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Tomorrow morning 9am (for 9:30 start) will be the final Sweet Damper and Gossip Society meeting before Saturday’s public open day. Our guest this time is Jeremy Steele, who will be presenting some of his research on the Aboriginal language of Sydney, the sound of which once filled this place. See his blog naabawinya and MA thesis
RSVP on the website below or by emailing direct (bakery@makeshift.com.au), all welcome. Rosella shortcrust cakes & various tasty teas will be on hand.
Come!!!
www.makeshift.work/deliriousbakery
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Tomorrow (Saturday 15 Oct) will see our first weekend meeting hosted in The Delirious Bakery. For those of you willing to brave an 8:45am arrival (for 9am start), we’ll be providing sweet potato and wattleseed cinnamon scrolls and lemon myrtle scones to accompany John von Sturmer on invented histories.
RSVP as always, the sooner the better.
Note: This will be one of the last meetings as our time is almost up!!!
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ATTENTION: Next meeting will be held tomorrow evening, Tuesday 11 October, at 6pm. RSVP required – go to www.makeshift.work/deliriousbakery – where you can also sign up to the mailing list if you haven’t already. Our special guest is Ross Gibson (Professor of Contemporary Art at University of Sydney) – you can read an article he wrote about William Dawes and Patyegarang some years back in Meanjin here
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TONIGHT the first meeting of the Sweet Damper and Gossip Society will take place in The Delirious Bakery, at 6pm. Our special guest on this auspicious evening is Michael Paton, a polymath who brings tales of the ground and disposition of Sydney Cove. Attendees are encouraged to bring along their own stories of dissent and dispossession in the Rocks area, to be exchanged after Michael’s talk over an appropriate baked treat.
RSVP required as places are limited. Society members will be given preference.
Email: bakery@makeshift.com.au
If you also wish to become a member of the Sweet Damper and Gossip Society, please send an email with your contact details and a brief outline of your interest. Members will have the opportunity to recount stories heard at meetings to others on bakery open days (Sat 22 Oct 2-4pm and other times TBA), and will receive an official badge.
Subscribe to the Delirious mailing list at www.deliriousbakery.com for information on future meetings and open days.
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We are bakers now! Delirious ones. And you can be too … Get involved in our newest project for Primavera 2011, ‘The Delirious Bakery’, an underground bakery in The Rocks cooking up site-specific tales of dissent and resistance alongside homemade sweets. It’s housed in a Pop-Up Space behind 77 George St. that’s presently occupied by The Red Room Company, but was previously home to a Chinese gambling den, a basement storehouse and a puppet shop.
From now until Oct 23, The Delirious Bakery will launch and host a new secret society, occasionally opening its doors to passers-by for general trade (check website for open days). Made up of invited guests and members of the public, the ‘Sweet Damper and Gossip Society’ will meet in the Bakery for regular ‘low teas’ in which tales about the darker underside of The Rocks are exchanged with each sticky wattleseed bun. These sometimes slippery, contested and confronting histories will later be imparted to others from memory.
Other operations of The Delirious Bakery may include sharing sourdough starter cultures, jams, recipes, language and cooking equipment. The Delirious Bakery would greatly appreciate any in-kind support from local producers of flour, eggs and other good things.
Join the Sweet Damper and Gossip Society mailing list for news about upcoming meetings and open days, at www.deliriousbakery.com
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