Kids Fest: All Aboard!
All aboard for a festival packed with performances, activities and adventure trails celebrating leaving, journeys and arrivals. Navigate your way around the Museum, take part in travel craft activities, get your face painted, enjoy roving performers and learn about travel superstitions and traditions from other countries. Travel to journey’s end and create a huge city of dreams with artists Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan.
Date: 11am to 4pm, 21 and 22 January 2012
Sweets: tastes and traditions from many cultures
Discover the delicious ways in which Victorian communities use sweet food and drink in their cultures. Explore the history and cultural significance of sweet food and find out how sweetness is important to everyone. Different cultures use sweets for many reasons and purposes – to mark important rituals, celebrations and life events. Discover special sweet foods from each of the Indian, Italian, Japanese, Mauritian and Turkish cultures, the ways in which many of them are made and the significance they hold. Featuring fascinating objects, lively photographs and multimedia, Sweets will reveal unique perspectives on a very common and popular food.
Part of the 2012 Melbourne Food and Wine Festival
Date: 18 March 2012 to 7 April 2013
Sweets Festival
Celebrate our shared sweet tooth at this delectable one-day festival of food and culture, collaboratively developed with sweet-loving Victorian communities. Explore fascinating shared and unique traditions, rituals and contemporary practices surrounding sweet cuisines and refreshments. Enjoy a feast of toothsome food stalls, cooking demonstrations, films, workshops and displays.
Part of the 2012 Melbourne Food and Wine Festival
Date: 11am to 4pm, Sunday 18 March 2012
| Another Country with Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan
Filipino-born, Brisbane-based artists Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan touchdown in Melbourne to create Another Country – a series of projects done in partnership with the Immigration Museum. The series explores ideas of journeys, migration and memory, as well as the life and meaning of everyday objects kept and cherished or discarded and forgotten over time. Projects include: In-Flight Construct a miniature aeroplane from a huge selection of recycled materials and contribute to an ever-expanding installation created by the artists. The planes will pile up, take off and soar over the second floor of the Immigration Museum, referencing a transitional place of leave-taking and homecoming. Date: Until to 31 January 2012 In-Habit Dwell on what makes the perfect home and create your vision using recycled boxes, cardboard and tape during a workshop with Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan. Work as an individual or as a family to construct your house and contribute to our growing community installation in the Immigration Museum or our virtual community online. Date: 2pm – 4pm, 16 to 20 January 2012 In-Transit Explore evocative displays created by families and Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan that delve into family stories of migration. Amongst the trapping of travel – bags, suitcases, freight containers and packing pallets – and placed around the 17-metre replica ship, the displays will feature significant objects and photographs that evoke memories of travel and migration. Date: Until 31 January 2012 |
Immigration Museum, 400 Flinders Street, Melbourne. Open daily 10.00am to 5.00pm except Good Friday and Christmas Day. Admission: Adult $10, child/concession FREE. More info 13 11 02 or museumvictoria.com.au/immigrationmuseum