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Civic Centre
163 St Vincent St, Port Adelaide
Tel: 8405 6600
Town Hall
34 Nile St Port Adelaide
Library - Council Offices
Enfield Library - Council Office
1 Kensington Cres Enfield
Tel: 8405 6530
Greenacres Library - Council Office
2 Fosters Rd Greenacres
Tel: 8405 6540
Libraries
Port Adelaide Library
2 Church St Port Adelaide
Tel: 8405 6580
Semaphore Library
14 Semaphore Rd Semaphore
Tel: 8405 6570
Community Centres
Kilburn Community Centre
59 Gladstone Ave Kilburn
Tel: 8349 8363
Hillcrest Community Centre
27-31 Queensborough Ave Hillcrest
Tel: 8266 7267
Enfield Community Centre
540 Regency Rd Enfield
Tel: 8342 9168
Lefevre Community Stadium
541 Victoria Rd Osborne
Tel: 8405 6908
Visitor Information Centre
66 Commercial Rd Port Adelaide
Tel: 8405 6560
Port Adelaide Enfield residents have
been digging their old suitcases and
trunks out of storage and attending
storytelling workshops, as part of South
Australia’s History Festival, to find the
best way to tell the stories about their
cases and what’s inside them.
“Suitcases tell many tales,” said Port
Adelaide Enfield Arts & Cultural
Development Officer Jane Marr. “They
are a part of change, moving house, a
journey or holiday and they are used
to store treasures, family heirlooms,
keepsakes and collections.”
Local resident Vicky Crowley, dusted
off the rusty, wood-grained trunk
and striped cardboard suitcase with
metal corners once owned by her
grandmother, which date back to the
1890s when she began working as a
teacher at the age of 14. “They travelled
with her everywhere, from the Riverland
to Maree and Oodnadatta. There’s even
an old sticker from Alice Springs on one
of them.” Later on, married to a railway
employee and living at Murray Bridge,
she travelled everywhere by train,
including travel to railways picnics held
at Semaphore, often taking the suitcase
with her.
“I hear voices coming out of the
suitcase and trunk,” Vicki says. “In a
way they speak to me and make me
want to know more about her life.”
Another local resident Ollie Black also
attended the workshops, bringing along
her late mother’s ancient grey-patterned
cardboard suitcase.
Although her mother used it when
travelling to visit her family in Western
Australia, it’s what it contains that
excites Ollie the most. “I was the first-
born in my family and my mother kept a
huge collection of all the congratulatory
cards and telegrams she received at
the time, along with a huge collection
of photographs of me as a baby and
a child,” Ollie said. Storyteller Helen
Lawry worked with participants to
develop and share their stories, which
will be filmed and then showcased in a
specially designed “suitcase cinema” for
the Port Festival in October 2013.
Suitcases Wanted For Arts Sake
Suitcases have a strong link to the Port.
“Port Adelaide’s history is grounded
by immigrants arriving in Port with
all their worldly possessions in their
suitcases - their treasures, photos and
belongings ready to start a new life
in Australia” says Jane. Consequently
suitcases will feature in a number of
projects within this year’s Port Festival
program, including the development
of an exciting “Suitcase Art Trail”.
Unwanted suitcases are needed. If
you have a suitcase you would like to
donate, please contact Events Officer
Sue McKenzie on 8405 6701.
Unpacking the family’s suitcase stories
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Ollie Black showing the contents of
her suitcase to Vicki Crowley
