Hidden Waters of the Birrarung: National Trust’s 70th Anniversary Heritage Futures
Presented by Petrichor Collaborative & National Trust of Australia (Victoria)
DETAILS
Ticketed
Ballroom
Como House & Garden, Lechlade Avenue, South Yarra VIC, Australia
Petrichor Collaborative and the National Trust present the Hidden Waters of the Birrarung working exhibition and launch the 70th Anniversary Heritage Futures program.
Como Park was once a Billabong, a former path of the river and one of many concealed landscapes that exist across Melbourne’s parks and open spaces.
The exhibition on the Como House verandah presents Petrichor’s Remembered Waters series, created in the landscapes of Como Park Billabong, Queen Victoria Gardens, Parkville and Carlton Gardens. Each canvas is a collective response to place, capturing First Nations perspectives and community vision as a way of reframing the treatment of these urban environments.
As light falls, visitors are invited into the Ballroom for a round-table panel discussion focused on how relationships to Country can inspire the future of the city.
The panel concludes with the unveiling of Heritage Futures by the National Trust, a travelling outdoor installation designed and developed in partnership with Petrichor Collaborative for the National Trust’s 70th anniversary.
If you require the use of a ramp to access Como House, please email us ahead of schedule to coordinate this, on [email protected].
Participants
Justin Buckley, Executive Manager – Gardens and Landscapes, National Trust of Australia (Victoria)
Justin oversees the management of all NTAV gardens and landscapes across Victoria. He leads the NTAV’s advocacy around natural heritage and environmental values, public open space, significant trees, biodiversity and urban greening. Justin joined the NTAV as a qualified gardener and later Head Gardener of Rippon Lea Estate and has held additional roles managing several of our major heritage sites and various conservation projects. He is also a member of the Victorian committee of Botanic Gardens of Australia and New Zealand (BGANZ).
Maddison Miller, Board Director, National Trust of Australia (Victoria)
Maddison is a Darug woman and academic at the University of Melbourne. She has extensive experience in cultural heritage, working in archaeology and cultural heritage policy. Currently her research looks at ways of knowing Country, working with Indigenous and non-Indigenous knowledge holders to care for Country. She is a Councillor with the Biodiversity Council, and an alternate member of the Heritage Council of Victoria. Maddi was a participant in the inaugural Joan Kirner Emerging Leaders Program.
Jakobi Ili-Jakobi, Petrichor Collaborative
Jakobi is a Djab Wurrung and Dhauwurd Wurrung man, cultural educator, emerging biocultural scientist and storyteller. Currently studying Plant Science (B-SCIEXTD) at the University of Melbourne, he has a passion for place-based storytelling, embedding biocultural scientific ways of knowing to inspire different perspectives on land, water and ecology. He believes that urban renaturalisation is an important step towards Caring for Country and is driven to contribute to events and projects that support Caring for Country and Traditional Owner desires for environmental restoration.
Janet Bolitho, President Yarra River Keeper Association
Janet joined the Board of Yarra Riverkeeper Association in 2013 and became President in 2023. Before that, she was a councillor and Mayor at the City of Port Phillip where she was a champion for urban nature and Port Phillip Bay. Also on the committee of Westgate Biodiversity: Bili Nursery & Landcare, she brings a long standing commitment to the role of communities in caring for places, as well as an understanding of the policies governing the Yarra Birrarung.