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
Oranges and Sunshine film screening (M rating)
This moving film tells the true story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham who uncovered one of the most significant scandals of recent times – the deportation of thousands of children from the United Kingdom to Australia and other Commonwealth countries under child migration schemes. Harold Haig, a former child migrant and Secretary of the Association of Former Child Migrants and their Families, will introduce the film and talk about the work of Margaret Humphreys and the Child Migrants Trust, as well as the Association’s involvement with the film’s director and script writer. See the exhibition On their own – Britain’s child migrants following the film screening.
Date: 1pm to 4pm, Sunday 12 February
Cost: Adults $15.50, concession $5.50 (includes a glass of wine Museum entry)
Bookings: 13 11 02
On their own – Britain’s child migrants exhibition tour
Enrich your experience of the On their own exhibition with a tour led by two former Victorian child migrants. Hear from the perspectives of Sandra Anker and Margaret Martin, who will share their personal stories as they lead you through the exhibition.
Date: 11.30am to 12.30pm and 2.30pm to 3.30pm, Saturday 25 February and Saturday 14 April
Cost: Included with museum entry
Bookings: Essential, phone 13 11 02
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, multimedia and recipes, 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
In-Flight
Construct a miniature aeroplane from a huge selection of recycled materials and contribute to an ever-expanding installation created by artists Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan. 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 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