Hi all, after a lovely break we’ll be back in the office from Wednesday 26 April. raring to go for Term 2.

In the last few weeks we advertised quite a lot of activities that are running in the coming term. I am pleased to report that our book clubs are now fully full, but we do have some spots in our weekend woodwork workshop coming up very soon - it should be super!, along with spots in our ecoydyeing ‘Pillow Talk’ workshop.

If you are interested in either of these, just scroll below through our recent posts to find the details and book in.

Also … a reminded that we do have a new Men’s Group meeting in the Community Shed on Monday evenings if anyone is interested.

See you back in the ‘hood in a couple of days!

If you came along to the Alphington Open Studios in December last year you would have seen some beautiful timber chopping boards in the gallery.

Lovely local artist Jane Hausseger has offered to share her skills and knowledge about working with timber in our upcoming Recycled Timber Design Workshop running on 6 May from 10am-12pm, here at ACC in the Community Shed.

Jane will teach you how to make coffee paddles - small chopping boards - that can be used to serve food or coffee and would make lovely handmade gifts. In the workshop you will learn about selecting recycled timber, cutting, sanding and dressing the timber with products that are suitable for food use.

It is a great introduction to recycling timber and you will walk away with a lovely product at the end. You can book in here.

Are you keen to join our Women in the Shed program for 2023? We’re now taking bookings for Term 1 and Term 2. Just head to our website here to book in.

It is a wonderful 6 week program that runs on Thursdays for 6 weeks. In the course you will be introduced to all the basic tools in a shed and will get to practise using them across a series of projects.

So … you’ll finish the course with a whole lot of new skills, loads of confidence and some lovely creations.

Women in the Shed is run by Maylei Hunt and is a really popular program. So if you are interested to join up you should book in sooner rather than later! If you miss out on a place, please email us at info@alphington.org.au and we will be able to add you to the waiting list.

Time flies when you are having fun!

We’re now putting together the program at ACC for next year and as always, we are interested in your ideas.

If you have a skill you’d like to share through a weekend workshop or through a regular activity please let us know (eg. our Visible Mending Club runs monthly thanks to Serene offering to share her skills).

If you have been to a course or program somewhere else that you think would be super for our community please let us know (eg. it was thanks to recommendation that we met Gordon who now runs our Sewing Machine and Overlocker Maintenance workshops annually ).

Just email info@alphington.org.au or give us a call on 9499 7227 and we can talk about how to make it happen!

And as a taster … new things on our radar for next year include:

• Movie Club - once a month on Tuesday afternoons we’ll head over to Westgarth Cinema on the train to watch a film together.

• Podcasting 101 - a short ACFE course (we have funding to support this program thanks to RCLC - our lovely neighbourhood house colleagues in Richmond)

If you are interested in joining in these new activities just look out for our new program that will provide details of how to register. It should be out by early December …

Thanks Annie.

On the weekend local artist Annie Bolitho ran her New Page workshop here at ACC. Adults and children joined in this intergenerational creating experience to explore hand crafted bookmaking and page making … using flowers such as nasturtium and violets to create prints and learning how to then build up layers of collage and add stamping to make gorgeous art books and diaries.

We hope everyone was inspired.