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NECCHi's Guling and Poorneet Season Program
will be kicking off next week! | The Muyan (Silverwattle) flowers are coming into bloom, which means that Guling Season is just around the corner!
We hope you've been staying warm and dry over the break. From the whole NECCHi team, we're looking forward to welcoming you back to the house in Guling and Poorneet Season! |
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 | Kids Art Club - Monday & Tuesday
Our Kids Art Club aims to foster a love for creativity within a supportive and friendly environment! Facilitated by local artist & educator River, children will create artworks in response to their world.
Each week we will develop and build on foundational skills, look at a range of diverse artist’s works, problem solve, explore and experiment with a range of materials and techniques, learn different ways to express ourselves and make meaning through different mediums. This class celebrates the wacky and wonderful, and is the perfect introduction to a world of art and creativity!
Kids Art Club - Monday
Kids Art Club - Tuesday
Season Pass:
Full Price $170 | Concession $130 | |
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 | UNFURL - Weekly Plant-Focussed Making Sessions
Join Craig from Draw Plants Together for ‘UNFURL’ – the same weekly plant-focused, process-led making sessions but with a new format. Sessions will start with 30 minutes of ’sensory drawing’ led by Craig – a simple noticing practice that suspends critical thinking, invites reflection, relaxation, and allows for the material and relational qualities of drawing to be felt. Following this gentle start, there will be some open time and space to follow the thread of your own creative interests from week to week, in conversation with plants and materials, and in the company of others attending the sessions. Basic drawing materials provided. Feel free to bring your own media for the second part of the session – clay, words, fabric, dyes, ... anything you like. Five Session Pass:
Full Price $65 | Concession $50
Single Session Pass:
Full Price $15 | Concession $12 | |
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 | Toot Toot!
NECCHi's Beginners' Brass and Horn Band is returning for Term 3!
Blow Your Horn is a fortnightly music group for those who are keen to play their brass or horn instrument in a supportive, group setting alongside others.
The fortnightly session is a fun, beginner-friendly space to play that horn that has been sitting in its case, waiting for a revival!
Come with your wind instrument (trumpet, saxophone, trombone, clarinet, tuba, oboe, bassoon, etc.), and all equipment needed to play.
All ages and abilities welcome :)
Season Pass:
Full Price $65 | Concession $50
Single Session Pass:
Full Price: $15 | Concession $12 | |
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 | From Seeds to Streets: Creative Writing Class about Local Places with Simone King
Come enjoy some slow time paying attention and writing with me in the beautiful Wayi Garden at NECCHi, Newlands. We will engage in meditative writing practices in the garden, write creative pieces in response to a range of exercises and prompts, and read and discuss evocative pieces of writing about gardens and the suburbs.
We will also deepen our understanding of the Wayi Garden and the Newlands area. Depending on participants’ interest and capacity, some sessions may involve short walks from the garden into the suburban streets around it.
Season Pass:
Full Price $112 | Concession $80
Single Session Pass:
Full Price $28 | Concession $20 | |
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 | Wild Daisy Nature Playgroup - Thursdays & Fridays
Wild Daisy Nature Playgroup is a relaxed playgroup, facilitated by Dee Jones in an urban bush environment. It aims to connect families, community and nature.
Children and their families are invited to slow down, take notice and jump in as they engage with curiosity in the wonders of the natural world. They will create nature art, plant seeds, make bush cubbies, climb trees, jump in muddy puddles, discover local plants and minibeasts and do lots of nature exploration! Each week’s offering includes a balance of stories, song, sensory activities and unstructured play.
Held outside in (almost) any weather, this weekly gathering is an adventure through the Kulin seasons. Participants will feel enriched, empowered with confidence and full of gratitude for the land and community.
Wild Daisy - Thursdays
Wild Daisy - Fridays
Season Pass:
Full Price $225 | Concession $162 | |
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 | Merri Meditations
Gather together for a five week series of guided meditations inspired by the nature of the creek.
Surrender your stress, dissolve tensions and reclaim a moment of calm and quiet presence in your day as we explore the beautiful spirit of an element each week.
With over eight years experience of nature-based spiritual practice, meditation and magical ritual, Rachael Wildman has been a Merri Creek local all her life. She is also a qualified art therapist, artist, storyteller and tarot reader.
Five Session Pass:
Full Price $72 | Concession $48
Single Session Pass:
Full Price $72 | Concession $48 | |
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 | Shapes & Vessels: Ceramics Class with Chris Ellis Shapes and vessels is a 3 week course in hand building with clay. We will use a variety of hand building techniques to assemble a vase, a vessel, or a sculpture by stacking and joining spheres, cubes, triangles and cylinders we make. The class is a playful approach to hand building. Each week, we will meet for 2.5 hours and will cover: Hand building, assembling/joining, the firing process, and decorating and glazing. Materials and tools will be provided, just bring yourself!
Three Week Workshop Pass:
Full Price $130 | Concession $110 | |
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 | Limited spaces available in our Sunroom Playgroup! Our Sunroom Playgroup is a safe, fun and exciting environment for children to come together to play and learn. Connect with other local families while building, engaging in sensory & imaginative play, doing fun craft activities and sharing snacks!
Our Sunroom Playgroup will be co-facilitated in term 3 by the wonderful duo of Henrika and Rose! The pair invite you to join them on a Monday morning for a range of engaging activities, set up and ready for you!
Season Pass:
Full Price $200 | Concession $160 | |
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 | Join Bibha for this three-week workshop on full body baby massage, held at the Maternal and Child Health Centre at Newlands Neighbourhood House. In each one-hour session, parents will be guided through a number of specific strokes for baby massage, with the aim of practicing the methods at home. Sessions two and three will begin by addressing any questions or concerns parents had in their home practice, before introducing new techniques and strokes. The three-week course is designed to allow for an intuitive approach to baby massage, and one that prioritises confidence and comfort, where both parents and babies can gain the full benefits of this practice.
Three-Week Workshop Pass:
Full Price: $90 | Concession $75 | |
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 | Rain Moth Community Nursery Working Bee Rain Moth Community Nursery is starting up! Come and help propagate veggie and native plants.
The nursery is volunteer run and created to sell low cost veggie and native plants periodically to the local community. Local plants grown by locals for locals. | |
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NECCHi are looking for a Part Time Housekeeper to join our team.
The purpose of the Housekeeper is to support the NECCHi Team by ensuring the houses are well presented, clean and safe. This position is integral to the day to day running of the houses and works with all members of the team to maintain and present the internal and external spaces so that they support community engagement, participation and the NECCHi program of activities.
If you are interested in the role, a full position description can be found on the NECCHi website.
To apply, please send your resume and a cover letter (2 pages maximum) to Anna Hutchens, NECCHi Manager: manager@necchi.org
Applications close Sunday 27th July.
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| NECCHi will be celebrating Poorneet Season this year for our annual Garden Festival | Join us this Poorneet Season for a series of workshops, talks, demonstrations, and celebrations, as we come together to learn about this season in the Wurundjeri calendar, on September 5th & 6th.
Details will be announced in the coming weeks, and spaces will be limited, so save the date, and stay tuned into NECCHi socials for any upcoming announcements! |
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| You can still sign up to become a NECCHi Neighbour in 2025! | NECCHi is a member-based not-for-profit organisation, which means that as a member, you can play an active role in shaping the organisation.
As a NECCHi Neighbour, you get: - 10% discount on full-priced tickets
- 4 free brews from Brewlands (that includes coffee, tea, chai, and hot chocs!)
- 1 pkt seeds from the NECCHi garden (subject to seasonal availability)
- Attend any $5 per session programmed activities for free
- Free hotdesking at East Coburg
- Invitation and voting rights at our AGM
Become a NECCHi Neighbour! |
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East Coburg
Neighbourhood House
32 Nicholson St
Coburg VIC 3058
Ph 03 9913 5472 |   |
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