This notice is sent to members of the crafts list, particularly for those
interested in works that entail recycling.
GOODBYE KIND WORLD invites you to pay your respects to the disappearing
century.
Visit www.kitezh.com/gkw to farewell the world we leave behind to join the
21st century.
View the SOUVENIRS developed by Victorian makers out of obsolescent
materials such as milk bottles, typewriters and old sayings.
Contribute to the REGISTRY OF LOST INSTITUTIONS, cataloguing all the
Victorian organisations and lifestyles that will not make it into the next
century.
Suggest to the CONNIE’S GUIDE strategies to stay human in an increasingly
faceless world.
Listen to WHISTLING PAST THE MILLENNIUM, an archive of 20th century sounds,
including tram conductors collecting fares and the final siren at Victoria
Park.
GOODBYE KIND WORLD (Exhibition)
Souvenirs of the 20th Century
RMIT Gallery 15 Oct – 13 Nov 1999
234 Swanston Street
Melbourne
Open Mon-Fri 11-5; Sat 2-5
Works by Roseanne Bartley, Lisa Carroll, Susan Cohn, Karen Ferguson, Tony
Hanning, Hamish Hill, Ruth Hutchinson, Sharon Muir, Miyuki Nakahara,
Humphrey Poland, David Ray, Alex Selenitsch.
Curated by Kevin Murray.
CD-ROM
Material from the GKW exhibition, including the soundtrack “Whistling Past
the Millennium”, will be available in CD-ROM form after its close on 13th
November. It will incorporate material gathering during the course of the
show. It sells for $19.99 and can be ordered by reply email.
FORUMS
The first of the Changing Melbourne forums will be on Tuesday 19th October.
Dr Andrew Brown-May
(historian, Encyclopedia of Melbourne & Melbourne Street Life, Monash
University), Roberto D’Andrea (ex-tram conductor), Evelyn Krape (actor), and
Dr Chris McConville (urban historian, University of Sunshine Coast) will
Herald the Past and discuss What does new Melbourne have in common with the
city it used to be? Forums are at Theatre 1 SEECS Building 221 Bouverie
Street Carlton 5:30pm. For more details, go to www.kitezh.com/gkw/forums.htm
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Kevin Murray
http://home.mira.net/~kmurray
Forecast for Melbourne Issued at 0505 on Sunday the 17th of October 1999
A fine, mostly sunny day with a moderate northerly wind. A cooler southwest
change in the evening or at night with a few thundery showers. Max 27
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