This week join us for our Men’s Group on Tuesday night from 7pm. Call John to find out more 0439 899 352.

Or Playgroup on Wednesday morning at 10am. Also Line Dancing at 10am - at Alphington Scout Hall. Each costs $5. Just come along! There’s also Armchair Theatre on in the afternoon from 1.15pm. This is run by Darebin U3A.

On Wednesday evening we have Sound Healing with Keiko from 7.15-8pm. Just $10 for a super relaxing experience. Find out more or book in Sounddroplet@tutamail.com.

On Thursday we have the first Embracing Life and Death session from 1-3pm. Find out more or book in with Andrea, Andrea_babon@yahoo.com. And the Alphingtones Choir run at night over at St Andrews Uniting Church Fairfield from 7.30pm.

Finally Friday is our Community Morning - craft, gardening, community shed activities from 10am. Community Lunch at 12pm.

We hope to see you soon!

Cheers Leanne

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