Find out what is happening at ACC and in the neighbourhood.
“connecting our community”
The team at Melbourne Farmers Markets have a twilight market happening on December the 8th from 4-9pm.
It will be a great family friendly event with art and crafts, ready eat food and glasses of locally made wine, beer and gin.
Hope to see you all there!
Thanks to everyone who came along and did their Christmas shopping on Saturday at our Makers’ Market. And thanks to those that volunteered (Hazel, Elaine, Marie-Louise and Kevin). It was a great day! Once again Kalimna took some lovely photos and we post some of them this week when she is in the office.
And in the meantime … we have two more events coming up to round out the year:
Christmas Lunch - join us on Friday 9 December at 12.30pm for lunch in the garden. It will be yum and fun! You can RSVP here.
Christmas Carols - on again at the Alphington Bowls Club at 7pm on Sunday 18 December. School will be finished and so it will be a perfect night to bring the family along and join the Alphingtones Choir to sing ALL THE FAVOURITES! Bring along a gold coin to donate to charity.
Do you like our updated Christmas Tree? This year we’ve kept the community drawings and added some red paint and some gorgeous pink and red pompoms. To bring some Christmas cheer to the street.
Our Toy Library is transitioning to an online booking system thanks to some Inner North Foundation funding.
We’re nearly there, and to complete the process we request that all borrowed toys be returned to the centre so they can be logged in the new system.
We hope our new online library (which will be up and running as soon as we’re open in 2023) will be a vast improvement and will better enable our community to access all the wonderful toys we have here at ACC.
AOS is on again for another year. Why not pop in to the studios this coming weekend?
A few years ago now I (Leanne) had the opportunity to go to Timor-Leste to visit lots of women’s organisations and meet politicians, along with diplomats and all the big NGOs … it was amazing all round and particularly wonderful to meet local people working in their communities trying to improve lives and living standards and make a difference.
The trip was organised by Friends of Baucau, which is a long-standing organisation based in Darebin and Yarra Council areas (that works officially with Council ) to support both the community groups and administration of Baucau in Timor-Leste.
Anyway … they do wonderful things and build super partnerships … and I have been actively involved with them ever since.
And after a hiatus due to Covid the are hosting their first fundraising concert for a couple of years - that you might be interested in attending. The concert will happen in Kew (just over the river) on Sunday 4 December from 3.30pm. Tickets cost $50.
Timor-Leste is the poorest country in our region, and people live on less than $1 per day. This fundraiser will support the Friends of Baucau scholarship fund - enabling young women to undertake a Bachelor of Education at the local Teachers College and become a teacher.
Here are the details …
GABRIEL VARGAS
Guitarist Gabriel Vargas has headed up bands such as Gasoline Inc. and Veludo, which saw him supporting acts such as rock icons INXS, and his song Superstar was picked up by the AFL in 2010. As a solo musician he has supported and toured with Jeff Martin (The Tea Party), Jon Toogood (Shihad), and James Reid (The Feelers). As a songwriter, he aims to use music as a means to inspire, heal and connect.
Sunday 4 December 2022 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
4 Redmond Street
Kew Victoria 3101
Buy them here.
Friends of Baucau Inc (FoB) is an incorporated community organisation based in the municipalities of Darebin and Yarra in Victoria, Australia. Our aim is to promote friendship links between the people in these cities and the communities of the Baucau municipality in Timor-Leste, and in particular, to work closely with 11 villages in the Baucau Villa sub-district. Friends of Baucau is endorsed and supported by the Councils of Darebin and Yarra, the national government of Timor-Leste and the municipality of Baucau.
The Salustiano Freitas Scholarship Fund supports quality education in Timor-Leste by providing scholarships to young Timorese to undertake the Bachelor of Teaching at the Marist Brothers’ Teacher Training College in Baucau (ICFP). Each scholarship, for US$1000 per student per year, pays the tuition and living costs, and we continue this arrangement for the duration of their training.
