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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.

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

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.

• 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.

ENTRIES HAVE NOW CLOSED.

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.

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)

The National Trust of Queensland would like to acknowledge the support of the

Bendigo Bank and Treasury Casino & Hotel.