Find out what is happening at ACC and in the neighbourhood.
“connecting our community”
In our first week back for Term 3 we will be off to the movies again.
Tuesday July 11th we will se a midday movie at Westgarth Cinema on High Street.
We will check what shows are on offer and publish to our movie chat group.
If you are keen please contact us and we can add you to the group.
Volunteers are so essential to a neighbourhood house. At ACC one of our longstanding volunteers is Sarah. She comes along every week to help us keep the Alphington Toy Library going. In the past she has set up a weekly display highlighting toys that we have in the library, encouraging members to try new things.
Now that we have moved to our new online platform Sarah is helping us pack the orders and has adapted her theme model to an online version. So … here we go!
Toys in our library that fit in with this theme include:
plastic aeroplanes
baby play soft birds
the telescope
the owl and eagle costumes
the superman costume
the kookabura puzzle
a variety of books on stars and planets
the threading frame that features the sun and stars
It’s in your imagination what you can see up there!
Toy library friends - please note our we close the library for the holidays, so if you have toys due back just renew them - and we’ll see you after 10 July!
If you’d like to join our library you can find our more here. It costs $45 plus GST for an annual membership.
Hello, just a reminder that our office is closed for 2 weeks over the school holidays. We’ll be responding to emails still - but in a less timely fashion than usual.
Some of our self-directed activities such as Line Dancing and Ukulele and our Book Clubs will still be meeting, but others that rely on our staff to be present are taking a break.
We’ll be back in the office on Monday 10 July. See you then.
We’ve got a new brochure out for Semester 2. Hooray! It is full of lots of fun things to do. Here’s a a quick taste.
We’ll be running a new event - a Neighbourhood Dinner. It is on Tuesday 8 August (pretty soon) at 6pm. It is a ‘pot luck’ type dinner and you are invited to bring a plate of food to share and come along to sit down and chat and meet your neighbours. And we’ll probably need your help tidy up at the end. It is open for all ages and it would be super if you could RSVP by booking in here. Just so we can at least take guess at how many will be coming!
We have two courses starting in Term 3. Our introduction course will run on Thursday morning at 10am-12pm. This course costs $105 and is subsidised by ACFE funding. Then on Thursday afternoon we are offering an intermediate course that is full fee paying. In this class participants who have completed the beginners course can work on their own projects, still with a tutor available for supervision and continued learning. You can book in to both here.
It is on again on the 19-20 August! We’ll organise drinks on the opening Friday night. Email us if you are an artist keen to join in and we’ll send you the link to enter works when we are back on deck. If you want to buy a ticket to the opening you can do so here.
Supported by Sustainability Victoria, who are investing in building a repair culture in our community, we’re offering a series of 6 workshops over the coming semester to help build community skills to keep things out of landfill. Check them out and book in to the ones with dates here.
Clare is running a new painting and drawing class here on Monday afternoons. it should be super! You can book in directly with her here.
Local Susanna has approached us about running meditation classes on Wednesday evenings. We’ll put out more information in the coming days, but it should be super. Get in contact with her if you’d like to find out more on 0407561586.
Over the last term we’ve had our CWA friends making our morning teas. It has been really and truly fabulous! Everyone is so enjoying home cooked nutritious lunches - lots of soup and toasties as the weather cools down, along with sausage rolls etc. On what is generally a fairly chaotic morning, it is wonderful (for me) to know that the food is taken care of.
And … the sweet treats! (so much BETTER than my efforts of opening a packet of biscuits!). We’ve had amazing cakes, brownies, cookies and slices … yum.
Our Friday community mornings are really blossoming at the minute, with a lovely group of women coming along GenU to do craft, people in the garden and in the shed … and a lot of cross-pollination and movement between activities.
Clare runs a lovely welcoming program and if you are around in the neighbourhood you are welcome to come along a join in. From 10am for activities. From 11.30am for morning tea (early lunch).
And thanks once again CWA Alphington.
