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Each month we have an opportunity to get together at:
- monthly meetings on the 2nd Monday at the Mittagong RSL (opposite Ironstone Café) Arrive at 10.15am. Order a coffee on your way in, listen to an engaging guest speaker and catch up on local news, recent activities and upcoming outings. You can than join other members for lunch after the meeting if you have the time.
- Craft days - 4th Friday of the month at Bargo Sports Club 10am
- Coffee and Chat - 4th Tuesday of the month at local cafes 10.30am
- Munch Club - 1st Monday at a variety of interesting venues across Wollondilly and Wingecarribee. 12pm
- Special Outings these are events that our members are interested in attending but would like to do so with friends. These outings vary, as an example we have recently attended a show at the Performing Art Centre in Picton, a Musical in Sydney and visited a Scottish Highland Cow Farm
Interested in finding out more? Were interested in meeting you!
Phone 0400824670, Email bargoprobusclub@gmail.com
or just turn up at a meeting on the first Monday of the month.
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Distinguished and Famous people from Nowra
🎼 Deborah Cheetham Fraillon
Deborah Cheetham Fraillon was born at Nowra on Yuin Country and grew up with her adoptive family in Sydney. A member of the Stolen Generations, she later reconnected with her Yorta Yorta family and Country. Her career as a soprano and composer has joined musical achievement with telling Aboriginal histories, including the opera Pecan Summer. Founding Short Black Opera created opportunities for other First Nations singers. Nowra is her birthplace within a much wider personal geography, while the work draws together performance, family recovery and a determination to make room for voices long excluded from major stages.
🖼️ Arthur and Yvonne Boyd
Arthur and Yvonne Boyd first visited Bundanon in 1971, when the Shoalhaven landscape renewed Arthur’s enthusiasm for landscape painting. They bought nearby Riversdale in 1974 and Bundanon in 1979. In 1993 they gave the properties to the Australian people, creating the basis of a continuing centre for art, education and creative residencies. These river properties lie near Nowra rather than in its town centre. Their significance extends beyond a famous painter’s retreat: the gift made the setting available to other artists and audiences, allowing a private source of inspiration to become a shared cultural resource.
🤝 Percy Mumbler
Percy Mumbler spent part of his childhood at Roseby Park near Nowra and later worked to improve housing, education, health and civil rights for Aboriginal people. In the late 1960s he collaborated with John Hatton and others to relocate unused Snowy Mountains cottages for housing at Browns Flat, south of Nowra. He also helped restructure the South Coast Aboriginal Legal Service at Nowra and supported it into old age. A storyteller and singer as well as an organiser, he was nicknamed Bing for his fondness for Bing Crosby songs. Practical reform and the sharing of cultural knowledge ran together through his life.
