Category: Belonging

Understanding NSW’s 2025 Draft Heritage Strategy
Adaptive Re-use · Adaptive Reuse · Attachment to place · Belonging · Built Heritage · Camden Built Heritage · Cultural Heritage · Engineering Heritage · Heritage · Indigenous Heritage · Narellan Built Heritage · Nostalgia · Place · Place making · Placemaking · Sense of place · Stories · Storytelling

Understanding NSW’s 2025 Draft Heritage Strategy

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The NSW Government has unveiled the NSW Heritage Strategy, marking a significant update in over twenty years. Aiming to broaden the understanding of heritage, it includes Aboriginal culture, historic structures, and natural heritage. Public feedback is welcomed until July 13, 2025, to shape the final strategy guiding future heritage policies.

2025 Camden Show: A Photographic Journey
Agricultural heritage · Agriculture · Agriculture history · Art · Artefacts · Attachment to place · Belonging · Camden Festivals · Camden Show · Camden Story · Community · Community identity · Community organisations · Community work · Country Women's Association · Craft · Crafts · Cultural and Heritage Tourism · Cultural Heritage · CWA · Emergency Services · Entertainment · Farming · Farming history · Festivals · First Responders · Garden history · History · Horticulture · Local History · Local Studies · Macarthur region · Nostalgia · Onslow Park · Pageant · Pioneers · Place · Place making · Placemaking · Recreation · Ruralism · Social History · Stories · Storytelling · Theme Parks · Transport · transport history · Travel · Travellers · Uncategorized · Volunteering · Volunteerism

2025 Camden Show: A Photographic Journey

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The photographic essay captures the vibrant atmosphere of the 2025 Camden Show, showcasing various activities, displays, and exhibitions. Highlights include the Woolworths produce pavilion, enthusiastic attendance from parents at performances, and contributions from local services like the Rural Fire Service, NSW Fire Brigade, and police, enriching the community experience.

Understanding the Camden Story: History, Community, and Identity
1920s · Adaptive Re-use · Aesthetics · Architecture · Attachment to place · Belonging · Business · Camden · Camden Museum · Camden Park House and Garden · Colonial Camden · Communications · Community identity · Cowpastures · Cultural Heritage · Cultural icon · Economy · Entertainment · Family history · Fashion · Festivals · Genealogy · Heritage · Historical consciousness · Historical Research · Historical thinking · History · History of a house · History theory and practice · House history · Job creation · Lifestyle · Living History · Local History · Local Studies · Macarthur · Media · Menangle · Military history · Modernism · NSW History K-10 Syllabus · Place making · Ruralism · Sense of place · Settler colonialism · Stereotypes · Storytelling · Streetscapes · Sydney's rural-urban fringe · Tourism · Travel · Urban growth · Urban Planning · urban sprawl · Volunteering · Volunteerism · Women's history

Understanding the Camden Story: History, Community, and Identity

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The Camden story encapsulates the rich tapestry of tales and histories that define the Camden community, including dreamtime legends and settler accounts. It offers insight into the community's values, identity, and resilience, serving as both a historical narrative and a tool for local businesses, fostering deeper connections among residents.

Sarah Ashcroft: Art as a Journey of Healing
Agency · Alan Baker Art Gallery Camden NSW · Architectural History · Architecture · Art · Artists · Artworks · Belonging · Built heritag · Built Heritage · Camden Built Heritage · Camden Story · Crafts · Lifestyle · Local Studies · Macaria · Place · Place making · Placemaking · Public art · Social History · Storytelling · Street Art · The Arts · Women's agency · Women's history · Women's Writing

Sarah Ashcroft: Art as a Journey of Healing

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The Camden area boasts a vibrant art culture, featuring public art and local artists like Sarah Ashcroft. After retiring from the NSW Police Force due to PTSD, Sarah found solace in drawing, particularly architectural pieces. She aims to preserve local history through her art while promoting awareness about mental health and creativity.

Exploring Greg Johns’s public art installation outside the Oran Park Leisure Centre
Aesthetics · Art · Artists · Artworks · Belonging · Camden Council · Camden Story · Community identity · Cultural and Heritage Tourism · Design · Heritage · Landscape · Lifestyle · Local Studies · Oran Park · Oran Park Leisure Centre · Oran Park Library · Place · Place making · Placemaking · Public art · Sculpture · Sense of place · Stories · Storytelling · Uncategorized · Urbanism

Exploring Greg Johns’s public art installation outside the Oran Park Leisure Centre

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At the front of the Oran Park Leisure Centre is Greg Johns' art installation, Vortex Mandala, which was inaugurated on 21 October 2024. This public artwork reflects swirling patterns symbolizing energy flow and consciousness. Johns, influenced by the Adelaide Hills, aims to create significant public sculptures that engage viewers and enhance the local environment.

Explore Belgenny Farm: A Journey Through Time 2024
19th Century · 20th century · Adaptive Re-use · Adaptive Reuse · Agricultural heritage · Agricultural modernism · Agriculture · Agriculture history · Architectural History · Architecture · Artefacts · Attachment to place · Belgenny Farm · Belonging · British colonialism · Built Heritage · Business History · Camden Park Estate · Camden Park House and Garden · Camden Story · Carpentry · Collective Memory · Colonial Australia · Colonial Camden · Colonial frontier · Community Engagement · Community identity · Cultural and Heritage Tourism · Cultural Heritage · Dairying · Farming · Farming history · History · History Festival · Living History · Local History · Local Studies · Lost trades · Macarthur family · Place making · Placemaking · Sense of place · Settler Society · Stories · Storytelling

Explore Belgenny Farm: A Journey Through Time 2024

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The 2024 Back to Belgenny festival showcased living history at Belgenny Farm, featuring reenactments, traditional trades, and various activities such as sheepdog trials and guided tours. The event included a demonstration by Governor Macquarie’s regiment and highlighted the farm's historical significance, providing visitors with an immersive glimpse into colonial agricultural life.

Revitalizing John Street: A Vision for Community Placemaking
Alan Baker Art Gallery Camden NSW · Attachment to place · Belonging · Built heritag · Built Heritage · Camden · Camden Library · Camden Story · Churches · Community celebrations · Community Engagement · Community identity · Cultural Heritage · Festivals · Heritage · Historical consciousness · Historical thinking · History · Johm Macarthur · Macarthur family · Memorialisation · Memorials · Memory · Place · Place making · Placemaking · Public art · Sense of place · Stories · Storytelling · Street Art · Uncategorized · Village

Revitalizing John Street: A Vision for Community Placemaking

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The proposal advocates for transforming John Street in Camden into an Italian-style piazza, enhancing community bonding and social capital. By activating and enhancing various existing and under-utilised elements this revitalized space could foster deeper connections among residents and serve as a vibrant, meaningful heart for the town.

Cultural and Heritage Tourism in Camden: Unveiling a $6.4 Million Per Year Industry
Aesthetics · Architecture · Attachment to place · Belonging · Built heritag · Camden · Camden Council · Camden Museum · Camden Story · Church History · Colonial Camden · Community identity · Country town · Cowpastures · Cowpastures Gentry · Cultural and Heritage Tourism · Cultural Heritage · Cultural icon · Engineering Heritage · Heritage · History · Landscape · Landscape aesthetics · Living History · Local History · Local newspapers · Memory · Place making · Settler Society · St John's Church Camden · Storytelling · Tourism · Uncategorized · Urban development · Urban history

Cultural and Heritage Tourism in Camden: Unveiling a $6.4 Million Per Year Industry

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Cultural and heritage tourism adds $6.4 million a year to the local economy. The Camden Museum and the Alan Baker Art Gallery add over $1.7 million annually.

Menangle, A Historic English-Style Estate Village in Camden Park
Agriculture · Agriculture history · Attachment to place · Belonging · Camden Park Estate · Colonial frontier · Colonialism · Cultural Heritage · Dairying · Heritage · Local Studies · Macarthur · Menangle · Menangle Rotolactor · Menangle St James Church · Place making · Sense of place · Storytelling · Urban development · Urban growth · Urban history

Menangle, A Historic English-Style Estate Village in Camden Park

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The village of Menangle, situated within the Camden district, reflects an English-style private estate village that has evolved over 150 years. Embodying rural Englishness, it has experienced both prosperity and decline, closely tied to the history of the Camden Park estate. The village's story is intertwined with the Macarthur family's influence and the impact of industrialization and modernization.

History of Camden Chinese Market Gardeners: Resilience, Innovation, and Struggles
Agricultural heritage · Agricultural modernism · Agriculture · Agriculture history · Belonging · Camden · Camden Chinese Market Gardeners · Camden District · Camden Rotary Club · Camden Story · Camden Town Farm · Community identity · Country town · Cultural Heritage · Economy · Elderslie · Families · Family history · Farming · Gardening · History · Horticulture · Intensive agriculture · Irrigation · Landscape · Lifestyle · Local History · Local Studies · Lost Camden · Memory · Modernism · Nepean River · Plants · Ruralism · Sense of place · Small town · Social History · Stories · Storytelling

History of Camden Chinese Market Gardeners: Resilience, Innovation, and Struggles

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The presentation at Camden Rotary Club details the significant contributions and challenges faced by Chinese market gardeners in Camden. It sheds light on their resilience, innovation, discrimination, and impact on the local economy. The book "A History of Camden Chinese Market Gardeners 1899-1993" emphasizes their agency, making an important contribution to local history and the literature of the Chinese diaspora in Australia.