Lovely to see local events like the Fairfield Primary School art show starting again after the Covid hiatus.

I (Leanne) made some stools for them to auction off (even though my kids aren’t there anymore) and added a bit of spruiking of our lovely community centre into the event in the banter that went with the auction!

Hope you went along … aren’t we lucky to live in a such a great creative community.

Coming up! Book a stall here or save the date for your Christmas shopping.

We’re super excited to be partnering with local artists across the neighbourhood once again as part of the annual Alphington Open Studios weekends.

At ACC we are hosting the salon exhibition, that features two works from every artist who is part of the event, and other local artists are invited to be part of it as well!

To join in just register here. It is free, with a small fee charged for processing any works sold.

Alphington Open Studios will run on 26/27 November (with opening night drinks here at ACC on Friday 25 November) and will remain open the following weekend - 3/4 December.

Our lovely local friend Ina, who is also on the ACC Committee of Governance, is currently a Democracy Ambassador, and is encouraging people to both enrol to vote (she’s asked us to remind you to make sure any newly minted 18 year olds in your family/friendship circle have enrolled) and also making sure that those eligible to be a ‘general postal voter’ due to age or illness or disability - know that they can have the paperwork sent to them … so they don’t have to rock up on the day to the voting station to put their two bobs in.

If you are interested in finding our more about becoming a general postal voter here is the link. Thanks Ina.

Are you a local maker? Would you like to have a stall at our upcoming Christmas Makers Market. It is going to be on Saturday 26 November which is in fact election day … always a fabulous day to be out and about in the community and walking in the neighbourhood. So we expect lots of local to stroll past … and hopefully combine their democracy activity with some retail therapy …

If you are keen for a stall you can book here.

If you are keen to get a jump on Christmas shopping and buy lovely things from local makers then save the date.

As usual we will have a lovey craft activity for any children who come along and a sausage sizzle to keep energy levels up.