We’re super thrilled that Clare is going to run her Artful Painting and Drawing art class right here at ACC next term. We’re always getting enquires from people wanting to do art, so it is great to be able to offer this service. And especially so with someone as lovely as Clare.

The class will run on Monday afternoons from 1-3pm. The cost is $225 for 5 weeks ($45 per session) or $450 for 10 (the full term). Classes will start on Monday 10 July.

If you’d like to find out more about the content of the class you can visit Clare’s website swirlart.com.au. To book in give her a call on 0423 453 160.

Did you know you can hire our venue for kids birthday parties?

We have everything you need … a kitchen and plates and cups, tables and chairs, platters and a lovely flexible indoor/outdoor space with a cubby and sandpit. Just bring along your pass-the-parcel and some fairy bread and sausage rolls and you’re ready to go!

You can find all the details and available times on our website here.

We are off to the movies again next week on Tuesday 13th of June.

We plan to see Sweet As at the Palace Westgarth Cinema at 12:15pm.

If you want to travel in with me (Kalimna) I will catch the 11:47am city-bound train from Alphington Station.

Or we can meet in the cinema foyer around 12pm.

If you are coming it would be super to let us know. You can email us here to RSVP and/or join our MovieClub What’s App group.

This film has great reviews.

The story is set in remote Pilbara country in Western Australia. A troubled 16 year old Indigenous girl, Murra, finds herself abandoned after an explosive incident with her mother. On the cusp of beign lost in the “Child Protection” system, an unusual life line is thrown her way by her uncle Ian, the local cop, in the form of a unique Photo Safari. Before Murra knows it, she is careening down a dusty highway with a minibus full of “at risk” teens and two charismatic team leaders. Directed by Jub Clerc and starring Shantae Barnes.

Hooray! Hard rubbish collections begin in June.

Darebin’s hard rubbish collection is being rolled out area-by-area starting after the long weekend … moving south to north every two weeks.

You will receive a brochure in your letter box before your collection - it will include everything you need to know!

It is super important to note that Council can only actually recycle e-waste, mattresses, car tyres and scrap metal … so the rest (that isn’t collected by neighbours etc. as part of the joyful informal hard rubbish swap that inevitably happens!) goes to landfill.

BUT … this year there is someplace to take those great-for-someone-else things that don’t get redistributed before the truck comes by … Darebin Hard Rubbish Heroes is once again setting up ReLove - the PreLoved Pop Up … a friendly recycling shop!

So if you have items that someone else might love - or if you just like to rifle through other people’s junk in a friendly shop environment (rather than - or perhaps in addition to - on the street), pop on down to the old Kmart Tyre and Auto at the back of the Plaza (should be a super venue) and check out what’s in stock.

And … it is ALL run by volunteers SO … to volunteer yourself just click here. And … if you want to find out more about these passionate and committed locals (and pick up bargains year round) you can join Darebin Hard Rubbish Heroes on Facebook.

Hard rubbish season is THE BEST season!

Did you know we have a Toy Library at ACC? It has been around since the 1980s … so for lots of adults who grew up in the neighbourhood, it is how they first came to know us.

We have 400+ toys in this amazing community resource and after A LOT of work by Kalimna (she has worked on this tirelessly for hours on end) we now have it fully online.

We’d like to thank the Inner North Community Foundation for supporting this transition as part of their Covid recovery community investment commitment.

We’ve been taking baby steps for a bit trialling the system … and now we’re thinking we might be ready to run (or at least walk right across the room) …

So … Join up! Join up!

It cost $45 per year and you can borrow 4 toys at a time.

Then you can return them in two weeks, or renew your loan. And when you are ready reserve 4 more.

Note, bookings need to be made before 10am on Tuesday. This is when our long-standing friend Sarah comes in to fill the orders.

Families can then collect their toys between 1pm-4pm that afternoon (Tuesday) here at ACC.

And … if you have a sleeping bub in the car let us know (call the office on 9499 7227 if you can’t wave us down through the window) and if we can we’ll bring the toys out to you (our very own neighbourhoodly version of click and collect).

Toys in our library include baby play toys, games, trikes and bikes, puzzles, musical instruments, construction kits and loads of imaginative play items. And there are some super vintage items along the way (that have survived from back when it all began).

Check it out here.

Also … if something is a bit glitchy in our system please let us know … we’re definitely teething at the minute!

Also, also … if you are already a member contact us - Kalimna has already set you up in the system … and we’ll make sure your payments take into account the period we were out of action (note Kalimna is in Tuesday and Thursday).