AMaGA (SA) NETWORKING BREAKFAST
Friday 3 May, 8am
East Terrace Continental
6 East Terrace, Adelaide
This month at the AMaGA (SA) monthly Networking Breakfast includes guest speaker Helen Lawry, Education Presenter at Ayers House Museum, National Trust of South Australia.
Helen Lawry is a storyteller, writer and teacher. She studied creative writing at Flinders University and Manchester Metropolitan University and Storytelling at Emerson College in the UK.
Please order and pay for your breakfast on arrival, and then head upstairs to join us in the balcony room.
If you haven't been to a breakfast before, don't be shy, bring a friend, and enjoy the friendly company of the GLAM sector in SA.
Please register your attendance by email to SABranch@amaga.org.au by the close of business Thursday 2 May.
ALL WELCOME!
AMaGA (SA) ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2019 and MUSEUMS AS CULTURAL HUBS: THE FUTURE OF TRADITION
Wednesday 22 May, 5.15pm
Ira Raymond Room
Level 3, Hub Central, North Terrace Campus, University of Adelaide
North Terrace
AMaGA (SA) AGM will commence at 5.15pm, all members are invited to the AGM and the talk ‘Museums as Cultural Hubs: The Future of Tradition’ which will immediately follow the meeting at 6pm.
The following positions are vacant on the AMaGA (SA) Branch Committee: 1 Secretary, 1 Treasurer and 4 Ordinary Member positions. Please note that if you would like to stand for any of these positions you must be an individual member of AMaGA or the designated representative of an organisational member.
Please submit your nominations for committee positions by Monday 20 May via email SABranch@amaga.org.au
If you can’t attend the meeting you can submit your vote by proxy by emailing a proxy form by 20 May.
Attachments (links)
Museums as Cultural Hubs: The Future of Tradition
Wednesday 22 May, 6-7pm
Ira Raymond Room
Level 3, Hub Central, North Terrace Campus, University of Adelaide
North Terrace
Following our AGM, Rhana Devenport, Director of the Art Gallery of South Australia will talk about her plans for AGSA in light of this year’s International Council of Museum’s International Museum Day theme ‘Museums as Cultural Hubs: the Future of Tradition’.
Rhana Devenport took up the position of AGSA’s Director, the first woman to lead this institution in October 2018. An Australian, she relocated to Adelaide from New Zealand where she had been director of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki since 2013. Prior to her role in Auckland she was director of the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth, NZ.
Before moving to New Zealand, Rhana worked for many years in Brisbane on the Asia Pacific Triennial at the Queensland Gallery of Art. She has also worked with the Sydney Festival and the Sydney Biennale.
She was honoured with an ONZM (Officer of The New Zealand Order of Merit) for her services to the arts in the 2018 New Year Honours list.
6-7pm, members and the general public are all welcome, please register your attendance at the talk via email SABranch@amaga.org.au or via Eventbrite here.
Directions: Ira Raymond Room is located on level 3 Hub Central, North Terrace Campus, the University of Adelaide. Enter via bridge of the Barr Smith steps and Ira Raymond Room is directly in front of you as you enter the building.
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Gabrielle Sexton
On behalf of the AMaGA(SA) Committee
