Our first session of Alphington Arts was well attended with 18 people coming along to meet new people and explore basket weaving.

Thanks Kayti for sharing your knowledge!

I have included some photos of a few of the little baskets that were produced.

If you are keen to join in and get arty with a lovely group of creative locals who come together to share skills it costs $40 for the semester … and we have 3 sessions left.

Find out more and book in here.

Are you a local artist? Come and join in our annual Winter Arts Exhibition on the weekend of 16-18 August.

You can find out all the details and book in here.

The event includes our Opening Night from 5-7pm on Friday 16 August where our whole community is invited to come along and appreciate the local talent! We’ll have drinks and finger food. It’ll be fun.

Then on Saturday and Sunday the exhibition will also be open from 10am-4pm for anyone to drop in.

We hope to see you there!

Last term our community arts project was called ‘The Key …’ and we invited people passing on the street to write their thoughts on a key tag in relation to 3 questions.

As each round finished we put all the keys 🔑 in a jar on our bench … and now we are enjoying having lots of good vibes and thoughtful ideas infiltrating our subconscious as we pass by the jars each day.

Take a look next time you are here. Thanks to everyone who joined in!

After a much appreciated mid year break we are back on deck Monday. It looks to be a chilly week ahead - but we hope to see you here despite the forecast.

Our Friday community program will resume this week … and our key short courses etc. will begin in two weeks.

And … yes, we know … we have some things to get organised ASAP!

Highest on our list is Movie Club … our first date is this Tuesday! We’ll add everyone who has expressed interest to the What’s App group first thing Monday and send out the details for the movie etc.

We’ve also got our first Alphington Arts meeting on Thursday night at 7.30pm. And … we need to get this What’s App group going too! This session we’ll be learning the basics of basket making, led by Kayti Murphy. It should be fun!

It’s not too late to join in! Let us know if you haven’t signed up but are keen to join in too! The more the merrier for both the movies and getting arty.

Interested in building your painting and drawing skills?

Clare runs classes for beginner and intermediate artists on Mondays and Thursdays here at ACC.

Contact her at swirl.com.au to book in.