Events
Upcoming Events
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Meeting 2pm Saturday 9 May 2026
Speaker: Fiona Malcolm, Library Manager The Melbourne Athenaeum Topic: The Melbourne Athenaeum (originally known as the Melbourne Mechanics’ Institution) has been operating in its current premises in Collins Street since 1842, housing over time the city’s oldest lending library, a museum, a cinema , a theatre and other facilities. The library itself commenced as a collection of
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Meeting 2pm Saturday 11 July 2026
Speaker: Paul Balassone, Manager Heritage Services Melbourne Water Topic: Melbourne’s True Underbelly – Water and Sanitation in Early Melbourne Meetings Venue: Wesley Hall, St. Andrew’s Uniting Church, 253A Burke Road (cnr. Malvern Road), Gardiner. Visitors Welcome. Talks are from 2:00pm. Doors open 1.30 p.m. Two dollars entry includes refreshments. Our meetings generally end around 4pm.
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Meeting 2pm Saturday 12 September
Speaker: Adam Wakeling, author of A House of Commons for a Den of Thieves Topic: The agitation for self-government in the Port Phillip District in the 1840s and the creation of the Victorian Parliament Meetings Venue: Wesley Hall, St. Andrew’s Uniting Church, 253A Burke Road (cnr. Malvern Road), Gardiner. Visitors Welcome. Talks are from 2:00pm.
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Meeting Saturday 14 November 2026
Speaker: to be advised Topic: to be advised Meetings Venue: Wesley Hall, St. Andrew’s Uniting Church, 253A Burke Road (cnr. Malvern Road), Gardiner. Visitors Welcome. Talks are from 2:00pm. Doors open 1.30 p.m. Two dollars entry includes refreshments. Our meetings generally end around 4pm. Zoom access for members and visitors who are not able to
Meetings Venue: Wesley Hall, St. Andrew’s Uniting Church, 253A Burke Road (cnr. Malvern Road), Gardiner.
Visitors Welcome. Talks are from 2:00pm. Doors open 1.30 p.m. Two dollars entry includes refreshments. Our meetings generally end around 4pm.
Zoom access for members and visitors who are not able or would prefer not to attend meetings in person can be found here.
To protect members we ask that members and visitors with COVID or who are a close contact attend meetings via Zoom.