manny - ours , Macarthur Astronomical Society (in Sydney's south west) holds its monthly general member meetings indoors at the University of western Sydney. They go from 7:30 until 10:30-ish when we have to leave. We have a guest speaker pretty-well every month. We just had Mark Suchting from Deep Sky optics give a talk on bino construction this month, and last month we hosted Fred watson for a chat on the future of telescopes. Soon we have Don Whiteman from Bintel coming - and maybe he'll play us his banjo!
If we don't have a guest speaker (rare) then we'll put on a workshop such as collimation or drift alignment how-to's.
We have separate viewing nights (all tabled in advance) for members at our two dark sky viewing sites. These (depending on the moon and weather) occur every couple of weeks or more often if members are keen to do a bit.
We also have "public" nights every few months where the general public are invited (by ads in the local newspapers) to come and have a gander though members' telescopes. They are also sometimes able to look though the UWS's 16" SCT (housed in the Domes at UWS) when available.
Twice a year we also have remote trips put on. Usually we go to Magellan observatory near Goulburn.
Cheers
Chris