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Stawell Neighbourhood House
Neighbourhood News April 2016
Young people from across the Northern Grampians Shire wowed the
audience at the Y Factor talent show at the Stawell Entertainment
Centre on Friday night April 15. The event, held as part of national
Youth Week celebrations show-cased some fabulous local talent,
including young Elle who stole hearts with her singing and dancing.
Stawell Neighbourhood House partnered with Stawell Secondary
College in a project called Art as Fashion. Led by Jenny
Greenberger, groups of students used recycled materials to design
an outfit which was modelled by one of the group at Y-Factor.
Y-Factor for Youth Week
Contents
Good Bugs in the
Garden
2
School Holiday
program
3-4
Fashion Parade at
the Y-Factor
5
Learning
Opportunities
6-7
Reminder for
weekly session 8
More on 5
9 Community
Lunch
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Stawell Neighbourhood House was
approached by Stawell Community
Garden to discuss the possibility of a
collaboration as a fund-raising activity
for the Garden. Denis Crawford, a
Pomonal local and world-renowned
entymologist, agreed to volunteer his
time and presented a seminar about
“good” bugs in the garden on Saturday
April 16. It was a cool but sunny
morning when a small group of avid
gardeners gathered to hear Denis talk
about garden pests and diseases and
beneficial insects in our gardens.
Did you know? One of the best
ways to attract good bugs to your
vegetable garden is to grow flowers
alongside your veges. Flowers are
very good at attracting insects which
will then feed on aphids and other
nuisance bugs.
Stawell Community Gardens will hold
a regular Open Garden on the 3rd
Sunday of each month 3pm-5pm.
Members of the Garden will be present
and most willing to provide gardening
advice. Everyone is welcome to come
and enjoy a social time for members
and non-members and excess
produce will be available for sharing.
https://www.facebook.com/StawellCo
mmunityGarden/
Have you read Denis Crawford’s book?
Garden Pests, Diseases and Good Bugs: The Ultimate Illustrated Guide for Australian Gardeners 2015
Encouraging Good Bugs in the Garden: A seminar presented by Denis Crawford
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School Holiday Program Stawell and Budja Budja, Hall’s Gap
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“We ran seven sessions over the
second week of the school holidays.
The decision to only offer activities for
the second week of the school holidays
was predominately due to the number
of activities happening in both Halls
Gap and Stawell during the Easter
week. Five sessions were run at
Stawell including Making Spiders, T-
shirt Printing, Drawing from Nature,
Cooking for Fun and Chill Out and two
sessions in Halls Gap - Cooking for Fun
and Drawing from Nature.
We had 20 families book in for the
program with 33 individual children - 60
participants in total for all the sessions.
It was great that the numbers for the
sessions held at Budja Budja were well
up on the previous programs. This is in
part getting the program out to the
schools earlier and personal contact
with families.
A great outcome for the program was
the wonderful volunteers, staff and
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Report from
Alison Bainbridge
Children’s
Services Co-
ordinator SNH
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carers who assisted in making the
program such a success. Special
thanks to Sarah Garton, Michelle
Fletcher, Lee-Anne Lovett and
Judy Nolan for their practical
support. I would also like to thank
Jenny Greenberger for her
continued support of the program
whilst we try to secure further
funding.
Two mums advised us they were
very happy that their children were
comfortable to be left with us rather
than requiring their mums to be
present. A step towards
independence for these children
and a little freedom for the mums.
It was also interesting that we had
visits from teenagers to SNH who
did not participate in the program
but was happy to spend a little time
at the Neighbourhood House
chilling out and playing pool. I
think that it is a credit to Jenny
Greenberger and Sarah Garton
that these young people are
comfortable in meeting at the SNH
and respecting the rules once
explained to them.
My personal highlight was getting
through the Cooking for Fun at
Budja Budja with 11 participants
mostly around 6 years old. They
had a great time and took home
some yummy goodies. I also think
the cubby made by the children
attending the Chill Out session was
the best ever. Photographs are
available on the website and
facebook page. Check them out
they will make you smile.”
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The T-Shirt printing was not for
the faint-hearted! There were
many skills to learn –
designing your t-shirt graphics,
searching for appropriate
images on the internet, saving
the image to a Word
document, printing the image
onto transfer paper, ironing the
transfer onto a t-shirt. Given
the group were aged from 6
years to 12 years this was
challenging. As always the
children were enthusiastic and
patient and showed some
remarkable artistic ideas and
abilities and thoroughly
enjoyed the challenge.
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“Fashion is
not a style,
it’s a
statement”.
Mac Goodwin in a recycled wedding dress which has been tie-dyed. Note the lovely French roll in her hair which the students learnt how to fashion.
Isy Skene in a multi-coloured mini-dress and velvet jacket accessorized with a black belt.
A $2000 grant was secured by SNH and provided funding for the project.
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The Italian phrase Ancora Imparo has been
attributed to Michelangelo, the famous Italian sculptor
and artist, who apparently uttered the words in 1562
on his 87th birthday. Translated, Ancora Imparo
means Still I learn or I am always learning.
And so it is for all of us more than 450 years later.
Much of our learning happens in the course of daily
living. For instance I have learnt many things since
moving from the city to the Stawell area some 15
months ago – little did I know about growing fruit trees
and the secret procreation business going on in
gardens - who would have thought you needed two
plum trees to make fruit? Although there are some
things I’ve yet to learn – for instance how does one
get rid of a flying fruit bat out of your bedroom at 3
am?
Other learning can take a little more effort –
identifying what you would like to learn and finding a
way of doing it and quite often you can learn much
about yourself in the process. Stawell
Neighbourhood House provides many opportunities
for learning. This year I have started learning Tai Chi
and am going along to the monthly Writer’s Group. I
have also attended some fabulous creative classes
that taught me skills to make mosaics and jewellery.
I have noticed, however, that access to formal post-
secondary and adult education is limited in regional
areas (a discussion for another time) so I’ve started
exploring learning opportunities online via the
internet and have discovered the world of MOOCs.
What’s a MOOC? A massive open online course
(MOOC) is a free web-based distance learning
program that is designed for the participation of
large numbers of geographically dispersed
students. A MOOC may be patterned on a college
or university course or may be less structured.
In addition to traditional course materials such as
filmed lectures, readings, and quizzes many
MOOCs provide interactive user forums to support
community interactions among students and
instructors.
Who can enrol? Anybody with a computer and
internet access. MOOCS are not accredited
courses (ie they don’t count count towards a formal
qualification) and whilst the course is free you can
buy a certificate of completion for $65
https://www.mooc-list.com/
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Are you learning online and need help? Stawell Neighbourhood House can provide face-to-face support. Either technical or
content help is available.
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Because I’m interested in art I have enrolled in a
course offered by the University of Melbourne
called Sexing the Canvas: Art and Gender
which started on 18 April and runs for 9 weeks.
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(Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria)
The blurb for the course states “What do paintings
tell us about sex? How is art gendered? In this
course we will study some of the world’s most
beloved pictures guided by expert curators and art
historians who step outside of the square, bringing
a gendered reading to the masterpieces …”.
https://www.coursera.org/learn/gender-art
Some MOOCS are self-paced – for example I’ve
also enrolled in a course called Modern Art and
Ideas offered by the Museum of Modern Art in
New York. This one I complete (or not) in my own
time.
https://www.coursera.org/learn/modern-art-ideas
Learning opportunities coming up at Stawell
Neighbourhood House:
Learn to Build a Self-Watering Vege Garden
Friday May 13 9.30am – 12.30pm
Cost: Free
Computer Specifics
Are you already using computers, but need to advance your skills in specific areas? Enroll in one session or enroll in all.
Thursday May 12 (and weekly for 8 weeks) 10am - 12noon
Cost: $20 per single session (reduced rate for 5 sessions or more).
Microsoft Word May 12
Microsoft Publisher May 19
Microsoft Excel May 26
Microsoft PowerPoint June 2
M’Soft Picture Manager June 9
Internet June 16
Email June 23
Social Media June 30
Life Planning Seminar
A one hour seminar to answer all your questions about Wills and Powers of Attorney.
Wednesday May 18 2pm – 3.30pm
Cost: Free (afternoon tea provided)
What would you like to learn at
SNH? Tell us.
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Yoga is still operating
on Wed 8am-9am.
Our Yoga teacher has left us due to work commitments but we are still hanging in there!
Everybody welcome
Tai Chi is going well –
it’s particularly satisfying on a sunny day when we move out to the park.
Everybody welcome – including beginners
Tuesdays 10am-11am
Don’t forget our regular activities! Art Fibre Friends Funky Friday Playgroup Scouts Tai Chi Yoga Writing and
more
Join our talented and creative tutor Bev Isaac on Mondays:
Art and Mixed Media
10am – 2pm BYO lunch
Free (gold coin donation for tea and coffee)
Art classes – Life Drawing
5pm – 7pm
$15 per session
$10 concession
Playgroup at Stawell
Neighbourhood House
Wednesday mornings
10am-12pm
Call 5358 3500 for more
information
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