Working Heritage

Last few spots left!

Justin Calverley is coming to Farm Vigano 🌳✂️

A fully qualified horticulturist with more than 35 years of industry experience, Justin has been running pruning workshops across Melbourne for over 15 years and is widely regarded as one of the state’s leading horticultural educators. His workshops are known for being practical, engaging, and accessible, helping participants build confidence in caring for their own fruit trees 🌿

Join us for a hands-on winter pruning workshop focused on the care and maintenance of deciduous fruit trees. Participants will learn practical pruning techniques, seasonal orchard management skills, and how to improve the health and productivity of backyard fruit trees 🌱

The workshop combines theory sessions in the cottage with practical demonstrations and guided activities in the orchard environment, creating a relaxed and immersive outdoor learning experience.

Suitable for beginner to intermediate gardeners, backyard fruit tree owners, and anyone interested in sustainable gardening and food production, this small group workshop allows for individual guidance and support throughout.

Book via this link: https://zurl.co/H1v1m

🎄 Christmas Stallholder Opportunity – Melbourne 🎄

We are inviting stallholders to be part of a special Christmas event at the historic Jack’s Magazine in Maribyrnong on Saturday 28 November.

Set against the backdrop of one of Melbourne’s most fascinating heritage destinations, this family-friendly celebration will bring together heritage tours, Santa visits, children's activities, pony rides, wildlife encounters, puppet shows, live music and plenty of festive fun.

We are looking for vendors whose products will help create a beautifully curated Christmas market experience.

We are particularly interested in Christmas gifts, Christmas trees and decorations, homewares, ceramics, jewellery, children's toys, tech accessories, art and stationery.

If you are a maker, designer, artist, retailer or small business looking to showcase your products to a festive community audience, we would love to hear from you.

📍 Jack’s Magazine, Maribyrnong
📅 Saturday 28 November
🕚 11am–3pm

Expressions of Interest close at 12 noon on 3 July 2026.

Apply here: https://zurl.co/haIRi

We’re looking for artisan, gift and specialty stallholders to be part of our upcoming event at the historic Jack’s Magazine.

Set against one of Melbourne’s most fascinating heritage destinations, this family-friendly Christmas event will feature heritage tours, Santa visits, children’s activities, pony rides, wildlife encounters, puppet shows, live music and more.

We’re particularly interested in handmade gifts, Christmas decorations, floristry, homewares, gourmet food, boutique beverages and other festive products that will help create a curated Christmas market experience.

📍 Jack’s Magazine, Maribyrnong
📅 Saturday 28 November
⏰ 11am–3pm

Expressions of Interest close at 12 noon on 3 July.

Apply here:

Expression Of Interest Christmas Festival (Jack's Magazine)

Thank you to everyone who came to Jack’s Open Day 2026! It was an explosive 🧨 weekend (no pun intended). We will be back later this year for a special Christmas event, so keep an eye out for more information coming soon.

Mario and Maria Vigano, a couple that had arrived in Melbourne in 1928 with their three children, having left Italy to escape persecution under the fascist Mussolini Government. Read more about the family behind the Farm Vigano restaurant’s origin, whose story played a significant role in introducing Melbourne to a European style of dining and entertainment.

Announcing a very special occasion by our incredible tenants at the South Melbourne Temperance Hall happening next Friday 15 May.

Renée Copraij and Phillip Adams in Conversation, facilitated by Rebecca Hilton!

They met in the 90s while working in New York for Dennis O Connor. Over the past three decades they have continued to work at the radical, avant-garde edge of dance and performing arts practices.

Through this conversation, facilitated by Rebecca Hilton, Renée and Phillip reflect on their intersecting and disparate experiences of shaping and influencing experimental performing arts scenes, locally and internationally.

Perhaps, they might even do a dance…

📍 Temperance Hall Main Hall, 199 Napier St, South Melbourne
📅 Friday 15 May
⏰ 7pm–8.30pm

Renée Copraij is an Apartment Studio Resident at Temperance Hall across May as part of the 2025 Apartment Studio Residency program, supporting artists travelling from near and afar to develop and share new artistic research and experiments with local audiences while living onsite.

Image rights belong to the artists and Stan Arte Vizion.

Get to know the heritage sites we manage in our History and Culture series, offering a glimpse into the distinctive stories behind our treasured places.

Visit workingheritage.com.au, go to Places → Beaufort Courthouse → History and Culture to learn more ✨