Thanks to everyone who came along for Christmas lunch. It was a funny old day - sunny ☀️ one minute and cloudy ⛅️ the next - but we shared a lovely meal together - cold meats and salads, including lettuce from Sandra and Jim’s garden, nasturtium flowers from ours, pickles made by our preserves group and a delicious Gusto passion fruit sponge kindly donated by Anne.

Manu came along early to help us set up - thanks Manu! Jim won the lucky door prize and shared his chocolate winnings.

Don’t forget to come along to the Alphington Bowls Club at 7pm on the 19th of December to enjoy some Christmas Carols with your neighbours.

We’ve been delighted to contribute to expanding the artists involved in the Alphington Open Studios weekends this year with our salon exhibition featuring works by all the open studios artists along with a wonderful mix of works by other local artists both established and emerging.

At ACC (with help from Yarra Arts) we’ve been exploring ways to engage with local artists and activate our hanging space and this exhibition has enabled us to demonstrate the potential of our building and has also opened up conversations about exhibiting in our space.

As a result, in 2022 we’ll be looking to hold more regular community art exhibitions that enable a unique mix of artists to exhibit together.

It is just wonderful to be able to celebrate the creativity in our community.

We had a steady stream of visitors over the two weekends. If you enjoyed this exhibition, or are an artist who would like to join in next time, keep an eye out for future dates and details in our program (out before Christmas).

Win. Our longstanding friend Win (who also purchased a ticket for Bev) was the lucky winner of our raffle.

We dropped off the prize to her on Tuesday … and forgot to take a photo. But she was pretty chuffed!

Thanks Nelson Alexander for your long-standing support of our neighbourhood house with advertising boards for our events and raffle prizes etc. along the way.

Hi Leanne again!

When The Rising Festival was cancelled in July I was very sad to have my ticket refunded for this show by Patricia Piccinini that is being held in the Flinders Street Station ballroom.

I think I am equally keen to see her amazing creatures made from silicon and hair (and wearing real clothes) in real life as I am to see the ballroom itself.

So, I was excited to learn that the show is now going ahead. It should be super simple to get to right (just jump on the next train to the city, get off at Flinders Street and head upstairs) and … I thought you might be keen too.

Here’s the link for booking if it sounds like your sort of thing.