This year’s Australian Heritage Festival is on and the team at Buda Historic Home and Garden at Castlemaine is celebrating.
Held from April 18 to May 18 each year, the Australian Heritage Festival (Vic) explores the state’s places and spaces, stories, collections and ideas that make us who we are.
Buda’s Autumn Garden Ramble and talk will run concurrently with the in-house exhibition From Mountains to Mullock Heaps: Ernest Leviny UnZIPSed and Buda is bundling it all into a special package for the National Trust Heritage Festival.
The Australian Heritage Festival is organised and led by the National Trust of Australia (Victoria), the state’s premier community-based heritage advocacy organisation, and supported by the Heritage Council Victoria and The Victorian Goldfields World Heritage Bid. This year, exploring the theme ‘Unearthed’, amazing experts and local guides investigate stories of the unusual and unknown.
On Saturday May 3, dig in to a delicious hot soup lunch as Buda’s curators unearth the life and gardens of Goldfields legend, Ernest Leviny.
Join Buda’s garden curator Ryan Garratt at 11am for an autumn ramble in Buda’s three-acre heritage garden highlighting the influence and distinctive designs of its creator, Ernest Leviny.
Then join house curator Sarah Frazer over lunch as she ploughs into the rich and fertile history beneath this Goldfields migrant success story.
Expect an adventure of Romanticism and Revolutions starting in Leviny’s Zipser homeland of Carpathia, and traversing 1800s Buda (/Pest), Vienna, Paris and London before arriving in Castlemaine.
Participants will also look at what we can learn of Leviny’s personality through archival records.
Cap the day off with a viewing of the house exhibition, From Mountains to Mullock Heaps: Ernest Leviny unZIPSed.
Delve into Ernest Leviny’s formative years in search of what inspired him as a person and an artist.
Learn about the artistic movements of the time that are reflected in both his commercial work as a jewellery designer and the paintings of his later years.
Bookings are essential at budacastlemaine.org/events
