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QUEENSLAND HERITAGE
FESTIVAL 2012
Amazing Stories: Innovation and Invention
18 April to 18 May 2012
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Theme
Ideas for your activity
Promoting your activity
Entry to the Program of Events has now closed. Participants
should now have a confirmation email.
Australian Heritage Week
The 2012 National Trust Queensland Heritage Festival will
expand to include a month-long program of events celebrating
our history and cultural heritage. The national theme for
the 2012 Festival is 'Innovation and Invention'.
The 2012 Festival will run from 18 April, the key day of the
Australian Heritage Week and the
ICOMOS International Day for Monuments and Sites to 18
May, which is ICOM International Museum Day.
The National Trust invites heritage and community groups,
organisations and places to help celebrate the Heritage Festival
by holding an event or open day. You are encouraged to theme
your event or celebrate in your own way.
Entries will close in January 2012. After the entries have
been processed they will be printed in booklet form and distributed
to participants in Queensland well before the 18 April.
You also have the opportunity to register your activity on
the Australian Heritage Week website. If your activity is
being held between 14 April and the 22 April you can submit
your entry to their website as well.
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AUSTRALIAN HERITAGE WEEK |
The National Trust of Queensland gratefully acknowledges
the support of the Australian Government through the Department
of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities.
Proudly Supporting Australian Heritage Week
Australian Heritage Week is a national annual event celebrating
the places and stories that make Australia and Australians
special. The week is about raising public awareness of the
importance of conserving and protecting our special heritage
places, our rich Indigenous heritage and the diverse historic
sites that together reflect our development as a nation. It
is also about encouraging communities and organisations to
use this time to host a local heritage event or activity.
Australian Heritage Week complements the Heritage Festivals
organised by the National Trusts to showcase their heritage
properties throughout Australia.
It is an opportunity for all Australians to join together
to celebrate our shared and special heritage. You can find
about more about Australian Heritage Week from the web site
www.environment.gov.au/heritage/about/heritage-week/index
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THEME |
Innovation and Invention....
Each year we adopt a theme for the festival and encourage
groups or indiviudals wthin the community to participate.
The theme this year enables us to showcase the ingenuity
of the first peoples that lived on the land and to show the
resourcefulness of the early pioneers, who had to 'make do'.
Throughout Australia you will find local inventions and firsts.
Icons of Australian invention include the boomerang, the
stump jump plough, the Hills hoist and the Victa mower.
You may wish to celebrate an anniversary, or have within
your collection a special object that has an amazing story
attached.
You may adopt this theme, or choose your own, it's up to
you.

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IDEAS FOR YOUR
ACTIVITY |
You are welcome to theme your event or celebrate in your own
way. Ideas for your event might include
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- Talks and lectures, seminars, demonstrations.
- Exhibitions and historical displays of photographs, clothing,
documents, machinery, transport, tools, memorabilia.
- Heritage discovery tours, guided tours, bus tours, walking
tours, cemetery walks, ghost tours, cruises.
- Open days of heritage properties, churches, cemeteries,
museums, history groups, and clubs not usually open to the
public.
- Archaeological digs, book launches, art shows, antique
fairs, pageants, balls, carnivals, street parties, history
re-enactments, music poetry, rides on unique transport,
high teas and themed dinners.

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REGISTER
YOUR ACTIVITY |
ENTRIES HAVE NOW CLOSED.
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PROMOTING
YOUR
ACTIVITY |
Once you have registered your activity start promoting your
activity. For more ideas on how to promote
your activity Click
here. (308kb)
A Program of Events booklet will be printed and forwarded
to participants by 18 April for distribution in their communities.

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2011
PROGRAM
OF EVENTS |
Thank you to everyone participating in the 2011 Queensland
Heritage Festival Program of Events. It was certainly a year
to remember. The Full Program of Events for 2011 is available
to view and download.
Program of Events 2011 - Full Colour Booklet (4mb)
Program of Events - SE
Qld Brisbane and Suburbs (564kb)
Program of Events - SE
Qld Surrounding Regions (512kb)
Program of Events - Queensland
Regions (486kb)

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The
National Trust of Queensland would like to acknowledge the
support of the
Bendigo
Bank and Treasury Casino & Hotel.

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