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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




Don’t miss listening to the Trust’s radio programme
& 
Join a Trust table for Burns Night at Toitu, book tickets 
see below 
 

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. 
 
December 21: 
-  1918 Spanish Flu Epidemic, Murdering Beach, murder most foul.
 
January 4: 
-  An egalitarian society, a fallen woman, a blasting tragedy, Johnny Jones.
 
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.

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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