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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 Alpha
Alpha's artistic connections reach from nineteenth-century watercolours to contemporary photography and performance. The town and the surrounding station country appear within the work itself.
🎨 Harriet Jane Neville-Rolfe
British artist Harriet Jane Neville-Rolfe travelled to Australia in 1883 to join family at Alpha Station. Over two years she painted daily life in watercolour, sending pictures back to England. Her subjects included station activities and Aboriginal people, preserving a particular visitor's view of the district during the colonial period. In 1964 her son donated 87 of these works to the Queensland Art Gallery. That collection gives a short stay a much longer life in the historical record.
🎨 Luke Roberts
Born in Alpha in 1952, Luke Roberts has worked across photography, performance, painting and installation. His art examines identity, religion and Australian history, sometimes placing his hometown directly in the frame. In the two-part photographic work The Spearing, one image shows Roberts in Alpha and the other features artist Richard Bell. The State Library of Queensland also holds his archive, including drawings for a local Alpha–Jericho logo: a practical civic commission alongside the more provocative gallery work.
