At the museum
Tim Kurylowicz
ADD a personal touch to your Christmas stationery this year with our Christmas card-making workshop at the Museum of the Riverina's Botanic Gardens site.
Learn how to create stylish home-made Christmas Cards.
You'll make some Christmas cards to take home, while our resident craft guru teaches the tricks that will give your homemade paper crafts a polished look.
Participants are also invited to bring in old Christmas cards, and we'll help you quickly recycle these into gift tags.
A special display of beautiful vintage Christmas cards and decorations from our collection will be showcased to inspire our crafty participants.
This workshop is suitable for all ages (kids must be accompanied by an adult). A
ll materials will be provided, and no prior skills are necessary!
The workshop takes place on Sunday, November 8 from 11am to 1pm.
Museum of the Riverina Botanic Gardens site on Lord Baden Powell Drive Wagga Wagga.
Register at wagga.nsw.gov.au/museum or by calling 6926 9655.
Discovery zone buzzing
TTHE very best place for kids to discover and play is undergoing a major revamp.
Kidzone, at the Botanic Gardens site, will be closed for two weeks while we fit it out with all kinds of activities for kids.
By mid-November Kidzone will be back with costumes (for kids and grown ups!), crafts and special museum items you can touch and hold.
Stay tuned for info from us about the amazing activities we’ve got planned for the summer holidays!
The music that kept troops marching, and the home front humming
MUSIC fans should pop December 5 in their diaries, because a big brass band is coming to town!
To mark the opening of our new exhibition The Kangaroo March: Our Local Boys Walk to War, join the Museum of the Riverina, army historian Jillian Durance and The Kapooka Army band as they present Soul of the Batallion, a showcase of music from the era of World War I.
The band will perform the songs that troops marched to, and that valorised them back home.
You will hear popular songs of the time, and being the 100th anniversary of the week the Kangaroos departed Wagga, the band will reprise the Recessional hymn which was played as our boys left Wagga to walk to war.
Details: Saturday, December 5, from 11am to 12.30pm in the Council meeting room, corner Baylis and Morrow streets.
