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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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Monday, August 15, 2005

Storm over Bourke



Late on the evening of 15th August this storm hit Stardust Circus at Bourke in outback NSW. The tent was flapping like the clappers, and everyone went inside it to party and keep an eye on things. Not long after I took this pic the rain came down in buckets. The locals told me the next morning this was only the second decent rain they'd had in 5 years!! Who says there's no drought?

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