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Winners of the 2023 NSW Tidy Towns Awards - Heritage and Culture Award. NSW TIDY TOWN (KAB AWARDS) Keep Australia Beautiful is the state’s premier organisation for litter reduction and environmental sustainability.
It is our great pleasure to announce, that The Project Zone / Orange Regional Museum, recently won a prestigious MAGNA award for the Bigger than Ben Hall project. An international web-based broadcast that involved short films made by students from Central West schools themed around the activities of infamous goldrush-era bushranger Ben Hall and gang.
The MAGNA’s are Museums & Galleries premier national awards, and celebrate outstanding achievements in the areas of exhibitions, public programs, Indigenous projects, and research.
Winners of the 2023 NSW Tidy Towns Awards - Heritage and Culture AwardNSW TIDY TOWN (KAB AWARDS) Keep Australia Beautiful is the state’s premier organisation for litter reduction and environmental sustainability.
The National Trust Heritage Awards are the signature event of the Australian Heritage Festival and in 2019 they will be in their 25th year of recognising heritage projects. The Australian Heritage Festival is supported through funding from the Australian Government’s National Trusts Partnership Program and the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage.
The awards are highly regarded in the industry and are an opportunity to have work recognised by peers and the public. The 2019 awards will be presented on 10 May 2019 during a luncheon ceremony at Doltone House, Pyrmont. Every year entrants for the awards include councils, community groups, corporations and individuals. The entries include everything from education and research to restoration of objects, re-vitalisation, architectural re-invigoration, documentaries, regeneration of the environment and hard-working advocacy campaigners.
Runners up in the 2019 NSW IMAGinE Awards.
ENGAGEMENT PROGRAMS RUNNERS-UP
Project Zone & Eugowra Museum & Bushranger Centre - Bigger than Ben Hall Project
Originally envisaged as a modest inter-school broadcast, this project grew to become an ambitious ‘1860s breakfast television’ webcast delivered live to nearly 100 schools with approximately 3,000 students watching, and over 250
in-person audience members.
The broadcast featured a re-enactment in Eugowra, in Wiradjuri country, which was the site where bushrangers bailed up a gold escort coach on 15 June 1862. The gang took £14,000 worth of gold and banknotes, making it
the largest gold robbery in Australia’s history.
Over 300 students participated in examining primary historical sources as raw material for new creative expression, such as scripts and films. Students worked with senior volunteer curators to interrogate historical records and explore themes of mythologising and rewriting history for various agendas.
The culminating re-enactment was watched on the last day of school by 58 NSW and 38 American schools. It succeeded in engaging young people in the history of their lived environment and enthused them to research
and interrogate the accepted versions of history.