Sydney Technical High School – Celebrating the School Centenary

Hurstville City Library often plays host to secondary school kids who are participating in work experience. As part of his five days here, Kevin Qiao wrote this blog entry detailing the Centenary of Sydney Technical High School..

Sydney Tech was founded in 1911 and has undergone many changes, including fifteen years in Sydney Technical College in Ultimo, thirty years in Albion Street, Paddington, and fifty-five years at the present site in Forest Road, Bexley. This year celebrates the centenary of Sydney Tech and will be held on Friday 1st April, Saturday 2nd April, Monday 4th April and Friday 8th April for ex-students, staff members and special guests (Visit http://www.sths.nsw.edu.au/downloads/centenary.pdf for more information). There are also events held for students (students log onto the school intranet and click ‘Centenary News’ in the top left corner)
A book of the school history, “The Story and Times of Sydney Technical High School” by J.F.Morrison is for sale for $110. (Visit http://www.sths.nsw.edu.au/downloads/centenary.pdf for more information - LIMITED COPIES).

Need a bookmark? Here are some rather inventive designs.

It's quite easy to lose your place when you're reading any book, let alone a 963 page monstrosity like Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina.
These designers and design companies have come up with some rather unique ways of ensuring you never lose your place again. Tassled bookmarks are SO nineties.





A bookmark lamp by fulguro perhaps?




Oh no your book's leaking! Or is it? Digustingly cool bookmarks by Kyouei Co Ltd.




How about this bookmark/USB stick? Data storage and page reminders all in one nerdtastic Clark Kent-glasses-style package designed by Willie Tsang

Happy Library-ing!

Mr. Hank is here to guide you around the UTS library!

Perhaps the LMG needs someone like Mr. Hank to get the word out about our facilities?
Happy library-ing!

Leviathan - The Unauthorised Biography of Sydney

A new work that celebrates the colourful, and often dark, history of Sydney is opening at Hurstville Entertainment Centre’s Marana Auditorium on 18 September – Leviathan, based on the award-winning book Leviathan – The Unauthorized Biography of Sydney by John Birmingham.

Leviathan is a sprawling non-fictional examination of Sydney, blending factual recreations of early penal settlement, with brutal accounts of asylum seeking, racism and abuse, and powerful stories of Sydney’s migrant history

Kicking off this year’s Hurstville Discovery Festival of Community Arts, this fantastic show, launched recently at the Marana Theatre by Sydney Theatre Company directors Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton together with our Mayor, Clr Philip Sansom, is being produced by Sydney Theatre Company in partnership with Hurstville City Council and features Sydney Theatre Company’s ‘The Residents’ together with local community groups.

Tickets are now available for LEVIATHAN – The Unauthorised Biography of Sydney
http://www.trybooking.com/Booking/BookingDates.aspx?eid=4972 or by phoning 9330 6084.
There are two shows only in Hurstville on the 18th and 19th of September so book your seats now!

Meanwhile, check out these photos from the Leviathan Media Launch!

Cate Blanchett & Andrew Upton, Artistic Directors of Sydney Theatre Company, at the Media Launch of Leviathan at the Hurstville entertainment Centre in early August

Leviathan Director, Stefo Nantsou with members of the cast from Sydney Theatre Company and the local Community.

(Images courtesy of the Sydney Theatre Company's Leviathan blog. http://leviathanstc.posterous.com/)