This month for Alphington Arts we headed out of the ‘hood (shock horror) and all the way over the river to Armadale to see local artist Kate Herd’s print exhibition.

It was a great night out - we had dinner afterwards. And bought a couple of works.

Hi all

We have our last Table to Plate for the term today (Monday). Join us from 11.30am to cook up something yummy!

Please note that unfortunately we have to cancel Preserves tomorrow. We will touch base with everyone today via the Whats App group.

Our garden is looking fabulous after the rain and the hard work of Jenny, Corrado and Dinesh on Friday … and we had a great time seeing our friends from GenU for art and craft on Friday morning as well. Check out the photos below.

Thanks also to Tahlia for holding the fort - she did a great job cooking dumplings and fried rice and a yummy chinese cabbage dish on Friday - yum. We look forward to seeing you on Friday for lunch this week if you can make it. Anyone is welcome to join us at 12pm.

We hope you have a great week.

See you soon.

Leanne

Sometimes I sit in the office and do all the background stuff that facilitates things … but don’t get to see what happens IRL (in real life).

With Jill away with her dislocated shoulder I (Leanne) filled in for her and went along to our longstanding AAA Bowls program - run in partnership with Alphington Bowls Club (ABC) on Wednesday mornings. This program is supported by funding from Yarra City Council.

Such a great program! I was so impressed. And it was such a glorious morning. The sun was shining and the set up was amazing! The whole green was set up with a variety of bowls games, special foams bowling balls 🎱… along with some of the normal heavy ones and traditional games for those who had the dexterity.

And amazing volunteers. John and Vicki and Diana really know all the attendees so well and spent the time helping each person join in the right activity for them. While the participants learn skills the volunteers did a lot of collecting of bowls - to make it easy for those in wheelchairs and generally less mobile to have a fabulous time.

And Colin (who runs the ABC bar) was roped in to cook the BBQ.

After an hour or so outside we sat down in the club rooms for tea and coffee, fruit and biscuits, and then enjoyed a sausage in bread with onions and coleslaw. Yum!

It was lovely to see so many people out enjoying the fresh air and sunny ☀️ winter day sharing a sport that they loved.

Thanks so much to everyone involved. ACC is very proud to facilitate this great program and we really love doing it with our amazing local colleagues/friends/neighbours at ABC.

Join local end-of-life doulas, Ann and Frederique, at 1pm on Thursday 26 June for our first monthly discussion on Embracing Life and Death, being held at the Alphington Community Centre.

This is a safe and welcoming space to talk about death, dying, life & loss with a view to normalising these conversations as part of living and dying well. A place to share stories, knowledge and resources. Free to attend with tea, coffee and cake provided. Please note this group does not provide bereavement support or grief counselling. 

Held at 1pm on the last Thursday of the month, spaces are limited so please register. For more information or to register please contact Andrea via e-mail on andrea_babon@yahoo.com

It’s a long weekend … which is lovely (apart from the weather obviously which has been pretty miserable. On the bright side the ski lifts are opening for any ski bunnies out there and the garden is no longer bone dry!).

This week we’ve got all the usual suspects … plus our Clothes Mending workshop coming up on Saturday from 10am-12pm. I think there are still spots if you are interested.

A reminder that Rosie is running community yoga and Keiko is running sound healing on Wednesday nights if you are interested!

Unfortunately Jill who runs our AAA Bowls program completes (we hope) our run of bad luck (it comes in threes right?), dislocating her shoulder (ouch! It sounded very painful when she called me from hospital on Tuesday). Luckily the Alphington Bowls Club volunteers are amazing and stepped up to run the program last Wednesday. Thanks John and co.

So many things lately!

It is a good reminder to take things as they come right?

For the next few weeks we have Tahlia helping out around the traps as Kalimna will be in a cast for another 5 weeks (I don’t think she can drive here - but we’ll see how it’s going over time). Say hi to Tahlia if you see her.

And we have Clara here doing her student placement. She’s going to work on documenting some individual stories whilst she’s here which will be great - we haven’t really done that before - and in the meantime as she’s getting to know us she’s been sharing her coffee making skills (bringing our coffees to a whole new level). We’re trying desperately to learn from her, but I think my (at least) coffees are getting worse in the face of such artistry! Come to Community Lunch on Friday or Crunch on Thursday to enjoy her extra fancy coffees yourself.

Anyway … enough babbling in …. we hope you have an excellent week and look forward to seeing you soon!

Cheers Leanne