Friends of The Laperouse Museum

Receveur Mass February 19, 2012

laperousemuseum — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:50:48 +0000

Invitation

The Père Receveur Mass is hosted each year by the St. Andrews Catholic Church of Malabar to honour the memory of Père Receveur who died at Botany Bay in 1788 during the visit of the Laperouse Expedition. It is my pleasure to extend to all members and their guests an invitation to attend this very special occasion to be held at the front of the Laperouse Museum commencing at 11.00 am sharp. Although a marquee and seating will be provided you may wish to byo folding chair and ensure you slip, slop, slap and ensure that you dress for the conditions on the day. Members of the Committee are assisting on the day and will be manning a table with free water, cordial, etc adjacent to the marquee. Seaside Lions Club will provide a sausage sizzle.

Dr. William Land AM, President, Friends of the Laperouse Museum

Enquiries: laperousefriends@gmail.com

Due to limited parking at La Perouse it is advisable to arrive at least half an hour before the event”.

Wine & Cheese Evening 11 October 2011

laperousemuseum — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 10:29:33 +0000

INVITATION

FRIENDS OF THE LAPEROUSE MUSEUM

An evening of fine wines and cheeses presented by

Mark Davidson, owner of TAMBURLAINE WINERY www.tamburlaine.com.au

Peter Curtis & Rosalia Lambert, owners of HUNTER VALLEY CHEESE

www.huntervalleycheese.com.au

Cheese can be bought on the night. Wine orders taken.Tambulaine Wines are fully Organic Certified and Hunter Valley Cheeses are handmade and free of preservatives.

Where: The Laperouse Museum, Anzac Parade, La Perouse

When: Tuesday, 11 October 2011, 6.30 for a 7.00pm start

RSVP: 4 October 2011 Email: friendsofthelaperousemuseum@gmail.com or phone Gail on 96617810

Cost: $15 includes a Tamburlaine souvenir tasting glass

EFT: Friends of the Laperouse Museum BSB: 082274 Account 855237978

Cheque: Post to Social Secretary, Friends of the Laperouse Museum, PO Box 475 Matraville 2036.

French in the Pacific talk by Professor Duyker – 13 August at 4pm

laperousemuseum — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 02:45:51 +0000

PROFESSOR EDWARD DUYKER

Professor Duyker has a passion: the research and recording of the Francophone influence in the Pacific, and would like you to share his passion with you.

This will be followed by crêpes degustation. Saturday 13 August 2011 at 4 PM, Scouts Hall, Castlenau Street Caringbah

Entry fee: Free for FASS members. Gold coin donation for crêpes for non members Children welcome, Drinks: BYO Tea and coffee will be available at the hall

Books will be available for purchase.

For logistic purposes, we would appreciate notification of your intention to attend:fass@y7mail.com.au

As an introduction……

The French Gaze about Nicolas Baudin and his expedition of 1801 will be broadcast on Radio National in the Hindsight program slot on Sunday 7^th August at 2pm, and repeated the following Thursday 11^th August at 1pm.

After these dates the audio will be available to download from website.

The gallery is already up.http://abc.net.au/rn/hindsight/galleries/2011/3278530/

Francophone Association of Southern Sydney, PO Box 936, Caringbah, NSW 1495 fass@7mail.com

Bastille Day 2011

laperousemuseum — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 06:23:03 +0000

From L-R: Member for Coogee, Mr Bruce Notley-Smith, Mr Theo Arfaras of the Association Des Anciens Combattants Francais, Consul General Bachir Bakhti, Dr Bill Land President of Friends of the Laperouse Museum. Photos below by Ellenor Tedenborg, Southern Courier: (Top-Bottom) Wreaths; Ange Bernard Farina; Flags in the Museum; Solider with decorations; Wreathlaying; Consul-General Bachir Bakhti; Paul Geraghty with his flag; Wreaths; Greg Bond with the Kings Orders.

Receveur Mass 2011

laperousemuseum — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 06:22:31 +0000

A crowd of over 260 welcomed the Governor, Marie Bashir and her husband Sir Nicholas Shehadie to the annual Receveur Mass today.

Photos L-R, Governor Maree Bashir with Ed Duyker, author of Père Receveur Franciscan, scientist and voyager with Lapérouse ; Local MP Michael Daley taking the reading; Communion; and below (left) Pocession; (middle) Graveside, (right) Father Paul Ghanem with musicians, (far below) Laperouse Monument.

Père Receveur Franciscan, scientist and voyager with Lapérouse

laperousemuseum — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 20:25:38 +0000

Ed Duyker’s booklet on Receveur was launched tonight at the Laperouse Museum. Link to SBS Radio interview with Ed Duyker (in English, 21.2.2011)

Autographed copies of the booklet are available at $10.00 + $2.00 postage and handling.

(photos: Ed Duyker with Franciscan Fr. Paul Ghanem (top) and Snakeman of La Perouse, John Cann (bottom)

Père Receveur : Franciscan, Scientist and Voyager with Lapérouse.Engadine : Dharawal Publications.50 p. : ill ; 21.000 x 014.800 cm.
ISBN: 9780987072702ISBN: 0987072706 (Trade Paper) AUD 15.00 Retail Price (Publisher)

About the author :

Edward Duyker OAM, FAHA, is the eldest of eight children born in Melbourne to a Dutch father and a Mauritian mother in 1955. He graduated from La Trobe University in 1977 with
a BA (Hons.) and received his Ph.D. from the University of Melbourne in 1981. He worked as an intelligence officer (South Asia/Middle East) with the Department of Defence in
Canberra until 1983 and was briefly a Teaching Fellow at Griffith University in Brisbane. In 1984 he settled in Sydney as an independent historian. Between 1996 and 2002 he also served as the Honorary Consul of the Republic of Mauritius in New South Wales. He has published seventeen books, many dealing with early Australian coastal exploration and the natural sciences. These include An Officer of the Blue (1994), a biography of Marc-Joseph Marion Dufresne (the first explorer after Tasman to reach Van Diemen’s Land); Nature’s Argonaut (1998), a biography of Daniel Solander the Swedish naturalist on the Endeavour, which was shortlisted for the New South Wales Premier’s General History Prize in 1999; Citizen Labillardière (2003), a biography of the naturalist Jacques-Julien Houtou de Labillardière, which won the New South Wales Premier’s General History Prize in 2004; and François Péron (2006), a biography of the controversial zoologist of Nicolas Baudin’s expedition to Australian waters, which won the Frank Broeze Maritime History Prize in 2007. In 2001, with his mother, Maryse Duyker, he also published the first English translation of the journal of the French explorer Bruny d’Entrecasteaux. In 2007 Edward Duyker was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Arts and Sciences at the Australian Catholic University and an Honorary Senior Lecturer, in the Department of French Studies, School of Languages and Cultures, at the University of Sydney.

Bastille Day 2010

laperousemuseum — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:54:15 +0000

Members of the French Community, the Friends of the Laperouse Museum and visitors celebrated Bastille Day at La Perouse. (Photos Top-Bottom, ceremony at the Laperouse Monument, article from Daily Telegraph by Troy Lennon). The NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service arranged the flags for the day and opened the Museum to allow the Friends of the Laperouse Museum to provide visitors with morning tea.

Receveur Mass 2010

laperousemuseum — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 03:34:39 +0000

A crowd of over 240 celebrated the Receveur Anniversary Mass today. Fr Paul Smith, OFM Minister Provincial, Franciscan Friars Holy Spirit Province delivered the Homily. Con-celbrants were Father Laurie Cauchi, Prish Priest of St. Andrew’s Malabar, Father Jan Chrzczonowicz, Chaplain to the Francophone Catholic Community, and Father Paul Ghanem, Vocations Director for the Franciscan Friars. The first reader was Stee Caulfield from St Andrew’s. Also from St Andrew’s was the commentator, June London, and the organiser, Lee Leo. Photos (Top-bottom), Michael Daley (local members and Patron of the Friends of the Laperouse Museum) reading the Prayers of the Faithful; Musicians graveside; procession to the graveside.

Labillardière

laperousemuseum — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:10:33 +0000

Link to YouTube with Ed Duyker talking about his book on Labillardière.

Billardiera scandens named in honour of Labillardière is found in the National Park at La Perouse.

Randwick Council Australia Day Honours for Lee Leo

laperousemuseum — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:12:51 +0000

Lee Leo was honoured for a long list of volunteering work she does in the St Andrew’s Parish, including the Receveur Mass which she organises. Lee is pictured with the Hon Michael Daley (MP Maroubra, NSW Minister for Police, and Patron of the Friends of the Laperouse Museum) and with Maree (from St Andrew) and Fr Pat Hurley.

The next Receveur Mass will be held 11am 21st February 2010.