Sat 4 June 1.30pm, Darra State School Hall Memorabilia, Refreshments, Entertainment The History Group will provide a display of the History of Darra State School – and of Darra – in the heritage building Re-union gathering – Saturday 4th June,…
Brisbane History Expo – 19 November This event was held at City Hall. 31 Brisbane local history groups attended and were able to view each other’s work. The display was preceded by a High Tea and entertainment for local history…
Location – Railway Parade Darra – the street will be closed for event. Food, music and stalls. RIHG will be there. This is the 14th year the Street Festival has been held. For more info see http://www.darracommunitygroup.org/festival/
3,000-3,500 people attended Inala PCYC (Police-Citizens Youth Club) for this event, presented with the Multicultural Community Network. RIHG had a stall there. A number of multicultural food stalls worked to raise funds for the Nepal Disaster. There were demonstrations by…
National Aborigines and Islanders Day is held each year in the first full week of July. This year, RIHG member Ron Powell was a guest at the unveiling of the Eddie Gilbert Memorial Field at Wolston Park Centenary Cricket Club…
Each year, the National Trust presents awards to projects and people that demonstrate excellence in the conservation and promotion of Queensland’s historic and Indigenous cultural heritage. This year, RIHG member Vicki Mynott received the Community Volunteer Achievement Award, a new…
Held at Riverglenn, Indooroopilly, this was a new event for Queensland history – including streams on local history, family history, and social history. Unfortunately, RIHG missed out on a trade table for the conference. However, this proved to be a…
Our new website went live on 20th April, but it was launched officially on Tuesday 12 May, during National Trust Queensland’s Heritage Festival. The focus was the Heritage Festival theme of “Conflict and Compassion.” At the launch, BCC Inala Library computers…
This year is the 100th Anniversary of the landing on Gallipoli, a time for reflection on the heroes and the horrors of war. In 1914-18 our region was very sparsely populated and so we have very few local stories of…
April 18 was endorsed as The International Day on Monuments and Sites by UNESCO in 1983. This has commonly been called World Heritage Day. “The day is about more than ‘world’ heritage sites – it seeks to raise public awareness…