished sources, can contain important information on aspects of Pacific Islander and Australian Aboriginal cultures. Over three days, this workshop will explore the historical archives and the research techniques required to identify and interpret material relevant to kinship, land, social organisation and language. Beginning with an introduction on archives; their formation, their organisation, what is in them and what isn’t, the workshop will include a master class at St Mark’s National Memorial Library (Canberra), the repository of much of Lorimer Fison’s collection of kinship data. The target audience will be anthropologists, linguists and historians—be they students, practitioners or academic staff—and may be of interest to those working in Heritage and Native Title. Registration is not necessary but if you are interested in attending, please email Piers Kelly.
The draft program is included below:
Tuesday 28 January 2014
9.30am-11am: Helen Gardner introductory seminar ‘Hunting Fison: finding archival material relevant to the writing of Kamilaroi and Kurnai’
Using Lorimer Fison’s complex archive of manuscript material as an example, Helen Gardner will present on searching for, handling and interpreting the Fison archive. Her presentation will include the following:
- Where the Fison manuscript material is held and why it is spread over such a wide number of institutions
- The differences in cataloguing and accessing the material according to the institution
- The mediums in which the Fison archival material is held: eg microfilm, online, hard-copy
- Handling and reading issues: including problems with handwriting, sifting through uncatalogued material, dealing with microfilm
- Interpreting missionary material
1-4pm: Visit to St Mark’s National Memorial Library
Wednesday 29 January and Thursday 30 January
Presenters will include Jeanie Bell (Batchelor Institute), Bruce Birch (Iwaidja Inyman), Tony Jefferies (ANU) and James Rose (NTSCORP) who will present informal workshops on using oral history, genealogy and historical documents for the reconstruction of family, social organisation, land and language groups. Archival and historical documents will be used for discussion and analysis by the group.
If there are others who wish to make a presentation of 30-45 minutes, please email Patrick McConvell and and Piers Kelly with a title and short abstract (100-200 words) by 20 December 2013. A more detailed program will be circulated in late December.
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6. Fun for families at Port Arthur this summer, PAHSMA media release
Australia ICOMOS is committed to the dissemination of relevant cultural heritage information. In line with this commitment we are circulating the following media release from the Port Arthur Historic Site Management Authority (PAHSMA), dated 16 December 2013.
Nobody needs to miss out on a Ghost Tour at Port Arthur this summer just because the children should be in bed or are afraid of the dark. Special PG–rated family-friendly ghost tours will be offered early each evening, finishing before nightfall. The definition of family is pretty friendly too…2 adults and up to six children can join the fun for $65.
Our late-night, adults only Paranormal Investigation Experience will be offered twice monthly during the warmer months of January, February and March.
By day, Devonshire tea will be served in the gloriously refurbished Visiting Magistrates House – if the weather is fine, tea on the veranda affords a magnificent vista over the Site.
The kids can get their hands dirty with the Traditional Trades program while developing an understanding of history and conservation, as they try their hand at stone masonry and bricklaying.
Convict love tokens were small engraved mementos made by convicts for their friends and relatives to remember them by and are the focus of another new activity at our Education Centre. Using the designs of genuine convict tokens excavated at Port Arthur as inspiration, kids can make their own love token using a variety of techniques. This activity joins our perennial favourite, peg dolls, convict brick making and phantascopes.
Our new Hidden Secrets Activity Book, available free of charge from the ticketing counter, is packed full of activities and puzzles; a great way for children over the age of eight to discover the history of Port Arthur.
Our series of short History Plays bring the stories of Port Arthur to life. Each of the three plays are performed twice daily (weather permitting), directed by Chris Hamley and performed by Chris with Sara Pensalfini, Nelson Ohl and Michael Edgar.
Access to all these daytime family activities are included in the site entry fee.
Full details of the Port Arthur Historic Site Summer Program
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7. Upcoming IPPHA courses for 2014
The Institute for Professional Practice in Heritage & the Arts (IPPHA) is once again offering their most popular courses at Kosciuszko National Park and Port Arthur – get in early if you want places in these award winning courses.
- The Physical Conservation of Buildings and Structures
31 March – 5 April 2014 at Kosciuszko National Park
A 6 day field-based professional development short course covering a range of physical conservation issues and strategies for conserving buildings and structures in place and landscape.
Part of a program awarded the ANU’s 2010 Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence in Education. See the Advance Notice – Physical conservation of buildings and structures flier for more information.
- Best Practice in Managing Heritage Places
3 – 9 August 2014 at Port Arthur, Tasmania
An Advanced Professional Development Short Course presented by leading industry trainers Professor Sharon Sullivan And Dr Michael Pearson.
Part of a program awarded the ANU’s 2010 Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence in Education. See the Advance notice – Best Practice in Managing Heritage Places flier for more information.
To fill in an expression of interest form go to the IPPHA website.
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8. Australia ICOMOS New Membership Applications
There are many benefits in joining ICOMOS – not only the fantastic people you will meet but Membership of Australia ICOMOS brings discounts at ICOMOS functions, at many conferences in Australia and internationally and on ICOMOS publications. The E-mail News provides a weekly bulletin board of information and events in Australia and overseas, including state based events, conferences and site visits, as well as information on heritage publications, funding and grant opportunities, course details and job offers. Members also receive a number of issues annually of the Australia ICOMOS refereed journal Historic Environment. Applications for members to join the Australia ICOMOS Executive Committee (EC) are encouraged from all states and territories. For Young Professional and full Members, the International ICOMOS card gives free or reduced rate entry to many historic and cultural sites.
Australia ICOMOS welcomes new members and would like to encourage students and young cultural heritage graduates to apply for membership. There are various membership categories and applications can be to be made to the Secretariat:
- Those who are interested in ICOMOS but who do not meet the requirements for full membership, or else do not have heritage conservation as their core focus, could apply to become Associates of ICOMOS
- Those at the beginning of a career in architecture, archaeology, planning or history with 3 years experience and who are under 30 years of age may be eligible for Young Professional membership at reduced rates
For further information go to the Membership page of the Australia ICOMOS website, or download the Australia ICOMOS 2014 MEMBERSHIP Application Form.
Membership applications are only considered at meetings of the Executive Committee – in order for your application to be considered at the February 2014 Executive Committee meeting, please submit it to the Secretariat by COB Friday 31 January 2014.
If further information is required, email the Membership Secretary, John Wadsley.
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9. A bulletin from Heritage Tasmania and the Tasmanian Heritage Council
Further to our combined November/December 2013 edition we want to advise that the selection process for the Tasmanian Heritage Council Expression of Interest (EOI) has now been finalised.
This process has resulted in the appointment of five new members and the reappointment of one existing member. For further information about the outcome of this process, click here.
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10. 18th ICOMOS General Assembly – call for papers
Dear Australia ICOMOS members,
There is now a call for papers for the Scientific Symposium which will take place in Florence, Italy, on the occasion of the 18th ICOMOS General Assembly, from 10 to 14 November 2014, on the theme:“ Heritage and Landscape as Human Values”.
The call for papers is also available on the home page of the ICOMOS website and has been sent to the entire ICOMOS membership via the ICOMOS e-News.
The deadline for abstracts is 31 January 2014. For all further details, please refer to the 2014 ICOMOS General Assembly – call for papers – UPDATED.
The GA2014 Organizing Committee and the ICOMOS International Secretariat have received questions for clarifications concerning the call for papers for the 18th ICOMOS General Assembly Scientific Symposium “Heritage and Landscape as Human Values”.
The questions concerned :
- whether non-members can submit abstracts: Yes both ICOMOS members and non-members may submit abstracts;
- whether authors can submit more than one abstract: No more than one abstract per author will be considered (unless for the second abstract you are not the principal author).
I would strongly encourage a large Australian participation in this event, which is always full of interesting papers and interchange.
Further information
Symposium Scientific Secretariat and address for sending abstracts: email GA2014
General enquiries about the 18th General Assembly: email 18ICOMOS2014
Visit the 18th General Assembly webpage for further information.
Feel free to contact me (email Elizabeth) if you have any comments not answered on the website.
Elizabeth Vines OAM
President, Australia ICOMOS
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11. New Masters program in Urban and Cultural Heritage, University of Melbourne
A new Masters program in Urban and Cultural Heritage to be launched in the Melbourne School of Design, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne from 2014.
“It is a unique cross-disciplinary program open to a wide range of graduates, who are passionate about the social and cultural dimensions of the built environment in the 21st century. The interpretation, management and conservation of urban and cultural heritage is increasingly a matter of urgency and significance, and this program includes integrated approaches to heritage, and heritage design, research, theory and presentation. It incorporates the possibility of a heritage internship, and is a flexible structure with multiple pathways.”
Information on applying, etc, can be found by clicking here.
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12. Mount Lofty Ranges World Heritage Bid – seeking EOI for advisory and focus groups
Members of the public are invited to submit Expressions of Interest to serve (pro bono publico) over the next two years on advisory groups and/or to participate in focused discussion groups in various areas – for further information and how to submit an EOI, see the Mount Lofty Ramges website.
EOIs dues by Friday 17 January 2014.
Download the Mount Lofty Ranges EOIs ad.
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13. Heritage Interpretation and Tourism conference, Croatia – call for papers
Heritage Interpretation and Tourism – Enhancing the tourist’s experience and benefitting host communities
Primošten, Croatia
10-13 May 2014
Dalmatia in Croatia will be the inspiring location for Interpret Europe’s 2014 conference. With its beautiful coast Dalmatia is a leading destination for seaside holidays. Away from the beaches it also boasts rich natural and cultural sites and attractive towns and villages that have huge potential for heritage interpretation.
The conference will consider how high quality interpretation can attract people to visit heritage sites, encourage them to explore inland and help extend tourism beyond the peak season. It will explore how heritage interpretation can bring benefits both for tourists and for local communities.
Points of discussion will include:
- heritage interpretation can complement resort tourism
- well-planned and well-executed interpretation can inspire tourists
- interpretation can impact positively on the economy of popular tourism destinations
- interpretation can also contribute to regional identity and local pride
- interpretation planning and delivery can involve local people as well as experts
- we can learn from best practice, success factors, lessons learnt and research results
Deadline for abstracts: 31 December 2013
Visit the conference website for further information.
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14. Open Palaces Opportunity for emerging interpretation professionals
Organisation – Open Palace Programme
Location – England
Type – 3 week experience (unpaid)
Closing date – 31 December 2013
The Open Palace Programme is a unique opportunity for students and emergent professionals to step inside the most significant palaces and stately homes in England and gain excellent first hand experience of heritage specialisms alongside expert palace professionals. Our 3 week experience includes:
- A week in London finding out for yourself how the Palace specialists care for, present and interpret the Royal Palaces, Hampton Court, Kensington Palace and the Tower of London and engaging in practical challenges at each palace
- A week in the splendid city of Bath, in the company of the Bath Preservation Trust Professionals at No 1 Royal Crescent and other key sites learning how they are preserving and interpreting the most wonderful heritage properties and engaging in on-site practical activities
- A week in beautiful Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire exploring the incomparable palaces of Blenheim and Stowe alongside their expert conservation and education teams and enjoy a celebratory dinner at Stowe house itself
This experience also includes a weekend staying in one of the loveliest eighteenth century rectories in England with the opportunity to visit the Jurassic coast of Dorset and the world heritage site of Stonehenge. You will also be able to visit other key heritage museums such as the Victoria and Albert Museum and the British Museum in London.
To find out more click here.
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15. Call for Submissions to the CyArk 500
The CyArk 500 Challenge is a global initiative of the California-based CyArk Foundation. The CyArk 500 offers a unique opportunity to use technology to help heritage beyond mere documentation to promote capacity building in all regions, and to assist management in periodic monitoring, interpretation, public awareness, promotion of visitation, etc.
In October, CyArk officially launched the 500 at the Tower of London. It was attended by over 200 individuals from over 30 countries. Not only did they have a great response from the Ambassadors, executives and heritage professionals in attendance, but they received an incredible reception in the press. Articles were published in some 200 publications and the overall reach for the event is being calculated at 700 million people.
Click here for a link (to YouTube video) to a short 2-minute video overview of the event and initial results.
Watch the video on the CyArk Website or via YouTube
At the Launch was announced the opening of a request for submissions along with a process guide for the 500. The first deadline for submissions is the end of this year.
The initial request is quite simple, a 1-2 page letter of interest describing the proposed project as well as how it relates to the three criteria developed by the CyArk 500 Advisory Council:
- Risk: the nature and imminence of the threat posed to the site
- Relevance: the position the site holds to the cultural identity of its region or country, and to humanity in general
- Merit: the positive, far-reaching benefits of digitally preserving the site and transferring technology to the region
The first set of nominations must be submitted electronically by 31 December 2013.
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16. New book available for purchase
It’s Grand Designs meets Country House Rescue when a historic Presbyterian manse on the New South Wales South Coast is researched and restored by leading conservation architect Peter Freeman.
Beautifully produced, The Wallpapered Manse chronicles the events that fashioned the manse (built in 1865 in the township of Moruya), and shares the step-by-step process of restoring a dilapidated historic building. We are shown the detailed restoration of an Australian historic house.
The book is available for $49.95 per copy (GST inclusive) + $10 postage. Please see The Wallpapered Manse flyer for payment options. Those who make payment by EFT are encouraged to email Peter Freeman with the payment details and a name and address for delivery.
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17. Athens: Heritage and Modernity – 13 day visit of Athens in 2014
Athens: Heritage and Modernity
Exploration of the coexistence between historic and modern Athens, Greece
Spring (March 16 – March 27, 2014) – (check-in Saturday, March 15 – check-out Friday, March 28)
Summer (June 29 – July 10, 2014) – (check-in Saturday, June 28 – check-out Friday, July 11)
This 13 day visit of Athens is a thoughtful exploration of the history, preservation and conservation issues facing the city, organized around a series of lectures and visits lead by some of the top Athenian archaeologists, architects, historians, conservators and planners who have been dealing with the problem of surveying, planning, and preserving monuments and cultural heritage in the midst of a growing modern city.
The faculty of our program includes internationally renowned scholars, such as Dr. Manolis Korres, who was Chief Architect on the Acropolis Restoration Project, who will be leading lectures and visits to the Acropolis area, as well as Dr. Fani Mallouchou Tufano, an expert on the history of restoration and was director of the Documentation Office of the Acropolis Restoration Service, and Dr. Alexandra Christopoulou, Deputy Director of the National Archaeological Museum of Athens.
The program is intended for people studying, or professionally involved in, the fields of: History, Archaeology, Architecture Art History, Architecture, Urban Planning, Anthropology, Conservation and Historic Preservation, but is also open for people with a general interest in any of the above mentioned subjects.
Further information is available by clicking here. Our deadlines for applying are: 1 February 1st 2014 for Spring, and 1 May 2014 for Summer.
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18. Port Arthur Talks, Thursday 23 January 2014
ʹTaking the Airʹ: Health Tourism at Eaglehawk Neck, 1875‐1920
presented by Dr Marian Walker
By the end of the nineteenth century Tasmania had developed a reputation for health tourism. From early settlement the island had been described in travel literature as the ‘Sanatorium of India’, the ‘Sanatorium of the Australian Colonies’ and the ‘Sanatorium of the South’. By the second half of the nineteenth century a variety of entrepreneurs began to capitalise on this rhetoric by establishing ‘sanatoriums’ and ‘health resorts’ designed specifically to attract invalids. This paper will examine this trend by employing the example of the ‘Lufra Hotel’ established near Port Arthur in 1899 by British naval doctor Dr Heber Dowling Ellis. It will conclude that while not all health enterprises established at this time could accurately have been described as ‘sanatoriums’, the ‘Lufra Hotel’ was one establishment that qualified more than most.
ALL WELCOME!
When: Thursday 23 January 2014 at 5.30pm
Where: Junior Medical Officer’s Conference Room
More information on the event is available in the ʹTaking the Airʹ (Port Arthur talk) flier.
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19. Scholarships for the Advanced Masters in Structural Analysis of Monuments and Historical Constructions
Applications for the Advanced Masters in Structural Analysis of Monuments and Historical Constructions, approved and financially sponsored by the European Commission within the framework of the Erasmus Mundus Programme, are open until 20 January 2014.
This Master Course is organized by a Consortium of leading European Universities/Research Institutions in the field, composed by University of Minho (coordinating institution, Portugal), the Technical University of Catalonia (Spain), the Czech Technical University in Prague (Czech Republic), the University of Padua (Italy) and the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Czech Republic). The course combines the most recent advances in research and development with practical applications.
A significant number of scholarships, ranging from 4000 to 24000 Euro, are available to students of any nationality.
The Consortium is also available to provide Erasmus Mundus International Fellowships to outstanding non-European scholars for teaching and research activities for a period of up to three months.
Download the SAHC course leaflet.
Please find full details on the MSc programme, as well as electronic application procedure, at the website.
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20. Restore a School in Nepal, a Conservation & Restoration 2014 workshop – call for registrations
This workshop is aimed at helping the local Nepali community and children of Shree Sana kisan Sahakari school Nepal restore their school to a habitable standard. The restoration workshop is designed to provide a relevant and broad foundation of knowledge, practical and subject-special skills. It will enable participants to contribute effectively in the various developing technologies and organisational procedures associated with Nepali architecture.
The workshop is delivered by Keith McAllister from Applied Building Conservation Training and Nepal Australia and is aimed at participants from the following categories: Architects, planners, consultants, builders, craftspeople, domestic and international university and TAFE students and homeowners of period buildings.
Program Structure
All participants attending the restoration workshop will have the opportunity to complete each of the following core subjects and experience the Nepali heritage culture.
- Conservation & restoration theory & principles
- Traditional lime rendering
- Lime mortar technology – mixing & gauging, repointing, restoration and conservation techniques
- Traditional floor lime concreting and screeding
- Timber conservation – replacement of window and doors, glazing.
- Construction of timber bridge and boundary fence
- Brick replacement
- Reinstating pathways
- The recognition of both tangible and intangible aspects of Nepali heritage values
- Cultural heritage tours
- Professional guided tours to Basecamp
- Experience the local cuisine by professional Nepali caterers
Dates and location
- The dates are: departing Australia Saturday 23 August and arriving back Wednesday 24 September 2014
- The location is Shree Sana Kisan Sahakari School, Dhading, Nepal, 40kms west from Kathmandu
For further information please see the Restoration of Nepal School flier or you can register online.
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21. SITUATION WANTED PhD researcher seeks 2 month placement in Australia
Liziane Mangili is developing PhD research at the Architecture and Urbanism Doctoral Program in the University of São Paulo, under the supervision of Professor Hugo Segawa.
She is studying a Brazilian cultural heritage site called Lençóis, a 19th century city created during a diamond boom that endured a series of crises until finally falling into decay in the 1970s. In an effort to stimulate tourism as an economic resource, locals proposed listing the city as a national cultural heritage site with IPHAN (Historical and Artistic National Heritage Institute) in 1971. Over these four decades under IPHAN management, Lençóis has been changed his cultural significance: the primary values, highlighted by the locals, were put apart; IPHAN has been prioritized only aesthetics and architectural values. The goal of her research at the current stage is to identify the values and the stakeholders of Lençóis, always observing the guidelines of The Burra Charter (2013).
She is therefore seeking an opportunity to exchange experiences with some institution that has faced or even faces similar challenges, particularly in Australia, where The Burra Charter was created. She would like to have the opportunity to work, or even to attend the processes, within an organization where she can learn more about the values-based approach to conservation.
She holds a scholarship from a Brazilian research agency so she can cover her expenses, and thinks that a two-month term in 2014 seems affordable. If anyone is able to host her for up to a 2 month period this would be much appreciated; please email Liziane to discuss the possibility of hosting her.
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22. SITUATION VACANT Tenders invited for the 2013/14-75 Accessing Our Regional Heritage Stage 2 Business Plan project, Ballarat City Council
Opening on Saturday 7 December 2013
BALLARAT City Council is seeking submissions from interested parties to perform the following:
2013/14-75 Accessing Our Regional Heritage Stage 2 Business Plan
The purpose of this project is to provide the City of Ballarat, Public Record Office Victoria (PROV) and Regional Development Victoria with fully developed, financially viable options for a sustainable model and commitment for an applicable option that will deliver:
- A public place with up to 7 day per week access to key Ballarat historical collections to meet community and stakeholder needs
- Strong leadership to support relationship building within Ballarat’s fragmented professional and volunteer heritage organisations
- A place that reflects the rich history of Ballarat through community storytelling, contemporary arts, education and interpretation – “to tell the Ballarat Story”
- A place to engage and provide opportunities for inclusion, wellbeing and lifelong learning for the community as well as stimulating volunteerism
- Opportunities for training and development for community, Indigenous and volunteer groups as well as postgraduate and professional staff in cultural heritage skills
- A place to provide safe, appropriate and secure storage and access to Ballarat’s broader irreplaceable documentary heritage to prevent their loss or destruction
- A place to support cultural, historical research and heritage tourism including, cultural events and exhibitions which complement and fill the gap in Ballarat’s story
- Linkages with Aboriginal groups researching family and providing specific training and education
- Innovative, integrated solutions with wide benefits for the whole community and region as well as for national and international visitors
- A place that has the potential to become self-sustaining through a mix of grants, partnerships and other innovative joint ventures
Tenders will close at 12 noon, Wednesday 15 January 2014.
Submissions must be lodged electronically or deposited in the Tender Box located in the TOWN HALL, BALLARAT, or posted to Tender Box, City of Ballarat, Box 655, Ballarat, Vic 3353 by the above tender close time and date.
Documents can be obtained from the Tenderlink website or by contacting the Customer Service Centre on (03) 5320 5500.
The envelope must be clearly marked with the Tender Name and Number
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Australia ICOMOS Secretariat
Georgia Meros, Secretariat Officer
Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific
Deakin University
221 Burwood Highway
Burwood VIC 3125
Telephone: (03) 9251 7131
Facsimile: (03) 9251 7158
Email: austicomos@deakin.edu.au
http://www.icomos.org/australia
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