Announcements
The latest news from across the history community including call outs, awards and prizes,
grants, projects and more.
2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages
The United Nations General Assembly has declared 2019 the International Year of Indigenous Languages (IY2019) to raise awareness of the crucial role languages play in people’s daily lives.
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Professional Development: New GLAM-er Networking event for Early Career Cultural Sector Workers
The Australian Sector for Public History (UTS) are hosting a new event GLAM-er.
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Call for Entries: Prime Ministers’s Literary Awards 2019
The Department of Communication and the Arts has announced the opening of nominations for the 2019 NSW Prime Minister’s Literary Awards.
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Talk: What Does It Say? How to read handwriting from the late 18th to early 20th centuries
Gail Davis, Senior Archivist, Research and Publications, NSW State Archives will be presenting a session on how to decipher old handwriting.
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Entries Closing Soon for the National Trust Heritage Awards 2019
The National Trust Heritage Awards are the signature event of the Australian Heritage Festival and one of the premier Heritage awards in Australia. They are now in their 25th year of recognising heritage projects.
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Professional Development: Teacher Training Seminar – Catastrophe and Memory: Remembering Genocide
Sydney Jewish Museum is hosting a new Lunchtime Lecture: Trauma, Memory and Architecture A conversation with David Neustein of Other Architects
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Documentary Film Screening at Sydney Jewish Museum: Uncle Chatzkel
Sydney Jewish Museum are hosting a special screening of an important documentary, Uncle Chatzel by Rod Freeman.
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Opportunity: Visions of Australia Regional Exhibition Touring Funding
The Visions of Australia program provides support for arts and cultural heritage organisations to develop or tour exhibitions of cultural material that has historic, scientific or artistic significance.
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Opportunity: Shortstacks Short Film Prize 2019
The State Library of New South Wales has launched their inaugural short film prize, Shortstacks. This new prize has a total of $20,000 on offer across two prize categories, General and Youth.
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Professional Development: Museum Objects Loan Workshop with the Museum of Arts and Sciences
The Museum of Arts and Sciences are providing practical workshops for museum loans. This workshop will equip you with the tools to create a variety of simple supports and pack a range of objects.
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