Belconnen Day VIEW Club
About
Belconnen Day VIEW Club was formed in 1971.
Currently, the Club sponsors six Smith Family Learning for Life students and is actively involved in fundraising activities to raise donations for The Smith Family programs.
We are always open to new members, so please get in touch today and come and see what it's all about.
Location
- When: Meeting Day on 2nd Tuesday each month
- Time: 11.30 am for 12 noon
- Where: at the Raiders Club
- Cost: $32 for a 2 course meal including tea and coffee
- Address:Raiders Belconnen, Hardwick Crescent, HOLT ACT 2615
- Location on Google Maps
Contact
Margaret on 0403 415 517
Email: nakaragills5@gmail.com
Time for the Annual General Meeting
Jan B kindly chaired the AGM for us. President Gaye C thanked all the committee for their work during the year and made special mention of the great work Mary W and Barbara M have done over many years on the committee. Thank you, ladies.
Following is a list of our 2023 Committee Members. Congratulations and thank you one and all for taking up your positions and we look forward to another excellent year:
President and Delegate - Gaye C, Vice President and Publicity Officer - Marg H, Secretary - Christine K, Assistant Secretary - Carol S, Treasurer - Marilyn B, Assistant Treasurer - Anne C, Publicity Officer - Margarete G, Program Officers - Chris C, Heather E, Lurlene T and Leonie W
International Women's Day 2024
International Women's Day 2024
2023 Beach Party Fun In November
2023 Beach Party Fun In November
We just never know what is going to happen at our meetings. Recently we had a wonderful speaker on Strokes, a subject we all need to be aware of..
Then for something completely different, as can be seen from the accompanying photo, some of our lovely Members put on a Beach Party skit. This was such a hoot, inciting raucous laughter and good fun.
2023 Blind Auction
2023 Blind Auction
In November it was wonderful to welcome new Member, Jenni, who received her membership badge.
We also held a very successful Blind Auction where the bidding was hard fought and lots of fun. It is a big thankyou for the generosity of Members at the auction to help raise the much needed funds for TSF programs.
2023 Tea Towel Winning Entry
2023 Tea Towel Winning Entry
Members were thrilled to have a winning entry in the 2023 Tea Towel Competition at Convention. Congratulations to the ladies who produced our winning vase and key ring
2023 April
2023 April
Hope everyone enjoyed their Easter weekend. Winners are grinners. Jann, Julie and Alice were our raffle winners at our April meeting. Thank you to all our lovely ladies who buy tickets.
Three of our members also received very special service pins at our meeting. Lea for 20 Years, Shirley for 10 years and Adele for 20 years. Many congratulations ladies and thank you.
We have to sincerely thank our guest speaker Penny tremendously as she stepped in on a couple of days notice.
What an impressive CV! Penny's career started off in 2005 with honours degrees in Law and Art History and was followed by work in the legal profession. In 2009 she decided to become a curator and moved to Canberra to work on exhibitions at the National Library, the National Museum of Australia, and a long stint at the National Portrait Gallery.
Recently Penny has taken up the position of Assistant Director, Programs and Engagement in the Art Collections team at Parliament House. She is also Secretary of the ACT Fire Brigade Historical Society, which runs the Canberra Fire Museum. Last year she was awarded the 10-year long-service medal from ACT Fire and Rescue for her volunteering efforts with the Fire Museum.
Penny began her presentation by giving us a sense of who she was. She did this through photos of five forests which took us from her childhood near Lismore to Arthur Boyd’s tapestry in Kings Hall, Parliament House. She also shared with us the evolution of the definition of ‘curator’ from Roman times when it meant ‘to take care of bathhouses’ through Medieval times, when it designated the priest who cared for souls, to the 18th century, where it meant looking after collections of art and artifacts. Today, curating means to preserve, select, to connect to history and display or arrange works so that they become an extraordinary experience for the viewer.
Penny then involved us in a series of intriguing questions or statements which enabled her to share with us 13 favourite stories from 13 years of curating in Canberra. Topics covered dinosaurs, nudes, blue shirts, fire engines, hairbrushes, fires and so much more.
Penny’s presentation was both entertaining and instructive and the members justifiably gave her a rousing round of applause.
We look forward to seeing everyone at our May meeting. Don't forget to wear your pink glad rags.