Queenstown Heritage and Arts Festival

The Queenstown Heritage and Arts Festival, held in Queenstown, Tasmania on the West Coast is a biennial event that captures a change in the fate of Western Tasmania communities, where the mining ventures and other industries are reduced and population declines, but where the heritage and legacy of the communities support.

2012 event

The 2012 event included events and exhibitions which commemorated the centenary of the 1912 North Mount Lyell Disaster, with enactments that echoed the events of 1912.[1][2][3]

The West Coast Wilderness Railway was involved in the 2012 celebrations, with a re-enacment of taking victims to the Queenstown cemetery.[4]

Tasmanian artists have utilised old buildings and space in Queenstown for working with their artworks.[5]

The Friday forum at the Queenstown RSL 'North Lyell Mine Disaster Forum' included Geoffrey Blainey. The wide range of sponsors for the festival include local businesses such as the historic Empire Hotel.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Bryan, Selina (2012-10-12). "Mine disaster remembered - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)". Abc.net.au. Retrieved 2014-02-04.
  2. ↑ Bryan, Selina. "Queenstown to mark mining disaster centenary - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)". Abc.net.au. Retrieved 2014-02-04.
  3. ↑ "Marking a mining disaster". TAS: Open.abc.net.au. Retrieved 2014-02-04.
  4. ↑ Selina Bryan (2012-10-12). "A steam train re-enacts the funeral procession for miners killed at Queenstown in 1912. - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)". Abc.net.au. Retrieved 2014-02-04.
  5. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20130127215950/http://www.themercury.com.au/article/2012/10/05/363169_style.html. Archived from the original on January 27, 2013. Retrieved October 12, 2012. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. ↑ "Queenstown, Tasmania". The Empire Hotel. Retrieved 2014-02-04.

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