Community History Awards
Published Wednesday, 3rd December 2014
Applications are now open for the 2015 Community History Awards, a competition run by the Wanneroo Regional Museum to encourage research into the history and heritage of the City of Wanneroo.
Entries
can focus on any aspect of Wanneroo history such as a building, pioneer family
or individual, history of an organisation, Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander stories or memories of a particular decade or event.
The
two categories are original research in
the form of an unpublished essay and personal
memoirs/migrant stories.
Submissions
will be added to the Community History Centre collection where they will be
preserved and shared with the community.
First
prize in each category is $500 and runner-up is $150.
Entries
are now open and close at 4pm Friday, 24 April 2015.
Further
details are on the entry form which can be downloaded online, or collected at the Wanneroo
Regional Museum, City of Wanneroo libraries Civic Centre and community centres.
For further details call 9405 5925 or email museum@wanneroo.wa.gov.au
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