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Creating calm
During the endless lockdowns, I started stitching. Nothing fancy, just simple embroidery to start with. Now a patchwork quilt is slowly taking shape. However, it is not the end result that’s important. It’s the quiet daily act of sitting and stitching that is beneficial. My eyes following the thread, my hands busy, mind calm.
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Metro Tunnel artwork brings colour to Kensington childcare service
Panels from a Metro Tunnel Project mural have found a new home at a Kensington childcare service, giving a splash of colour to the early childhood education and care service’s garden.
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An interview with Henry von Doussa: The Pink Book
Henry von Doussa is Satellite Foundation’s family and community engagement person, and a social researcher at The Bouverie Centre. His second published book, The Pink Book, is a memoir that speaks to sexuality, gender, grief, and loss, and growing up as a gay man in Australia.
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What does the world need right now?
Three years ago, Rawcus artistic director Kate Sulan asked the 14 members of the Rawcus Ensemble to explore, and re-explore, the question: “what does the world need right now?”
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Quiz night and community dinner
Friends, neighbours, students, locals one and all – take the plunge and join us for our Quiz Night and Community Dinner on June 23 – especially if you’ve never come to one of our events before. Don’t be shy! Invite your friends and make up a team. We promise you a warm welcome, lots of fun, great entertainment, and a hearty meal – all for $20, and even less if you are a paid-up member.
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Celebrating five years at the West End Art Space
As far as galleries go, West Melbourne’s West End Art Space, which celebrated its fifth birthday in May, is just in its infancy.
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Champions of the community in every sense
For this month’s North and West Melbourne Precinct Association (NWMPA) column we begin the first in a series columns showcasing North and West Melbourne’s “Precinct Ambassadors”.
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Local park inspires North Melbourne resident to publish his second poetry book
Dabbling into poetry during lockdowns “for reading as much as writing” has led to a North Melbourne resident looking to publish his second collection of poems.
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Childers St reopened to traffic
A Kensington street is open to traffic for the first time in more than three years in another sign of progress on the Metro Tunnel Project.
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Neighbourhood Houses – bringing people together across the country
Neighbourhood House Week, which took place from May 9 to 15, is a national initiative which celebrates the role of more than 1000 neighbourhood houses in local communities across Australia. Kensington Neighbourhood House is one of 400 in Victoria.
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Docklands “sleeper agent” switches attention to Arden
Census shows North Melbourne, Kensington populations plateau
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