Sydney City Farm

The first AGM for City Fram today was an exciting congregation of enthusiastic and determined City Farm members. Over thirty people were present along with the committee members, and after some lively discussion there was overwhelming consensus about what the next steps should be for 2009.

A motion was passed to investigate the development of plant nursery programs with those mental health organisations already working in Callan Park within the NGO precinct. This could happen with the help and facilitation of SCF member, Douglas Holmes.

The decision was also made to hold a meeting on Sunday the 1st of February to brainstorm ideas on how to get active in the interim period that the masterplan process for Callan Park is underway.

If you have any ideas for the agenda of that meeting, or a certain set of skills that you could offer Sydney City Farm, please respond on this blog with your full name, ideas and skills outlined.

We will send an announcement out with the exact location and time details for the upcoming meeting closer to the date.

PS. It’s not too late to buy your loved one a Sydney City Farm membership for Christmas.

Our ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING (for financial members) will be on

SATURDAY 20 DECEMBER, 2008, 11am - 12pm in The Cane Room, Wharf St, Callan Park.

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Park at end of Wharf St on waterfront

RSVP by reply email by Sat 13 December, 2008. <sydneycityfarm@gmail.com>

AGENDA Introduction of Committee members

Report by the Chairman

Financial statement

Questions

Any other business

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Dear City Farmers,

We are pleased to invite you to our first ever AGM! It’s been a dramatic year of growth and surging fortunes for our vision to create a vibrant City Farm and Sustainable Living Centre in Callan Park.

It’s incredible that in just a year we have generated more than 1500 supporters on our email list, and 270 financial members.

Financial membership entitles you to participate in formal meetings of Sydney City Farm & Sustainable Living Centre Inc.

So please come along on Saturday December 20th, for our first AGM, appropriately held in in The Cane Room on the site we propose would be perfect for a City Farm at Callan Park.

It’s a chance to meet our office bearers and committee members, and find out about all our activities this year. Lemonade, tea and cake will be provided or feel free to bring a coffee over from the markets.

We will also have some of our popular City Farm t-shirt for sale. A great Christmas gift.

On behalf of the Sydney City Farm Committee: Andrew Jackson, Rod Simpson, Brandon Saul, Liesje Clement, Carolin Wenzel, Anthony Sheedy and Carolin Armstrong.

Friends of Callan Park are hosting two history events this Sunday as part of History Week. It will be a great chance to see how other similar heritage sites have been saved, as well as learning some quirky facts about Callan Park.

FORUM - CALLAN PARK - AT THE EDGE!
Callan Park is at a critical stage in its history under new management by Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority.  Three speakers discuss diverse aspects of public site histories and their implications for Callan Park.

• Dr Allison Cadzow, Parklands Culture and Communities Project at UTS, discusses the cultural diversity and use of parks around the Georges River and the relevance of her work for Callan Park
• Professor Stephen Garton, University of Sydney, has written widely on psychiatry and Callan Park and will be discussing asylums
• Don Goodsir, OAM, foundation member and past president of Headlands Preservation Inc, discusses the campaign to preserve the defence sites on Sydney Harbour, including Mosman

WHEN: Sunday 7 September 2008 2 - 4.30 pm [including afternoon tea  on the Verandah]
WHERE: NSW Writers’ Centre, within Callan Park enter at Main Gates  @ intersection of Cecily and Darling Streets, Rozelle, then follow the signs
BOOKINGS: Essential – 0413 733 218
COST: $10.00

TOUR - MERMAIDS AND GALLEONS OF CALLAN PARK
Tales from unpeopled buildings and of mysterious mermaids and galleons will reconfigure your understanding of Callan Park’s past as you trample across its landscape and see its future too in Sydney University’s plans to bring its “prestigious image” and a new suburb to a new era in Callan Park’s history.

WHEN: Sunday 7 September 2008 11 am to 12.30 pm
WHERE: Meet at NSW Writers’ Centre, within Callan Park
enter Main Gates @ intersection of Cecily and Darling Streets, Rozelle, then follow the signs.
BOOKINGS: Essential – 0413 733 218
COST: $10.00

See you there!