The Glebe Rag Edition 2

Editor's Note

Hello from a mid-spring Glebe! The trees and flowers are in full bloom along GPR, but the skies seem to have missed the memo about brightening up. The Glebe Art Show is under way at Tramsheds, though, so I’m hoping to bring a bit of that colour next week. As someone who paints (badly), I’ll be there taking notes. Report back next week :)

Quick read this week. I'll be working on an interview or two in coming editions. Anyone you think I should reach out to learn their story? Hit reply and let me know!

Dru

This Week in Glebe

Last greyhound races at Wentworth Park tonight

94 years of Greyhound racing at Wentworth Park ends for good tonight. The state government plans to return the site as public parkland, and has committed $10 million to move racing to other tracks. For some locals it's the end of an era, for others it's long overdue. Organisers are holding a rally at Millar Reserve from 5pm, just before the final races. I'll be curious to see what shape the parkland conversation takes from here. (Source: NSW Ministerial Release)

Can you spot Me-Mel?

The NSW Government has unveiled the proposed design for a new ferry wharf at the Sydney Fish Market, with plans to start site work in late 2026 and ferry services to Barangaroo expected in late 2027. The wharf forms part of a $70 million investment in transport access to the Fish Market.

In the meantime, Me-Mel (Sydney's smallest commuter ferry) will happily continue to skipper us from Blackwattle Bay to Barangaroo. (Source: Ministerial media release)

City of Sydney to bring back physical parking tickets

The NSW Government has made the City of Sydney switch from digital parking fines back to physical tickets, according to a post from Councillor Philippa Scott. The logic, as Scott put it: if you've done the wrong thing, you should at least know straight away. (Source: Glebe Locals FB Group)

Forsyth St's red-belly wasn't a local

Update from my street: a snake catcher caught that red-bellied black snake on Forsyth St and took it away safely. Turns out it wasn't a Glebe local at all. The snake catcher reckons it crawled up under someone's car on a long-weekend trip and rode all the way back to the suburb, then turned up under another car this week. Someone working a few doors down helped with the catch.

One less thing to watch your step for on the walk to the Tocky.

Glebe’s spring helicopters are hoverflies

Those tiny striped helicopters hovering around your flowers this spring aren’t bees or wasps. They’re hoverflies. The adults pollinate, the larvae eat aphids, and their numbers often peak in early spring, so keep an eye out. Also worth a look on warm evenings: Bogong moths feeding on bottlebrush flowers. They’re having a bumper year, and it’s wonderful to see them back in such numbers.

Thanks to Tanya for this submission. Some of you may remember her from the Glebe Society biodiversity lecture at Glebe Library last year. You can read more of her work on The Conversation. (Source: Tanya)

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What's On

Friday 16 October

Annandale Culture The Shakesbeer Sessions: A Midsummer Night's Dream Annandale - 17 Parramatta Rd, Annandale NSW 2038. Interactive, singalong Shakespeare theatre brings classic tales to life with a contemporary twist for modern audiences. 7:30pm - 9:30pm. $32.

Camperdown Music The Liz Player Quartet Ft. Charmaine Ford - Church Street Studios. Liz Player joins pianist Charmaine Ford, bassist Sabine Tapia and drummer Matt Simmonds for unheard originals, evocative arrangements and storytelling. 8:00pm.

Forest Lodge Culture Glebe Art Show at Tramsheds - Tramsheds Harold Park. See and buy local artists’ work at the Glebe Art Show, with free entry, quizzes, a Judges’ Talk, concerts and other activities. 10:00am - 9:00pm. Free Entry.

Annandale Workshop Market Studio Workshops & Airr Made Ceramics Open Studio - 131 Booth St, Annandale NSW 2038. Celebrate local craft through clay handbuilding, ceramic painting and linocut workshops, and explore Airr Made’s working pottery studio and works by local artists. 10:00am - 4:00pm. Free Entry.

Glebe Culture An exhibition of new artwork - 112 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe NSW 2037, Australia. Sarah Gibson, Janet Kossy, Fran Munro, Penny Ryan and Sue Young exhibit new drawings, paintings, prints and mixed media works exploring real, reinterpreted and imagined landscapes. 11:00am - 6:00pm. Free Entry.

Saturday 17 October

Ultimo Culture Artisan Crafts: Archival Woodblock Prints Reimagined - 702-730 Harris St, Ultimo NSW 2007, Australia. An exhibition celebrates exchanges between UTS Design students and Bangalore artisans through archival woodblock prints reimagined with natural dyes, pigments and indigo resist patterning. 10:00am - 5:00pm. Free Entry.

Camperdown Music Metin Yilmaz Quartet - Church Street Studios. The Metin Yilmaz Quartet blends Bilûr/Kaval, piano, double bass and drums with Kurdish Anatolian modes, meditative improvisation and contemporary jazz. 8:00pm.

Sunday 18 October

Camperdown Music a Night of Gershwin & Friends - Church Street Studios. Simon Tedeschi and George Washingmachine celebrate George Gershwin and friends with special guest Clare O’Meara. 8:00pm.

Glebe Workshop A Day of Practice - 147 St Johns Rd. A day of practice with Kynan Tan and the Buddhist Library to deepen your meditation and mind. 9:00am - 5:00pm. Free Entry.

Monday 19 October

Camperdown Music Monday Night Confessions - Church Street Studios. Original jazz and improvised music every Monday night in an intimate setting. 8:00pm.

Tuesday 20 October

Wednesday 21 October

Camperdown Music Save Scott Reef: Yawdoesitall x Sez - Manning Bar. Sez and YAWDOESITALL join host Milo Hartill for a night of music and comedy supporting the campaign to protect Scott Reef from gas drilling. 6:00pm - 9:00pm. $10.

Thursday 22 October

Glebe Community Friends of God - St James’ Church, Forest Lodge. A series of talks on the lives of the saints. 7:30pm - 8:30pm.