Thanks everyone who came along over the weekend to check out our exhibition. It was super once again. We had lots of new artists and some long standing artists participate. Around 65 works were in the show which was just great!

I’ll post some more pictures this week - but in the meantime here’s a photo of it being hung on Thursday evening - featuring Beatrice and Rob.

And a photo from Friday lunch ‘in the gallery’. Thanks CWA for the yummy meal!

Thanks to everyone who entered works, helped hang or mind the gallery and of course those that came along and bought art to support our local artists.

If you missed it, keep the Alphington Open Studios on your radar - on in late November/early December.

10am-12pm in school term. Join us in the front playground and inside for our Wednesday playgroup.

There are lots of grandparents coming along at the minute - which is lovely!

All carers and children are welcome.

Hi Leanne here. Did you watch the FIFA World Cup this week? My girls are soccer ⚽️ 🥅 kids and we’ve been enthusiasts for this tournament.

So I went down to Alphington Bowls Club to watch the semi final match between England and Australia mid week. It was great! Thanks local bowling friends who organised it all.

I went there with my family and also my friend Tony Wilson who helped us make our podcast series Covid Roulette. He wrote about it on his blog ‘Good One Wilson’. He’s always amusing.

You can read what he wrote here if you are interested, and follow along in his World Cup journey in other posts - he’s been to Brisbane and Sydney for games.

Thanks to everyone who came along to our first series of repair workshops. They were super!

We’ve got another series in Term 4 … we’re just confirming the dates now and will let you know when they are up for booking in.

Thanks Simone at Richmond Community Learning Centre for applying for the Sustainability Victoria grant that is subsidising these workshops and thanks for sharing the delivery hours with us … and other Yarra Neighbourhood Houses.

Speaking of which, this week Yarra Council will be endorsing the new Yarra Neighbourhood House Partnership Strategy. Hooray! It is just great as a tiny grassroots organisation to have such a strong strategic partnership with local government. With regular funding built in.

And of course it is wonderful to have such lovely supportive colleagues across the houses.

How lovely are these little seed packs created by our gardeners on Friday!

They’re out in the seed library ready for neighbourhood planting … if you’re ready to start your spring garden pop past!