Newlands Community News: NECCHi

Join us and celebrate Poorneet Season
for our upcoming Garden Festival

We’re celebrating Poorneet season in our upcoming Garden Festival.

Join us on Friday the 5th and Saturday the 6th of September for a series of workshops, events, and friendly gatherings, as we learn to grow foods and care for Country during this special part of the year.

Come along to a very special picnic on Saturday afternoon, with food, music, and family friendly activities.

The full program will be announced soon, so stay tuned for booking info.

See you there!

Calling All Bakers – Let’s Bake for Palestine!
🍰🧁🍪

We're hosting a Bake Sale for Palestine at this year’s Poorneet Festival on Saturday, 6th September, and we need your help to make it a sweet success!

📢 We're inviting all passionate bakers to contribute some homemade treats to help raise funds for Palestine. Whether it's cookies, cakes, muffins, or anything delicious – your baked goodies can make a difference.

🗓 Drop-off Details:
📍 Newlands Neighbourhood House (20 Murray Rd)
🕚 By 11am on Saturday, 6th September

✨ Important:
Please label your baked goods clearly with all ingredients using the sign template below (greatly appreciated for allergy safety).

Let’s come together as a community and show our support – one bite at a time. 💚(Details about the NGO NECCHi is supporting will be available at the stall on the day.)

Any questions, please email: enquiries@necchi.org or call: 8528 2332

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

Book now

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

Book now

Drop In Plant dyeing Workshop with NECCHi artist in residence Ria Soemardjo.

This free drop-in event is at NECCHI NEWLANDS garden from 9.30-11.30am on Friday the 22nd August to learn about simple solar dyeing with plants and food scraps. Ria will be making small flags for the upcoming NECCHi Garden Festival in September celebrating the Wurundjeri season of Poorneet (Tadpoles).

Recommended age for this event is 12 years and above. Any children will need to be supervised closely as there will be hot liquids in the mix.

Book now

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.

Book now

It's not too late to sign up to our NECCHi Neighbour Membership Program!

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: