Teen Holiday Workshop

https://events.humanitix.com/teen-sewing-machine-basics

Circular Campus to Community

Keen to learn more about circular design and making practices?  
 
Want to gain knowledge and practical skills around some of the five Circular Action Streams of: Rethink, Refuse, Repair, Redesign, and Regenerate? 

If so, we want to hear from you! 
 
As part of a new collaborative project— ‘Circular Campus to Community’, RMIT University and Merri-bek City Council are working alongside community, to share knowledge, insights, information, and ideas around growing Merri-bek’s circularity initiatives. 

We will be running a series of events, activities and courses across 2026, and to make sure these activities are truly useful and relevant, we want to hear from you!  

Tell us what sort of workshops, short courses, resources and events you’d be keen to participate in and would find useful and!! go in the draw to win free passes to some of the workshops on offer! 

 RMIT x Merri-bek Circular Campus to Community Project – Fill out form

Conversations for a Better Tomorrow

Writing Workshops

Come and join us for an hour of shared silent writing at Silent Write! Make this your time to carve out a space to immerse yourself in your work and just write or create. Whether it is poetry, an essay, an idea for an artwork or a submission, come along to Mesopotamia Art Space and gift yourself an hour of peaceful time to think and create.

Location:

Mesopotamia Arts Space, 

62 Newlands Rd, Coburg North. 

Tea and bickies provided 

Date:

Wednesdays in February

5th, 12th, 19th, & 26th February 2025

Days & time: Wed, 10.00 am –11:00 am

Price: $10 per session

Please bring along paper or a writing journal etc and your preferred writing instrument.

To book yourself a spot head to www.writingdays.com.au

Come and join our weekly writing group, the Creative Writing Society. Chat with fellow writers, discuss your writing projects and problems, have a cuppa and get writing! 

This is a space for writers to bring along an idea, or work in-progress, or something that you want to start writing. Every week we will start with time for a chat, writing to a prompt, and finally an opportunity to discuss your ideas with a partner or in small groups. 

If you are a writer who is looking for a generative space to work and chat with other people serious about writing, this is the group for you!

Location:

Mesopotamia Arts Space, 

62 Newlands Rd, Coburg North. 

Tea and bickies provided 

Date:

Wednesdays in February

11:30 am –1:00 pm

5th, 12th, 19th, & 26th February 2025

Price: $30 per session

Head to our website to book yourself a spot: www.writingdays.com.au

Writing Workshops

Come and meet us for a writing workshop in the atmosphere of a glorious old tram in Coburg North where we will try our hand at free writing, writing to prompts, and exploring different genres as a way to open up our creativity.

This is a five-week workshop introducing you to creative writing in different forms to help push-start that niggling poem, short story, memoir, essay...novel…. Let’s get writing!

 

CREATIVE 
WRITING 
WORKSHOPS

Dates: Friday 17th November, Friday 24th November, Friday 1st December, Friday 8th December, Friday 15th December

Time: 10.30am –12pm

Location: Bighouse Arts Vintage W Class Tram
9-11 Hocking St. Coburg North, Melbourne VIC.

Cost: $375 for 5 workshops

FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO BOOK A SPOT: writingdaysmelbourne@gmail.com

Note: Spaces are limited so please email us.

WWW.WRITINGDAYS.COM.AU

Workshops, writing consultations, and soirees. For writers, by writers.

NECCHI Bamboo Cubby Workshop

NECCHI has partnered with Giant Grass to build a cubby at Newlands entirely out of sustainable bamboo. The 3 workshops will talk about bamboo as a sustainable material, show people how to construct the cubby, and invite them to work together on decorating the structure. 

Workshop dates are Saturday 12th Feb, 19^th Feb & 5^th March @ Newlands Neighbourhood House. 

Workshops are family-friendly and suitable for all ages, so perfect for the Newlands Blog community! You can find more info here, as well as book into the workshops 😊

Weaving Workshops

Hello all,

We have received financial support from Zero Carbon Moreland and Moreland Council to put on this term's Community Climate Action Series. With the funding we are engaging with an indigenous weaver and artist Bronwyn Razem to teach a series of weaving workshops and we are also holding a celebration day at the local neighbourhood house inviting an indigenous elder to do a smoking ceremony.

book here

Check out this flyer for more info and share with friends and family - starts soon on Sat 24th!!

Mechanic Fundamentals Course

Ladies – be guided through the fundamentals of buying, owning and maintaining a car by a trained mechanic

These 4 x 3-hr workshops run on the following dates in 2021:

Saturdays 29 May to 26 June

Have you ever wanted to fix your own car? Have you felt you couldn’t ask questions about basic mechanics? Well this is the workshop for you!

Over four weeks you will be guided through the fundamentals of buying, owning and maintaining a car by trained mechanic, Petra Ohrt.

With no prior knowledge or experience necessary, this course will demystify car engines and general operation, and introduce the important tricks and tools of the mechanics trade to encourage women to be more proactive in learning about and fixing and maintaining their own cars.

Women often feel there aren’t opportunities to learn about basic mechanics and the workings of cars and this workshop aims to provide a safe, supportive and encouraging environment to empower women to take more control over the things they use and value daily

Over four x 3hr sessions, participants will be guided through a number of practical issues to identify common problems, with solutions that can be applied to most cars, vans and trucks. These are issues that all car owners, or prospective drivers will face at some point in their driving life.

Come for individual sessions or book in for the whole program.

Book in here https://sustainability.ceres.org.au/programs/ladies-car-club-4-session-course/

Community Climate Action Series

The Community Climate Action Series (that we host with Neighbours United for Climate Action, normally at the Newlands Neighbourhood House) is still going ahead - we are adapting it to be delivered on-line (via zoom) until it’s safe to meet in person again. We figure it’s more important than ever to connect with each other and share ideas… and the climate crisis remains as urgent as ever in this time of pandemic. So please join us this Saturday for our very first on-line session if you can!

It will run from 2-3.30pm.

Topic: Citizens’ Assemblies - what are they and how do they work? (Find the link to the Facebook event here)

What is a Citizens' Assembly and how does it work? What would it look like here and how would our system change if we had one? Did you know that cities and countries around the world have had citizens’ assemblies? Extinction Rebellion (XR) have three key demands the world over, and installing Citizens’ Assemblies (CA) alongside parliaments is their third one. Find out more at this session, presented by CA enthusiast, Sonia Randhawa from Coalition of Everyone. Register here https://us04web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMode6rrz4qAP4SmO7pB_j0ZuAtH6Gpwg   

Hope to see some of you via the computer screen on Saturday :)

Sponsored Workshops

Do you know someone who has been directly impacted by the fires? Or perhaps it's you? Charmaine Dennis and Carly Woods are sponsoring 2 places ($1000 worth) at the upcoming Deep Rest one-day immersion at both 

• Fertile Ground Health Group 2nd February, and 
• Byron Bay on the 9th February 

This immersion is focused on nervous system balance - great tools to have during challenging times like these. 

We are sponsoring 4 people to come to these events for FREE.

Please email Carly on carly@breathreset.com if you need this or know someone who will benefit from this support.

We’ve also been sharing some of our guided audio and video breathing and relaxation/vitality tools from our 6 day immersions in Bali that you can use daily. 

• Collect your 17 minute Buteyko guided meditation download and 
• Check out your immune-boosting, lung clearing qigong sequence. 

So many of us need this. Whether directly or indirectly affected by the fires, all of our nervous systems could do with some attention and care.

Much gratitude.

Charmaine Dennis & Carly Woods

Naturopaths - Fertile Ground Health Group & Buteyko Breath Reset

Climate Action

Community Climate Action Series at the Newlands Neighbourhood House

Imagine 2020 is the year the whole world gets serious about climate repair. What would that even look like?  Let’s start to build the picture together. 

One thing seems certain: we’ll need strong, supportive communities to help navigate the current climate crisis and the changes ahead. That’s why we’re running a series of local events for sharing ideas and knowledge and building momentum for positive change in many forms. Hosted by Newlands Parents for Climate Action and Neighbours United for Climate Action (NUCA). All welcome! Child friendly space. Afternoon tea provided.

Further details (including the program of topics for term 1 and 2) are on the attached flyer. Don’t miss the 2020 launch: Saturday 8th Feb 2-4pm (FB event here). Follow the series on FB here. 

Workshops

Two free community digital literacy info events coming up in just over a week open to everyone. 

For anyone who would like to improve their confidence with the internet and smart phones. 

When: Tuesday 15 and Wednesday 16 October.

Where: at the Dalton McCaughey library. 

What time? 9am until 11am.  

PLUS free iced buns and tea and coffee for morning tea are provided. 

Please feel free to come and bring anyone who would like support in the dark and murky digital terrains; from filling out forms to advanced use of apps! 

Oil Painting

PAINTING CLASSES WITH JACQUI STOCKDALE

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Workshops

 

Strength Based Parenting Workshops

I'm a Well-being Psychologist who's delivering FREE "Strengths-based Parenting" Workshops at Newlands PS next Tuesday. 

Strength Based Parenting focuses on identifying and understanding what your child is naturally good at and where they thrive — before you explore their weaknesses. It provides simple evidence-based practices that increase your child’s resilience and helps you feel more confident as a parent.

Date: Tues October 24th, 7.00pm to 9.00pm
Venue: Newlands PS, Multipurpose Room,
RSVP: https://www.trybooking.com/RXTX

Tag friends and they can register by clicking the above link. For further info, contact me on ariadne@humanendeavours.com.au or you can keep up with my other workshops via my Facebook page, Human Endeavours – Tools for Authentic Living.

Warmest wishes,

Ariadne

Ariadne Lack

Wellbeing & Resilience Psychologist

B.A.,Psych.,Grad.Dip.Ed.Psych.,MAPP.,MAPS.,MCCOUNSP.

420 Victoria St Brunswick, Melbourne, Australia 3056

M) 0438 153 208

F) 03 9470 2070

ariadnelack@humanendeavours.com.au

www.humanendeavours.com.au