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Centre to immortalise history in bricks, mortar

Callum HunterSouth Western Times
Stirling Street Arts Centre chairwoman Carlene Williams and workshop and marketing coordinator Bee Denham hope to have 300 memory bricks laid.
Camera IconStirling Street Arts Centre chairwoman Carlene Williams and workshop and marketing coordinator Bee Denham hope to have 300 memory bricks laid. Credit: South Western Times, Callum Hunter

Stirling Street Arts Centre has announced a new fundraising initiative, one that will engrave the centre’s heritage in the bricks of history.

Set to launch tomorrow, centre chairwoman Carlene Williams announced the new memory brick initiative on Monday and said expressions of interests could be made as of now.

“We would like to have some sort of a memory garden, whether it be a pathway or something around the trees,” she said.

“The people who attended or have been here can register and have a paving brick laid down as a memento of them being here.

“It will be incorporated into the new landscaping.”

The initiative comes after the loss of Healthways as a major funding provider.

Ms Williams said she hoped to sell and engrave 300 bricks at $100 per brick, a rate that would generate $30,000 in funding.

“I thought this was a lovely way for everyone, past and present, to be involved,” she said.

Expressions of interest and order forms will be available online and from the centre tomorrow.

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