ANARE Club Melbourne Midwinter Lunch

An ANARE Club function for Members and their Partners, Carers and Guests

Date: Saturday 21 June 2025, Lunch, 11:30 am – 2:30 pm

Cost: $65 for canapés, three meal courses, tea and coffee

A cash bar will be in operation for guests to purchase their own drinks

Reunions are welcome! Please notify the organisers of your plans as soon as practicable. Tables seat 10 people.

Guest Speaker: Film Maker Michael Dillon AM ACS FRGS

ANARE Club merchandise and event photographs will be on sale with EFTPOS facilities available

Venue: Angliss Restaurant Getting There - Google Maps
550 Little Lonsdale Street Melbourne

Click the links above for location on Google Maps, or see the inset map further below

⇓ On-line bookings ⇓

NOTE: Do NOT include annual subscriptions with MWD bookings

The William Angliss College Restaurant is a training facility for the next generation of hospitality workers producing high-quality fine-dining meals for the general public. The kitchen, bar and waiting staff are students under supervision and are inexperienced though very keen and attentive. Please keep this in mind during your respectful interactions with them.

Admission will be by Name Tag collected at door.
All seating is open except for booked Re-Unions.

Note: Subject to Change

  • 11:30 am – Sit and Settle
  • TBA – Welcome Address
  • TBA – Entree Service
  • TBA – Guest Speaker (TBA) with questions: 30 min speaking, 15 min questions
  • TBA – Main Course Service
  • TBA – Calling of the Years
  • TBA – Dessert Service and End of Official Activities
  • 2:30 pm – Bar closes

MENU

  • Canapés:
    • Caramelised onion tarts
    • Falafels with minted yoghurt
    • Mini bruschetta with basil and goat’s cheese
  • Entree:
    • Seared coriander beef sirloin
  • Main (alternating):
    • Grilled harissa lamb rump; OR
    • Grilled Atlantic salmon, with shared side-salad
  • Dessert:
    • Chocolate mousse, berry salad, strawberry sorbet

Our guest speaker this year is multi-award winning Film Maker – Michael Dillon AM FRGS ACS

Michael Dillon was an aspiring 32 year old adventure filmmaker when he wrote to Hillary applying for the jobs of Cinematographer and Film Director on the 1977 Ocean to Sky Expedition. His multi award wining documentaries include Everest Sea to Summit (1990), one of the most internationally awarded adventure documentaries ever, Beyond Everest (1999) about Hillary’s ongoing work with the Sherpa people, Hillary: Ocean to Sky (2019), A Little Bit Mongolian (2013) and The Great White Whale (2023)

Michael is a pioneering adventure cinematographer whose many award-winning films encompass the world’s most spectacular destinations from the Himalayas to the Andes, Antarctica, the Arctic, the Pacific and Africa. In 1984 Michael filmed Australia’s first ascent of Everest, unsupported, without bottled oxygen and via White Limbo, an avalanche prone and unrepeated North Face route. A couple of years later, he conceived the idea and filmed Tim Macartney-Snape’s full ascent of Everest from sea level. The resulting film, Everest: Sea to Summit became the most internationally awarded adventure documentary ever.

An intrepid adventurer himself, Michael was the first Australian to receive the Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award, was awarded the inaugural Australian Geographic Spirit of Adventure Award in 1987 and is a fellow of the Royal Geographic Society. Inspired by Hillary’s work among the Sherpas, he became a founding director of the Australian Himalayan Foundation and volunteer filmmaker for the Himalayan trust NZ. He was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 2004 in recognition of his contribution to the film industry and his humanitarian work.

Close to Southern Cross Station, Flagstaff Station, and Latrobe St Trams. See the PTV Web Site for details.

Nearby Street Parking

  • Limited nearby disability street parking is available

Nearby Car Parks

For email enquiries send your email to vicbranch@anareclub.org.au