RETURNING to our region on Wednesday August 18 is the biennial Bruce Wilson Memorial Heritage Lecture with Greater Shepparton City Council encouraging residents interested in heritage to attend.
The lecture ‘Navigating heritage: past, present and future’, presented by expert Chris Johnston, will delve back to the 1970’s and forward into the future to explore changing ideas about heritage buildings and places.
Ms Johnston will host two lectures at the Senior Citizens’ Centre in Shepparton for those wishing to attend.
During the lecture Ms Johnston will examine what our heritage scorecard looks like today and what new directions might shape heritage into the future. She will also address the prevalence of heritage places and how they offer us ways to connect to the past, along with landscapes and heritage customs, traditions and practices.
The 2021 lecture marks the third in Council’s biennial Heritage Lecture series, named in honour of Bruce Wilson, former Mayor, long-time Councillor, history and heritage enthusiast, and inaugural Chair of Council’s Heritage Advisory Committee (the organising body for this lecture). The lectures usually alternate with the very successful biennial Cultural Heritage Awards, another of Council’s heritage initiatives, although due to COVID-19 the 2020 awards were postponed until May 2021.
The lectures will be held at the Shepparton Senior Citizens’ Centre, 132 Welsford Street, Shepparton at 1pm and again at 6pm. RSVP by contacting Council’s Building Planning and Compliance Department by email council@shepparton.vic.gov.au or on 5832 9700.
For more information about the Bruce Wilson Memorial Heritage Lecture visit Council’s website greatershepparton.com.au/bruce-wilson-memorial-heritage-lecture.
