Mayor's Weekly Message
The Making of Midnight Oil
21 Jun 2014
Last night, I was delighted to attend the opening of a major new exhibition at Manly Art Gallery & Museum, The Making of Midnight Oil, celebrating one of the world’s most inspirational rock bands.
Launched by TV celebrity Andrew Denton, the exhibition is being held in conjunction with the release of a new a DVD of Midnight Oil’s pivotal 1990 'Black Rain Falls' performance outside New York’s Exxon Building.
From their beginnings on the Northern Beaches in the 1970s, Midnight Oil went on to win audiences across the world.
Developed by Manly Art Gallery & Museum in collaboration with Midnight Oil drummer Rob Hirst, the exhibition showcases rare and iconic items including stage props, instruments, protest banners, hand written lyrics, photographs and posters sourced from public and private collections as well as the band’s own archives.
The exhibition will run up until 7 September 2014 at Manly Art Gallery and Museum.
Roundhouse Centre kids’ water project entered in national competition
Girls and boys attending Manly Council’s Roundhouse Childcare Centre have had their thinking caps on learning about where water comes from – and devising a special Roundhouse Sustainability Project exploring why it is so important that we approach water use in a sustainable way.
The children have been busy with activities such as collecting, measuring and recording rainfall and making decisions about where to distribute the collected water, learning how other cultures value water, what we can change water into and many other experiments and experiences to understand why this resource is so vital to all of us now and into the future.
The Roundhouse children’s Sustainability Project will be now entered in a national competition, the ‘Australian Childcare Week & Awards 2014’ highlighting early childhood education and care services as an integral part of the local community.
The project has allowed children attending the Roundhouse long day care centre to draw on many areas of their curriculum.
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Jean Hay AM
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