Port Hedland Who's Who
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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 Port Hedland
🎨 Nyaparu “William” Gardiner
Nyaparu William Gardiner drew on memories of Pilbara life, station work and the people he had known. He began drawing as a young man around Port Hedland, learning from older artists and comic books, and later recorded Nyangumarta language and stories. In his final years he returned to the town and painted through Spinifex Hill Studio. The pictures offered his children and grandchildren a way to understand earlier lives and Country. His distinctive figures and colours preserve individual memory within a larger history of Aboriginal work, cultural endurance and changing conditions in the Pilbara.
🪶 Nyangulya Katie Nalgood
Nyangulya Katie Nalgood came to art at South Hedland after a life connecting the Kimberley and Pilbara. Born at Liveringa Station, she developed a particular interest in birds, whose calls and daily movements were part of familiar country and family life. Early help from relatives in drawing their forms gave way to an increasingly independent practice. Her paintings explore the colours and personalities of birds from across Western Australia. In her account, their morning calls and evening settling mark the human day too: the subjects are neighbours with feathers, rather than simply attractive shapes to fill a canvas.
