Super September
September was another busy month. At least my month planner makes it look like it was. I’m not sure if this will be one post or two. Let’s try for one!
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Super September
Plovers!
I went to the Hobart Photographic Society meetup at the Botanical Gardens and spent about an hour there before they kicked us out. They had to close the gardens because of the wind and safety concerns. While a lot of the others went looking for flowers, I went straight for the plovers.
I have my usual complaint about the Botanical Gardens in that there is no obvious way to get there on a bike. You either have to ride on the highway or on a gravel path that descends steeply to the road at both ends.
I’m told there is another, much more indirect, way that uses the roads that cross the Domain but I have no idea how to get to them without going on one or more main roads. I think it would involve crossing over the pedestrian bridge, but where you go is not obvious to me. I should try and figure it out before the next time I want to ride there because that gravel is super dangerous.
Kunanyi
My sister and I went on one of the final Kunanyi Connection walks with Nunami Sculthorpe-Green of Black Led Tours.
Nunami recently closed Blak Led Tours to concentrate on her art so we were very lucky to have the opportunity to learn from her in this environment.
It was even more special because it hailed on the way back to our starting point.
Many performances
Let’s start with the French lutenist, Thomas Dunford, who performed at St David’s Cathedral for Van Diemen’s Band.
He was magnifique!
There was Bell Shakespeare‘s performance of Macbeth at the Theatre Royal.
It was amazing, with wonderful costumes and set design, and transported the 11th century Scottish Highlands to 1920! I went to a meet the cast session the night before I saw the show, which was also a fabulous opportunity.
The day after that, I went back to the theatre to see re:group performance collective‘s show POV, where two adult actors played the parents of a 13-year-old girl, but they had no script and no rehearsals. They just had to show up to the theatre and be directed by the young performer. They got some very broad instructions on things to research and what to wear (something with pockets), and were told to turn up at the Studio Theatre an hour before the show started.
They were very brave!
In the show I saw, the adult actors were Katie Robertson and Scott Farrow, and the young performer, Yuna, did a great job directing them. It was a really interesting concept, and we even got snacks in the mandatory break (mandatory because Yuna, as a child performer, has limits on how long she can work for).
We went to see John X‘s production of And Then There Were None.
This is based on a novel by Agatha Christie, which had a very different title when it was originally published. I hadn’t read it, so I didn’t know ‘whodunnit’ and I guessed wrong anyway.
It was great!
I also went to see O’Grady Drama’s On Cue Ensemble production of Jane Austen in 89 Minutes.
This is Kramstable’s former drama class and I love going along to see their shows.
What else?
Now we basically get to the photo dump …
I got this dodgy looking old camera and want to get hold of some film so I can see if it works.
I went to the Tasmania Police Museum to do some research for a story I’m writing.
I went to Fullers Silent Book Club.
More research.
The lovely staff at the library found this for me and I had a wonderful morning looking through what Hobart might have been if the council had accepted Fred Cook’s 1945 ideas.
It was Kramstable’s birthday so Zoe and I went out for lunch.
I recently became a delegate for the Community & Public Sector Union (CPSU) and one of my first activities was to take part in the CPSU action to get community support for the Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, which (along with many other parts of government) is currently facing large staffing cuts.
I also went to the delegates conference.
I reported this hole to the council and a couple of weeks later I noticed it had been fixed.
I’ve been watching the peregrine falcons at 367 Collins Street in Melbourne, and this led me to learn about this falcon in Redcliffe Queensland, which has only one eye and has been breeding on the roof of a local hotel.
I took this screenshot from the Facebook group that watches this breeding pair. The group admin says
What makes her truly special is that she has thrived and continues to hunt successfully with only one eye. This is nothing short of remarkable. Many experts would say that hunting at speeds of up to 300 km/h without full depth perception—and with a completely blind left side—would be nearly impossible. Yet she proves just how resilient and adaptable these birds can be.
Amazing!
I went to Bett Gallery‘s 40th Anniversary exhibition.
And I saw some cool clouds on the way home on the bus one day.
So that’s it for Super September! Now I need to find a name for October.
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