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| We’re excited to announce a range of new programs starting next week! |
| Waring season, also known as Waring Wombat Season, occurs from April to July and marks the coldest and wettest period in the Wurundjeri and Kulin Nation caleandar. For the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people, Waring is the season when wombats forage and rain moths emerge after rain. These large moths spend years underground before living only 24 hours as adults without mouths. Fungi also appears along the creek, while shorter days, longer nights, misty mornings, and cold, wet conditions mark the later part of the season.
This Waring Season (NEXT WEEK!), the following new programs are starting: - Shapes and Vessels Ceramics Course (4 week course on Thursdays)
- Baby Massage (3 week course on Wednesdays)
- Paper Sculpture in the Garden (6 week course, Thursdays)
- Edgar’s Creek Nature Therapy Walk (One day event, 21st of May)
BOOK BY SUNDAY 17TH OF MAY (MIDNIGHT) USING THIS CODE FOR A 10% DISCOUNT:
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 | Paper Sculpture in the garden with Lizette Vieyra - Thursday mornings
This Waring season, join local artist Lizette Vieyra for a six-week creative workshop exploring the art of handmade paper and sculptural forms using natural and repurposed materials.
Discover how seasonal grasses, leaf matter, weeds, and everyday materials can be transformed into beautiful, meaningful pieces in a relaxed, hands-on environment. No experience needed, just curiosity, creativity, and a love of making.
Over six weeks, connect with a warm creative community and leave with your own handcrafted works plus the skills to keep creating beyond the studio. | |
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 | Edgar's Creek Nature Therapy Walk with Carolyn Shurey - Thursday 21st of May Join Carolyn, a trained Forest Therapy Guide, for a gentle 1.5-hour exploration along Edgars Creek on Wurundjeri Country. Together we’ll walk, pause, sit and move through the landscape, taking in the beauty, sounds and wildlife of the creek.
This guided group session involves less than 1km of walking along gentle gravel trails. You’ll be invited to participate in a series of slow, sensory and creative activities designed to encourage mindfulness, presence and a deeper connection with the natural world.
📍 Where: Edgars Creek, Coburg North
🗓 Thursday 21 May 2026
⏰ 1pm–2:30pm (please arrive early for a prompt start)
Suitable for ages 16+ |
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 | Shapes and Vessels: Ceramic Course with Chris Ellis - Thursday mornings Shapes and vessels is a 4 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! | |
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 | Baby Massage with Bibha Sharma - Wednesday mornings Join Nurse and Infant Massage Specialist Bibha Sharma for this three-week workshop on full body baby massage, held at the 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. |
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Come help to build up our community seed library!
We’ll be collecting seed, sorting seeds, making the seed library welcoming for community to borrow and contribute and harvesting for community. Come for an hour of power or stay for a bit longer.
Seeds, Harvest Monthly Group
When: 10-11.30am, Last Friday of the month
Where: Newlands Neighbourhood House Garden, 20 Murray Rd, Coburg
What: Drop in anytime between 10-11.30am for a calming session of seed collection, winnowing, sorting, harvesting and more.
All abilities welcome. Please get in touch with garden@necchi.org if you have any questions. |
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| IDAHOBIT - the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia 🌈 | Join us for morning tea at NECCHi Newlands Friday, 15 May, as we come together to celebrate IDAHOBIT - the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia 🌈
📍 20 Murray Rd, Coburg North
🕥 10:30am – 12:00pm
Wear your brightest rainbow colours and be part of a vibrant community gathering that honours inclusion, respect, and equality. Let’s stand together, celebrate diversity, and show our support for a more accepting world.
Everyone is welcome - we hope to see you there for a cuppa! |
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| The MOMA Gallery Project, Not a Cupboard, is heading off on a new adventure. |
| The MOMA Gallery Project, Not a Cupboard, is heading off on a new adventure.
It was always designed to move, evolve, and find new spaces to grow — and now it has found a new home at Balam Balam Place in Brunswick!
A huge thank you to everyone in the community who worked alongside Rose and NECCHi to bring this project to life. Your creativity, care, and collective energy made this possible.
The project continues online — you can stay involved through the wiki website, link here. We’d love you to contribute to the catalogue by taking a photo of your artwork and uploading it to the wiki, instructions here.
The big move happens on the new moon, Monday 17th May, if you have some spare time, we’d love some volunteers to help with the transition.
Please add comments to the poster pictured and share the love for Rose and the project! 💌 Rose would also love for you to add colour and pezazz to the poster — make your mark, leave a message, doodle, decorate, celebrate. 🌈✨
Come be part of the next chapter. ✨ |
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| | Gellung Warl, the new body created through Australia’s first Treaty, has been established |
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| The First Peoples’ Assembly is now part of Gellung Warl, a new statutory body, as agreed in the first Statewide Treaty. Gellung Warl means tip of the spear in Gunaikurnai and includes three arms: - The First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria will continue as the democratically-elected group of Traditional Owners representing and making decisions on behalf of First Peoples across the state.
- The accountability arm Nginga Ngainga Wara (meaning you will do in Wadi Wadi) will provide independent oversight and accountability for Government on behalf of First Peoples.
- The truth-telling arm of Gellung Warl, Nyerna Yoorrook Telkuna (meaning to sit, to listen, to hear, to remember in Wamba Wamba/Wemba Wemba), will continue the Truth-telling and healing process.
More information about Gellung Warl can be found here
Newly-elected First Peoples’ Assembly Members voted in new Co-Chairs at the Assembly’s first Chamber meeting at DJAARA: Meriki Onus (they/them) from the Gunai and Gunditjmara mobs
and Dja Dja Wurrung, Wamba Wamba, Yorta Yorta, Dhudhuroa, Waywurru, Barapa Barapa, Wergaia, Wiradjuri man Djaran Murray-Jackson (he/him) were elected to serve as Assembly Co-chairs. |
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| Get Your NECCHi Membership for 2026! | 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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 | | ILLUSTRATIONS BY CLAIRE MOSLEY |
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East Coburg
Neighbourhood House
32 Nicholson St
Coburg VIC 3058
Ph 03 9913 5472 |   |
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