Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of The Glebe Society Incorporated will be held at 11am on Sunday 29th August 2010 at Benledi (next to Glebe Library) at 186 Glebe Point Road. 

The agenda for the meeting is published below.

Nominations for Committee

Office bearers of the Society and other members of the Management Committee will be elected at the AGM. A nomination form is available on the Glebe Society’s website (click here), or by contacting the Secretary (email: secretary@glebesociety.org.au, phone: 9660 7873, or write to PO Box 100 Glebe 2037). Members are warmly encouraged to consider the benefits of active participation in the Society. Nominations close on Friday 20 August 2010.

Invitation

All members of the Society are invited to the AGM. Only financial members are entitled to vote.

Agenda

1 Present

2 Apologies

3 Confirmation of the minutes of the 40th Annual General Meeting held on 30 August 2009

4 President’s report

5 Subcommittee reports

Some Sub-committee reports are published in this and the next Bulletin. Others will be provided to meeting attendees.   Those Chairpersons and Convenors who are present at the meeting can provide updates and/or answer questions.

6 Treasurer’s report

Motion: That the Auditor’s report for the Glebe Society Incorporated for the 2009/10 financial year, Balance Sheet as at 30 June 2010, and the Income and Expenditure Statement for the year ended 30 June 2010, be received.

7 Election of Office Bearers

8 Awards

8.1 Motion: That Tony Strachan be elected as an Honorary Life Member of the Society in recognition of both his work for the Glebe Society on major projects in the 1970s, and his continuing influence in the wider sphere of the development and acceptance of the concept of the value of our built heritage in particular.

8.2 Motion: That Bruce Davis be elected as an Honorary Life Member of the Society. His contribution to the Society has been across a huge range of issues, in an extraordinary number of capacities. It has been tireless, reasoned, rational, and effective.

8.3 Award: The Awards Subcommittee also recommended that Lyn Collingwood be awarded the Glebe Society Commendation in recognition of her contribution to preserving the history and heritage of Glebe.

9 Close of meeting

Guest speaker: We are delighted that Médecins Sans Frontièreshas accepted our invitation to send a representative tospeak to members, following the conclusion of the formal meeting agenda.  The Guest Speaker will be Dr Stewart Condon, who has worked as a medical doctor in Sudan, Indonesia and Pakistan; as field coordinator in Sri Lanka and most recently as Medical Coordinator in Bangladesh. 



Refreshments will be served at the conclusion of the talk. 

The Glebe Society is hiring the 1902 vintage tugboat Waratah for a late afternoon ride around the local Bays, on Sunday 31st October.

Details to come soon, but mark it in your diary as numbers are limited to 49.

 Is your family mutt a winner? Find out on 12th September at the Wentworth Park Community Games.

The games bring together residents from Glebe and Forest Lodge to compete in a variety of more-or-less serious sports for the GUP* Cup – actually one red and one blue gumboot mounted on a piece of wood. Points are accumulated for everything from gumboot throwing to petangue (boules).

The main attraction will again be the running of the Wenty Park Mongrel Cup – a race for the family mutt run on the hallowed sand of the Wentworth Park greyhound track. All dogs are eligible to enter. Heats will be run for big dogs and little dogs and the heat winners will compete for the big prize.

There will be numerous events suitable for children and the day will culminate in a giant tug-o’-war pitting suburb against suburb, followed by the presentation of the Cup. Other planned attractions include an historical display and historical talks, a sausage sizzle, a cake stall, and other food outlets.

The organising committee wishes to thank the Wentworth Park Sporting Complex Trust for making its facilities available for the Games.

The committee is seeking volunteers to help with events, particularly children’s sports. If you would like to help please email secretary@glebesociety.org.au or phone 9660 7873.

Players in the Pub, 7pm, Tuesday, 15 June, at the Toxteth Hotel, cnr Glebe Point Road and Ferry Road:.

Simply Absurd! directed by Lyn Collingwood.  An early piece from the Absurd Movement.  In a world without meaning life can still be very funny.

Players in the Pub is presented by members and friends of Sydney’s New Theatre. These are not static readings but theatrical presentations, using minimal props and furniture.

Admission is free.  Two main meals for one on Tuesdays – orders from 5.30pm.

Players in the Pub, 7pm, Tuesday, 27 July, at the Toxteth Hotel, cnr Glebe Point Road and Ferry Road:

Bloopers, a new play by Ron Elisha, directed by Susannah Thompson. Ron, Melbourne GP and author of In Duty Bound, Einstein,The Goldberg Variations and Wrongful Life, is flying up for the occasion.

Players in the Pub is presented by members and friends of Sydney's New Theatre. These are not static readings but theatrical presentations, using minimal props and furniture.

Admission is free.  Two main meals for one on Tuesdays – orders from 5.30pm.

A monster book sale will be held at Benledi on Saturday, 5 June .  Books can be donated for sale Friday 4 June.

The Friends of Barangaroo, along with a number of other groups, will stage a protest at the Barangaroo site, 47–51 Hickson Road at 11am – 2pm on Saturday 26 June. 

Invited speakers include Jack Mundey, the Green Bans activist; Genia McCaffrey, Mayor of North Sydney; John McInerney, Independent Councillor, City of Sydney; and Shayne Mallard, Liberal Councillor, City of Sydney.

PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE OF DATE.  Cr Marcelle Hoff explains:

Earlier this week we were contacted by the Police asking that we postpone the rally as the US President, Mr Obama, was expected in town that weekend.  We’ve now heard that he’s cancelled his Australian trip – and we’d already altered our schedule!

Annual Events

Glebe's annual Calendar of Events is impressive, beginning with regular book launches and readings at Gleebooks throughout the year and those held by the Friends of Benledi and Glebe Library, email  glebe_info@lmc.nsw.gov.au The Friends meet on the second Monday of each month, public holidays excepted, at Benledi, 184 Glebe Point Road, Glebe. There are many local galleries. For example, the long-established Inner City Clayworkers Gallery at the eastern end of St. Johns Road is a co-operative which provides a forum for individual craftsmen to present new ceramics on a regular basis. Their Annual Teapot Show held every August is "a must"– 9692 9717, www.clayworkers.com.au or email info@clayworkers.com.au ).

Another gallery of importance is the Glass Artists Gallery at 70 Glebe Point Road, where you can find individual pieces by well-known glass artisans at a range of prices. FFI, call 9552 1552, email: glassartistsgallery@bigpond.com. This gallery takes part in community events on a regular basis. Adjacent to the Glass Artists Gallery at 70A Glebe Point Road, is the GIG Gallery which provides gallery space for hire. FFI send email to: mail@giggallery.com or visit their website at www.giggallery.com.

Glebe has many bookshops and in the western St. Johns Road precinct, one of particular speciality is Florilegium at 145 St Johns Road, where you will find anything and everything you wanted to know about plants and gardens of the world, email: florilegium@ozemail.com.au. In this precinct at 172 St.Johns Road you will also find an interesting spot for coffee and artworks at YUGA Floral Design and Cafe by Setsuko Yanagisawa (www.yugaflora.com.au); nearby is Tom Osment's 'glebepictureframes' at #168 where you will find creative conservation framing, gallery work and artists' shows as well as works on paper and prints for sale. (www.glebepictureframes.com.au)

The NSW National Trust's Heritage Festival events are usually held in April and are followed by the popular Book Fair at Glebe Library. Donations of books for the Fair are welcomed – please contact the Library for further details. There will be boxes so you can donate birthday gifts (unwrapped please) for the disadvantaged children who attend the before, after and holiday care Centipede Centre at Glebe Public School. Please think of these children when you come to the Book Fair. Additionally Forest Lodge Public School plans to hold a sausage sizzle and sell cakes, so come along and enjoy the books and food.

The Glebe Art Competition is held every year at Benledi (184 Glebe Point Road) and the adjacent Glebe Library at 186 and local residents are encouraged to contribute their artworks — Well over 200 entries are received for this 10-day event, which now includes contributions from Pyrmont and Ultimo artists following our 2003 transfer to the City of Sydney which generously provides a $3,000 first prize. The exhibition continues every day from 11am-6pm at Benledi during this period and in regular library hours. New arrangements have been made for the library to be open from 12.00 midday to 4.00pm on Saturdays, as well as Sunday from 11.00am-4.00pm during the exhibition. For those intending to enter the competition, entry forms will be available in early May from Glebe Library (note $15.00 fee) and these will provide further information for potential exhibitors. Any other enquiries should be directed to the library on 9298 3060. Our library also holds regular exhibitions and events throughout each year — watch our Calendar for details of forthcoming events.

September brings Glebe Week when a community-wide range of activities is organised by the Glebe Chamber of Commerce. Each year St. Scholastica's College celebrates its anniversary to mark the arrival of the Good Samaritan Sisters at Glebe Point — on October 16, 1901 the Sisters made their journey from Pitt Street to Toxteth House when the government resumed the convent site (formerly a Debtors' Prison) to build a new rail terminal, now Central Railway Station.

In early November, Glebe residents have the pleasure of enjoying the annual Glebe Music Festival (co-sponsored by The Glebe Society) at various local venues. Keep checking this website or www.glebemusicfestival.com for full details.

The Glebe Street Fair is held annually on the third Sunday of each November when a kilometre of Glebe Point Road is closed to traffic and the roadway is transformed into a mass of food stalls and wine-sampling booths, arts and craft stalls, stilt walkers, clowns and bands, while Foley Park is devoted to children's activities. A crowd of over 100,000 people often visit the Fair!

By December, Christmas activities and parties are in full swing at many venues — and Carols by Candlelight is an annual event at Bicentennial Park at Glebe Point (or at Minogue Reserve, check our Calendar of Events). It is hardly surprising that after a year-full of such interesting and varied activities, Glebe residents need to relax in January!