When Holden’s last factory, at Elizabeth in South Australia, closed in late 2017, an important era of Australian automotive production ended. At its peak, Holden employed around 24,000 workers around Australia. Holden employees were diverse: workers of all ages, migrants, skilled and unskilled, professional, transient and long-term. Holden & Me: Treasures from a Working Life tells the lives of people
The love that dared not celebrate its name! Hear about our Oral History Project. Listen to stories of rainbow lives. Join the discussion. Our project evolved from ECH-sponsored oral history workshops. We aim to capture the lived experience of South Australian rainbow elders; lives traversing closeted days of criminalisation, discrimination and repression into a more accepting 21st century. We
Growing the social fabric: an oral history presentation This oral history project – conducted from November 2018 to January 2019 – looks at the origin and current development of the Grow, Grow, Grow Your Own gardening workshop group, based in Unley. The Group was established in 2012. Seven members of the coordinating committee were interviewed about the relevance of the
Daring to be different exhibition This exhibition will explore LGBT lives from the 1950s to the present, and will focus on the challenges that LGBT people have faced, as well as their contributions and achievements. Oral History Australia SA/NT workshop participants have been involved in developing the exhibition. Date: 1 May – 24 November 2019Time: 10 am – 5 pm