Visitors to Beechworth and locals re-acquainting themselves with the delights of their home town can explore free of charge the Historic & Cultural Precinct this Sunday 2 March between 10am and 2pm.
The Precinct Open Day is the first of a number of activities being planned by Indigo Shire Council during 2008 to mark the 150th anniversary of the nationally significant collection of gold era buildings known as the Historic & Cultural Precinct.
Open Day activities include the recreation of a police camp in the Police Paddocks and marching drills by the Mansfield Re-enactment Group, Precinct guides in period costume, souvenir stalls and more.
The Heritage Victoria, National Estate and National Trust-listed buildings include the Courthouse where Ned Kelly and his mother Ellen famously appeared, the Telegraph Station which still operates as a centre for Telegram transmission, the Gold Warden’s Office, Chinese Cultural Centre, Powder Magazine and Burke Museum where the fascinating Cabinet of Wonders: Treasure from the Beechworth Community exhibition is currently on show.
Several of the buildings were completed in 1858. Built of local honey-coloured granite, they replaced the weatherboard structures that sprang up soon after gold was discovered in 1852. By then more than 8000 miners were camped on Beechworth’s Spring and Reid’s Creek goldfields alone, and as the population grew, so to did the need for improved services such as law and order, communications, town planning, education, goldfields management and local government.
Beechworth Historic & Cultural Precinct FREE PUBLIC OPEN DAY, Sunday 2 March, 10am – 2pm.
For more information or to book a Ned Kelly or Gold Walking Tour, contact the Beechworth Visitor Information Centre, phone 1300 366 321 or visit www.beechworthonline.com.au
Thursday 28 February 2008
HISTORY, MUSIC & FUN! Easter - Friday 21 to Sunday 23 March 2008
Australian Youth Band set
to bring some pizzazz to 2008 Golden Horseshoes Festival
One of the most exciting musical outfits in the country, the Australian Youth Band, is set to bring some old style razzle-dazzle to the Beechworth Golden Horseshoes Festival this Easter.
This talented bunch of more than 40 young musicians is a fully equipped American-style marching band whose energy and flair have earned them an international reputation and a packed performance schedule.
The band has been invited to form the Victorian contingent of musicians for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Orchestra - a 2008-piece ensemble performing at Olympic venues in and around Beijing throughout the Games this August, as well as in Shanghai and Tianjin. More than 20 members of the AYB will be taking part.
The AYB will be a highlight of this year’s Grand Parade through the streets of picturesque Beechworth in north-east Victoria on Easter Saturday and a perfect fit for his year’s Festival theme of History, Music & Fun!
The ensemble has a vast repertoire ranging from upbeat marching numbers to show tunes and contemporary sounds to symphonic works, performing regularly at festivals and major community and sporting events around Australia and overseas including the Beijing International Youth Festival, World Marching Band Festival – Japan, AFL, NBL and NSL finals, MCG Olympic Torch Ceremony and ANZAC Day March in Melbourne.
The Victoria Police Pipe Band and the combined Albury Pipes & Drums and The Scots School Albury Pipe Band will add further colour to the spectacular annual Golden Horseshoes Grand Parade which this year will feature guest commentators, comedian John Walker and entertainer, Mark ‘Lazy Harry’ Stephens.
A host of other bands and musicians will also appear in the Grand Parade as well as the outdoor stage on Camp Street throughout the weekend, including the sensational Melbourne-based Inka Marka playing their irresistible South American rhythms.
A highlight of the Easter weekend in Beechworth, the Golden Horseshoes Grand Parade will be an unmissable event as dozens of outlandish, colourful, historic and funny floats vie for the inaugural Beechworth Bakery Perpetual Trophy for Best Float.
FOR ACCOMMODATION BOOKINGS AND FULL PROGRAM DETAILS OF THIS YEAR’S GOLDEN HORSESHOES FESTIVAL GO TO WWW.BEECHWORTHONLINE.COM.AU
to bring some pizzazz to 2008 Golden Horseshoes Festival
One of the most exciting musical outfits in the country, the Australian Youth Band, is set to bring some old style razzle-dazzle to the Beechworth Golden Horseshoes Festival this Easter.
This talented bunch of more than 40 young musicians is a fully equipped American-style marching band whose energy and flair have earned them an international reputation and a packed performance schedule.
The band has been invited to form the Victorian contingent of musicians for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Orchestra - a 2008-piece ensemble performing at Olympic venues in and around Beijing throughout the Games this August, as well as in Shanghai and Tianjin. More than 20 members of the AYB will be taking part.
The AYB will be a highlight of this year’s Grand Parade through the streets of picturesque Beechworth in north-east Victoria on Easter Saturday and a perfect fit for his year’s Festival theme of History, Music & Fun!
The ensemble has a vast repertoire ranging from upbeat marching numbers to show tunes and contemporary sounds to symphonic works, performing regularly at festivals and major community and sporting events around Australia and overseas including the Beijing International Youth Festival, World Marching Band Festival – Japan, AFL, NBL and NSL finals, MCG Olympic Torch Ceremony and ANZAC Day March in Melbourne.
The Victoria Police Pipe Band and the combined Albury Pipes & Drums and The Scots School Albury Pipe Band will add further colour to the spectacular annual Golden Horseshoes Grand Parade which this year will feature guest commentators, comedian John Walker and entertainer, Mark ‘Lazy Harry’ Stephens.
A host of other bands and musicians will also appear in the Grand Parade as well as the outdoor stage on Camp Street throughout the weekend, including the sensational Melbourne-based Inka Marka playing their irresistible South American rhythms.
A highlight of the Easter weekend in Beechworth, the Golden Horseshoes Grand Parade will be an unmissable event as dozens of outlandish, colourful, historic and funny floats vie for the inaugural Beechworth Bakery Perpetual Trophy for Best Float.
FOR ACCOMMODATION BOOKINGS AND FULL PROGRAM DETAILS OF THIS YEAR’S GOLDEN HORSESHOES FESTIVAL GO TO WWW.BEECHWORTHONLINE.COM.AU
Sunday 24 February 2008
2008 milestone for Beechworth Historic Precinct
In 2008 Beechworth celebrates the sesquicentenary of its nationally significant collection of gold era buildings known as the Historic & Cultural Precinct.
Indigo Shire Council will kick off a year of activities marking the 150th milestone of the Heritage Victoria, National Estate and National Trust-listed buildings with a public Open Day on Sunday 2 March offering free access to Precinct buildings, re-enactments and stalls.
Several of the buildings, including the Courthouse where Ned Kelly and his mother Ellen famously appeared, the Telegraph Station, and Gold Warden’s Office were completed in 1858. Built of local honey-coloured granite, they replaced the weatherboard structures that sprang up soon after gold was discovered in 1852. By then more than 8000 miners were camped on Beechworth’s Spring and Reid’s Creek goldfields alone, and as the population grew, so to did the need for improved services such as law and order, communications, town planning, education, goldfields management and local government.
Still with its original furniture and fittings, the Beechworth Courthouse is the jewel in the Precinct crown. Completed in June 1858, it operated continuously as a working Court for 131 years and has been the setting for some of the most fascinating court cases in Victoria’s history.
Ned Kelly appeared there twice, including his committal hearing over the murders of Constables Lonigan and Scanlon. Ned’s mother Ellen Kelly received a three-year jail sentence for the attempted murder of Constable Fitzpatrick and Elizabeth Scott, the first woman executed in Victoria, received the death sentence in this building.
Robert O’Hara Burke the ill-fated explorer, and Police Superintendent in Beechworth from 1854-58, once sat at the bench and Justice Sir Redmond Barry presided over many trials there. Sir Isaac Isaacs started his legal career here before rising to become Australia’s first native-born Governor-General.
The Precinct also includes the Chinese Protector’s Office, the Gold Warden’s Office.
Police Stables, Police Lockup, Police Reserve, Town Hall, Robert O’Hara Burke Memorial Museum and the Powder Magazine, located a short distance from the Precinct complex.
The 150th anniversary of the Beechworth Historic & Cultural Precinct will be commemorated throughout the year.
Beechworth Historic & Cultural Precinct FREE PUBLIC OPEN DAY, Sunday 2 March, 10am – 2pm.
For more information or to book a Ned Kelly or Gold Walking Tour, contact the Beechworth Visitor Information Centre, phone 1300 366 321 or visit www.beechworthonline.com.au
Indigo Shire Council will kick off a year of activities marking the 150th milestone of the Heritage Victoria, National Estate and National Trust-listed buildings with a public Open Day on Sunday 2 March offering free access to Precinct buildings, re-enactments and stalls.
Several of the buildings, including the Courthouse where Ned Kelly and his mother Ellen famously appeared, the Telegraph Station, and Gold Warden’s Office were completed in 1858. Built of local honey-coloured granite, they replaced the weatherboard structures that sprang up soon after gold was discovered in 1852. By then more than 8000 miners were camped on Beechworth’s Spring and Reid’s Creek goldfields alone, and as the population grew, so to did the need for improved services such as law and order, communications, town planning, education, goldfields management and local government.
Still with its original furniture and fittings, the Beechworth Courthouse is the jewel in the Precinct crown. Completed in June 1858, it operated continuously as a working Court for 131 years and has been the setting for some of the most fascinating court cases in Victoria’s history.
Ned Kelly appeared there twice, including his committal hearing over the murders of Constables Lonigan and Scanlon. Ned’s mother Ellen Kelly received a three-year jail sentence for the attempted murder of Constable Fitzpatrick and Elizabeth Scott, the first woman executed in Victoria, received the death sentence in this building.
Robert O’Hara Burke the ill-fated explorer, and Police Superintendent in Beechworth from 1854-58, once sat at the bench and Justice Sir Redmond Barry presided over many trials there. Sir Isaac Isaacs started his legal career here before rising to become Australia’s first native-born Governor-General.
The Precinct also includes the Chinese Protector’s Office, the Gold Warden’s Office.
Police Stables, Police Lockup, Police Reserve, Town Hall, Robert O’Hara Burke Memorial Museum and the Powder Magazine, located a short distance from the Precinct complex.
The 150th anniversary of the Beechworth Historic & Cultural Precinct will be commemorated throughout the year.
Beechworth Historic & Cultural Precinct FREE PUBLIC OPEN DAY, Sunday 2 March, 10am – 2pm.
For more information or to book a Ned Kelly or Gold Walking Tour, contact the Beechworth Visitor Information Centre, phone 1300 366 321 or visit www.beechworthonline.com.au
Friday 22 February 2008
HISTORY, MUSIC & FUN! Easter - Friday 21 to Sunday 23 March Huge Festival Treasure Hunt returns: $2000 Golden Egg up for grabs at Golden Horseshoes
The Golden Horseshoes Festival, one of the most popular annual events in regional Victoria, returns to Beechworth in exactly one month today, from Good Friday 21 to Easter Sunday 23 March.
With its 2008 theme of History, Music & Fun! the packed program, announced today by Golden Horseshoes Festival Committee Chairman, Leo Nette, includes a host of events for all ages across the Easter weekend, capped by the wildly popular Hunt for the Golden Egg on Easter Sunday.
In a new twist this year fortune hunters will turn super-sleuth as they search for clues on a special treasure map of the streets of Beechworth. The first correct entry drawn at 2pm on Easter Sunday will win the sensational grand prize donated by Beechworth Gold of an egg encased in $2000 of gold.
Other highlights of the 2008 program include:
• Free performances by the sensational Australian Youth Band, an American-style marching band which has appeared around Australia and overseas, including the Beijing International Youth Festival. AYB members will be among the 2008-strong youth band being formed worldwide to perform at the Beijing Olympics in August this year.
• The Grand Parade, featuring special guest commentators, comedian John Walker and entertainer, Lazy Harry and featuring the inaugural Beechworth Bakery Perpetual Trophy for Best Float.
• A chance for the whole family to Discover Museum Victoria. This fantastic interactive display includes ancient fossils, dinosaur bones, exhibits from the Museum’s natural history collection as well as the real Federation Hand Bells created to mark the centenary of Federation in Victoria.
• The Easter Quilt Shows featuring dozens of exquisite modern and antique quilts
• An outdoor food court in Camp Street, this year extended to all day Saturday and Sunday
• Art Alley ‘plein air’ exhibition featuring work from artists of the four Indigo shire Arts Councils of Beechworth, Rutherglen, Yackandandah and Chiltern.
• Free outdoor stage performances by a host of talent including the irresistible rhythms of Melbourne-based South American band, Inca Marka
The 2008 program will also see the return of perennial favourites including Daniel Cameron’s famous ride through Beechworth on a horse shod with golden shoes, the huge Good Friday Fun Run and the Easter Bunny appearing on Easter Sunday laden with free chocolate eggs for children.
This year for the first time, an incorporated community committee has taken on responsibility for planning and producing the Beechworth Golden Horseshoes Festival. Mr Nette said today the event was well on track to be even bigger and better than the highly successful Festival of 2007 which attracted estimated crowds of 20,000.
Festival Chairman, Leo Nette is available for interview, phone (03) 5728-1873 or
0429 606 439. To obtain hi-res images please contact Sue Couttie at Indigo Shire, phone (03) 5728 8061 or email scouttie@indigoshire.vic.gov.au
With its 2008 theme of History, Music & Fun! the packed program, announced today by Golden Horseshoes Festival Committee Chairman, Leo Nette, includes a host of events for all ages across the Easter weekend, capped by the wildly popular Hunt for the Golden Egg on Easter Sunday.
In a new twist this year fortune hunters will turn super-sleuth as they search for clues on a special treasure map of the streets of Beechworth. The first correct entry drawn at 2pm on Easter Sunday will win the sensational grand prize donated by Beechworth Gold of an egg encased in $2000 of gold.
Other highlights of the 2008 program include:
• Free performances by the sensational Australian Youth Band, an American-style marching band which has appeared around Australia and overseas, including the Beijing International Youth Festival. AYB members will be among the 2008-strong youth band being formed worldwide to perform at the Beijing Olympics in August this year.
• The Grand Parade, featuring special guest commentators, comedian John Walker and entertainer, Lazy Harry and featuring the inaugural Beechworth Bakery Perpetual Trophy for Best Float.
• A chance for the whole family to Discover Museum Victoria. This fantastic interactive display includes ancient fossils, dinosaur bones, exhibits from the Museum’s natural history collection as well as the real Federation Hand Bells created to mark the centenary of Federation in Victoria.
• The Easter Quilt Shows featuring dozens of exquisite modern and antique quilts
• An outdoor food court in Camp Street, this year extended to all day Saturday and Sunday
• Art Alley ‘plein air’ exhibition featuring work from artists of the four Indigo shire Arts Councils of Beechworth, Rutherglen, Yackandandah and Chiltern.
• Free outdoor stage performances by a host of talent including the irresistible rhythms of Melbourne-based South American band, Inca Marka
The 2008 program will also see the return of perennial favourites including Daniel Cameron’s famous ride through Beechworth on a horse shod with golden shoes, the huge Good Friday Fun Run and the Easter Bunny appearing on Easter Sunday laden with free chocolate eggs for children.
This year for the first time, an incorporated community committee has taken on responsibility for planning and producing the Beechworth Golden Horseshoes Festival. Mr Nette said today the event was well on track to be even bigger and better than the highly successful Festival of 2007 which attracted estimated crowds of 20,000.
Festival Chairman, Leo Nette is available for interview, phone (03) 5728-1873 or
0429 606 439. To obtain hi-res images please contact Sue Couttie at Indigo Shire, phone (03) 5728 8061 or email scouttie@indigoshire.vic.gov.au
Wednesday 20 February 2008
Charles Dickens’ writing desk unearthed in Beechworth Cabinets of Wonder: Treasure from the Beechworth Community Opens this Thursday 21 February - 30
Tuesday 19 February 2008
Two days out from the official opening of the Cabinets of Wonder at Beechworth’s Burke Museum, an astonishing assortment of privately owned artefacts and collections from the local community are still coming to light.
A portable writing desk owned by Charles Dickens is one of the many treasures individuals and organisations have loaned to the Burke for the six-month exhibition.
An amazing collection of skulls of small native mammals, cranial instruments from the Beechworth Hospital, book marks, Egyptian artefacts, egg cups, brooches, a rock collection and a 100 year-old Chilean bird-eating spider have recently found their way into the Burke’s Cabinets of Wonder.
Burke Museum Collections Officer, Linda Peacock, says response has been overwhelming: “Once word got out about the exhibition we were inundated with offers of objects for display. And what’s been really surprising is the variety and quality of artefacts that have come in. We could fill the entire museum with community collections alone!”
The Hon. Tim Fischer, the Patron of the Indigo Tourism Board, officially opens Cabinets of Wonder: Treasure from the Beechworth Community this Thursday 21 February. The exhibition runs until 30 June.
With its extraordinary collection of Aboriginal artefacts from the early to mid-19th century, an amazing natural history collection including an extremely rare stuffed Thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger) as well as thousands of artefacts, journals and photographs Beechworth’s historic Burke Museum could be described as a Wunderkammer (Cabinet of Wonder) in its own right.
Named in honour of the ill-fated explorer, Robert O’Hara Burke who was Police Superintendent during Beechworth’s heady gold rush days of 1854 – 1858, the Burke Museum is part of the town’s nationally significant Historic & Cultural Precinct, which this year celebrates its sesquicentenary.
Two days out from the official opening of the Cabinets of Wonder at Beechworth’s Burke Museum, an astonishing assortment of privately owned artefacts and collections from the local community are still coming to light.
A portable writing desk owned by Charles Dickens is one of the many treasures individuals and organisations have loaned to the Burke for the six-month exhibition.
An amazing collection of skulls of small native mammals, cranial instruments from the Beechworth Hospital, book marks, Egyptian artefacts, egg cups, brooches, a rock collection and a 100 year-old Chilean bird-eating spider have recently found their way into the Burke’s Cabinets of Wonder.
Burke Museum Collections Officer, Linda Peacock, says response has been overwhelming: “Once word got out about the exhibition we were inundated with offers of objects for display. And what’s been really surprising is the variety and quality of artefacts that have come in. We could fill the entire museum with community collections alone!”
The Hon. Tim Fischer, the Patron of the Indigo Tourism Board, officially opens Cabinets of Wonder: Treasure from the Beechworth Community this Thursday 21 February. The exhibition runs until 30 June.
With its extraordinary collection of Aboriginal artefacts from the early to mid-19th century, an amazing natural history collection including an extremely rare stuffed Thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger) as well as thousands of artefacts, journals and photographs Beechworth’s historic Burke Museum could be described as a Wunderkammer (Cabinet of Wonder) in its own right.
Named in honour of the ill-fated explorer, Robert O’Hara Burke who was Police Superintendent during Beechworth’s heady gold rush days of 1854 – 1858, the Burke Museum is part of the town’s nationally significant Historic & Cultural Precinct, which this year celebrates its sesquicentenary.
Second Magical Mystery Tour planned
Following the unprecedented success of its Magical Mystery Tour conducted last year, the Friends of the Robert O'Hara Burke Memorial Museum have planned another twilight walk, this time with a different twist.
Over 100 locals and visitors turned up on December 12 to be shown around some of Beechworth's oldest and least publicly accessible buildings before enjoying a light supper with wine on the balcony of the former Star Hotel. The demand for another such event was clear.
This time the theme is of an historic religious flavour and celebrates the many delightful buildings of great character built over the past 150 years in the town.
Adam Jenkins serves on the committee of the Friends and was the initiator of the Magical Mystery Tour idea.
"This time there will be improvements in organisation with groups limited to 20, tickets to be bought before the event, and expert tour guides will be present at each site of interest to tell the history of the building, show people inside, and to give out written summaries", he said.
Tickets for the second Magical Mystery Tour on Saturday 8 March 2008 (Labour Day weekend) are $10 each and are available at the Burke Museum up to 6 March. The groups will meet at 6pm at the Burke Museum and return there after the tour for a light supper in its "Street of Shops".
Funds raised from the tour will be used to further improve the Burke Museum, one of Australia's finest regional museums.
by Gaynor Matthew
SEE DIGITAL PHOTO: Adam Jenkins and Uniting Church member Dorn Hawking on the steps of Beechworth Uniting Church, one of the many churches on the second Magical Mystery Tour.
Friday 8 February 2008
Burke Museum uncovers hidden Beechworth treasure Cabinets of Wonder: Treasure from the Beechworth Community 21 February – 30 June
Thursday 7 February 2008
Oak souvenired from the hull of Nelson’s ship HMS Victory, a prison-made knuckle-duster, perfume bottles and a collection of beer coasters are among the dozens of weird and wonderful artefacts to be shown in the Cabinets of Wonder: Treasure from the Beechworth Community exhibition officially opening at the Burke Museum on Thursday 21 February.
Visitors will be able to peek into the drawers, cupboards, nooks and crannies to view the private collections – from the everyday to the bizarre – of individuals and local organisations who responded enthusiastically to the Burke’s invitation to offer their treasured possessions for public display.
“The exhibition offers fascinating insights into the nature of collecting as well as the community from which the collections have come to light,” says Burke Museum Collections Officer, Linda Peacock. “It’s very much about reflecting the interests and passions of local people and gives them the chance to involve themselves directly in the process of curating their own exhibition.”
Highlights of the Cabinets of Wonder: Treasure from the Beechworth Community exhibition include:
-A collection of ingeniously crafted contraband made by inmates of the Beechworth Prison
-From the eminent historian, Ian Jones, a Beechworth local, a collection of HMS Victory memorabilia from his great-grandfather, a naval man who trained on the ship in the 1840s
-Historic trophies from the Beechworth Football Club
-A collection of postmarked letters from Beechworth and Stanley dated between 1855 and 1875
-A collection of porcelain containers and bottles unearthed from the Chinese camp area of Beechworth’s Spring Creek goldfields
-Historic items from Beechworth’s Lodge of St. John
The idea of Cabinets of Wonder is centuries old. The original Wunderkammers – Cabinets of Wonder or wonder-rooms boasted intriguing collections belonging to those aristocrats, monarchs or merchants who could afford to create and maintain them. They were usually made from exotic and expensive materials and often filled with contents and ornamental details intended to reflect the entire cosmos on a miniature scale.
Beechworth’s historic Burke Museum could be described as a Wunderkammer in its own right, with its extraordinary collection of Aboriginal artefacts from the early to mid-19th century, an amazing natural history collection including an extremely rare stuffed Thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger) as well as thousands of artefacts, journals and photographs from Beechworth’s heady gold rush days to the present.
The Patron of the Indigo Tourism Board, Hon. Tim Fischer, will officially launch Beechworth’s own Wunderkammers at 6pm on Thursday 21 February. The Cabinets of Wonder exhibition runs until June.
For more information, please contact Indigo Shire Tourism Officer, Sue Couttie,
phone (03) 5728 8061 or scouttie@indigoshire.vic.gov.au
Cabinets of Wonder: Treasure from the Beechworth Community
Where: Robert O’Hara Burke Memorial Museum
Address: Loch St, Beechworth
Dates: 21 February – 30 June 2008
Oak souvenired from the hull of Nelson’s ship HMS Victory, a prison-made knuckle-duster, perfume bottles and a collection of beer coasters are among the dozens of weird and wonderful artefacts to be shown in the Cabinets of Wonder: Treasure from the Beechworth Community exhibition officially opening at the Burke Museum on Thursday 21 February.
Visitors will be able to peek into the drawers, cupboards, nooks and crannies to view the private collections – from the everyday to the bizarre – of individuals and local organisations who responded enthusiastically to the Burke’s invitation to offer their treasured possessions for public display.
“The exhibition offers fascinating insights into the nature of collecting as well as the community from which the collections have come to light,” says Burke Museum Collections Officer, Linda Peacock. “It’s very much about reflecting the interests and passions of local people and gives them the chance to involve themselves directly in the process of curating their own exhibition.”
Highlights of the Cabinets of Wonder: Treasure from the Beechworth Community exhibition include:
-A collection of ingeniously crafted contraband made by inmates of the Beechworth Prison
-From the eminent historian, Ian Jones, a Beechworth local, a collection of HMS Victory memorabilia from his great-grandfather, a naval man who trained on the ship in the 1840s
-Historic trophies from the Beechworth Football Club
-A collection of postmarked letters from Beechworth and Stanley dated between 1855 and 1875
-A collection of porcelain containers and bottles unearthed from the Chinese camp area of Beechworth’s Spring Creek goldfields
-Historic items from Beechworth’s Lodge of St. John
The idea of Cabinets of Wonder is centuries old. The original Wunderkammers – Cabinets of Wonder or wonder-rooms boasted intriguing collections belonging to those aristocrats, monarchs or merchants who could afford to create and maintain them. They were usually made from exotic and expensive materials and often filled with contents and ornamental details intended to reflect the entire cosmos on a miniature scale.
Beechworth’s historic Burke Museum could be described as a Wunderkammer in its own right, with its extraordinary collection of Aboriginal artefacts from the early to mid-19th century, an amazing natural history collection including an extremely rare stuffed Thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger) as well as thousands of artefacts, journals and photographs from Beechworth’s heady gold rush days to the present.
The Patron of the Indigo Tourism Board, Hon. Tim Fischer, will officially launch Beechworth’s own Wunderkammers at 6pm on Thursday 21 February. The Cabinets of Wonder exhibition runs until June.
For more information, please contact Indigo Shire Tourism Officer, Sue Couttie,
phone (03) 5728 8061 or scouttie@indigoshire.vic.gov.au
Cabinets of Wonder: Treasure from the Beechworth Community
Where: Robert O’Hara Burke Memorial Museum
Address: Loch St, Beechworth
Dates: 21 February – 30 June 2008
HISTORY, MUSIC & FUN! Beechworth gets set for bumper 2008 Golden Horseshoes Festival
The countdown is on for the return of Beechworth’s biggest annual celebration, the Golden Horseshoes Festival, over the Easter weekend from Friday 21 to Sunday 23 March.
With a theme of History, Music & Fun! the 2008 program will see the return of old favourites including the Grand Parade, the re-enactment of Daniel Cameron’s famous ride through Beechworth on a horse shod with golden shoes and a massive Children’s Easter Egg hunt on Easter Sunday, as well as a host of exciting new events including displays, markets, performances and competitions.
A focus on multiculturalism as well as a strong music line-up will put some extra Fiesta into the Festival with a packed program of events for all ages.
This year for the first time, an incorporated community committee has taken on responsibility for planning and producing the Beechworth Golden Horseshoes Festival.
Committee Chairman, Leo Nette, says the event is well on track to be even bigger and better than the highly successful Festival of 2007 which attracted estimated crowds of 20,000.
“But the success of any event lies with the support it gets from its local community, so we’re still keen to hear from anyone interested in **volunteering their time over Easter to help us with Parade marshalling, public information assistance, setting up and manning displays.”
He added that there was still time to **enter a float for the Grand Parade and urged local groups and individuals to get into the spirit of what is shaping up to be another sensational Golden Horseshoes Festival in Beechworth.
Full details of this year’s Beechworth Golden Horseshoes Festival will be available with the release of the official program later this month. Leo Nette is available for interview and hi-res images from the 2007 event are available on request.
Anyone interested in volunteering should contact Leo Nette, Chairman of the Beechworth Golden Horseshoes Committee on (03) 5728-1873 or 0429 606 439. To enter a float in the Grand Parade, contact Kathryn Osmond on (03) 5728 2866 or 0428 282 968
With a theme of History, Music & Fun! the 2008 program will see the return of old favourites including the Grand Parade, the re-enactment of Daniel Cameron’s famous ride through Beechworth on a horse shod with golden shoes and a massive Children’s Easter Egg hunt on Easter Sunday, as well as a host of exciting new events including displays, markets, performances and competitions.
A focus on multiculturalism as well as a strong music line-up will put some extra Fiesta into the Festival with a packed program of events for all ages.
This year for the first time, an incorporated community committee has taken on responsibility for planning and producing the Beechworth Golden Horseshoes Festival.
Committee Chairman, Leo Nette, says the event is well on track to be even bigger and better than the highly successful Festival of 2007 which attracted estimated crowds of 20,000.
“But the success of any event lies with the support it gets from its local community, so we’re still keen to hear from anyone interested in **volunteering their time over Easter to help us with Parade marshalling, public information assistance, setting up and manning displays.”
He added that there was still time to **enter a float for the Grand Parade and urged local groups and individuals to get into the spirit of what is shaping up to be another sensational Golden Horseshoes Festival in Beechworth.
Full details of this year’s Beechworth Golden Horseshoes Festival will be available with the release of the official program later this month. Leo Nette is available for interview and hi-res images from the 2007 event are available on request.
Anyone interested in volunteering should contact Leo Nette, Chairman of the Beechworth Golden Horseshoes Committee on (03) 5728-1873 or 0429 606 439. To enter a float in the Grand Parade, contact Kathryn Osmond on (03) 5728 2866 or 0428 282 968
Employees of the month January 08 Beechworth VIC Team
Anne Wilson and the VIC team, Barbara Carne, Jeff Yeomans and volunteers
James Toole, Martin Thomas and Anne Bell were at the frontline in the BVIC for
Opera in the Alps enquiries on 19 January, which as a result of the heavy
rain had to be changed from an out door event to four indoor concerts.
Between them they handled over 1000 phone calls and gave out information to
994 customers.
This gave their patience, ingenuity and customer service skills a real work out, as
the majority of their customers were both disappointed and frustrated. They
all did a spectacular job under difficult circumstances and I have been
receiving very good feed back from visitors who came into the centre.
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