For anyone interested in woodcraft, or in need of a new wooden spoon, the Friends of Darebin Parklands will be running whittling workshops using the local olive trees over the next few weeks - some of which will be sold as part of Alphington Open Studios! Check it out…..

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Hi everyone,

Well, we’re wrapping up for the term this week. School holidays begin on Friday.

Before we end we have Preserves Group on Tuesday afternoon and Alphington Arts on Thursday evening - it will be lovely to get together and create again. All welcome!

We also have our talk about Memory from Dementia Australia on Thursday at 1.30pm - if you are interested you can book in online (see the previous post for the link).

Term 4

We have some new things on the cards for Term 4, including another two daytime information presentations, these ones with a focus on ‘Money Matters’ in October (Seniors Month). Check out the post below for details.

And … Rosie is back with Community Yoga, starting on Wednesday 21 October - book in online.

We’re taking bookings for stalls at our Christmas Market coming up on Saturday 21 November. You can book your stall here. And save the date! it is always a lovely event, 11am-2pm - a great chance to shop locally and sustainably! Bring the kids for some Christmas craft, grab a sausage from our community BBQ etc.

Also this term we have another art event on - Alphington Open Studios will again run on the last two weekends in November - and we expect that we will have 4-5 artists here at ACC. We love being part of this artist community!

Ok, that’s about it I think, see you after the holidays.

Cheers Leanne

Hi everyone,

We are just about prepared for our AGM tonight at 6pm! We are super grateful for all the work that our committee has put in in the last few weeks with reports and so forth. If you would like to come along to hear about what we’ve been doing this year (as well as for a spot of dinner!) then please book in at this link (before 12pm today).

This week we are wrapping up our programs for the term … so we hope to see you all at our last sessions of Heart-Centred Breathwork, CRUNCH and Cook by the Book. And we would like to thank Fran for hosting The Momentum to Write which has been such an awesome class for us to have here this term.

In other exciting news, I’m going to Timor-Leste with Friends of Baucau from the 5th-11th of September! Friends of Baucau is an amazing friendship organisation that connects the cities of Darebin and Yarra here in Victoria with the Municipality of Baucau in Timor-Leste. The purpose of the connection is to be provide shared learning and support. This will be a wonderful opportunity to talk to a range of local community leaders and community led organisations that are similarly operating at the hyper-local level, supporting women, families, youth, arts projects, permaculture programs and more. Last time I went (before Covid) it was an amazing and inspiring experience, and I hope I can learn a lot and come back with lots of great ideas again this time.

Whilst I am away Lee will be leading the Op-Shop tour (read on for more info…) which I will be super sad to miss out on! It is always lots of fun (and I LOVE op shopping).

Okay, that’s it this week. Hope to see you soon.

Cheers Leanne

Hi everyone,

We had a particularly gardeny productive week last week with Community Lunch (where we cooked a yummy Thai meal with vegetables from our garden) and Preserves Group … we made cumquat marmalade, lime marmalade AND tomato relish. Big thanks to Margaret for donating the cumquats and to Megan for donating the limes. Pop in and buy some of our excellent (not bragging - it is good!) marmalade if you like.

We are going to have our Annual General Meeting next Monday the 31st of August. Anyone who is interested is welcome to come along. It’s free, but you need to RSVP by booking in online at this link.

Also coming up in our calendar we are going to be running another of our Op-Shop Adventures on Thursday the 10th of September. These events are $10 and include lunch after a fun day out shopping. Book in online here.

And this week, we look forward to seeing you all at:

• Heart-Centred Breathwork with John on Tuesday from 7.30-8.30am (book in here).

• Line Dancing at Alphington Scout Hall on Wednesday at 10am-12pm.

• Alphington Playgroup here at ACC on Wednesday at 10am-12pm.

• U3A Armchair Theatre on Wednesday from 12-2pm.

• Cardboard Playgroup on Thursday at 10am-12pm.

• Cook by the Book on Thursday from 11.30am-1pm (book in here).

• CRUNCH on Thursday from 12.30-2pm (book in here).

• Embracing Life and Death on Thursday from 1-3pm (contact eoldoulasinmelb@gmail.com).

• Community Morning on Friday from 10am-1pm.

Lastly, here’s another link to the Yarra Council website - this time featuring Rob in the video. Thanks Rob, for talking about why you come along to ACC and why neighbourhood houses are great places for social connection.

Cheers Leanne

Thanks to those that donated tiles for our mosaic project. We’re making a new garden bed for the very front corner of our site.

After a busy weekend and some more creativity during the week the 4 panels are well underway (we ‘re doing the fiddly bits first). We’ll continue working on this project sporadically over the next month or so and hopefully it will be installed by our next big art event, being Alphington Open Studios, coming up in November this year.

Here are some progress pictures for those that are interested. If you’d like to help out just get in contact with us and we’ll let you know when we will be mosaicking (most likely Thursday and/or Friday mornings … ). Just email us at info@alphington.org.au or talk to Leanne or Lee or Clare if you are here.