The Residency
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One of Alice Springs’ most iconic heritage buildings, The Residency was built in the late 1920’s to house the Government Resident of Central Australia during a brief period of legislative independence.
Today, the building is managed by Heritage Alice Springs in partnership with The Araluen Cultural Precinct and is open to the public weekdays (10am – 3pm) and on Todd Mall Market Sundays (10am – 2pm). At other times, The Residency may be hired for suitable events and functions.
September 2019
Flower Power an exhibition of paintings by Jennifer Taylor
Plants grow with the power of the land… all medicinal plants grow with the healing power of the country in them. Margaret Kemarre Turner OAM, Iwenhe Tyerrtye – What it means to be an Aboriginal person. Mrs Turner writes about how people ‘skite’ about their local plants, and praise them up: ‘oh yes, those plants grow out of the Land, ripe with the spirit of their own soil – the spirit of the Land that’s always there, even though the plants themselves come…
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