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Queanbeyan and District Historical Museum Society Inc. Queanbeyan Museum Mural Launch and Heritage Camp Oven Cooking
This event is a Feature Event of History Week 3-11 September 2011 Eat History Queanbeyan Museum - 10 Farrer Pl
Saturday September 10 from 11am Free Entry Come Along and Delight Your Senses! This lively and entertaining day will see Fiona Churchill from Southern Tablelands Regional Arts launch the new Queanbeyan historical mural which has been painted by acclaimed local artist Margaret Hadfield. The Mural has been funded by grants from Southern Tablelands Regional Arts, Queanbeyan City Council and Cr Peter Bray's charity book fair.
The impressively realistic mural is 30m by 2.5 metres and depicts life in Queanbeyan in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. See if you can pick out some of the buildings still surviving today. The day will feature tasty heritage camp oven cooking and damper making demonstrations by Slow Food Canberra Convivium who will dress in period costume. Handouts of recipes of the Heritage food served will be available.
We will be entertained by Queanbeyan Sing Australia Choir, who will feature some Australian tunes, who will join with Canberra Union Voices with John Warner to sing some Queanbeyan flavoured tunes including John's new Queanbeyan Ballad From Settlement to Town. Also featured will be some food flavoured songs such as My Old Black Billy and a song about bread making! Local Queanbeyan musician Graeme Adler will entertain the crowd with folk tunes on his fiddle.
A collection of old cook books from the region will be on display in the Museum Kitchen display which has been newly re-vamped by CIT Museum Studies Students. A feature will be an 1884 Mrs Beeton Cook Book that belonged to the Museum curator Gillian Kelly's Great Grandmother.
Volunteers of the Queanbeyan and District Historical Museum Society winners of 2010 NSW Government Heritage Heroes Volunteer Award Queanbeyan City Council |
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