City Port Phillip Mayor, Cr Voss, Grace Blake, and Deputy Mayor Cr Thomann. Photo courtesy of the City of Port Phillip.
The City of Port Phillip has awarded Grace $5000 to curate an exhibition, Accounts from the Front, 1917 through the auspices of the Albert Park-South Melbourne Rowing Club. Supported by the City of Port Phillip’s 2016/17 Cultural Development Fund, this grant will provide Grace’s curator’s fee to produce a 50-item exhibition which will include letters and memoirs written by the Club’s members during World War One. The exhibition will open on 20 April, 2017 at the Albert Park-South Melbourne Rowing Club.