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Author: Suesann Vos

Henry Lawson Returns to Leeton for Australian Art Deco Festival

28/06/2019 Suesann Vos 1 Comment

Often billed as Australia’s greatest literary genius, Henry Lawson resided in Leeton for just under two years. Henry Lawson (disguised…

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Leeton Town Band

Introducing Leeton’s very own Town Band

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There aren’t many community events you go to without spotting the Leeton Town Band, and the Australian Art Deco Festival…

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Tutankhamun Roadshow coming to Festival!

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You’re probably wondering how Art Deco and Tutankhamun form part of the same event? Interestingly enough, Tutankhamun’s tomb was discovered…

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Modernism and Australian Art

26/06/2019 Suesann Vos Leave a comment

Some observations of the course of Art during the Art deco period. Art has always been controversial. Where there are…

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Leetons art deco architecture WC&IC Building

Leeton’s Art Deco Era

18/06/2019 Suesann Vos Leave a comment

LEETON is fortunate that the town was planned during 1911 by Department of Works draftsmen and then a ‘Plan of…

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A local’s take on the Art Deco era

09/05/2019 Suesann Vos Leave a comment

If you’d asked me before this year what Art Deco was, I’d have said it was an architectural style and…

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Dances of the Art Deco era

23/04/2019 Suesann Vos Leave a comment

The Art Deco era was famous for jazz music and the swing dance styles that are performed to that music…

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Image Credit:Arthur Caddy, 6 March 1929, Suspect, offence unknown, Special Photograph number 1714, NSW Police Forensic Photography Archive, Sydney Living Museums

Underworld Mugshots of the Roaring 20’s comes to Leeton

29/03/2019 Suesann Vos Leave a comment

UNDERWORLD – a stunning new exhibition of police mugshots from the 1920s known as the ‘Specials’ opens at the Water…

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