A new addition arrived this week on the back of a truck and was forklifted into place.

The kiosk. All the way from the Ukraine. Via Fossil Vintage in Sparks Avenue.

Fun!

ACC is closed on Monday and Tuesday for the long weekend.

We hope you have a great break (the weather looks super) and we’ll see you bright eyed and bushy tailed on the other side.

November is going to be an amazing month for art and music 🎵 in our neighbourhood - with Art for All at Fairfield Primary School and Music from the Wetlands on the same weekend (luckily there’s enough time to do both!) … followed by the Open Studios weekends - and our end of year Makers Market on the last Saturday of November. How fun!

Coming up at the end of the month, we’re super excited to be hosting three artists this year - Sharon West, Katie Roberts and Maxine O’Brien.

Put the dates in your diary and take a stroll through the neighbourhood to experience another great year of local art.

On the first Saturday (25 November) you’ll also be able to get your Christmas shopping done at our Christmas Makers Market.

The Alphingtones are a local choir that used to meet here before Covid … but are now meeting at St Andrew’s church in Fairfield. Just behind Grill’d.

And their annual concert is coming up.

Here are the details if you’d like to attend.

And … if you feel inspired you might even like to join up … everyone is welcome … but they especially need some men with nice deep voices!

This week we were delighted to welcome a new group of men to use our community shed facilities on Friday morning.

They came along with support (eg. transport) and project supervision from two Merri-bek Council staff - as part of a program designed to help older men connect with each other and build community friendships.

The men were from North Fitzroy, Coburg etc. and I think it really is super to be able to share our resources across the inner northern suburbs - and also connect up with community development colleagues at a neighbouring Council.

They were a great fit for our Friday community morning program and we hope they come back into the foreseeable future.

We’re looking forward to sharing a cuppa and chat with them in future weeks and seeing the outcome off their hard work (they are working on constructing ride-on toys for toddlers).