‘In Convict Footsteps: A Bicentennial Event’, marking 200 years since the establishment of the Moreton Bay penal station, will retrace convict footsteps and summon convict voices at a special evening event at the Commissariat Store Museum. Two short visual presentations will be followed by convict music and dance, including a poignant rendition of the convict ballad ‘Moreton Bay’. Please purchase your tickets by Friday 6 September.
Date and time: Thursday, September 12, 6.00pm – 7.30pm
Tickets: $35
Location: Commissariat Store Museum, 115 William Street, Brisbane, QLD 4000
Hosted by: Royal Historical Society of Queensland
Presenter biographies:
Dr Kelly Greenop is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland’s School of Architecture, Design and Planning. Applying 3D laser scanning techniques, she scans and archives heritage environments and buildings throughout South East Queensland. She will show how she and her graduate student used the very same techniques to capture the architectural history of the convict windmill revealing how it would have appeared to the convict workforce.
Dr Heather Blasdale Clarke is a cultural historian specialising in Australian (including convict) historical dance. Her touring museum exhibition ‘Dancing in Fetters: The Culture of Convict Dance’ recently completed a National Tour. She will perform (minus the fetters) with her talented troupe of musicians and dancers. They will finish with a rendition of the ballad, ‘Moreton Bay’.
Associate Professor Tony Moore is Professor of Communications and Media Studies, Monash University, and Lead Chief Investigator of ARC Linkage project ‘Conviction Politics: The Convict Routes of Australian Democracy.’ He will introduce his global project, ‘Conviction Politics’, with a sequence of short documentaries and discuss its Brisbane-bound travelling exhibition ‘Unshackled: The True Convict Story’.
Note: Griffith University and the Harry Gentle Resource Centre are proud to be hosting a two-day symposium to mark 200 years since the establishment of the Moreton Bay penal station in Meanjin/Brisbane in 1824. The symposium will take place at the Ship Inn, South Bank on Wednesday 11 and Thursday 12 September 2024. For further information, click here.
