Castlemaine Art Museum invites members to attend the 2023 Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Castlemaine Art Museum.

Date: Thursday 30 November 2023
Time: 6.00pm
Address: Castlemaine Art Museum, 14 Lyttleton Street Castlemaine

Linked below are the following:
— Letter of Invitation from the Chair
— Notice of Meeting
— Proxy Form
— Draft Minutes of the 2022 Annual General Meeting held on 24 November 2022
— CAM 2022–23 Annual Report

At the meeting, current members will:

— be asked to receive and accept the draft minutes of the 2022 AGM held on 24 November 2022;
— receive and consider the annual financial report and the report of the auditor of CAM for the year ended 30 June 2023; and
— receive from the Board any reports on CAM’s business and operations during the year ended 30 June 2023.

How members can participate:

1. Register your attendance by emailing by 6.00pm on Tuesday 28 November 2023;
2. Register questions before the AGM. Questions may be submitted in time to be received by 6.00pm on Tuesday 28 November 2023 by email;
3. Submitting a Proxy Form by 6.00pm on Tuesday 28 November 2023, if you are unable to attend the AGM. The Proxy Form is available to download online here, or email us here.

If you are unsure about the status of your membership, please email us or call CAM Front of House on (03) 5472 2292 during gallery open hours (Thursday-Saturday 11am–4pm; Sunday 12pm–4pm).

To coincide with Stonework, we invite you to bring your treasured rocks, stones, minerals or fossils to Talking Rocks and have your items assessed and/or identified by an esteemed panel of Geologists. Perhaps you will discover something new about the rocks in your life!

On a first come first served basis, please bring 1-3 items (maximum) per person, with sessions limited to 5 minutes. Please keep your specimens to an easily held size and bring a pen and paper to note any advice, as written assessments cannot be given.

Optional gold coin donation to participate. This is an informal event, and participants and attendees are invited to listen in on each assessment session.

Suitable for all ages!

All welcome. No RSVP required.

Geologist Experts

Dr Bill Birch
Dr Bill Birch, Curator Emeritus, Geosciences, joined the Melbourne Museum (Museums Victoria) in 1974 as Curator of Minerals and retired at the end of 2013 after 40 years. His main roles were to grow and improve the museum’s collections of minerals, rocks and meteorites for use in research projects and exhibitions, and to engage with the wider community across many topics of interest within the vast field of geology. Birch's personal research interests are in the analysis of minerals, especially unusual species, documentation of mineral assemblages, and historical mineralogy. Working with other experts, he has described over 50 minerals new to science.

Clive Willman
Clive Willman started his career as a geologist at Chewton’s Wattle Gully mine in 1980 and later worked for the Geological Survey of Victoria and in Victoria’s gold exploration industry. He has contributed to numerous scientific papers and books on Victoria’s geology. Clive was awarded the Geological Society of Australia’s Selwyn Medal in 2003 for a ‘significant contribution of high calibre to Victorian geology’. Clive has produced a number of science education films for his YouTube channel ‘Geology Films’.

Dermot Henry
Dermot Henry, Head of Sciences, Museums Victoria Research Institute, joined the Museum in 1982, initially working in a variety of roles within the Geosciences section. Now, as Head of Sciences, he has responsibilities for a large multidisciplinary team that works across the broad disciplines of zoology, palaeontology, geosciences, and human biology. Through his career he has been responsible for managing and developing collections, developing public programs and exhibitions, conducting peer-reviewed research, communicating science to a diverse range of audiences, and promoting the Museum in a wide variety of forums. He has published on a variety of mineralogical, petrological and meteoritic topics and has edited and contributed to four books on Victorian mineralogy.

Bringing together historical works from the CAM collections with contemporary and First Nations artists, Stonework reveals there are many ways of looking at a stone.

Choose your own adventure print poem! To coincide with the 2023 Experimental Print Prize, now showing at Castlemaine Art Museum, we’re thrilled to present a unique screenprinting workshop lead by Troppo Print Studio on Saturday 20 January 2024.

As a group, participants will screenprint a selection of words on tote bags and t-shirts, creating a wearable concrete-style poem. Participants are asked to choose a descriptive or poetic word related to the theme of Environment. Prompts or examples of words include: activate, energy, future, nature, positive, reality, revolution. These words will then be incorporated into the screens for the workshop.

When booking tickets, submit your descriptive word, or email us with your word before 12 January 2024.

Workshop includes all print materials and tote bags. Participants are also welcome to bring a light-coloured t-shirt (e.g. white, creams) to screenprint on!

Troppo Print Studio is an artist run open access print studio in Melbourne's (Naarm) North. Facilitating workshops, leading to membership options, and happenings like the Screen Print Social Club. Troppo offer darkroom facilities, and accommodate paper, fabric, and garment printing.

Bookings essential. Limited spaces available.

Tickets: Purchase tickets here.