Are you interested in learning how to document your life story?

Carmela Ferraro, an experienced journalist, has offered to run a life journaling workshop here.

Over 4 weeks she will lead you through the process of thinking about your life story, the early years, your career, family etc. She will help you get your story together in an interesting way.

You might like to write this up as a short story, or write the next best selling autobiography! Or incorporate the text into a photobook - the outcome will be up to you. Carmela will help you think about these options too.

The short course is a fabulous opportunity to get help to document the amazing unique life that each of us has had. And Carmela is very nice!

It costs $165 for 4 weeks, starting from Saturday 24 August, 10am-12pm. Book in here.

The time has come to prune our fruit trees in our little urban orchard. Corrado and Keiko started on the apples along the back fence the week before last, and then moved on to the smaller trees along the boundary fence last week. We still have some to go … so if you are interested in tree pruning but a bit nervous you might like to come along and have a chat this Friday whilst we finish them off.

Gardening Group is part of our Friday Community Morning program. It runs from 10am-12pm.

All the lemon curd has sold! But we still have beetroot relish, dried lime, cumquat marmalade and gin and lime marmalade … made by lovely volunteers (thanks friends who come along!).

All profits from our preserves support our access all abilities short courses that enable everyone in our community to do things that they love.

Pop past and buy some next time you are passing by!

Last week we had Movie Club on Tuesday night, Alphington Arts on Thursday night … and a stack of emails and end of financial year reporting to get through … it was a very busy week at ACC (especially in the office). And we met lots of new people which was lovely!

This week we will be continuing to get organised … and we remind you to book in to our short courses that start next week if they take our fancy. These include …

• Podcasting 101 - learn to podcast with Ben McKenzie

• Cheeseboards 101 - our basic Women in the Shed intro to tools course

• Active Adults (fitness classes) - get fit/keep fit for all ages!

• Family Fitness - bring your kids along while you exercise

• Crunch (creative lunch) - we’ll feed you lunch and spend an hour being creative

We do need minimum numbers to go ahead with these activities so please book in if you are keen. Just head to the enrolments page on our website here. Also … you can pop past or give us a call if you have questions.

See you soon! Have a great week.

Are you a local artist? Come and join in our annual Winter Arts Exhibition on the weekend of 16-18 August.

You can find out all the details and book in here.

The event includes our Opening Night from 5-7pm on Friday 16 August where our whole community is invited to come along and appreciate the local talent! We’ll have drinks and finger food. It’ll be fun.

Then on Saturday and Sunday the exhibition will also be open from 10am-4pm for anyone to drop in.

We hope to see you there!