How fun!

The Environmental Performance Authority (EPA) leads an experiential walk through Alphington, with performances along the way.

For this event, Environmental Performance Authority (EPA) asked City of Yarra residents about what they found during their permitted hours of 'exercise' in Melbourne's Covid-19 lockdowns. From these stories and their own explorations, EPA have created a seres of performances and participatory activities to draw out some of the wondrous and surprising qualities and features of Alphington. 

WHEN: 2-5pm on Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th of March (this weekend)

WHERE: Meeting point: Yerrin Chase (at the end of Perry St), Alphington, VIC 3078, northern edge of Coate Park 

The walk will go for approximately 2-3 hours, ending at Alphington Park.

WEAR: weather appropriate comfortable walking clothes, shoes and bring water bottle, hat, sunscreen.

Supported by the City of Yarra

To find out more and book your ticket click here.

Our mural is progressing. Starting to infill some colour …

We are pretty chuffed that the Alphington Neighbourhood Gallery looks so great on our fence … and that the paste-up process survived the weekend rain … we were a bit nervous.

Below are some photos of Ross O’Meara, our featured artist at the launch on Friday, and here is the link to see his works and find out more about him. If you are interested in purchasing an original work by Ross you can pop in to ACC and check out his folio in the foyer.

Ross and his sister Jenny.

This month we were excited that Darebin Council asked to write an article about our Honestly project for Your Darebin. Your Darebin is Council’s online community newsletter which highlights key events and projects happening in the neighbourhood and tells the stories of the people and places that make Darebin a great place to live, work and play.

You can check what they wrote about us here and sign up to receive Your Darebin in your inbox monthly here.

Lee putting up the letters

We’ve got so much going on at the minute it is hard to keep up.

But our podcasting studio is progressing. We know the equipment we need to buy (thanks DJ City) and have the funding (thanks to the fabulous Clifton Hill/North Fitzroy Community Bank). Now we’re in the process of creating a cool and edgy space for creative souls to podcast from … ‘cos there’s a lot less fun in a boring room right?

Lee is immersed in painting a mural on the wall in Room 3 (soon to be officially called The Cupboard). It is a projection of plants and flowers from our garden. Lee and I got the idea last year when we were projecting the outline of the mural outside the community shed onto the wall at night, and the shadows of the lemon tree looked so lovely.

So, on Wednesday I spent the afternoon holding up plants with Lee drawing around their shadows. She is now using photoshop to evaluate how best to fill in the shapes with block colours. And then we’ll get to work with infill. And we hope, end up with a lovely unique room that is fun enough for inspired podcasting, but equally suited to counselling and music lessons (because in our tiny building multi-purpose spaces are where we’re at).

Can you spot some of the plants … there are daisies in the mix, and bird of paradise leaves, banana passionfruit, plane tree leaves and cliveas to name a few.