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CONFERENCES & TOURS


CONFERENCES

Each year the AGHS hold a national conference in a different region within Australia. The first conference was held in Melbourne in 1980 where the Society was formed. Since then Conferences have been held in the Blue Mountains and Sydney in NSW, Melbourne, Canberra, Hobart, Adelaide and Mt Gambier in South Australia, Toowoomba in Queensland and Perth in Western Australia.

Members and non members are invited to attend one and a half days of lectures by stimulating international and national speakers who are specialists in their fields, including garden design, architecture, garden history and cultural history.

The program always includes a day and a half of visits to many wonderful historic and contemporary public and private gardens. Extra days of garden visits are usually offered as an optional extra.

Associate YOUR name with the AGHS Conference – see Sponsorship Guidelines

 

Gardens of a Golden Era

33rd Annual National Conference
Ballarat, Victoria
9-11 November 2012

Booking forms will be available in April on this website and in the AGHS journal. Remember to book early to avoid disappointment.

'From Colonial River Port to the Hinterland, its all about the Mary’
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32nd Annual National Conference
Maryborough, Queensland
19, 20, 21 August 2011

Optional Day 22 August
Pre Conference Tour 16-18 August
Post Conference Tour 23-25 August
Fraser Island Option 23-25 August

200 delegates spent three stimulating days exploring the fine heritage city of Maryborough through lectures, delivered by a range of eminent speakers and garden owners, and visits to public and private gardens and historic buildings. The program for the Optional Day took delegates into the hinterland to visit the homestead gardens of three working cattle stations. Many also chose to participate in the more extensive tours before and after the conference. Another fully subscribed and much enjoyed conference for the AGHS.

Conference papers will be published in a special edition of the Queensland Review which can be purchased from Australian Academic Press by completing the order form.

30th Annual National Conference

Geelong, Victoria

16-18 October 2009

2009 Conference Proceedings now available for viewing (8Mb).

 

26th Annual National Conference

Perth, Western Australia

14-16 October 2005

2005 Conference Proceedings now available for viewing. (1.1Mb).

 

25th Annual National Conference

Sydney, NSW

14-17 October 2004

2004 Conference Proceedings now available for viewing. (1.1Mb).

 

TOURS

The AGHS regularly conducts specialised tours throughout Australia. The Society always endeavours to engage leaders who are knowledgeable and highly skilled in conducting tours.

These tours are wonderful opportunities to explore particular areas or themes in garden history and visit gardens rarely open to the public. Numbers are limited giving participants every chance to interact with leaders, garden owners and other participants.

Each year the AGHS holds a tour in association with the National Conference.

From time to time AGHS Branches conduct excellent tours in regional areas.
Look through the activities under Branch pages to find one which may interest you.

Monaro and Mountains Tour

23-27 April 2012

5 Day Tour led by writer-photographer Trisha Burkitt starting and finishing in Canberra and based at Lake Crackenback on the Alpine Way. The tour will visit properties on Monaro to gain an appreciation of the landscape through the eyes of people such a writer environmentalist Charles Massey and grazier David Ryrie with overlays of art, architecture, literature, history and people.

Cost: $1975 twin share. Single Supplement $486

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