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“connecting our community”
Lovely to pop into work today to see a great big food delivery from Camberwell Rotary.
If you’d like to donate too then you can drop food off anytime to us. If we are open we have a cupboard inside. If we are closed you can drop off in the dark grey roller shed just inside the back gate. If you have any issues just give us a call 📞.
Andy generally takes all the donations over to the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre on a Thursday.
Not sure what to donate? Here’s a list …
If you came to our last morning tea Kalimna may have sent you home with a home cooked meal. We’ve been contemplating how we can reinvent community lunch 🥙 in corona times.
We had some potatoes kindly donated by Gordon Jones Potatoes 🥔 that came our way via Miranda at Melbourne Farmers Markets that we used to make potato and leek soup.
We’ve got lots of young families in our playgroups and older people who live alone, or care for others (and all those in between) who appreciate a meal cooked by someone else every now and then.
Following this, last week I had an inspiring conversation with Miranda and a bunch of lovely people from Cultivating Community - in relation to possibilities around ongoing community food provision.
Cultivating Community is an organisation that ‘runs food and gardening programs to lay the foundations for healthy communities’. They support public housing tenants across a number of sites to build and maintain community gardens, they provide education experiences through their school food garden program and run workshops on all sorts of garden related things.
And they are increasingly hanging out in the ‘hood with Carys on site four days a week at Alphington Community Farmgate building up the productivity 🥕🥦🥬🍅 of the gardens down there.
Our meeting was looking at how we can collaborate on a regular basis in our immediate neighbourhood to use and distribute some of the produce grown by them, or sourced by Miranda from the producers at the market.
It is really a privilege to work with such creative, go-getting, caring, community minded people!
I’ll update you on the progress as we develop the plan. Happy times.
The Melbourne International Film Festival is back streaming online. Find out more and book your front row tickets today.
Excitingly (given the latest lockdown and all) we have ANOTHER community review for a show that is accessible to all via the Kanopy App (it really does have great movies and as previously discussed is accessible for free. You can download it on your phone, tablet or computer using your local library card. Just log on to your library and follow the instructions - you might like to also download Cloudlibrary, Borrowbox and Libby so you read your favourite magazines, listen to audio books and read books online for free while you are there!!).
Anyway … Annie has been part of the ACC family for a couple of years now. Her first introduction being the Alphington Show (in which she entered a shroud made of coffee sacks - you might remember it if you came along). More recently she participated in Women in the Shed.
Anyway, here’s what she wrote! Thanks Annie. This sounds really interesting.
This gorgeous documentary is about stuff … so much stuff. It’s a houseful of things left behind. And every bit of it carries a memory. This movie is for anyone who’s ever had to deal with stuff. It’s for anyone who’s ever had a relative and the house they’ve lived in forever to sort through.
When she's alive, the adored grandma remarks to her granddaughter that she does clutter big time. With no shame. Just a remark.
Do you know Marie Condo? Her method and its concepts had its time in the sun.
Spark joy by tidying up. It will get worse before it gets better. Give thanks to the house and express gratitude to the items’ service to you. Put it all in one big pile.
Every single one of her rules seems to figure in some way in this tale of love for the grandma, the house (306 Hollywood) and what the eclectic stuff tells us.
It is very time-consuming taking care of what grandma left behind, the siblings Elan and Jonathan Bogarin find. And instead of rushing it they savour what’s there. They curate an amazing honouring of one woman’s ordinary life.
I loved this movie and getting to know the family stories across older and younger generations.
Never fear!
Kalimna and I may well too be lying face down on the floor or prone on the stairs at our respective homes (how funny are these photos - I typed ‘lockdown’ into Pinterest and this is what came up) … but we’ll have our phones📱in hand and laptops 💻 at the ready to take your call or answer your email!
Alternatively we’ll most likely see you around the ‘hood on our daily walks with our doggies 🐶 and families.
Look after yourself. If you need anything we’re here and can help. Food. A chat. Links to services etc.
