Creative 2037
Blue Plaque nomination #2: 153 Bridge Road Glebe, birthplace of Aboriginal Islander Dance Theatre
Posted on 6th April 2022
The Aboriginal Islander Dance Theatre was established in 1975 at St James Hall, 153 Bridge Road, Glebe as a full-time training program to encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to take up professional dance. It launched the careers of many dancers and performers, and raised the profile of Aboriginal dance on the international stage. The Glebe Society has nominated St James Hall to have a Blue Plaque commemorating this history.
Artists@Work along our Glebe foreshore
Posted on 4th March 2022
The Glebe Art Show Committee came up with the brilliant idea of inviting local artists to work en plein air as part of the first Glebe Art Walk at four locations along the Glebe foreshore, on February 6th. Following its success and the buzz created, a second Glebe Art Walk is planned for September this year.
Who filmed in your street?
Posted on 22nd December 2021
Glebe and Forest Lodge have featured in a huge number of films, TV programs, documentaries, newsreels and advertisements.
The 32nd annual Glebe Music Festival 2021
Posted on 6th November 2021
COVID restrictions have lifted in good time for the 32nd Annual Glebe Music Festival to go ahead. Five concerts will be happening in Glebe between 7th and 28th November. Details here.
Paintings of Glebe by artist Sonia Mattson
Posted on 6th October 2021
A series of oil paintings inspired by places in Glebe, by local artist Sonia Mattson.
Glebe Public School brightens up Glebe
Posted on 6th October 2021
Glebe Public School fence display on Glebe Point Road.
32nd Annual Glebe Music Festival
Posted on 6th October 2021
The 2021 Glebe Music Festival will take place in November, under the direction of artistic director, David Mcintosh.
Do you have a photo of this Glebe sign?
Posted on 4th October 2021
Do you have a photo – taken before 2008 – of the eye-catching sign on the side of Glebe Point Pharmacy?
New artwork on Glebe Foreshore Walk
Posted on 11th August 2021
A wonderful new artwork highlights the special place of Glebe Rowing Club on Blackwattle Bay and adds a new point of interest to the foreshore walk.
Gleebooks offers free postage during lockdown
Posted on 12th July 2021
In City of Sydney and Inner West LGAs
New Book Lifts the Lid on Greyhound Racing and Government
Posted on 2nd January 2021
Ted McKeown reviews Max Solling’s latest book: Going to the Dogs: A History of Greyhound Racing in New South Wales.
Glebe Society’s Aleppo pine has been on the move
Posted on 1st January 2021
In 2015, the Glebe Society donated a Gallipoli Pine to the University of Sydney and it was planted by the Vice-Chancellor, Dr Michael Spence, on the eve of Anzac Day 2015. Unfortunately, the site where the sapling was planted was right in the middle of what was to become the Chau Chak Wing Museum, which unites the Nicholson and Macleay Museums and the University art collection under one roof. So ‘our’ pine was sent away on an extended vacation but has now been replanted near the main University gate and in front of the new Museum.
Norma Hawkins receives Honorary Fellowship from UNSW
Posted on 4th November 2020
The University of NSW has awarded Norma Hawkins with an Honorary Fellowship. Norma is a member of the Glebe Society and active member of the Blue Wren Subcommittee.
Book review
Posted on 3rd September 2020
Vrasidas Karalis, The Glebe Point Road Blues: In Prose and Verse, Sydney, Australia (Brandl & Schlesinger 2019). Reviewed by Sybil Jack This is not my Glebe Point Rd. Nor are his blues my music despite the efforts of the many shifting cafes. There are places I think I know but the whole is unfamiliar. Forty […]
31st Annual Glebe Music Festival
Posted on 1st September 2020
The Artistic Director of the Glebe Music Festival, Dr E. David McIntosh AM AMusA, is also an infectious diseases specialist and vaccinologist. He is based in London, Amsterdam and Brasilia, and is currently developing vaccines against the pandemic coronavirus. Because of the travel restrictions to and from Australia, David has had to cancel the visits […]
Local, Brooke Green, wins national composition prize
Posted on 1st September 2020
by Virginia Simpson-Young, 1 August 2020 Congratulations to Glebe local, Brooke Green, who won the 2019 Jonathan Blakeman National Composition Prize for her work, From the Heart. Brooke Green was inspired by an issue of national importance. From the Heart is inspired by the ongoing contention in politics and the media surrounding the Uluru Statement […]
Bob Connolly remembers local opposition to the Hereford Lodge YHA
Posted on 1st September 2020
Bob Connolly was living across the road from the Hereford Lodge YHA in the early 1990s. Our editor interviewed him about action taken by a group of locals to address the problems arising from a large YHA in a residential street:
Glebe Community COVID Souvenir Sing
Posted on 30th June 2020
30 June 2020 Download the lyrics sheet here. Our Bulletin for July 2020, gives details of the wonderful initiative of Liz and Albert Lecoanet. If you’d like more details – check out the Bulletin here.
Czech Philharmonic Children’s Choir at the 26th Annual Glebe Music Festival
Posted on 8th March 2016
How did one of Europe’s pre-eminent choirs come to perform at the Glebe Town Hall in November 2015, as part of the 26th Annual Glebe Music Festival?
Re-Launch of the Foley Park Wireless House – 21st March
Posted on 11th March 2010
A re-launch of the Foley Park Wireless House was held on Sunday 21st March.
Free Oral History workshops in Glebe
Posted on 27th May 2009
The Wireless House in Foley Park is a unique part of Glebe’s history, a tiny building where many people gathered to listen to a wireless radio, donated by Grace Bros to the Glebe Council in 1934.
The artist, Dr Nigel Helyer, is working with the City of Sydney to ‘sonically re-activate’ the Wireless House and bring it back to life with a sculptural and interactive audio installation and website.
