Guest speaker - Dr. John Carter
Museum Advisor, Ministry of Culture, Ontario Canada
John Carter has been actively campaigning to protect heritage values of the Don Valley Brickworks in East York, Ontario for the past ten years. He is a former chair of the East York Local Architectural Conservation Advisory Committee, former executive member of the Toronto Preservation Board, and currently a member of the Education Committee of Community Heritage Ontario. He is currently in Australia on a Visiting Fellowship, History Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. John is in Melbourne as a guest of the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) and Save the Brickworks Inc. He will be giving two illustrated talks to the public.
EVENT 1:
Tuesday 8 February at 7.30 pm
Clarrie Wohlers Senior Citizens Centre
cnr
Albert & Cross Streets, East Brunswick
(Melway 29 K8)
What to do with an Historic Brickworks?
John Carter will be addressing this issue for Save the Brickworks and the local community through his involvement with the historic Don Valley Brickworks in Ontario Canada.
All welcome
(entry by gold coin donation)
enquiries: 0409 334 737
EVENT 2:
Wednesday
9 February, 4 to 6.30 pm
Clarendon
Terrace
208-212 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne
Adaptive Reuse or Adaptive Destruction?
the challenge of conserving industrial heritage places
The focus of the evening will be the challenges of conserving industrial heritage places without destroying their essential industrial character. There will be plenty of time for discussion about the issues and challenges raised in John's talk and by the audience.
Seating is limited. Please RSVP by Monday 7 February to Nathan O'Brien 9656 9826 or email nathan.obrien@nattrust.com.au
More infomation about these events can be found in the following PDF documents
This page contains some background information about John Carter's involvement with conservation of historic brickworks, in particular the Don Valley Brickworks in Toronto.
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