A reminder that Local artists are invited to join in our upcoming exhibition.

And local locals are invited to come along! We’ll have an opening event on Friday 22 July from 5-8pm (with some drinks and nibbles) and the exhibition will remain open over the weekend from 11am -5pm.

Lots of our favourites from Alphington Open Studios will be part of the event - and some new artists have already registered as well.

If you are keen to be involved you can register on our website here.

Poor Kalimna has Covid this week. And so does my husband Clive … which makes me a close contact.

In the interests of not sharing the love (I don’t want anyone at ACC to catch Covid from me if I catch it from Clive etc.), I am working at home for a couple of days with my laptop at hand and the office phone diverted … so although our physical office is closed our virtual office is fully functioning!

And despite our absences the majority of our programs are still running … Maimi was here Thursday with Japanese Playgroup and Maylei ran the Women in the Shed program on Thursday too. Clare was here on Friday for gardening … and our after hours groups can of course let themselves in - and don’t need us. So really there’s minimal disruption - just our friendly faces missing for in person enquiries and casual chats!

Hopefully Kalimna is feeling better soon and is ready to return to work mid next week (she sounded pretty sick and miserable a couple of days ago) … and hopefully I don’t get it - this time at least (it feels a bit inevitable now doesn’t it …).

Thanks Lee. Our very chatty table is now out on the corner. Next time you’re meeting up with someone and are not sure what to talk about or where to go … pop past ACC … our table might be the perfect place!

This week we published two more Covid Roulette stories … including from Steve who was mid symptoms when he was interviewed and the second from Mubarek (part 2 of his story) … talking about getting married overseas … and catching Covid himself whilst in Eritrea. Tony also talked to Shaykh Mohammad Ramzan about the various interruptions to weddings many have experienced over the last few years as part of this episode.

Coming up this week we’ve got Sally Rippin, an author who I am sure many of you with children will know. She’s been experiencing long-Covid symptoms poor thing …

We’re really pleased to be documenting these local stories for posterity and we hope you are enjoying hearing them too.

Listen on Apple Podcasts here.

Listen on Spotify here.

Or listen via our website here.

We’re excited to be planning our next community art exhibition … a winter exhibition this time, in partnership with the artists associated with Alphington Open Studios.

All local artists - emerging and established - are invited to be part of the event. And we’d love to see some new faces and works involved!

So local art lovers note the dates, Friday 22 to Sunday 24 July. And local artists, you can sign up via the link in our front page here or email us and we’ll send you the link to register, info@alphington.org.au.