Old Butcher Shop on Chapman Road in the 1960’s Now the site of the Culture and Research Centre
KOWANYAMA COUNCIL APPLIES FOR GRANT Planning a way forward for Kowanyama Project Kowanyama Project has some good news for readers. The campaign to raise the money for a new and bigger Cultural Centre which stalled following financial difficulties of Council almost a decade ago has continued over the years of recovery of the Council position. Kowanyama Project facilitated a series of cultural events and activities and has been busy in the meantime keeping the dream alive. Serious discussions on the future development and operation of a new Centre are planned for 2020, once Covid 19 has run its course in Australia and things get back to normal. Council has applied for a State Government grant to cover the costs of developing a firm direction in developing the new centre. Hopefully it will be the end of more than twenty years of community talk and planning and everyone can get down to the business of finding the money needed to build a home for the Kowanyama Museum Collection and a place where people can visit and enjoy. It will be a place that helps in the maintenance of Culture and history of Kowanyama and the Mitchell River region.
Phase one: In the factory Feb 2009
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Many people have said, “Is this thing ever going to happen? When are we going to see the new Cultural and museum Centre everyone talks about”? Hopefully now things are on the way and Kowanyama will see something to be truly proud of in the near future. The grant application round ended at the end of April. Now it is a waiting game to see how we go. Kowanyama has had two Premiers, two Governors and at least six MP’s. More recent visits of prominent guests have been very impressed with the significance and size of Kowanyama’s Museum Collection. There was a question in some people’s minds in Government of the value of the project. Kowanyama’s response is that it was money well spent in securing a vital collection for Cape York. The State and the people got their money’s worth.
Building is on site May 2009
Minister Kate Jones visits Oct 2009
