The association meets at 7 for 7.30 pm, on the first Monday of every second month: February, April, June, August*, October* and December, At the Powerhouse Museum.
We talk about materials and techniques and exchange clues and news in the relaxed atmosphere of like-minded people sharing skills and knowledge. We have a guest speaker or demonstrator and visitors and friends are always welcome. $5 a head for catering (and automatic go in the draw for lucky door prizes).
*Exceptions: the first Monday in August is a bank holiday and the first Monday in October is Labour Day.
Next meeting: 7 for 7.30pm, Monday 4 June 2012
Putney Tennyson Bowling & Community Club, Frances Road, Putney, NSW
(P: 02 9807 4964 || putneybowls@bigpond.com)
Please disregard previous advice about returning to the Powerhouse Museum for our meetings. Revitalisation work at the museum continues and is now expected to be finished in October. Updates on progress are available on the museum website.
Speaker: Matthew Dwight, on the next generation of woodworkers
Matthew Dwight is an Industrial Arts Teacher at Pennant Hills High School. He’s been teaching in schools for 16 years. After finishing his degree and starting to teach, he completed a Certificate III in Furnishings – Cabinetmaking and took time off to work as a cabinetmaker for 12 months. He currently teachers a range of industrial arts subjects (but mostly woodwork) to Year 7-12 students. At the meeting, he will talk about teaching woodwork at Pennant Hills High and what the examiners look for when they mark Year 12 projects and folios.
Remaining 2012 meetings
14 August, 9 October and 4 December 2012
Woodworkers Association of NSW Inc
PO Box 1016 Bondi Junction NSW 1355
ABN 51 544 262 364