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Thanks to everyone for making BUNGOfest 2011 a great day – to The Arches, the performers, the cafes and bars, the Strathbungo Society volunteers and not least to everyone who came along and made our first BUNGOfest such a success.

What are you doing today?

As I look out, it’s raining, so why not use the excuse to stay dry, enjoy a coffee or cake and join The Arches and the Strathbungo Society in the microperformances we are putting on around Strathbungo?

There’s everything from kids’ workshops to stand-up, music and performance, so check out the times below.

The AGM of the Strathbungo Society will be this Tuesday at 7.30pm in Queens Park Parish Church, 170 Queens Drive.

Come along to hear our plans for next year, to review what we have achieved this year, and to tell us what you want us to be doing – this is your society.

From 7.30 to 8pm we have managed to organise the lead for Glasgow City Council’s plans to consolidate mineworkings in the area to present and take questions; this should help those of you who received the public meeting invitation letters late this week, as I did.

Land and Environmental Services have also committed that a senior representative will be present to answer questions about the recent problems with refuse and recycling uplift.

We also need fresh talent to come in – a number of the committee are moving from the area and we will take nominations for Chair, Vice-Chair, Secretary and Treasurer. We can only do what we do because of volunteers, and without new offers last year this website would not have happened, and this weekend’s BUNGOfest would be no more than an idea. Please, please offer your time; we are proud of what we do, but would love to do more, and that can only happen with you.

AGM_11_flyer

Here is the confirmed schedule for BUNGOfest on 8th October. You’ll have the chance to see many of the performers at more than one venue, so you can stay in your favourite bar or cafe, or even follow the action around.

Don’t forget the kids’ events, on the program below or see the post a couple down from here.

Click here for a larger copy of the program of events:

BUNGOfest is less than 2 weeks away!

Saturday 8th October will see a string of free microperformances and workshops in your local bars and cafes from 11am until 7pm. These are being brought to you by the Strathbungo Society in association with The Arches.

Keep your eyes open for the posters round Strathbungo and the full program to follow, read about it in the Strathbungo newsletter, or pick up a flyer from one of the venues in the next few days.

For now, click here forthe details of the kids’ workshops in Tapa:

Kids Workshops poster

With Strathbungo’s new rubbish and recycling collection service in full swing, many of you may be impressed at the way the lanes are emptier of bins already…

Or maybe not.

I have spent an hour this morning trying to repatriate green bins to their owners; I did my best, but many don’t have numbers, so if you wander up the lane you might recognise one that has ended up in the wrong place and can reclaim it.

Meanwhile, I am doing my best to get the council to sort this out, and Land and Environmental Services have agreed to send representatives to the Community Council meeting on 6th October at 7.30pm at Shawlands Academy, and to our own AGM on 11th October at 7pm in Queeens Park Parish Church. If you want your say, why not come along?

Meanwhile, Councillor David Meikle has helped us out with the responsible council members, whose names and titles are below:

I have e-mail addresses for them all, but feel I ought only to post those publically available on the GCC website: “Booth, Robert (LES)” <Robert.Booth@glasgow.gov.uk> and George Gillespie <George.Gillespie@glasgow.gov.uk>. Please feel free to help out and send further letters or e-mails to those below so they can see the extent of the problem.

• Robert Booth, Executive Director Land and Environmental Services,
• George Gillespie, Assistant Director
• Andy Waddell, Neighbourhood Services Manager
• Stevie Scott, Neighbourhood Services Manager South
• Dougie Gellan, Area Manager South

The date for this year’s Strathbungo Society AGM is Tuesday 11th October, 7.30pm at Queens Park Church of Scotland, 170 Queens Drive.

Please come along as we look back on the year for the Society, plan events for the year ahead and elect new office bearers. It is only as a result of volunteers coming forward at the last meeting that the Society is able
to put on events like Bungo In The Back Lanes and BUNGOfest so we’d love to see new faces as well as familiar ones.

The event is usually wellattended by our local Councillors, so it’s a great opportunity to express your views about the area and what you’d like to see changing over the coming year.

All are welcome but you need to be a member of the Society to vote on motions. You can sign up on the door.

Come along to the first Strathbungo Society meeting of the new term to play your part in organising BUNGOfest on October 8th, or to bring your ideas for new society events or projects.

We will also be losing the Chair and the Treasurer this autumn when they move away from the area, so we really need any keen volunteers who can help out running the society at regular meetings or even on the committee.

Come along and let us know what you can do to help. All welcome.

Grianach, 7.30pm, 15th August

Winter in the existing arena

Winner of the design competition – ZM Architecture

The Strathbungo Society today received a letter of thanks from Queens Park Arena Ltd confirming receipt of £24429.15 from the ENTRUST funds of the Strathbungo Society.

This money was made available to the society a number of years ago for an attempt at resurfacing an area of the back lanes. However, quotes for the work ran into hundreds of thousands of pounds, making the work unviable, and we have been looking ever since for a project worthy of the money within the tight constraints placed by ENTRUST.

Following a vote at last years AGM, and guided by canvassing your ideas at last year’s Bungo in the Back Lanes, we offered the money to Queens Park Arena. We are glad to be able to support the project to renew the bandstand arena, and Strathbungo residents can be proud that we will be contributing around a fifth of the cost of phase 1 to stabilise the ground, install drainage and electrics, restore the amphitheatre and install the stage base.

Work is supposed to be beginning in September 2011. Watch that space!

You can find out more at http://www.qppp.org.uk/

Lastly, thanks to all society members involved in administering the Entrust monies over the last few years.