A message from Village Greening ….

Hey coffee aficionados! Are you ready to sip sustainably? Three Locals have teamed up with Village Greening and throughout this entire month, we’re encouraging everyone to make the switch from disposable cups to reusable ones. It’s a small change that can make a big difference for our planet!

Here’s what you can expect:

Every time you remember your reusable cup or use one of Three Locals Wangim cups, you can go into the draw to win a voucher for 20 coffees.

We will end the campaign with a Reusable Cup Day on 2nd July - a whole day of using only reusable cups!

Share your reusable cup journey on social media and don’t forget to tag us.

Together, we can make Reusable Cup Month a huge success and create a lasting impact on our environment. So grab your favourite cup, head to Three Locals, and let’s sip sustainably!

With the kitchen all organised, we are getting back to our monthly preserving and jamming activities.

If you like cooking (and talking while you cook!) we’d love you to join us this Tuesday 21 May from 1-3pm for preserves group.

This month we are celebrating autumn and making beetroot relish. If we have time we may also make some preserved lemon.

Bring your apron. We should have everything else here.

Also … if you have excess fruit or veggies growing in your garden we always love donations … we can use them for our community lunches, for preserving and jamming and can also pass them on to the community or the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre.

We are so grateful for the support of the local community.

And we love donations … but we do ask for you to check in with us that we need them first - just give us a call 📞 or drop them off when we are on site for a chat, 9am-3.30pm Monday to Friday.

At the moment we’re very keen on:

• stocking our mini op shop - so if you have a few quality household items looking for a new home, think of us!

• plants - we’ve got some new beds to plant out so if you are refreshing your garden for autumn think of us! We like usable things … herbs, small fruit trees, lovely cut flowers, hardy low maintenance things that will survive a lack of love over summer etc.

• 8ply+ wool for our knitters.

Looking forward to seeing you soon. And thanks.

Darebin City Council is collaborating with Seniors Rights Victoria and Housing for the Aged Action Group on the Warm Safe Home Project.

The project is a mechanism to build awareness of elder abuse, and will be showcased at Preston Library in early June, for World Elder Abuse Awareness Day that takes place on June 15th each year.

The project asks people in the community to decorate a small house and talk about what it means to them to have a warm safe home.

If you are feeling creative and/or would like to help build awareness of this important issue, you can collect a cardboard house from us. Drop it back once you’ve finished. We’ll then pass the completed houses back to our Council colleagues for them to include in the exhibition.

Note, we should have the kits ready by the end of Monday!

Daniel will be offering guitar lessons from the start of Term 2 at Alphington Community Centre.

His classes will be on a Tuesday in the afternoon and evening. You can contact Daniel by email to book in.

Here is a bit about Daniel.

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I currently run a new community music project I put together last year called Circle of Guitars. This project allows me to run group guitar sessions and provides an opportunity for community members to get together and play music.

I am a performing guitarist with a passion for music. In the music scene, I have been involved in numerous bands and exciting musical projects (Harmony Universe, Bernadette Novembre, Neo Lilac), performed across Melbourne's highly regarded venues (Melbourne Recital Centre, the Night Cat, Uptown Jazz Cafe), and was invited to play live on air (3AW).

With over 15 years experience as a dedicated educator, I have taught students from diverse backgrounds in different settings such as universities (Australian Catholic University), Secondary schools (Ave Maria College), and in studio's across Melbourne.

By incorporating infectious enthusiasm, relatable personality, and imaginative approaches I have been able to help pupils overcome challenges while discovering their unique voices in music. It is my aim to provide students with a practical knowledge of the instrument as well as an explanation of theoretical components that are inherent within the music.

My teaching method draws from performing experience and industry standard pedagogies. I specialise in popular musical styles including blues, jazz, rock, metal, pop, country and more.