ORAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA (W.A. BRANCH) INC. Invites you to join us CONFERENCE 2010 Voices of Change: Tracking Communities using Oral History Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 September 2010 Bruno Gianatti Community Hall, Munro Street, Jarrahdale This year our State Conference will be held in Jarrahdale, approximately 50kms from the Perth GPO. The Committee and the members of the Jarrahdale Historical Society are working together to bring you an exciting programme of events, beginning with a welcome reception hosted by the Shire of Serpentine Jarrahdale on Friday evening at 5.30pm. The conference will include presentations from a varied group of speakers including workshops on recording and transcribing, where you will be able to learn about the changing technology and the opportunities that are available to expand your experience in the very worthwhile area of recording oral history. Ø Clive Taylor is coming from Adelaide to present a Video Recording Workshop with Dr Peter Gifford Clive Taylor is a news cameraman whose experience dates back to working during the Vietnam War. He and Dr Peter Gifford have worked together on numerous oral history projects, many involving Aboriginal people throughout much of Western Australia. Clive and Peter will speak about some of these experiences, and Clive will demonstrate and give advice on operating his state-of-the-art video and sound equipment both indoors and in the field. Ø ‘10,000 kilometres of family’ has tracked the changing lives of families, the essence of community, mostly from properties ranging from sheep and cattle stations to dairy farms, and how their lives have unfolded and changed. Ø A hopeless hill: oral histories from Claremont-Graylands Hospital, 1940-1995 explores over seventy years of Claremont Hospital for The Insane (later Claremont Mental Hospital, and the Swanbourne and Graylands hospitals), which was Western Australia’s principal stand-alone psychiatric hospital. Ø Explore and learn of the changes that have taken place in the community of Jarrahdale: o The timber industry from the time that a steam driven timber mill opened on the banks of the Cooralong Brook in 1872 o A guided Jarrahdale Heritage Town Walk taking in heritage sites featuringthe Mill Manager's House and working timber mill and undisturbed archaeological artefacts, including railway tracks, remnants of mill machinery o Witness the transformation of a semi derelict, jarrah timber cottage built in the 1890s in Jarrahdale as the layers of history are uncovered for the house and the occupants o Listen to ‘Forest voices’ and learn how oral histories have tracked changing community responses to threatened areas of local forest and how people adopted more collective and assertive approaches to save environments which were dear to them Ø Keynote speaker is Siobhan McHugh. Siobhan is an award-winning writer and documentary-maker with broad experience of oral history as a practitioner, teacher and consultant. Her oral histories have featured in books, films, TV and radio documentaries, CDs, a stage play, and on-line. Siobhan’s most recent project, ‘Marrying Out’, explores how up until just two generations ago Australian society was polarised between two main groups: Protestants and Catholics. She spent three years gathering compelling personal stories of mixed marriage from the 1920s to the 1960s, describing how they bridged the gap, despite conflict with family and church authorities. Siobhan has won the NSW Premier's literary award for non-fiction and been short listed twice for the NSW Premier's History awards. Her radio documentaries have been short listed for a Walkley, a Eureka science award and the United Nations Media Peace Prize. We look forward to seeing you at Voices of Change where you will have an opportunity to network with colleagues to discuss oral history practices and issues. Full programme and registration details will be available shortly on our website To request the registration form and accommodation details please contact me at office@historycouncilwa.org.au or Lindy Wallace,Conference Treasurer wallaclj@bigpond.net.au |