Voice of three nations will echo over the fields at the feature event of Cowra’s Heritage Festival on Saturday, April 29.
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In a moving experience voices in English, Japanese and Wiradjuri will remember the events of the Cowra Prisoner of War Camp breakout in August 1944.
With the theme of “having a voice”, Cowra’s 2017 Heritage Festival highlights the events that make up the town’s history.
A special feature of the event includes a tribute to Aboriginal soldiers involved in the camp.
Guided tours will be held of the four camp quadrants from 8am at the camp site in Sakura Avenue.
Cowra Lions Club will hold a free breakfast and the launch of Zilah Williams’ book Tomadachi – Yesterday’s Enemy will take place.
Told against the historical background of the Cowra Breakout in 1944, Tomodachi is described an exciting, fast-moving Australian historical novel for older teens.
Janice Lewis, seventeen, and beginning a university course in Sydney, finds a friend in Hisako, a Japanese fellow student. However, when Hisako meets Ben Lewis, Janice’s dad, old hatreds bubble to the surface.
What is the secret Ben has carried since the end of the Second World War—a secret which has the potential to destroy more than one family relationship?
On Saturday, May 20, as part of the Cowra Heritage Festival, the Merriganowry Hall will be the scene of an intriguing one-off performance by the Cowra M and D called Village Voices from 11am to 3pm.
A special part of the event will be the dedication of a plaque commemorating the 1817 Soldiers Depot near the Lachlan River.
Cost is $10 for adults and $5 for children. Bookings with Cowra Tourism.
