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Visit to the Art Gallery of NSW
Wed, Jun 24, 8:30 AM**Midweek Art & Chill at Art Gallery of NSW 🎨✨** Looking to break up the week with something relaxing and a bit cultural? Join us for a midweek visit to the **Art Gallery of NSW** and enjoy an evening surrounded by amazing artworks. We’ll meet in **Hyde Park**, in front of the ANZAC Memorial, and then take a short walk towards the gallery. Once there, we’ll explore the diverse collections at a relaxed pace — from classic to contemporary art, there’s always something interesting to discover 🎨. After spending some time at the gallery, we’ll head back towards **George Street** to grab dinner together 🍽️ and continue the conversations. A simple, chilled midweek plan — perfect for unwinding, exploring art, and meeting new people 😊 📌 **Event Details** **Meeting Point:** Hyde Park (between the Pool of Reflection and Anzac Memorial) **Meeting Time:** 06:30 PM **Distance:** 2-3 kms **Difficulty:** Easy **RSVP Rules:** If you have RSVPed but are unable to attend the event, please update your RSVP at least 2-3 days in advance. For those on the waitlist, priority may be given to group regulars. **Communication:** I’ll share my live location on our [WhatsApp group ](https://chat.whatsapp.com/L05TdnNeBEgAQ9ARsN89Hd?mode=gi_t)on the day of the walk. Join for regular updates on this and upcoming walks, or suggest new ideas for future events. If you can’t join, message me on WhatsApp (+61-469 717 341), and I’ll add you. **Disclaimer:** We take care to minimize risk and avoid accidents during our events, but the host will not be held responsible for any injuries incurred during this event in any way either to you or your guests. Please take care of your own safety and belongings as hiking can be a risky activity sometimes.
Code for Sydney - Monthly Hack Day
Sat, Jul 11, 12:15 AMCode for Sydney is now running meetups every month. Code for Sydney is a volunteer civic innovation organization created by Sydney-area developers, designers, and activists with an interest in solving civic and social problems through the use of technology. During our monthly hack day, we'll learn about civic challenges, brainstorm ideas about solutions, and sit down to code together. Together, we can make an impact on civic challenges and build a better city. Networking with fellow software engineers, designers and student/s welcome! If anyone would like to present a quick talk or propose a project idea, do talk to us! Also please do join the discussion on Discord [https://discord.gg/wPmp25Xnm5](https://discord.gg/wPmp25Xnm5) By attending this event, you consent that you may be photographed and recorded on video. These photos and videos may be used for marketing and promotional purposes in the future. If you have any concerns please let the team know upon arrival.
Harbour After Dark
Fri, Jul 3, 8:30 AM**Step into a different kind of Friday night with Harbour After Dark 🌆** Set in the heart of Darling Harbour at Pumphouse Bar & Restaurant, Harbour After Dark brings together Sydney locals who are driven, social, established in what they do, and value genuine connection, good conversation, and being around like-minded people in real life. In a world of Zoom meetings, working from home, endless scrolling, and busy schedules, a lot of people are craving something more human again. A chance to step away from the screens for a night. To relax. To meet new people naturally. To have conversations that actually feel enjoyable and energising. Over the past few years, Harbour After Dark has grown into a well-established social gathering where people come to unwind after the week, expand their social circles, reconnect with familiar faces, and meet new people who are on a similar wavelength. Many people return regularly and often bring friends along, while at the same time there are always new faces joining the nights as well, which keeps the atmosphere fresh, open, and welcoming, even if it’s your first time attending. ✨ Dress well for a night out. Min smart casual to cocktail style is encouraged. 🍸 Drinks, cocktails, food, and coffee are available for purchase throughout the evening. **📅 Friday, 3 July** **⏰ 6:30pm – 9:30pm** **📍 Pumphouse Bar & Restaurant** 17 Little Pier St, Darling Harbour NSW 2000 📌 We are usually located downstairs near the bar area. Occasionally the reserved area may vary depending on the venue setup on the night, so if needed, simply ask the bar staff for Harbour After Dark and they will direct you. ✅ **Please mark yourself as “ATTEND” t**hrough Meetup so we have an idea of numbers for the venue and can keep you updated with any last-minute event information. **How to get there:** Pumphouse is located next to the Chinese Gardens within Darling Square. **🅿️ Parking nearby:** • First Parking ICC Sydney – approx. 5 min walk • Wilson Harbourside Parking – approx. 10 min walk **🚆 Public Transport:** • Exhibition Centre Light Rail – approx. 5 min walk • Town Hall Station – approx. 10 min walk If this feels like your kind of room, we’d love to have you there
Full moon gathering
Sun, Jun 28, 5:00 AMCircle is a gathering space rooted in the rhythms of nature, the wisdom of the moon, and the power of real human connection. We come together around full moon rituals, astrology, tarot, oracle readings, meditation, and shared food — blending ancient practices with modern sisterhood. No experience needed. No performance required. Just you, as you are. Our goal is simple: create a space where people can slow down, reconnect with themselves, and leave with people who feel like home. Come alone. Leave with people. Our first event: 28 June at Maroubra Beach 🌊🌕
Heal your body with Fascial Maneuvers
Fri, Jul 10, 12:00 AMLearn these wonderful maneuvers to relieve tension, reduce pain and stiffness in a 3 hour workshop. Email eveolutionbalmain@gmail.com for full details of the event. Wear comfortable clothes for movement, a mat if you have one and water.
Human hearted community of practice (COP)
Sun, Jul 12, 1:00 AM**Event summary:** The monthly human hearted community of practice (COP) is both a support group, and a mutual encouragement group, for people who want to explore living a more human hearted life. The COP is part of Human Hearted Sydney's goal of building community. Please feel free to join us for a session if you're interested. **Who is the COP for ?** The COP is for people who dislike the alienation and emptiness of our modern finance driven society, and are looking for a new form of community - one based on the reality of our human social capacities such as sympathy and friendship, rather than based on returning to religion and other traditional practices. If you would like to be part of building a supportive community for living out socially positive values in today’s world we encourage you to come along and check it out. **Some background: The meaning problem modern society faces -** The development of modern society has seen the destruction of earlier systems of meaning, like religion and tradition. They have not been replaced by a new set of ethics or community, but by market values and hyper individualism. This has created a world of material wealth in which far too many people feel insecure, alone, and unlikely to succeed. We now live in an atomised society in which each person suffers alone and there is no form of community, or meaning other than material wealth, to sustain them. This has led to substantial increases in loneliness and mental health issues like anxiety in modern society. Now there is even a category called ‘[deaths of despair](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disease_of_despair#:~:text=The%20three%20disease%20types%20are,%2C%20West%20Virginia%2C%20and%20Delaware.)’ that refers to people whose reliance on drugs, alcohol etc. to numb their isolation from society leads to their early death. **More background: The solution we will look at -** The obvious solution to the collapse of values in modern society is to build alternative forms of community. Many groups try to achieve this by calling for a return to religious values, or building new religions. As humanists we do not turn to religion but the best of the human potential to provide a foundation for community groups. [Human heartedness](https://web.archive.org/web/20240109160949/https://areomagazine.com/2022/05/05/a-human-hearted-modernity/) is an approach to life which sees humans as inherently social beings. It is backed both by many famous thinkers of the past, and by the findings of recent neuroscience and evolutionary studies which show the path to human happiness and fulfillment is more dependent on building good relationships and positive social connection than on competition and being purely ‘rational’. So one part of the solution to the existential emptiness of modernity is for people to build small communities; groups of like minded people who want to live in a more human hearted way, and support each other to live better in the face of modernity’s onslaught. There are other parts of the solution of course. However in relation to this event our focus is on setting up a COP to support each other to practice living in a more human hearted way, and to provide communal support generally in today’s disenchanted world. **Basic structure of this meeting:** The meeting will be facilitated by a member of the Sydney humanist community and will involve a brief talk explaining human heartedness and the problems of modernity. Then we will proceed to conduct our regular COP meeting. The meeting will finish with a Q/A and discussion period, followed by a lunch and more informal discussion. **Donations:** While this event is free, we would be grateful if you chose to make a [donation](https://www.humanistsaustralia.org/donate) to sustain Humanists Australia which would help it to continue delivering events that serve the community in Sydney. **Please note Date Time and Venue:** In July 2026 the meeting will be held on the second Sunday of the month (July 12th) at 11:00AM. The venue is level one of Darling Square Library. The room we'll be in is called Idea Space 2 **Directions:** The venue is a ten minute walk from both Town Hall and Central station. The Darling Square Library is part of a hive-shaped building called The Exchange. The Idea Spaces are on level one of The Darling Square Library which is accessible via elevators facing towards Darling Square and stairs which are on the other side of the building. Please ask the library staff if you need assistance finding where we are in the library.
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