Seasons Greetings

SEASONS GREETINGS
Thanks to all our friends and helpers for supporting the Southern Heritage Trust through these unpredictable times and looking forward to 2021 being a more productive year. 

We are fortunate to live in New Zealand!

Best wishes, health and happiness from the Trustees

Merrin, Jo, Joy, Brent, Janet, Lox & Ann

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E News 12 January 2021

NEW YEAR GREETINGS
The Southern Heritage Trust is looking forward to more heritage related events this year!
 
BURNS NIGHT DINNER REMINDER - MONDAY 25 JANUARY
Tickets available from Toitu Otago Settlers Museum reception desk: $85

If you would like to join a Southern Heritage Trust table please ask to be added to the museum’s bookings list, also respond to inform me (Ann Barsby)

Come along to this most enjoyable annual celebration of Dunedin’s Scottish tradition - dinner & entertainment with a different twist! 
 
HERITAGE MATTERS
Southern Heritage Trust’s very successful radio programme; A new episode is broadcast fortnightly, 12noon on a Monday and repeated on the following Sunday at 7pm

Broadcast on OTAGO ACCESS RADIO oar 105.4 FM or on podcast our dedicated team brings to life forgotten little known stories from life in Dunedin and Otago in times past. 

January 18: 
-  Dunedin invented Kiwifruit, Charles Brasch, Burkes bus crash, how the Dunningham Room got its name.
 
February 1: 
-  Millicent Baxter, Port Chalmers goes dry, Dunningham Part II, a sermon on purity.
 
February 15: 
-  Poisoner William Jarvey, Guerilla Surgeon, Barrister Alf Hanlon.
 
 

Otago Access Radio - 105.4 FM  or listen via podcast any time - www.oar.org.nz
 
February 1: 
-  Millicent Baxter, Port Chalmers goes dry, Dunningham Part II, a sermon on purity.
 
February 15: 
-  Poisoner William Jarvey, Guerilla Surgeon, Barrister Alf Hanlon.
 
Burns Night: Burns and Ireland
Dunedin fans of Robbie Burns have been celebrating the poet’s birthday since 1855. Join Toitῡ Otago Settlers Museum and the Dunedin Burns Club to celebrate Burns’ Irish connections with Irish Ambassador Peter Ryan, and Eamon Cleary Professor of Irish Studies Sonja Tiernan from the University of Otago.

Enjoy traditional Scottish food and drink, kick your heels up at the ceilidh. Listen to the Scottish Fiddle Orchestra and hear classic Burns songs in Te Reo Māori with He Waka Kōtuia. Cheer the winners of the Burns poetry competition and welcome the University’s new Burns Fellow.

Monday 25 January, 7pm
$85 per person - Tickets limited
Bookings and payment by 5pm Wednesday 20 January from Toitῡ Reception.


Terms and Conditions:
This event will only proceed in Alert Level 1
Should this event be cancelled due to a COVID-19 crisis, your ticket price will be refunded
Tickets  from Toitu Otago Settlers Museum: Numbers are limited
Please provide dietary requirements at purchase

Join a Southern Heritage Trust table
 
 
Ann Barsby
03 479 0169
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E News 1 October

 
 
 
HERITAGE MATTERS
MONDAY 12 October at midday (repeated on Sunday 18 October at 7pm)

Topical and fascinating stories:
 
* Notable Election Nights
* Otago Breweries
* Getting Away with Murder
 
 

Otago Access Radio - 105.4 FM  or listen via podcast any time - www.oar.org.nz
 
GUIDED TOUR: MONDAY 12 OCTOBER
Andersons Bay Cemetery with guide Gregor Campbell

‘A Library of Stories, set in stone! ‘
Dunedin's Anderson's Bay Cemetery contains, as you will expect, many stories. War, courage, loss, and eccentricity abound in the stories uncovered there - so far - by your tour host. It also contains a secret known only to him. It is a secret you will be asked to keep.

Meet at the Crematorium at 1pm - $5 for guide
 
 
TWEED RIDE
A fun annual event, a leisurely ride! 

Enjoy beautiful harbour views whilst riding along the new cycleway, flat all the way! 

Prizes for ‘Best Dressed’

Tell your friends!
 
VISIONS FOR DUNEDIN - TUESDAY 20 OCTOBER
6pm  -  City Library  -  4th floor  - FREE

PUTTING YOUR BEST FACE FORWARD: PHILIP DAVIS AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ARCHITECTURAL STYLE IN DUNEDIN
SPEAKER: Jeremy Moyle, an archaeologist for Origin Consultants in Dunedin.

Dunedin's Victorian house facades are one of the most distinctive aspects of the city's streetscapes. In this presentation, Jeremy Moyle explores the significance of Dunedin's 19th-century architectural style through the story of Philip Davis, an English immigrant who settled in the city in the 1860s.
 
 
Ann Barsby
03 479 0169
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E News 11 September


 
 
 
Level 2 does not prevent the Trust’s award winning radio programme HERITAGE MATTERS from continuing as normal. A new episode is broadcast fortnightly, 12noon on a Monday and repeated on the following Sunday at 7pm.  

Or catch up on podcasts at any time.


Topics in the next episode on Monday 14 September: 
* What did the settlers eat? 
* Alf Hanlon travels 
* The new water race
 
 

Otago Access Radio - 105.4 FM  or listen via podcast any time - www.oar.org.nz
 
VISIONS FOR DUNEDIN: OUR HERITAGE, OUR FUTURE
"Blowing up Boundaries” about Bell Hill

Unfortunately once again the Trust’s monthly Visions talk scheduled for Tuesday 15 September is postponed due to level 2 limitations.


 * Depending on return to Level 1 OCTOBER VISIONS  topic:

Dunedin’s Victorian house facades are one of then most distinctive aspects of the city’s streetscapes. Jeremy Moyle, Origin Consultants, explores the signigianceof Dunedin’s 19h century architectural style through the story of Philip Davis, an English immigrant who settled in the city in the 1860s.

Tuesday 20 October  -  6pm  -  City Library  -  4th floor  - Free

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