• Quong Tart Year
  July 2003-July 2004

Quong Tart

Celebrating Activities

The Quong Tart
Centenary Commemoration Committee (QTCCC)

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Celebrating the Man
-the 100th anniversary of his death

2003 marks the centenary of Quong Tart's death. The Quong Tart Centenary Commemoration Committee has planned a year of activities to recognize his contribution to Sydney and Australian society and history. These include:

• A display on Quong Tart in the State Library of NSW from July to December 2003;

• the facsimile publication of The Life of Quong Tart (1911), a biography written by his wife, organised by the State Library of New South Wales and to be launched on 24 July 2003;

• from the beginning of July 2003 a virtual exhibition 'Quong Tart' at www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/history/QuongTart/ created by the History Program of the Sydney City Council;

• a graveside ceremony at Rookwood Necropolis on 26 July, the date of his death, being organised by the Sze Yup Society;

• historic tours on 20 September 2003, during the NSW History Week, have been organised by the Braidwood and District Historical Society, and will include sites around Araluen and Braidwood associated with Quong Tart;

• a lecture presentation on Quong Tart at History House, Macquarie Street, on 26 October 2003, organised by the Royal Australian Historical Society;

• evenings of Scottish ballads and verse, under the auspices of St Andrews College;

• performances, under the auspices of the University of Technology, Sydney, of a musical on Quong Tart composed by Barbara Poston-Anderson in 2004;

• an exhibition about his life and times, to be held in the Newcontemporaries gallery in the QVB from 1 July to 15 August 2004;

• an international conference Quong Tart and His Times to be co-hosted by the Powerhouse Museum and the University of Sydney and held at the Powerhouse Museum with a day in Braidwood between 1 to 5 July.

For further information contact Henry Chan by e-mail at henry.chan@asia.usyd.edu.au or phone 0418 169 869 and leave a message.
OR phone Hayden Rorke on 0411 425 599, OR contact any member of the Quong Tart Centenary Commemoration Committee.