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The Circus Diaries is a wonderful oral history and photographic project documenting traditional Australian circus life from the 1920's to the present. Over the past three years I have travelled through much of Australia interviewing and photographing circus elders and families, and living with traditional circuses.

The Circus Diaries is a PhD project in partnership with The Australian Centre of Melbourne University and the Performing Arts Collection of the Arts Centre, Victoria.The Circus Diaries exhibition opened at the George Adams Gallery of the Arts Centre, 100 St. Kilda Rd, Melbourne, on May 18th, and ran till July 15th, 2007. The exhibition was an outcome from my Australian Circus Oral History PhD research and features photographs by Cal MacKinnon. To see some of Cal's contemporary images from The Circus Diaries exhibition, please click on the link to her website on the right.

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Friday, January 20, 2006

Lorraine Ashton's Classic Circus, Mt. Gravatt. January 2006

Lorraine and Gary Grant and their family were camped at Mt Gravatt, Q when I spent time with them. It was crazy heat, and then suddenly crazy wet. Cal was going to join me but was flooded in at Lismore. So I used Lorraine's circus as the base from which to run around Sth Queensland interviewing circus folk.

1 comment:

jude9294 said...

I'm not sure if this is the way to go but I was after some information about my great grandmother who was born in India, raised in Africa & came over to Australia when she was young. Her name was Florence Mohammed & she apparently worked at Lennons circus on the trapeze & had 2 children by Andy Lennon. The eldest one was my grandfather George Lennon. She later changed his name to Thompson. Also my Great Aunt who recently passed away & her name was Florence May Lennon, also changed to Thompson at a later date. I hope you are able to help me. Many thanks.
Jude

October 1, 2007 at 12:11 AM

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