Podcasts about western treatment plant

Join We Are Explorers Podcast host, Tim Ashelford, as he learns how Cezary & Leo dreamt up this unique gap year, and what's gone down in the first six months. Joining the podcast from the Western Treatment Plant (yep, a sewage treatment farm that apparently has great spot bird watching), the pair are over 10,000km and 590 birds into their year-long adventure.They've both deferred uni in favour of a wild adventure, combining their passion for birds, their bikes as a means of affordable transport, and a fundraising effort to build a school in East Timor.In This Episode We CoverThe 700+ bird species in AusGetting into birdingWhy the pair chose to travel by bikeTrip budgetBikepacking experienceFundraising for a school in East TimorBird highlightsChasing the common redshankCharacters on the roadBike setupsSafety on the roadWhat's nextSpend it well – school in East TimorShow NotesCezary and Leo are raising money for Spend It Well, a charity that builds schools in East Timor. You can follow along their journey via their joint Instagram @twobirderstwobikes.Ready for an adventure of your own?Follow We Are Explorers:Website: https://weareexplorers.co/Instagram: @we_are_explorersEvents Calendar: https://weareexplorers.co/events/list/Enjoying the podcast? Why not subscribe and turn on notifications so you never miss an ep. It helps us to continue bringing you epic adventure content!Host: Tim Ashelford

The Portrait of Mai (Omai) by Sir Joshua Reynolds depicts a youthful Polynesian man who visited England in the 1770s and spent time on James Cook's third voyage. The work has been the subject of UK government export bans, a feverish fundraising campaign, millions in donations and some panhandling by Britain's elites, in a desperate bid to keep it on British soil. Daniel speaks with Professor Kate Fullagar, who's written a book about the Raiatean subject of the painting Mai, and artist Reynolds, as well as Associate Professor Peter Brunt, about what Mai represents and how the historical context of the painting has been denied or ignored in the discussion. Rosa tours the vast Western Treatment Plant, where sewage and Art collide. The plant holds vital infrastructure that made the colonial city of Melbourne sanitary and liveable, and continues to do so. The plant's history and critical purpose is up for exploration in a public art exhibition called Treatment III. Artists interviewed: Fiona Hillary and Edwina Stevens.

The Portrait of Mai (Omai) by Sir Joshua Reynolds depicts a youthful Polynesian man who visited England in the 1770s and spent time on James Cook's third voyage. The work has been the subject of UK government export bans, a feverish fundraising campaign, millions in donations and some panhandling by Britain's elites, in a desperate bid to keep it on British soil. Daniel speaks with Professor Kate Fullagar, who's written a book about the Raiatean subject of the painting Mai, and artist Reynolds, as well as Associate Professor Peter Brunt, about what Mai represents and how the historical context of the painting has been denied or ignored in the discussion. Rosa tours the vast Western Treatment Plant, where sewage and Art collide. The plant holds vital infrastructure that made the colonial city of Melbourne sanitary and liveable, and continues to do so. The plant's history and critical purpose is up for exploration in a public art exhibition called Treatment III. Artists interviewed: Fiona Hillary and Edwina Stevens.

In the first show of Season 2 Paul speaks to Dennis. Paul's first memory of Dennis was when his best mate Dave pointed him out. Dave advised "I'd advise you get to know that bloke, he'd be good for your Recovery". Dennis talks about his interests, what it's like to have decades in Recovery, illness and his family. He discusses his father and their shared love of Cricket. Paul learns that Dennis enjoys bird watching (did you know Melbourne's Western Treatment Plant, aka the Werribee sewerage farm is considered one of the worlds greatest bird habitats)! Scotland is discussed, his application of 12 Step Recovery when faced with a serious illness, along with the love he feels for his wife, his family and how his Grandson kept Dennis accountable one afternoon...

We hear a tale of explosive sewage and explore the Western Treatment Plant - the happiest place on earth! Write to us at: podcastmadness@gmail.com

This is the first ever episode of “This Must Be the Place”: a documentary style visit to the remains of Cocoroc, inside the Western Treatment Plant. If you live in Melbourne, chances are you don’t give too much thought to where what you flush down the toilet goes to. The important part is it just goes ‘away’. But the chances are – as with 80% of Melbourne’s sewage - it travels to the Western Treatment Plant in Werribee. For much of its history, from the 1890s, the Plant was known as the ‘Metropolitan Farm’. It was the most productive farm in Victoria. And the farm was, for nearly a century, a home to many people. As recently as the late 1970s, hundreds of workers and their families lived inside the sewage farm, including in a township called Cocoroc. In this episode Elizabeth and David take a tour with Melbourne Water Heritage Manager Paul Balescone to see what remains of Cocoroc today. They also speak to a PhD student, Monika Schott, who's researching what life was like living on the Farm. And they introduce the idea of the This Must Be The Place podcast. Alternative title: “dropping the kids off at the pool”. (The town’s old swimming pool is featured. Also that’s a terrible joke). Corrections from the audio: The town of Cocoroc was occupied until the 1970s, not the 1980s. And although there were many place-names within the Farm some say there was only really one town, Cocoroc.

Treatment was a two-day, site-responsive public art project on display (via an eighty-minute bus tour) at Melbourne Water’s Western Treatment Plant in Werribee on 14 and 21 November 2015. Curators David Cross and Cameron Bishop invited six artists to work with the plant’s sights and sounds—its treatment lagoons and abandoned former township, its world-renowned wetlands and resident waterfowl—in order to explore its history, landscape and technology. Listen to this MTalk as David and Cameron lead Treatment’s six featured artists—Catherine Bell, Bindi Cole Chocka, Megan Evans, Shane McGrath, Techa Noble and Spiros Panigirakis—in a round-table conversation that will look back at the project and specifically consider how each artist chose to respond to the 11,000-hectare site. The six works (from performance to sound and film installation) will ground a broader discussion about how we curate and make temporary public art that responds to highly particular cultural, environmental and technological conditions. What benefits arise from artworks popping up in the street, the park, the paddock? Can public art engage a community’s collective mind and change the way it is perceived?