Listening to the Voices -
celebrating 80 years.
The "Listening to the Voices" project aims to preserve the recorded memories of Portland C.E.M.A. ( Council for Encouragement of Music and the Arts) early members in order to enable access to local historians, family historians and current members. Assisted by a Glenelg Shire Community Grant (Arts and Culture) a series of interviews conducted by Lesley Jackson with early members recorded in the 1980s and 1990s has been digitised and will be shared via the Victorian Collections site in celebration of CEMA's 80 years of encouraging music and the arts in Portland , Victoria.

Interview with Alan Hodge recorded August 1983

Interview with Eric Thorpe recorded June 1983

Interview with Dorothy Woolcock recorded 4 August 1983

Interview with Collin Woolcock recorded 4 Aug 1983

Interview with Bob and Jean Stuchbery recorded 1984

Interview with Fred Merryweather recorded 29 Aug 1983
more interviews coming soon.
FROM THE ARCHIVES
Cema inc maintains archives of significant events since 1945.



1951
"A Murder has been arranged." CEMA Dramatic Group
1991
Woodturners' Guild Exhibition (Leadlight window behind was a community project)
1995
CEMA Life members celebrate at the 50th anniversary celebration.
Marion Bellis, Nancy Barclay, Betty Vivian, Dorothy Woolcock, Eric Thorpe, June Hedditch.