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Nara Dreaming

Locality: Lockwood, Victoria, Australia

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Address: 1023 Calder Alt. Highway 3551 Lockwood, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.naradreaming.com.au

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25.01.2022 SOME SAD NEWS ABOUT NARA DREAMING EXHIBITION After a lot of thought and discussion we have decided to discontinue the Nara Dreaming Exhibition. We last ran the exhibition in May/June 2018 and it was extremely successful. As some of you may be aware we did not run the exhibition in 2019 because of the ongoing ill health of Bill Whitbread. He had Open Heart Surgery in January 2019 which went well but after that contracted two different strains of staph which saw him hospitalise...d for two months or so. Bill has recovered well but given that the cardiac arrest happened in theatre where he was having a shoulder replacement he did not have the full operation. He has now been told that too much time has elapsed and any further shoulder surgery would not work. In the meantime Anne Conway had a serious health crisis - suffering the very long term effects of radiation to the throat she became unable to swallow and went months without food - only able to drink clear liquid. Anne is now being tube fed through a PEG and doing very well but before that intervention she was actually close to death. In the time since we first set up Nara Dreaming we have all aged by ten years and all of us have to be more cautious in what we commit to. We feel rather than run a ho-hum exhibition which will be compared unfavourably to previous exhibitions we will not run any more. In May 2020 (when this page runs out) we will cancell the web page but we will keep our Facebook Page. We will keep our mailing lists as this does not mean that we will never do any exhibitions in the future - perhaps just smaller ones for a shorter time - who knows but we are keeping our options open. The six Nara Dreamers - Robyn Davis, Eddie King, Trina Dalton-Oogjes, Herman Oogjes, Anne Conway and Bill Whitbread thank everyone for the support they have shown us in the past. We had our first exhibition in 2010 and the last one in 2018 - nine in total. We would have liked to have made it to ten but it wasn't to be. Each year the exhibition was bigger and more popular than the year before. We could not have done all that without the support of many individuals, the artists themselves and community organisations and churches who helped us in many ways. Far too many to list but thankyou to everyone. We are all still around - check out the Facebook Page or send us an email - [email protected]

22.01.2022 Thanks to those who have sent good wishes and also enquired as to how Bill is going. Bill was transferred to The Austin Hospital in Heidelberg (Melburne) yesterday. He had thought he would have bypass surgery today but that is not to be. They have told him not today or tomorrow and may not be until next week. They want to run still more tests. He had Xrays yesterday. He has an irregular heartbeat which they would like to adjust before surgery and also they want to check the veins in his legs. There is now talk of Open Heart Surgery rather than Bypass Surgery so basically we don't know. Obviously Bill is a long way from being out of the woods but he is feeling well and eating well. He is in Ward 5 East, Bed 7. Hospital phone number is (03) 94965000

22.01.2022 Bill has left for Melbourne. He was a little upset but I guess it is fear of the unknown. I will ring him tonight and see how it is all going. I am glad that he is finally on his way though.

21.01.2022 Bill and me enjoying Arts 2019 launch at Dudley House. Only two days after his discharge from hospital. It is amazing as this time last week he was under sedation in ICU ward

21.01.2022 I will find out more later this afternoon but it looks like Bill will have his open heart/bypass surgery tomorrow.

18.01.2022 Because of illness, Nara Dreaming Exibition is not happening this year. Pleased to advise though that Bill is well on the road to recovery after having to spend another month in the Austin with a staph infection in his sternum and blood. There are lots of activities happening in and around Bendigo for Reconciliation week and I will post the flyers to this page as well as to other pages that I look after - Bendigo Reconciliation and Koori Shout-Out. Please keep in touch.

15.01.2022 Good Morning This post is just to let you know that we have decided not to run The Nara Dreaming Exhibition this year. Bill Whitbread (owner of property and Bill's Shed) had a cardiac arrest back on 21st January and was clinically dead for almost eight minutes. Fortunately this episode happened whilst he was in the Operating Theatre having a Shoulder Joint Replacement. Naturally that operation was halted and he is still to have that.... Bill had Open Heart Surgery (2 bypass) on 7th February. He is doing well and is now back home but he has a long recovery ahead and sometime in the upcoming weeks or months he will need to have the half done Shoulder Joint Replacement completed. We just feel that he will not recover sufficiently in time and his imput is quite integral to the exhibition. We were going to celebrate our Tenth Nara Dreaming Exhibition this year but now we will celebrate that milestone in 2020. We may run other events later on in the year and if we do we will certainly let you know. Please feel free to keep in touch if you would like any updates Kind regards from Anne

10.01.2022 Bill just rang me - his name came up on my mobile and I thought what the...........Anyhow my opening words to him was "what are you doing awake" - he explained ...that the man who was operated on before him had a lot of complications and it took longer than expected. Even though they had prepped and sedated Bill they decided to delay his operation so they took him back to the ward. Very disappointing but can't be helped. I might go down tomorrow since it seems he will be awake! Actually I got a bit of a fright when Bill's details came up on my phone and I wondered who would be using his phone to ring me but it turned out to be Bill himself. See more

10.01.2022 Some good news regarding Bill. He had his bypass/open heart surgery at The Austin Hospital last week. It is a huge operation and he spent several days in ICU after it. He was discharged yesterday and transported back to Bendigo in a Patient Transfer Ambulance. He is doing really well although of course he has a long road ahead of him. He has appointments to keep both here and in Melbourne. He has an appointment with his orthaepedic surgeon on 26th March and they will lo...ok at operating once again to give him the Shoulder Joint Replacement. His heart will be in much better condition now. He was unaware of any heart problems but the right side was 100% blocked and the left side 60% block so he was a heart attach waiting to happen - just fortunate it happened in the operating theatre and they were able to save him. He was clinically dead for almost 8 minutes. Picture shows his arrival back in Bendigo yesterday See more